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    Cham : Springer International Publishing | Cham : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
    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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    Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland | Cham : Imprint: Springer
    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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    Cham : Springer International Publishing | Cham : Imprint: Springer
    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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    ISBN: 9783031568909
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VII, 353 p. 5 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Environmental law, International. ; Law ; Biodiversity.
    Abstract: 1. The Dire State of Global Biodiversity: An Introduction -- 2. The Habitats Directive and the Natura 2000 Network -- 3. The Re-Examination of the 2015 REFIT Fitness Check of the Nature Directives -- 4. Designating Natura 2000 Under the Habitats Directive -- 5. Reforming the Rules on Designation -- 6. Results and Relevance of the Findings -- 7. Overall Conclusion. .
    Abstract: This book offers a fresh perspective on the Habitats Directive's rules on designating Natura 2000 - the European biodiversity conservation network. Although the Habitats Directive came into force in the early 1990s, the network is not yet optimally set up and lacks coherence and connectivity. The author examines the Habitats Directive’s provisions regarding the designation of Natura 2000 and discusses possible reasons for the EU Member States’ ongoing lack of compliance with their designation duties. She reassesses the 2015 REFIT Fitness Check of the Nature Directives to look for the Member States’ reasons for not having optimally complied with their designation duties yet. She then analyses the Habitats Directive to reveal elements of non-optimal drafting in its designation provisions. Sensible law reforms that do not interfere with the general framework of the Habitats Directive and which keep in mind the relevant national, regional, and international biodiversity law and policy, as well as the relevant case law will be discussed to this end. As a result, this book presents an enhanced legal designation framework that can support Member States’ compliance with their designation obligations. The book finally goes beyond the European biodiversity legislation, also shedding light on the effects of the suggested reforms for the broader biodiversity and environmental law and policy landscape, and concludes that reforming the Habitats Directive would benefit a variety of contemporary areas of law. This book targets academics and policy-makers in the field as it provides a scholarly as well as a hands-on approach to the subject of strengthening European biodiversity law.
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    ISBN: 9783031385261
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(X, 265 p. 15 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: AIDA Europe Research Series on Insurance Law and Regulation 8
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    Keywords: Private international law. ; Conflict of laws. ; International law. ; Comparative law. ; Environmental Law. ; Finance ; Information technology ; Mass media ; Commercial law.
    Abstract: Part I – Insurance and ESG Impact -- The Insurance Sector’s Contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals: a Story Worth Telling? -- Insurance is Accelerating Economic and Social Change in the United States: a Legal and Sociological Perspective -- The role of insurance in dealing with disasters: the case of agricultural insurance -- Measurement of the Level of Government Intervention in the Compulsory Health Insurance System: Cross-country Comparative Analysis -- Part II – Financial Innovation in Insurance Regulation -- Historical, Definitional, and Implementional Issues of Financial Services Regulation in a Small Jurisdiction -- Public/ Private Risk Financing Innovation: the Case of Government Self- Insurance Risk Pools in the United States -- Comparison of Efficiency Levels of Turkish Insurance Companies with VZA Malmquist Total Factor Efficiency Analysis -- Unpacking the Impact of Capital Structure on Financial Performance in the Insurance Industry: Evidence from Kosovo's Market -- Part III –The Impact of New Technologies and Other Recent Developments in Insurance Law and Regulation -- The Principle of Proportionality in Solvency II -- Automatic Vehicles and Legal/Insurance Risks. A New British “Quasi-Legislative” Point of Observation and Glimpses of Liability in Tort in Italy -- A Study of the Effectiveness of the General Data Protection Regulation for Risk Mitigation in the Insurance Industry: a Maltese Perspective -- The Digitalization of the Insurance Industry and the Growth of Life Insurance in India -- Exploring the Suitability of the Protected Cell Company Structure for Shipping Business: a Call for Further Discussion and Research -- Goods and Services Tax Implications on the Insurance Sector: Assessment of Awareness and Knowledge -- The Effectiveness of Recent Policyholder-friendly Laws at Addressing Complaints in India.
    Abstract: This book explores the insurance sector’s potential role, influence, and impact on society in light of new environmental, social, and governance (ESG) concerns. Furthermore, it looks into how financial and technological innovations help reshape insurance regulation and business models. Unlike their predecessors, 21st century insurers have a growing impact on cross-sector service provision by making available to their clients a wealth of expert knowledge and experience in data analytics. The book delves into insurers’ transition from suppliers of products – consisting of risk coverage or investment opportunities – to providers of various services, and ultimately to solution providers by partnering with their clients so as to prevent failure, optimize their clients’ operations and help them excel in their economic sector. Insurance regulations and policies can be affected by various factors, such as changes in the economy, technological advances, and shifting consumer preferences, to name a few. Additionally, the insurance industry can have a significant bearing on the wider economy, making it important for the industry to operate within a framework of comprehensive regulations. This book includes a diverse set of theoretical, empirical, and policy-oriented chapters on particular aspects of new trends and wider analyses leading to a more systematic understanding of the industry’s socio-economic role. It offers a mixture of chapters from insurance academics and professionals from different countries, cultures, and scientific backgrounds. The methodologies used are diverse, including legal, sociological, historical, economic and financial as well as interdisciplinary analyses. The book has a global scope, including chapters of a more global nature and others addressing particular jurisdictions on different continents, including Europe, Asia and North America.
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    ISBN: 9783031528682
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VI, 60 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: SpringerBriefs in Law
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    Keywords: Private international law. ; Conflict of laws. ; International law. ; Comparative law. ; Law ; Law
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Private activists’ undercover tactics and Vice Enforcement in Progressive Era America -- Chapter 3. The Irrelevance of Undercover Tactics to the French Conflict over Whether Prostitution Should be Regulated or Suppressed -- Chapter 4. American activists’ efforts to export their undercover tactics and their abolitionist agenda to the League of Nations -- Chapter 5. Conclusion.
    Abstract: This book uses the early twentieth century surveillance reports of urban vice reformers in New York, Chicago, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, as well as the US vice report for the League of Nations’ Special Body on Trafficking in Women and Children (from 1927) and French police memoirs, treatises, and histories of vice enforcement in late nineteenth century and early twentieth century Paris to highlight the way in which American reliance on undercover tactics drove American vice enforcement policy, leading to a clash with French vice enforcement policy before the League of Nations. Both the failure of that early effort to exert international influence on vice enforcement and the American embrace of undercover tactics would set the stage for the later American efforts to promote a global war on drugs. Before the League of Nations, in particular, the American delegation’s notable lack of success in mobilizing European crackdowns on prostitution created a blueprint for how not to project American influence overseas, once American advocates of narcotics interdiction sought to promote a global war on drugs. Yet private reformers’ reliance on undercover tactics to investigate prostitution modeled the investigative tactics on which American law enforcement would come to depend, and which it would later seek to export, as a primary weapon in the war on drugs.
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    Cham : Springer International Publishing | Cham : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
    ISBN: 9783031356728
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 138 Seiten)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024
    Series Statement: Palgrave studies in European political sociology
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    Keywords: Europe ; Political sociology. ; Human geography. ; Cultural geography ; Staat ; Nationalstaat ; Territorium ; Geografischer Raum ; Demokratie
    Abstract: Borders, democratic legitimacy, multiscale statehood, governance : the covid crisis has shaken things up and emphasized both the contradictions and the central salience of territories. In this sharp volume Oscar Mazzoleni critically reviews the main debates about territories that have unfold over the last two decades, in particular in geography and political sociology. He makes a powerful insight for a critical territorial approach aiming to analyze democratic politics. Patrick Le Galès, CNRS research professor at Sciences Po, Paris, France Mazzoleni has contributed a brief but encompassing study of the concept of territory in social sciences. This well-written piece analyzes the concept of territory as multidimensional and interdisciplinary. His is a rigorous attempt to offer a systematic framework to make territorial politics part of the contemporary research agenda. In developing a territorial approach, he adds to the field by addressing essential gaps in the literature. Margarita Gomez-Reino Cachafeiro, full professor at the UNED University, Madrid, Spain The book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the uses of the concept of territory in the study of democratic politics. The author tests the limits of a literature which avoid territorial dimensions, and reasserts the relevance of the concepts of territory and territorial space in the understanding of contemporary politics. With a political sociological perspective, but engaging in an interdisciplinary dialogue, the book draws a new conceptual framework focusing on both traditional and innovative topics: state-building and the transformation of nation-states, the changes in democratic citizenship, the relevance of territory for voting behaviour, the territorial dimensions of populism and the experience of the pandemic, taken as a global territorial crisis. Oscar Mazzoleni is Director of the Research Observatory for Regional politics at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
    Note: Open Access , Literaturverzeichnisse , Why and how territory , Strength and limits of unterritorial approaches , Towards a territory-oriented approach , Beyond the territorial state? , Changing democratic citizenship , Territorial voting , Territorial populism , A global territorial crisis , Thinking democratic politics with territory
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  • 8
    ISBN: 9783031368721
    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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    Cham : Springer International Publishing | Cham : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
    ISBN: 9783031419393
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIV, 203 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Journalism. ; Digital media.
    Abstract: Part I -- Chapter 1 Hybrid Investigative Journalism During Times of Crisis, Maria Konow-Lund, Michelle Park and Saba Bebawi -- Part II -- Chapter 2 Making Investigative Journalism in a Hybrid Manner, Maria Konow-Lund and Michelle Park -- Chapter 3 Bristol Cable – A Local Hybrid Organisation, Maria Konow-Lund -- Chapter 4 The Bureau Local – A Hybrid Network for Local Collaborative Investigative Journalism, Michelle Park and Maria Konow-Lund -- Chapter 5 The Korea Center for Investigative Journalism – A Hybrid Nonprofit Funding Model, Michelle Park and Maria Konow-Lund -- Chapter 6 A Hybrid Investigative Ecology, Maria Konow-Lund and Michelle Park -- Part III -- Chapter 7 Global Investigative Collaboration, Maria Konow-Lund and Saba Bebawi -- Chapter 8 How a COVID-19 Live Tracker Led to Innovation in Investigative Journalism, Maria Konow-Lund and Jenny Wiik -- Chapter 9 How COVID-19 Affected the Practice of Investigative Journalism in Norway and China, Maria Konow-Lund, Lin Pan and Eva-Karin Olsson Gardell -- Chapter 10 Toward a Hybrid Future for Investigative Journalism, Maria Konow-Lund, Michelle Park, Saba Bebawi.
    Abstract: “[…]essential reading for anyone who believes in the importance of investigative journalism in holding the powerful to account.” —Richard Sambrook, Emeritus Professor, Cardiff University, UK and Co-Chair of The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, UK “A fantastic, timely and comprehensive look at the current state and challenges of investigative journalism.” —Henrik Örnebring, Professor of Media and Communication, Karlstad University, Sweden and winner of the 2023 AEJMC James A. Tankard Book Award This open access book is a rare example of the ethnographic study of investigative journalism. This book explores entrepreneurial attempts to combine traditional investigative journalism with alternative ways of organising this work. It transcends watershed investigative projects in favour of the ways in which new actors (citizens, technologists, bloggers and local reporters, among others) join experienced investigative journalists in experiments with the practices of watchdog journalism in the digital era. Cases include Bristol Cable, Bureau Local and the Korea Center for Investigative Journalism, as well as Forbidden Stories. The book also includes two chapters on the impact of COVID-19 upon the development of cross-disciplinary work in a traditional newsroom and in the larger media ecosystems of both Norway and China. This is a timely book for journalism students, scholars and investigative reporters, who share a passion for this form of journalism. Maria Konow-Lund is a professor at Oslo Metropolitan University. She was Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow at Cardiff University (2017-2019). Her recent work focuses on investigative journalism, terror coverage, practice during COVID-19, and changing roles. Michelle Park and was recently awarded her PhD degree by the School of Journalism, Media and Culture at Cardiff University, UK, after working as a newspaper reporter in the USA. Saba Bebawi is Head of the Journalism and Writing discipline in the School of Communication at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). .
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    Cham : Springer International Publishing | Cham : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
    ISBN: 9783031307843
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXX, 656 p. 28 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Literature ; Literature, Modern ; Literature. ; Emigration and immigration. ; World history.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Narrating Migration in the Settler Colonies: Recent Climate Fiction in Australia and New Zealand -- Chapter 3: Invasion and Replacement Fantasies: Jean Raspail’s The Camp of the Saints and the French Far Right -- Chapter 4: Between History and the Discord of Time: The Figure of the Migrant in A Seventh Man and Transit -- Chapter 5: A Border Poetics of Migration: Five Mappings of Migration Literature in Norwegian and Swedish -- Chapter 6: "A Strangely Familiar Place”: Cinematic (Re)framings of the EU’s Easternmost Border. Chapter 7: Migration, Romani Writers, and the Question of National Literatures. Chapter 8: Introduction -- Chapter 9: Setting the Stage of Contemporary Migration in the Italian Hostile Environment. Chapter 10: The Dystopian Imaginary, Climate Migration, and “Lifeboat-Nationalism”. Chapter 11: Black Parisians in Merry Colors: Queerness and Creolisation in the Popular Comedies of Lucien Jean-Baptiste -- Chapter 12: Classification and the Secrets of Kinship: Migration, Scientific Naturalism, and the Racialization of Blood in the Eighteenth Century -- Chapter 13: “There’s ways to survive these times… and I think one way is the shape the telling takes”: Hostile Environments and Hospitable Connections in Ali Smith’s Seasonal Quartet -- Chapter 14: Introduction -- Chapter 15: Migration, Forced Displacement, and Aesthetic Agency: Sharon Dodua Otoo’s Adas Raum. Chapter 16: Comparing Migrations? Russian German Jewish Writers on the “Refugee Crisis”. Chapter 17: Literary Archives and Alternative Futures. Memories of Labor Migration in Contemporary Turkish German Fiction. Chapter 18: On the Afterlife of Lucrecia Pérez: Literature and Migrant Memory against Nationalist Myth-Making in Democratic Spain. Chapter 19: On the Afterlife of Lucrecia Pérez: Literature and Migrant Memory against Nationalist Myth-Making in Democratic Spain. Chapter 20: Muslim Interpellation: Hijabs, Beards, and the Post-9/11 Border Regime. Chapter 21: Another Home. Chapter 22: Introduction -- Chapter 23: “Struggles with Identity Don’t Care about Latitude”: Saša Stanišić’s Herkunft (Where You Come From) as “Born Translated” Text -- Chapter 24: Verstummung”: Carmine Abate’s Dislocative Voices -- Chapter 25: Going for Nothing: Migration and Translation in Christina Rivera Garza -- Chapter 26: “Life Goes on, Defying Common Sense”: On Translating Russian Émigré Poetry -- Chapter 27: "It is hard to choose": An Italian Author on Migration, Diaspora, African Literature, and the Limits of Labels -- Chapter 28: Poetry as Love and Resistance -- Chapter 29: Introduction -- Chapter 30: Sound in Place: Italian Migrant Street Music in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel -- Chapter 31: Restorying the Greco-Turkish Population Exchange and the Partition of India and Palestine through Graphic Narrative: Hand-drawn Lines, Embroidered Histories, Portable Homelands -- Chapter 32: “Resonance is Contact Ripple”: Media and Contemporary Poems of Mediterranean Migration. Chapter 33: Ways of Seeing: Ethics of Looking in Refugee Films after 2015 -- Chapter 34: Curating Hospitality: Towards a More Sensitive Perception of Vulnerability -- Chapter 35: Introduction -- Chapter 36: Reading the Politics of Exile: Matei Vișniec’s Mr. K Released -- Chapter 37: Hassan Blasim’s God 99: Staying with Fragments, Designing Other Worlds -- Chapter 38: Melancholia of Migration in the Transnational Italian Imaginary -- Chapter 39: “not safe any where anymore”: Biopolitical Poetics and Irish Migration Poetry -- Chapter 40: “a historian of the soft tissue”: An Interview with Bhanu Kapil. .
    Abstract: The Palgrave Handbook of European Migration in Literature and Culture engages with migration to, within, and from Europe, foregrounding migration through the lenses of historical migratory movement and flows associated with colonialism and postcolonialism. With essays on literature, film, drama, graphic novels, and more, the book addresses migration and media, hostile environments, migration and language, migration and literary experiment, migration as palimpsest, and figurations of the migrant. Each section is introduced by one of the handbook’s contributing editors and interviews with writers and film directors are integrated throughout the volume. The essays collected in the volume move beyond the discourse of the “refugee crisis” to trace the historical roots of the current migration situation through colonialism and decolonization. .
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    Cham : Springer International Publishing | Cham : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
    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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    Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland | Cham : Imprint: Springer
    ISBN: 9783031441882
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 378 p. 26 illus., 7 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Private international law. ; Conflict of laws. ; International law. ; Comparative law. ; Constitutional law. ; Law ; Law ; Comparative government.
    Abstract: Introduction -- Impeachment in History and Thought -- Impeachment in Latin America -- Legal Aspects of Impeachment in Comparison -- Conclusions.
    Abstract: This book pursues a comparative and interdisciplinary approach to assess presidential impeachments in Latin America. Mixing methodologies from legal studies and political science, it provides a novel and comprehensive assessment of some of the most controversial questions regarding the constitutional function of impeachment and its place in the theory of government. Presidential impeachments have become frequent in Latin America, yet they are still largely misunderstood by legal practitioners and the general public. As such, impeachments frequently provide for heated and polarizing debates. The misunderstandings stem from skewed expectations arising from different theories of government, legal interpretation, and presidential impeachment. The empirical evidence and arguments presented here will help to find common ground on these topics and pacify some latent tensions in society and academia. In addition, the book’s case studies cover cases that have been rarely or incompletely addressed in the literature. Some cover events so recent that they have never been analyzed elsewhere. The book proposes reconsidering certain assumptions made about systems of government, which are based on skewed expectations of impeachments. It also draws on new evidence to re-examine existing impeachment theories and develop new ones. By doing so, it offers valuable insights that may guide lawmakers to redesign their own systems, optimizing them to achieve certain goals. It will also acquaint legal practitioners with the strategies of prosecution, defense, and decision-making in connection with impeachments.
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    ISBN: 9783031430671
    Language: English
    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: 9783031283222
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(92 illus., 64 illus. in color. eReference.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Intermediality. ; Digital media. ; Motion pictures. ; Television broadcasting. ; Mass media and history.
    Abstract: Introduction to The Palgrave Handbook of Intermediality -- Intermediality: Introducing terminology and approaches in the field -- An Updated Survey of Early Interart and Intermediality Roots: Claus Clüver -- Ekphrasis – Intermedial and Anglophone Perspectives -- Intermediality and Medium Specificity -- Intermedialities, Societies, and Power Histories -- Montreal School of Intermediality: Beyond Media Studies -- Case Studies as a Heuristic of Intermediality -- Linnaeus University Center for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies and the legacy of Lars Elleström -- Intermediality in Brazil: a diachronic survey -- An Overview of Intermedial Studies in China -- Intermediality, Semiotics and Media theory -- Intermediality and/in Translation -- Visual Citation in Intermedial Relations -- Reformulating the Theory of Literary Intermediality: A Genealogy from Ut pictura poesis to Poststructuralist In-betweenness -- Transmedial Narratology and Transmedia Storytelling -- The Narrator: A Transmedial Device -- Intermediality, Teaching and Literacy -- Intermedia, Multimedia and Media -- Citational Aesthetics: for Intermediality as Interrelation -- Traditional Chinese Painting: An Intermedial Play of Sister Arts Since the Eleventh Century -- The Anchor and the Dolphin: A History of Emblems -- The Age of Wonder and Entertainment: An Introduction to Intermedial Networks in Baroque Culture -- Intermediality in Seventeenth-Century Baroque Celebrations in Hispanic America: Commissions, Poetry, and Ephemeral Architecture -- Cabinets of Curiosities as a Transhistorical and Intermedial Phenomenon -- Crossing Media Borders: From Intermedial Shakespeares to Shakespearean Intermediality -- Metareference in the Nineteenth-Century Pictorial Press and Beyond -- Picturing Music in the 19th Century -- Prototype models of intermedial praxis (Wagner, Kandinsky, Brecht) and their resonances in contemporary performance -- Intermediality and Liveness at the Turn of the Twentieth Century -- The Sonification of Modernist Fiction: A Critical Review -- Adaptation and Sound -- Music Transformation in Literature -- Collage as a Creative Act: Emergence, Displacement and Re-signification -- Anthropophagic Appropriation and Intermediality -- Late Twentieth-Century Intermedia Poetry in the Americas -- Photo-Journalism and Beyond -- Media borders in a post-media age: the historical and conceptual co-evolution of cinema, television, video and computer screens -- The Qualified Medium of Computer Games: Form and Matter, Technology, and Use -- The Ecological Crisis and Intermedial Studies -- Simulated Climate in Ecological Games: Mediating Climate Change to Endow Players with Transformative Agency -- Intermediality in Theme Parks -- Interactive and Participatory Sound -- Intermediality and Computer Simulation -- Intermediality and Digital Fiction -- Intermediality and Metamediality: From Analog Representations to Digital Resources -- The Recommended Experience: Engaging Networked Media Platforms with Intermediality -- Posthuman Intermedial Semiotics and Distributed Agency for Sustainable Development.
    Abstract: This handbook provides an extensive overview of traditional and emerging research areas within the field of intermediality studies, understood broadly as the study of interrelations among all forms of communicative media types, including transmedial phenomena. Section I offers accounts of the development of the field of intermediality - its histories, theories and methods. Section II, III and IV then explore intermedial facets of communication from ancient times until the 21st century, with discussion on a wide range of cultural and geographical settings, media types, and topics, by contributors from a diverse set of disciplines. It concludes with an emphasis on urgent societal issues that an intermedial perspective might help understand.
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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: 9783031443008
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XV, 173 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
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    Keywords: America ; Literature, Modern ; Cities and towns
    Abstract: Introduction -- 1 Post-Civil War Stories -- 2 Art, Music, and Language -- 3 Postbellum Transitions -- 4 The “Protomodern” City -- 5 New Orleans and Chopin’s Novels -- Conclusion.
    Abstract: This book examines selected short stories and novels by Kate Chopin through the lens of the city of New Orleans. Chopin’s depictions of and references to New Orleans celebrate the vibrancy of this unique American city, but also illustrate the complex, interdependent relationships defined within its coded system of racial, gendered, and class designations. These stories feature canny depictions of the complexity of human struggles for freedom as well as love within this nineteenth-century southern city. While Chopin has been highly regarded as a local color writer and especially as a feminist literary icon, this book shows how the author’s “city” stories also point to her sophistication as an author who perceived the shifting literary landscape, and it identifies the ways many of these stories’ protomodernist elements anticipate the advent of the Modern era.
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    ISBN: 9783031395987
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXIII, 378 p. 52 illus., 46 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Motion pictures. ; Art ; Art, Modern ; Art
    Abstract: Introduction. Chapter 1. Retrospection and Revision in Modern and Contemporary Art, Literature, and Music -- Part I. Retrospection and Memory. Chapter 2. Stepping in the Same River Twice: Péter Forgács and the Revisiting of The Danube Exodus -- Chapter 3. Uwe Timm and the Ghosts of the Past: a Writer’s Ethical Impact on the Agenda of Collective Memory -- Chapter 4. Australia and Morocco Revisited: The Materialized Travel Memories of Dutch Visual Artist Theo Kuijpers -- Part II. Revision, Politics, and Ideology. Chapter 5. The Fall and Rise of Exile’s Return: Malcolm Cowley and the Cultural Politics of Revision -- Chapter 6. Revision, Change, and the Native American Oral Tradition in Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine(s) -- Chapter 7. An Old Man Looking from the Window: Camille Pissarro, the Tuileries Garden Paintings and Turning Points in his Career -- Part III. Revisiting and Control: the Artist’s Legacy. Chapter 8. Retrospective Anticipation: Georgia O’Keeffe’s Efforts at Controlling her Legacy -- Chapter 9. Replaying the Past: Belgian Pop Band dEUS’s Return to Early Work -- Chapter 10. Confessin’ the Blues: The Rolling Stones’ Revisit of their Musical Roots -- Chapter 11. Artists’ Haunts: Late Artists Revisiting their Work Beyond their Time -- Part IV.Transformation and Change in Late Work. Chapter 12. Space, Time, and Change in Claude Monet’s Late Paintings -- Chapter 13. Winter is Coming: The Voice of Spring by Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1910).
    Abstract: “What drives creative artists to turn back later in their careers to the subject matter of their earlier years and reimagine it, reclaim it, or rewrite it? This rich and timely collection asks what prompts this “backward look,” resisting standard reductive formations such as ‘late style’ in order to assert the sheer diversity of reasons for artistic return, in the process reaching far beyond the usual suspects in the canon of late-life creativity – and indeed, in one memorable case, beyond the grave.” —Gordon McMullan, Professor of English at King's College London and Director of the London Shakespeare Centre, UK. This interdisciplinary book investigates the various ways in which North American and European modern and contemporary artists, authors, and musicians have returned to earlier works of their own, engaging in inventive revivals and transformations of the past in the present. The book is distinctive in its focus on such revisits, as well as in the diversity of art forms under review: in addition to visual art, the book explores fiction, poetry, literary criticism, film, rock music, and philosophy. This scope, together with the time-span covered in the book, from the 1850s to the twenty-first century, allows for a broad view on retrospection and revision. The case studies presented here offer a multifaceted exploration of the widely different goals to which practitioners of the arts have made retrospection and revision functional against the background of cultural, social, political, and personal forces. Mette Gieskes is Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at Radboud University, The Netherlands. Her publications include articles on Philip Guston, Sol LeWitt, Francis Alÿs, Tamara Muller, and Otobong Nkanga. Gieskes is co-editor of Humor in Global Contemporary Art (Bloomsbury 2024, with Gregory Williams). Mathilde Roza is Associate Professor of North American Literature and North American Studies at Radboud University, the Netherlands. She has published on American modernism and the international avant-garde, American Modernist author Robert Myron Coates, The New Yorker magazine, Native North American visual art and literature, indigenous soldiers in WWII, cultural diversity, and cultural diplomacy.
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    ISBN: 9783031445958
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XX, 268 p. 8 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Palgrave European Film and Media Studies
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    Keywords: Motion picture plays, European. ; Ethnology ; Culture. ; Motion picture industry. ; Television broadcasting.
    Abstract: 1. Introduction: European film consumption, representation, and identity -- 2. The transnational viewership of European film: markets, audiences, and policies -- 3. Euro-million mainstream films: large audiences, limited diversity or insights -- 4. Euro-million arthouse films: diverse and insightful stories, niche audiences -- 5. Euro-million middlebrow films: insightful stories, varied audiences, limited diversity. 6. The transnational impact of European film: perceptions, identity, and other effects -- 7. Conclusion: limited unity and diversity -- Index.
    Abstract: “This study, based on a wealth of original research, analyses the production, circulation and reception of European films since 2005, considering their impact on broader cultural and social issues, notably the vexed question of what constitutes a European identity. Throughout, the author tests various theorisations and conceptual frameworks against the empirical evidence he has unearthed. His carefully considered interpretation will be widely welcomed as an important contribution to understanding European cinema.” - Andrew Spicer, Professor of Cultural Production, University of the West of England Bristol, UK This book explores how audiences in contemporary Europe engage with films from other European countries. It draws on admissions data, surveys, and focus group discussions to explain why viewers are attracted to particular European films and genres, including action-adventures, family films, biopics, period dramas, thrillers, comedies, and romances. It also examines how these films are produced and distributed, how they represent Europe, and how they affect audiences. Case-studies range from mainstream movies like Skyfall, Taken, and Asterix & Obelix: God Save Britannia, to more middlebrow and arthouse titles, such as The Lives of Others, Volver, Coco Before Chanel, Love Is All You Need, Intouchables, The Angels’ Share, Ida, The Hunt, and Blue Is the Warmest Colour. The study shows that watching European films can contribute to people’s understandings of other countries and make them feel more European. However, this is limited by the strong preference for Anglo-American action-adventures that offer few insights into the realities of European life. The book discusses what these findings mean for the European film industry, cultural policy, and scholarship on transnational and European cinema. It also considers how surveys, focus groups, databases and other methods that go beyond traditional textual analysis can offer new insights into our understanding of film. Huw D. Jones is a Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Southampton, UK. He previously worked on ‘Mediating Cultural Encounters through European Screens’ (MeCETES), a collaborative project on European film and television drama, funded by Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA). .
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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: 9783031407918
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(IX, 245 p. 4 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature
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    Keywords: Literature, Modern ; European literature. ; America ; Emigration and immigration. ; Women ; Literature
    Abstract: Section I: Irish American Women’s Activism (1880-1920) -- 1. Fanny Parnell: The Songstress of the Land League -- 2. Mother Jones, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, and Famine Memory -- 3. Kate Kennedy, Irish Famine Refugee, American Feminist -- Section II: Famine Memory and Irish American Women’s Writing -- 4. From Regional Remembrance to Transatlantic Heritage: the Transportability of Famine memory in Fiction by Mary Anne Sadlier, Anna Dorsey and Alice Nolan -- 5. Margaret Dixon McDougall’s The Days of a Life (1883); an Irish-Canadian Perspective of the Repetitive Nature of Irish History -- Section III: The Global Famine Diaspora: Mary Anne Sadlier and Her Contemporary Female Authors -- 6. Irish Catholic and Irish Protestant Women Writers’ Perceptions of the Famine Migration and Resettlement in British North America -- 7. Sentimentally Irish, Racially White: The Balancing Act of Irish-American Identity in the Novels of Sadlier and Meany.
    Abstract: The Famine Diaspora and Irish-American Women’s Writing considers the works of eleven North-American female authors who wrote for or descended from the Irish Famine generation: Anna Dorsey, Christine Faber, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Mother Jones, Kate Kennedy, Margaret Dixon McDougall, Mary Meaney, Alice Nolan, Fanny Parnell, Mary Anne Sadlier, and Elizabeth Hely Walshe. This collection examines the ways the writings of these women contributed significantly to the construction of Irish North-American identities, and played a crucial role in the dissemination of Famine memories transgenerationally as well as transnationally. The included annotated excerpts from these women writers’ works and the accompanying essays by prominent international scholars offer insights on the sociopolitical position of the Irish in North America, their connections with the homeland, women’s activities in transnational (often Catholic) publishing networks and women writers’ mediation of Ireland’s cultural heritage. Furthermore, the volume illustrates the generic variety of Irish-American women’s writing of the Famine generation, which comprises political treatises, novels, short stories and poetry, and bears witness to these female authors’ profound engagement with political and social issues, such as the conditions of the poor and woman’s vote. Marguérite Corporaal is Full Professor of Irish Literature in Transnational Contexts at Radboud University, the Netherlands. She was PI of Relocated Remembrance: The Great Famine in Irish (Diaspora) Fiction, 1847–1921), is a NWO-VICI grant recipient for her project Redefining the Region (2019-24), and PI of Heritages of Hunger, a Dutch research council-funded NWO-NWA project (2019-24). She is the author of Relocated Memories of the Great Famine in Irish and Diaspora Fiction, 1847–70 (2017). Dr. Jason King is Academic Coordinator of the Irish Heritage Trust and National Famine Museum, Strokestown Park, and a member of the Government of Ireland National Famine Commemoration Committee. His recent publications with Christine Kinealy and Gerard Moran include More Heroes of Ireland’s Great Hunger Heroes of Ireland’s Great Hunger (2022, 2021) and Irish Famine Migration Narratives: Eyewitness Testimonies, vol II, The History of the Irish Famine (2019). Peter D. O’Neill is Associate Professor in Comparative Literature and Intercultural Studies at the University of Georgia, USA. With David Lloyd, he co-edited an essay collection, The Black and Green Atlantic: Crosscurrents of the African and Irish Diasporas, (Palgrave Macmillan; 2009). His award-winning book, Famine Irish and the American Racial State, was published in paperback in 2019. .
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    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: 9783031496929
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XII, 77 p. 5 illus., 2 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: SpringerBriefs in Law and Regulation & Innovation
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    Keywords: Commercial law. ; European Economic Community. ; Food security.
    Abstract: 1 Executive Summary -- 2 Background -- 3 Precision Fermentation and GMMs -- 4 Pre-market Authorization -- 5 Labelling: General Product Naming Requirements -- 6 Comparative Analysis.
    Abstract: This book assesses the EU legal framework applicable to dairy products obtained through precision fermentation. It maps the authorisation and labelling requirements for these products to be placed on the EU market. It compares these provisions to those governing the food markets in the USA and Singapore, which are considered to be more innovation-friendly. At the time of writing, the precision-fermented dairy sector is still in the developmental phase, with only a few precision-fermented dairy alternatives available on the market, none of which are present in the EU. Regulatory uncertainty has been cited as significant obstacle for food business operators seeking to introduce alternative protein products in the EU. The book confirms these reports, as the current EU regulatory framework presents several legal uncertainties that are challenging for food business operators to overcome. Broadly speaking, there are two authorisation frameworks applicable to dairy products obtained through precision fermentation in the EU. The choice between these frameworks depends on the presence of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) or residues thereof in the final product. If such GMOs or residues are present, the pre-market authorisation procedure is governed by the Genetically Modified Food and Feed Regulation (GMFR). If the final product does not contain any GMOs or residues, it falls under the scope of the Novel Food Regulation (NFR), and the pre-market authorisation procedure is governed accordingly. Both of these authorisation pathways entail high regulatory requirements, which can pose challenges for the development of the precision fermentation sector. Despite the difficulty in accurately classifying products, it is crucial for food business operators to comprehend the applicable legal framework early in the product development process, given that the authorisation paths differ in their standards. In addition to pre-market authorisation requirements, companies must address labelling issues. Food labelling shall provide a basis for consumers to make informed choices in relation to the foods they consume. The primary objective of EU food labelling law is to prevent consumer deception , making it crucial for dairy products and their animal-free alternatives, to adhere to a stringent naming law as stipulated in the Common Market Organisation and specific accompanying legislation. Moreover, it is imperative to consider regulations regarding the use of health and nutrition claims, as well as labels such as “vegan” or “organic”, etc. Furthermore, the labelling of novel foods and genetically modified foods may necessitate mandatory information specified in the authorisation process. The book serves as a comprehensive guideline for food business operators involved in the production of precision-fermented dairy alternatives, aiding them in navigating the intricate European regulatory landscape.
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    ISBN: 9783031517419
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXIII, 367 p. 5 illus.)
    Edition: 7th ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Corrections. ; Punishment. ; Counseling.
    Abstract: Part I. -- 1. The Scope and Purposes of Correctional Treatment -- 2. Applying Restorative Justice Models in the Correctional Process -- 3. The Criminal Justice System in Transition: Assisting Victims of Crime -- Part II. The Diverse Roles of Counselors in Correctional Treatment -- 4. Continuity and Change in the Roles of Correctional Personnel -- 5. Treatment of Juvenile Offenders: Diversion and Formal Processing -- 6. Diverting Special Categories of Offenders to Community Treatment Programs -- 7. The Functions of Classification and Assessment Models in Correctional Treatment -- 8. Community-Based Sanctions: Probation and Post-release Supervision -- 9. Community Residential Treatment and Institutional Treatment -- Part III. Treatment Models Used in Corrections -- 10. The Interview: A Basic Tool Used in Correctional Counseling and Treatment -- 11. Behavior Modification Programs Used in Corrections -- 12. Group Counseling in Corrections -- 13. Brief Therapy and Crisis Intervention -- 14. Cognitive Behavioral Therapies Used in Correctional Treatment -- 15. Future Perspectives on Counseling and Treatment of Criminal and Delinquent Offenders.
    Abstract: This book provides a comprehensive overview of the effective methods used in the criminal justice system in the United States to counsel and treat offenders. This new edition outlines innovative approaches to counselling and treatment that focus on recent developments that present new challenges to those practitioners engaged in counselling and treating of criminal and delinquent offenders. The volume is broken down into three sections: Correctional Counseling and Treatment: Past and Present The Diverse Roles of Counselors in Correctional Treatment Treatment Methods Used in Corrections In each section, the chapters address the role of legislation on the corrections process and how it impacts diverse populations of correctional facilities, including juvenile offenders; those with mental illness, addiction and substance abuse problems, or physical and mental disabilities; and homeless populations. Featuring interviews with correctional practitioners, discussion questions, case studies, and application tools, this volume is ideal for advanced undergraduate and early graduate-level students taking for courses in correctional treatment, correctional rehabilitation, or community corrections.
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    ISBN: 9783031418204
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VI, 344 p. 6 illus., 4 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Law, Governance and Technology Series 60
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    Keywords: Information technology ; Mass media ; Law ; Criminal law. ; Data protection.
    Abstract: Legal Developments on Cybersecurity and Related Fields: Introductory notes and presentation -- PART I – CYBERSECURITY, CYBERDEFENCE AND LAW -- Getting critical. Making sense of the EU security framework for cloud providers -- Cyber operations targeting space systems. Legal questions and the context of privatisation -- A legal assessment of the concept of risk in reversible operations through cyber and electronic means -- Knowledge management and continuous improvement in cyberspace -- Information security metrics: challenges and models in an all-digital world -- Cyberterrorism and the Portuguese counter-terrorism act -- PART II – CYBERSECURITY AND LAW: SPECIFIC TOPICS -- Towards cybersecurity regulation of software in the European Union -- The importance of the computer undercover agent as an investigative measure against cybercrime: a special reference to child pornography crimes -- Post-Mortem data protection and succession in digital assets under Spanish law -- The suitability of the regime of technological measures for copyright protection in the face of modern cybersecurity risks -- Digital signatures and quantum computing -- No words needed? Emojis as evidence in judicial proceedings -- PART III – CYBERSECURITY, ETHICS AND FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS -- Bug bounties: ethical and legal aspects -- Profiling and cybersecurity: a perspective from fundamental rights' protection in the EU -- Legal developments on smart public governance and fundamental rights in the digital age -- Biometric signatures in the context of Regulation (EU) nr. 910/2014 and the general data protection regulation: the evidential value and anonymization of biometric data -- Cybersecurity issues in electronic communications and some insights on digital literacy and technological infrastructures’ demands – anticipations of the European Digital Decade through the lens of a Declaration on digital rights and principles.
    Abstract: This book presents a fresh approach to cybersecurity issues, seeking not only to analyze the legal landscape of the European Union and its Member States, but to do so in an interdisciplinary manner, involving scholars from diverse backgrounds – ranging from legal experts to ICT and engineering professionals. Cybersecurity requirements must be understood in a broader context, encompassing not just conventional aspects, but also emerging topics. This can only be achieved through an interdisciplinary approach. Indeed, cybersecurity should be consistently considered in relation to cybercrime and/or cyber defense, while examining it through the lens of specific domains that are intertwined with various legal fields. Moreover, it is crucial to uphold ethical standards and safeguard fundamental rights, particularly regarding personal data protection. By adopting this comprehensive perspective, the significance of cybersecurity in the exercise of public authority becomes apparent. It also plays an essential role in upholding the fundamental values of both individual Member States and the EU as a whole, such as the rule of law. Moreover, it fosters trust, transparency, and effectiveness in market relations and public administration interactions. In turn, the book draws on the expertise of its authors to provide insights into ICT components and technologies. Understanding these elements holistically is essential to viewing every "cyber" phenomenon from a legal standpoint. In addition to the holistic and interdisciplinary approach it presents, the book offers a captivating exploration of cybersecurity and an engaging read for anyone interested in the field.
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    ISBN: 9783031495151
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XVIII, 183 p. 25 illus., 21 illus. in color.)
    Series Statement: Financial Innovation and Technology
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    Keywords: Financial engineering. ; New business enterprises ; Business information services. ; Technological innovations. ; Decentralized finance ; Stablecoins ; Decentralized insurance ; Blockchain ; Lending ; Borrowing ; Decentralized exchanges ; FinTech ; Entrepreneurship ; Decentralized autonomous organizations ; Business model disruption ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Introduction: Blockchain, Decentralized Finance and Entrepreneurship 9 -- DeFi and Investing in Entrepreneurial Ventures -- Extreme Return Connectedness Between DeFi Tokens and Traditional Financial Markets: An Entrepreneurial Perspective -- A Framework for Implementation of Decentralized Finance for Financial Inclusion of Unbanked Populations in a Developing Context. A case of Zimbabwe -- Islamic Digital Currency and Entrepreneurship -- Blockchain Adoption in the Accounting and Auditing Industry: An Exploratory Study in France -- New MTFs Based on DLT Technology as Operational Spaces for Decentralized Finance: A European Perspective -- DeFi Cybersecurity Technical and Non-Technical Risks -- Integration of Blockchain with Last Mile Delivery Robots Toward Marketing Innovations -- Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Decentralized Finance.
    Abstract: This book provides a comprehensive overview of the rapidly expanding field of decentralized finance (DF) and discusses how entrepreneurs can leverage it in their business activities. Decentralized finance (DF) is a system for exchanging value without centralized intermediaries. It relies heavily on peer-to-peer lending and borrowing, decentralized exchanges, trustless systems, and blockchain. Decentralized Finance is seen as a disruptive technology that could replace traditional financial systems in the future due to its advantages of being inclusive, non-discriminatory, resilient to risk management failures, cost-effective for lenders and borrowers to access the system and more efficient in terms of financial intermediation through automated trustless systems. This book explains the challenges and opportunities that these blockchain-based financial innovations present for both entrepreneurship and the broader financial system.
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    ISBN: 9783031455759
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIV, 291 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice 109
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    Keywords: Private international law. ; Conflict of laws. ; International law. ; Comparative law. ; Human rights. ; Civil rights. ; European communities.
    Abstract: Introduction -- The problem and its scale: Privacy invasions of Pakistani media -- The concept of the right to privacy -- Right to privacy and freedom of expression in the Constitution of Pakistan -- Reconciling the freedom of expression with the right to privacy: Protecting private life from media invasions under the ECHR -- Privacy protection in ECHR member states: Germany and the United Kingdom -- Recommendations: A privacy law for Pakistan.
    Abstract: This book focuses on devising a comprehensive protective mechanism for the right to privacy in Pakistan. It argues that the existing legal regime lacks an effective remedy for victims of privacy violations and emphasizes the need for comprehensive legislation to safeguard this crucial right. Pursuing a multidisciplinary approach, the book thoroughly explores the issue of media intrusions into people’s privacy through thematic media content analysis and highlights the significant impacts of these intrusions on victims’ lives. In the process, the book addresses various conceptual aspects, their relevance, and their implications for privacy-related disputes during adjudication. Recognizing that theoretical underpinnings alone may not be sufficient to create a legal regime “from scratch,” it explores the enforcement of the right to privacy under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), as interpreted and enforced by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). The book subsequently goes beyond exploring international law by analyzing the impact of media-and-privacy cases on privacy protection in two major member states: Germany (a civil law jurisdiction) and the United Kingdom (a common law jurisdiction). Drawing upon these conceptual and comparative legal deliberations and findings, the book provides concrete guidelines for a new privacy law in Pakistan.
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    ISBN: 9783031461385
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXIII, 349 p. 7 illus., 3 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 2nd ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: International criminal law. ; Humanitarian law. ; International law. ; Human rights. ; International organization.
    Abstract: 1 The Definition of International Crime -- 2 The Preconditions for the International Criminal Court to Exercise its Jurisdiction -- 3 The Crime of Genocide and the International Criminal Court’s Jurisdiction -- 4 Crimes Against Humanity Under the ICC’s Jurisdiction -- 5 The ICC’s Jurisdiction Over War Crimes -- 6 The Crime of Aggression: The Birth of a Crime -- 7 Immunities Under Art. 27 ICCRSt and the ICC’s Jurisdiction -- 8 The ICC’s Jurisdiction Following a Security Council’s Referral of a Situation Concerning Citizens of States Non-Parties to the ICC: the Situation in Sudan and Libya (Art. 25 UN Charter & 13(b) ICCRSt) -- 9 The Awakening Hypothesis of the Complementarity Principle -- 10 Ecocide: The Emergence of a New Crime within the Jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court? -- 11 Lethal Autonomous Weapons, Drones and Robots: to what extent their usage infringes upon established principles of international criminal law? -- 12 Cyber warfare: international criminal law in the digital era.
    Abstract: This book embarks on a comprehensive exploration of the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and elucidates the three foundational aspects of its jurisdiction as laid out in the Rome Statute: the preconditions for exercising jurisdiction (Article 12 ICCRSt), its substantive competence regarding core crimes (Articles 5-8bis ICCRSt), and the principle of complementarity (Article 17§1(a) ICCRSt). This principle, crucial to understanding the ICC’s ‘ultimate jurisdiction’, is invoked only when a State Party demonstrates an inability or unwillingness to genuinely undertake investigation or prosecution. The book further probes the ‘negative preconditions’ of the Court’s jurisdiction, in particular, immunities (Article 27 ICCRSt) and exceptions through Security Council referrals (Articles 13(b) and 15 ICCRSt). Intended for students, scholars, and practitioners alike, this second edition offers invaluable insights into the ICC’s jurisdiction, making a notable contribution to the existing literature. Importantly, it also navigates emerging fields of international criminal law, addressing topical and thought-provoking subjects such as ecocide, cyber warfare, automated lethal weapons, artificial intelligence, and the legal complexities arising from the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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    ISBN: 9783031504501
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xix, 234 Seiten)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: International political economy series
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    Keywords: International economic relations. ; Economic development. ; Africa ; Wohlfahrtsstaat ; Sozialpolitik ; Sozialversicherung ; Altersversorgung ; Mauritius
    Abstract: Chapter I: Introduction: Historical Antecedents Behind Remarkable Variance in Welfare Policy Outcomes in South Africa and Mauritius -- Chapter II: SA Tale of Two Countries: Theoretical and Analytical Framework in Comparative Social Inquiry -- Chapter III: Research Design: South Africa and Mauritius in a Macro-causal Social Inquiry -- Chapter IV: State-Building and the Making of the Racially ‘Exclusive’ Welfare State in South Africa -- Chapter V: State-Building and the Emergence of a Social Democratic Consensus in Colonial Mauritius, 1598 to 1968 -- Chapter VI: Retaining the Social Democratic Welfare Consensus in Post-Colonial Mauritius, 1968 – present -- Chapter VII: State (Re)-Building and Welfare State Development in Post-Apartheid South Africa -- Chapter VIII: Welfare Paradigms of South Africa and Mauritius: Reflections and Prospects for Future Research.
    Abstract: This study traces the welfare regimes of Mauritius and South Africa from the early 20th century focusing on the historical circumstances that gave rise to the dominance of state-funded old-age pensions within their respective welfare frameworks. It highlights intersections between powerful business interests, the state, and social forces that sowed the seeds of social entitlements. Due to different mobilisation efforts of these social actors, both countries have spawned welfare regimes of different persuasions. Mauritius has maintained its long-standing traditions as a social democracy stretching back to the late 1950s, while South Africa continues relentlessly in pursuit of a liberal welfare state, a journey it has treaded since 1928 when the old-age pension laws first came into effect. While unravelling the innermost workings of welfare state development in Mauritius and South Africa, it also probes the present political and economic circumstances that have kept these two welfare regimes resolutely unchanged. Against this backdrop, it draws parallels between current welfare outcomes and those of old as they continue to chart their way into the future. Elias Phaahla, Ph.D. taught at the University of Cape Town (UCT) before joining University of Johannesburg where he is Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations. His main research interests include, but not limited to, the politics of welfare reform with particular focus placed on the old-age pension schemes of Mauritius and South Africa. This work was made possible through the support of the National Research Foundation (NRF).
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    ISBN: 9783031517532
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 150 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Ethics. ; Political science ; Philosophy of nature. ; Climatology.
    Abstract: 1. Introduction to collective and shared responsibility for climate change -- 2. Calling all collective agents -- 3. Responsibility as members -- 4. Shared social orientation and responsibility as constituents -- 5. Carbon inequality and direct responsibility -- 6.Why we need ethical arguments to set good climate policies.
    Abstract: "In this innovative book, Hormio effectively argues for an 'all hands on deck' approach to assigning climate change responsibility to a wider array of agents than is typically recognized, making the case that ethical analysis matters for complex policy problems like climate change.” —Steve Vanderheiden, Professor of Political Science, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA "By interweaving philosophical argument with real-world examples, Säde Hormio makes an important contribution to debates about collective responsibility for climate change." —Stephanie Collins, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Monash University, Australia This book proposes that it is not only states and international bodies that have a responsibility to take action toward mitigating climate change. Other collective agents, such as corporations, need to also come onboard. Additionally, the book argues that climate change is not solely a problem for collective agents, but also for individuals, as they are members of collectives and groups of several kinds. Therefore, framing climate change responsibility exclusively from either the collective or the individual perspective leaves out something crucial: how we all are influenced by the collectives we belong to and how, in turn, collectives are influenced by individuals. The focus of the book is on areas of climate change responsibility that are often left out of the picture or get too little attention in climate ethics, such as carbon inequality within countries. But why should any theoretical arguments about normative issues matter when we have a real-life climate crisis on our hands? Säde Hormio argues that ethical arguments have an important role in setting climate policy: they can highlight what values are at stake and help ground normative arguments in public deliberations. Säde Hormio is an Academy Research Fellow in Practical Philosophy at the University of Helsinki. She is also affiliated with the Institute for Futures Studies in Stockholm. Her research focuses on shared and collective responsibility.
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    ISBN: 9783031485091
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVIII, 270 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Feminist theology. ; Sex. ; African literature. ; Culture ; Ecology .
    Abstract: Chapter 1. African Eco-Feminisms--African Women Writing Earth, Gender and the Sacred -- Chapter 2. Restoring Religion to the Land: Gender, Race, and Ecology in the Literature of Paulina Chiziane -- Chapter 3. Creating while black and female: Tsitsi Dangarembga’s African feminist decolonial imaginary -- Chapter 4. Religion, Gender and Earth Categories in Lauri Kubuetsile’s But Deliver us from Evil (2019) -- Chapter 5. Kwasuka-sukela: A new paradigm to the African stories of women in Futhi Ntshingila’s Shameless and They Got to You Too -- Chapter 6. The intersection of Earth, Gender and the Sacred in NoViolet Bulawayo’s We need new names: Eco-Critical African feminist and Social Semiotics perspectives -- Chapter 7. Postcolonial Dislocation and the Psyche: Connecting the dots in Tsitsi Dangarembga's This Mournable Body -- Chapter 8 -- “That’s what happens when two worlds collide”: An intersectional reading of Bessie Heads short stories, “The Collector of Treasures and other Botswana Village Tales” -- Chapter 9 -- Generational search for home: History, race and gendered perspectives in Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing -- Chapter 10 -- Border Crossing: Religion, Gender, Race and Class in the Journeys of Ifemelu in Americanah -- Chapter 11. The Dragonfly Sea: The Sea, the Land and One African Woman’s Voyage-in -- Chapter 12. The Victims: An African-Ecofeminist Reading -- Chapter 13. Marginality, cultural positioning and religion in ’Mpho ’M’atsepo Nthunya’s Singing Away the Hunger: Stories of a life in Lesotho -- Chapter 14. All Water is Connected: African Earth Spirituality and Queering Identity in AkwaekeEmezi’s Freshwater -- Chapter 15. Earth, Gender and Religion in Zambia: An Eco-Feminist Reading of Sula and Ja, A Novel by Ellen Banda-Aaku.
    Abstract: This volume explores contemporary African women’s creative writing, highlighting their contributions to ecofeminist theology. Contributors address the following questions: How do contemporary African women writers depict the Earth/land/environment and its relationship to women in various contexts? How is religion featured in African women’s writing? How does religious literature (scriptures) form an intertextual layer in African women’s writing? The contributors proceed by analyzing the intersection of religion, gender, class, sexuality, colonialism, and ecology in selected texts written by African women. They bring these texts into conversation with broader eco-feminist theological scholarship, exploring the potential of literary writing to contribute to theological discourse of liberation and social justice in the African and global arena. Enna Sukutai Gudhlanga is Associate Professor in the Department of Languages and Literature at Zimbabwe Open University. Musa Wenkosi. Dube is Professor of New Testament at the Candler School of Theology, Emory University, USA. Limakatso Pepenene is Senior Lecturer in the French Department at the National University of Lesotho.
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    ISBN: 9783031397875
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXIX, 293 p. 41 illus., 39 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Media and Environmental Communication
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    Keywords: Art, Modern ; Communication in the environmental sciences. ; Popular Culture.
    Abstract: PART 1: Staging Ice and Ice Stages in Science, Science Communication and Aesthetic Experience -- 1. Communicating Loss: Ice Research, Popular Art and Aesthetics: Introduction -- 2. Ice Stages and Staging Ice -- 3. Movies on Ice: An ArtSci Perspective on Communicating Antarctic Ice in the Climate Emergency -- 4. Here Be Science Show Dragons: Ice, Icons and Metaphoric Approaches to Climate Change Communication -- PART 2 :Ice Exploration: Heroism, Art and Imaginaries -- 5. Ethnography as Racialised Womanhood in the Arctic Writings of Josephine Diebitsch-Peary -- 6. Materiality of Time: Polar Ice as a Medium for Ecological Art for the Tempered Zones -- 7. Sensing Polar Ice Bodies -- 8. Antarctic Science on the Musical Stage -- 9. Icy Love: Performing Affect and Emotion Feeling About Climate Change -- PART 3: Pop Cultural Meanings of Ice in Visual Fiction and Film -- 10. Frozen Balloons: Aeronautic Heroism and Scientific Knowledge Production -- 11. Hard Ice, Soft Snow? Transnationalism, Spectatorship and the Arctic Sublime in Chasing Ice (2011) and Silent Snow (2011) -- 12. Frozen-Ground Cartoons—Revealing the Invisible Ice -- 13. On the Visual Narratives of Ice in Popular Culture: Comics on Ice, Icy Villains and Ice Science -- 14. Melt for Me: Communicating Ice Empathy Through the Plasticity of Disney -- 15. On the Aesthetic Facets of Ice Urgency: Some Final Reflections.-.
    Abstract: "The authors of Communicating Ice tell the stories and stages of ice, showing how its manifold bodies communicate from beyond the schemas of the Western tradition." -Amanda Boetzkes, University of Guelph, Canada "With its well-written analyses, new insights and, not least, uplifting visions of new approaches, collaborations and opportunities, this book is a joy to read." -Kirsten Thisted, University of Copenhagen, Denmark "This book makes a compelling attempt to understand ice not as an object but as an agent with which we must interact differently. Ultimately, the highly recommended volume points to the extreme urgency of political action to curb global warming" -Evi Zemanek, University of Freiburg, Germany "This collection brilliantly illustrates how storytelling and aesthetic presentation are crucial aids to understanding and communicating about objects of scientific inquiry. A timely and vital contribution to the environmental humanities, posthumanism and science communication." - Chris Danta, School of Cybernetics, Australian National University, Australia This edited collection is the first of its kind to explore the influences and interconnections between artistic and scientific understandings of, and communication around (the melting of) ice. This book investigates and clarifies the ecological and cultural implications of losing ice in the face of climate change – from glaciers to permafrost valleys, from scientific excursions into ice to its representation in (popular) art and culture. Bringing together diverse perspectives from research and practice across disciplines and media, this volume pioneers research into the cultural power of ice. Dr Anne Hemkendreis is a Lecturer (Senior Researcher) in the (SFB 948) Heroes – Heroizations - Heroism research group at the University of Freiburg (Germany) and a member of the German Young Academy. Dr Anna-Sophie Jürgens is a Lecturer in Popular Entertainment Studies at the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science at the Australian National University (ANU) and the Head of Popsicule, ANU's Science in Pop Culture and Entertainment Hub.
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    ISBN: 9783031511424
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXIV, 338 p. 185 illus., 159 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Ethnic and Indigenous Business Studies
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    Keywords: Entrepreneurship. ; New business enterprises. ; Race. ; Diversity in the workplace. ; Sociology, Urban. ; Philosophy. ; Management.
    Abstract: Part I: Africa -- 1. Declining grazing lands and climate change are forcing Maasai to diversify their livelihoods: Antecedents of Maasai entrepreneurial motivations and socioeconomic change -- 2. Herders who fish: Findings from pastoral and agropastoral communities in Kenya and South Sudan -- 3. Did Boru, Moshe Schwartz, Shaher El-Meccawi and Michael Kam: Borana cattle pastoralists in southern Ethiopia are diversifying their livelihoods by cultivating land and raising camels -- Part II: Middle East -- 4. From nomads to agro-pastoralists to urbanites -- 5. The nomad entrepreneurs of Iran: The history, major nomads, entrepreneurial activities, and challenges -- Part III: South Asia – Afghanistan, Nepal, India, Bangladesh -- 6. Land as a golden tent-peg: Settlement and change among nomads in northern Afghanistan -- 7. Challenges to transhumant pastoralism due to socio-economic and ecological changes in Nepal's high mountains -- 8. Mobility to Sedentarisation: Pastoralism from colonial to post-colonial period in Uttarakhand Himalaya (India) -- 9. The Bede community- A nomadic group in Bangladesh -- Part IV: East Asia - China and Mongolia -- 10. Centralisation of livestock and grassland management through cooperatives in Tibetan pastoral areas of Qinghai, People’s Republic of China -- 11. Transformation from nomadic to sedentary livestock production in Inner Mongolia -- 12. Mongolia’s pastoral nomadism in transition: Putting case studies on socioecological feedbacks and socioeconomic forcing into a conceptual framework -- Part V: Arctic Region -- 13. Mechanisms for the positive transformation of the Arctic indigenous peoples from traditional nomadic reindeer herders to a more settled lifestyle -- 14. Snowmobile revolution and sedentarization of reindeer-herding nomads in the Kola Peninsula and Bolshezemelskaya tundra, northern European Russia -- 15. The Inuit – from igloos and tents and nomadic subsistence hunting and fishing to permanent settlements and heated homes.
    Abstract: Contemporary policymakers, as their predecessors, continue to view nomadic people as a weak minority, and their way of life and raising livestock as a backward and inefficient paradigm. Wherever nomads are not the dominant group, the trend to settle them continues even today as in the past. This book describes the changes forced upon formerly nomadic groups and how they still attempt to maintain their traditional, social, and cultural practices in their new settings. The book deals with the several modes of livelihood of these communities, including entrepreneurship, and demonstrates the impact of investment-oriented urbanization policies leading to eviction from ancestral lands, and hurdles for nomadic mobility, ultimately threatening their survival. The book illustrates how some groups like the Borana and the Maasai practice livelihood diversity and raise productive livestock, and how other groups migrate to urban centers in search of employment and remit money to family members left in the rural areas. The book aims to raise awareness among the research community, especially those who work on regional and demographic labor policies. It helps in understanding why society needs to help build business and livelihood strategies without harming the values of nomadic groups.
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    ISBN: 9783031491474
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (VI, 371 Seiten) , Diagramme
    Series Statement: Springer Studies in Alternative Economics
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    Keywords: Labor economics. ; Urban policy. ; Political science. ; Economics. ; Schools of economics. ; Platform economy ; Digital labor ; Platform capitalism ; Urban governance ; Social protection ; Digital platforms ; Capitalism ; Urban studies ; Digital economy ; Google ; Facebook ; Organization of labor ; Political economy of platform capitalism ; Amazon ; Microsoft ; Apple ; Industrial Revolution 4.0 ; Future of work ; Labor organization ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Part I. Theoretical Foundations -- Chapter 1. Introduction (Sandro Mezzadra) -- Chapter 2. Operations of Platforms. A Global Process in a Multipolar World (Sandro Mezzadra) -- Chapter 3. The process of valorization in the platform capitalism (Andrea Fumagalli) -- Chapter 4. Out of the Standard. Towards a Global Approach to Platform Labour (Maurilio Pirone) -- Chapter 5. What Urban Future: Do High-Tech Metropolises Dream of Electric Sheep? (Niccolò Cuppini) -- Chapter 6. The Politics of Platforms. Exploring Platform’s Infrastructural Role and Power (Mattia Frapporti) -- Chapter 7. Managing the Wheel: Managerial Normativity from the Wage Society to the Platform Age (Massimilano Nicoli) -- Chapter 8. Digital labour, informal unionism and the rise of a new workers subjectivity (Marco Marrone) -- Chapter 9. Platform capitalism: Infrastructuring migration, mobility, and racism (Stefania Animento) -- Chapter 10. Affect, precarity and feminised labour in Airbnb in London (Eleni Kambouri) -- Part II. Notes from the Field -- Chapter 11. Why the sectoral context matters for platform work (Bettina Haidinger) -- Chapter 12. A Variegated Platform Capitalism? Algorithms, Labour Process and Institutions in Deliveroo in Bologna and Uber in Lisbon (Marco Marrone) -- Chapter 13. Perceiving platform work as decent work? Views regarding working conditions among platform taxi drivers in Tallinn (Marge Unt) -- Chapter 14. Skills development as a political process: Towards new forms of mobilization and digital citizenship among platform workers (Filippo Bignami) -- Chapter 15. How to build alternatives to platform capitalism? (Mayo Fuster Morell) -- Chapter 16. Labour policies for a fairer gig economy (Annamaria Donini) -- Chapter 17. Engaging stakeholders with platform labour: The social lab approach (Raúl Tabarés) -- Chapter 18. Local best practices. Urban governance and the ongoing platformization process (Michelangelo Secchi) -- Chapter 19. Social protection, basic income and taxation in the Digital economy (Cristina Morini) -- Chapter 20. Latent conflict, invisible organisation: Everyday struggles in platform labour (Moritz Altenreid).
    Abstract: This open access book provides an overview of urban digital platforms such as Airbnb and Deliveroo, which, along with Amazon, Google, Facebook and other IT companies, constitute by now the infrastructures for other businesses to operate on and for our social life to go on. These platforms serve as standards-based techno-economic systems that simultaneously capture cooperation through remote coordination and organize labor via algorithm management. Based on a three-years research project, this contributed volume outlines a general theory of platform capitalism that conceives these platforms not only as technical devices, but as generative engines that operate at the interface of several aspects, such as digitalization of forms of social cooperation; algorithm-based management of labor and participation; and private and vertical appropriation of profits. These elements are somehow iconic of the capitalist evolution of the last decades, and they open up a reflection on new forms of “primitive accumulation” (in particular regarding data), on the mechanisms used to capture and extract social surplus value, and on the logistic-financial dimensions of capital. Finally, in light of the transformations associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, the authors examine how platforms can evolve into hegemonic organizational structures. Assuming we are all already living in the age of the platform, this book takes a multifaceted approach—combining sociology with urban studies, and political sciences with economics—to grasp the challenges our societies face in terms of ensuring fair economic growth, adequate social protections, and labor rights. It will appeal to anyone interested in digital platforms and how they are changing the organization of labor, urban spaces, and forms of governance.
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    ISBN: 9783031526251
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 246 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science 482
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    Keywords: Metaphysics. ; Ontology. ; Science
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. Reality -- 3. Appearance -- 4. Dispositional Reality -- 5. In favour of Dispositional Reality -- 6. The extent of Dispositional Reality -- 7. Explaining with dispositions -- 8. Meta-explanatory questions -- 9. The future of Dispositional Reality.
    Abstract: Dispositionalism, perhaps the most popular variant of non-Humean metaphysics, submits that dispositions, powers, or capacities, are part of the furniture of the world. In this book I advance an original approach to dispositionalism revolving around the notion of Dispositional Reality; the novelty lies in the fact that the account, unlike most alternatives on the market, does not require the reification of objects, facts, properties, nor their dispositional essences – and is in fact compatible with a far more deflationary approach to dispositions, while still being true to the non-Humean spirit of the proposal. This power metaphysics without powers allows one to dispel several puzzles in recent literature, or recast them under a new light. Albeit with its own peculiarities, this proposal constitutes a variant of explanatory dispositionalism, according to which realism about dispositions ought not to be understood as an ontological inflation, but as an explanatory inversion within the nomic and modal family. Some of these explanations are hereby attempted, and a study of various types of non-causal explanation will be provided.
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    Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland | Cham : Imprint: Springer
    ISBN: 9783031525353
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XVII, 406 p. 71 illus., 19 illus. in color.)
    Series Statement: Classroom Companion: Economics
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Mignon, Valérie Principles of Econometrics
    Keywords: Econometrics. ; Statistics . ; Social sciences ; Time series econometrics ; Econometric methods ; Statistics in economics ; Estimation ; Applied econometrics ; Macroeconometrics ; Nonstationary econometrics ; Quantitative economics ; Econometric analysis ; Econometric concepts ; Regression analysis
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introductory Developments -- Chapter 2. The Simple Regression Model -- Chapter 3. The Multiple Regression Model -- Chapter 4. Heteroskedasticity and Autocorrelation of Errors -- Chapter 5. Problems With Explanatory Variables -- Chapter 6. Distributed Lag Models -- Chapter 7. An Introduction to Time Series Models -- Chapter 8. Simultaneous Equations Models.
    Abstract: This textbook teaches the basics of econometrics and focuses on the acquisition of methods and skills that are essential for any student to succeed in their studies, as well as for any practitioner interested in applying econometric techniques. Employing a pedagogical and easy-to-follow style, the book puts into practice the various concepts presented, such as statistics, tests, and methods, among others. Numerous examples and empirical applications using existing econometric and statistical software are given after each theoretical presentation. The book addresses students at the undergraduate and graduate levels in economics and management, as well as students of engineering and business schools. It will further appeal to professionals and practitioners of econometrics, such as economists and researchers in companies and institutions, who will find practical solutions to the different problems they are confronted with.
    Note: Translation from the French language edition: "Économétrie - Théorie et applications - 2e éd." by Valérie Mignon, © 2022. Published by Economica
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    ISBN: 9783031512377
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 280 p. 20 illus., 16 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Social service. ; Sociology. ; Social groups. ; Social structure. ; Equality. ; Sex.
    Abstract: Part 1: Introduction -- Chapter 1. Being Family in Times of the Pandemic -- Chapter 2. Pandemic – Measures and Consequences: In-creased Global Inequality and Violations of Human Rights -- Part 2: Family Dynamics -- Chapter 3. Family in the Time of COVID-19: Conflict Zone or Resilience Factor? -- Chapter 4. The Maternity Situation and COVID-19: Adaptation of Migrant Women to the World's Southernmost Health System -- Chapter 5. Exploring the Situation of the Family in South Africa During the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic -- Chapter 6. Couples in Times of the Pandemic -- Chapter 7. Venezuelan Migrant Families During the COVID-19 Pandemic -- Part 3: Child Well-being -- Chapter 8. Stressors and Transitions in Families with a Child Affected by Long COVID: “Behind every sick child is a family that is completely out of balance” -- Chapter 9. The Situation of Separated Families During the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Analysis of the Situation of Parents and Children in Different Separation Models in Saxony -- Chapter 10. A Study on the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Incest-Based Child Sexual Abuse -- Chapter 11. Combating Domestic Violence - Professional Strategies, Informal Systems, and New Challenges During the Pandemic: Records from Germany and India -- Part 4: Social Work with Children and Families -- Chapter 12. COVID-19 as a Driver of Professionalisation in Work with Families in Germany? -- Chapter 13. Social Work Services with Children and Families amid the COVID-19 pandemic: A Case of Rural Communities -- Chapter 14. New Intervention Strategies in Rendering Social Work Services to Families Amidst the Pandemic Crisis: A Social Work Perspective -- Chapter 15. Reflections of a South African Social Work Academic and Practitioner During COVID-19: Managing Family, Work and Personal Dynamics -- Part 5: Gender and COVID-19 -- Chapter 16. The Gendered Toll of COVID-19 on Academics: Increasing Time Allocation Challenges Faced by Female Academics in Turkey -- Chapter 17. Gender Disparities in the COVID-19 Pandemic -- Part 6: Conclusion -- Chapter 18. Lessons Learned?.
    Abstract: This book critically analyzes both the negative and positive impacts of the Coronavirus pandemic, focusing on changes in families, gender developments, and the evolution of social inequality structures. The Corona pandemic, with its unprecedented restrictions on contact, has meant that families have been challenged in their functioning in a very special way. International studies show that socioeconomic factors such as education, income, but also the geographic center of life of families and women in particular, had an important influence on the management of the pandemic. Despite all negative side effects of the Corona pandemic, there were nevertheless also innovative impulses, especially in the field of social work, particularly work with families. The book's 18 chapters, organized in six sections, highlight not only short-term changes but also longer-term developments that either require a corresponding concept of measures or action or can be evaluated as drivers of innovation in the pandemic. Part I: Introduction Part II: Family Dynamics Part III: Child Well-being Part IV: Social Work with Children and Families Part V: Gender and COVID-19 Part VI: Conclusion The special feature of the volume is its global perspective. Authors from different countries describe changes and developments on these topics and make clear what profound effects the pandemic had on families, social inequality structures, and gender-specific situations. The anthology does not comprehensively reflect international perspectives. Rather, it leaves it up to readers to compare the developments in the respective countries with their own country of origin from a comparative cultural perspective. In this way, ideas for future, overarching research projects may be stimulated. Family Dynamics, Gender and Social Inequality During COVID-19 is timely and relevant reading for scientists, students, and practitioners in sociology, social work, and political science.
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    Cham : Springer International Publishing | Cham : Imprint: Springer
    ISBN: 9783031426025
    Language: English
    Series Statement: Social Work
    Keywords: Social service. ; Social work education. ; Sex. ; Peace. ; Social psychiatry. ; Sociology. ; Social groups.
    Abstract: This reference work collates academic discourses and practices around family, gender, and violence in social work. A huge body of discourse is available that categorizes and labels acts of violence, and correspondingly practices that pin blame/responsibility for the violence. These have led to evolution of intervention strategies to resolve or address the violence. Some explanations foreground systemic causes; others look at person-centric causes. The two views bring forth the fundamental ontological divide of structuralism and individualism. The question for social workers to debate is what to factor in while working with families experiencing violence and conflict. What amongst the person, the agency, or the structure needs to be addressed to understand the experience of families in conflict and violence? Are these positions supplementary, complementary, or to be understood reflexively? With the inclusion of new families, the parochial understanding of families has long been dislodged and given way to newer, radical, and contextual understanding of families. Similarly, different people, agencies, and states understand violence and conflict differently. Gender, too, has moved from the binaries of male and female to the LGBTQ orientations. The book positions the ontological premise on which the epistemological practise is located. Simply put, the person-centric ontology on families and violence epistemologically finds understanding in agency-based approaches in individual agency, whereas the structure-based approaches find the experience of families and violence in society, state, and the world order. The contributors locate their work around identification, definition, an intervention or empirical study, policy analysis, historical evolution of concepts, and ontological and paradigmatic debates to position their individual chapters. Families and Gendered Violence andConflict: Pan-Continent Reach provides a paradigmatic prism for practice for social workers who are equipped to interpret context differently. The differing and competing paradigmatic lenses cannot be mediated, resolved, or addressed, but they definitely can be understood and debated to provide a 360-degree lens on the issues of families in violence in the gendered context. The reference work is a useful resource for social work practitioners, educators, academicians, researchers, and other development professionals.
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    Cham : Springer International Publishing | Cham : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
    ISBN: 9783031404948
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXV, 802 p. 6 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Literature, Modern ; Women ; Sex. ; Latin American literature. ; European literature.
    Abstract: 1. Transnational Flows: Women Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century Clorinda Donato and Claire Emilie Martin -- 2. Women across Boundaries: Transnational Exchanges in Nineteenth-Century Europe; Rewriting Women’s History from a Transnational Perspective -- 3. Transatlantic Networks against Cultural Periphery: The Baroness of Wilson’s Canon and the Spanish and Latin American Women of Letters in the Nineteenth Century -- 4. Transnational Identities and Translated Agencies: From Madame de Staël’s Corinne, oul’Italie (1807) to Kim Ragusa’s The Skin between Us: A Memoir of Race, Beauty, and Belonging (2006) -- 5. The Confessions of the Countess Merlin and Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Writing as the Essential Adventure of Their Lives -- 6. “Tutto il sesso femminino per mia bocca v’intima Guerra” (Through My Mouth, the Entire Female Sex Declares War on You), Signed: A European Woman -- 7. Angelica Palli and Alessio: Love and Patriotism in the Early Italian Historical Novel -- 8. The Transatlantic Experience in the Construction of Flora Tristan’s Authorial Posture: From Pariah to Female Messiah -- 9. El baúl de Miss Florence: (Re)imagining the Past; Women’s Travel Literature and the Sweet Tyranny of the Sugar Haciendas in Puerto Rico -- 10. Romantic Cartographies: La Condesa de Merlin’s Colonial Havana and the View from the Harbor -- 11. Matilde Serao, Flânerie and Women in Urban Spaces -- 12. The Fourth Estate in Petticoats -- 13. The Twenty-Year Journey: Flavia Steno’s La Chiosa and the French Daily Newspaper La Fronde -- 14. Women Readers in Nineteenth-Century Mexico: A Study of the Periodicals Las Hijas del Anáhuac, El Álbum de la Mujer, and Violetas del Anáhuac -- 15. Clorinda Matto de Turner’s Tradiciones cuzqueñas: A Writer’s Perspective -- 16. Luck of the Draw: Gambling, Marriage, and the Labor Economy in Clorinda Matto de Turner’s Herencia -- 17. Clorinda’s Cosmopolis: Crisis, Reinvention, and the Birth of Búcaro Americano -- 18. Adapting Economic Strategies to a Changing World in María del Pilar Sinués’s La dama elegante (1880) -- 19. Hiding in Plain Sight: Feminism and Geopolitical Commentary in Fernán Caballero’s La corruptora y la buena maestra (1868) -- 20. Epistolary and Commodity Exchanges in Nineteenth-Century Argentina, or Mariquita Sánchez de Mendeville’s Agency -- 21. Solitary Confinement in Rachilde’s La Tour d’amour: Dehumanization and Madness of the Buried Alive -- 22. Towards New Models of Femininity in the Works of Virginia Elena Ortea -- 23. In Defense of Women’s Progress and Freethinking: Amalia Domingo Soler, Eugenia Estopa and Dolores Navas -- 24. Writing about the Unspeakable: Gendered Violence in the Nineteenth Century -- 25. Women Worthies? Ascriptions of Masculinity to Exceptional Women Writers in Early Nineteenth-Century Italy -- 26. “Doña María Dolores López, Vecina of Tehuacán” or the Case of a Too-Soon Forgotten Nineteenth-Century Mexican Woman Writer -- 27. Annie Vivanti’s Multicultural Identity and the Shaping of the Artist’s Body -- 28. The “Alpine Sybil”: Her Verses and Prose Between Arcadia and Romanticism (the Italian Way) -- 29. Gender Fluidity, the Crisis of Care, and Ecocriticism in George Sand’s François le champi -- 30. What Have You Done Philately? Stamps and the Death of the Liberal Dream in Carmen de Burgos’ Don Manolito (1916) -- 31. Transnational Emancipationism: Fanny Salazar Zampini's Commitment to Women's Liberation -- 32. Adaptation to or of the Environment? Examining the Works of French Women Writers of the First Republic and First Empire through an Ecocritical Lens -- 33. The Archive as Legitimizing Artifact in Ccora Campillana: Romance histórico del tiempo de la conquista (1873) by Carolina Freyre de Jaimes -- 34. “One of the First, If Not the Very First Woman of Her Age”: Germaine de Staël and Her Literary Posterity -- 35. The Making of Il Giorno: Matilde Serao’s Letters to Luigi Luzzatti -- 36. Celebrity by Way of Autobiography: The Case of Angela Veronese -- 37. Alliance and Sorellanza in Matilde Serao’s Romanzo della fanciulla -- 38. Superstition and Orientalism in Il ventre di Napoli by Matilde Serao -- 39. Concepción Gimeno de Flaquer and Her Transatlantic Journey (1873–1890): Victorina o el heroísmo del corazón -- 40. Liturgization and the Satire of Politics in Emilia Pardo Bazán’s La tribuna (1883) -- 41. Between Conformity and Transgression: Approaches to Writing in the Albums of Emilia Pardo Bazán -- 42. Victoria Ocampo’s Transnational Networks: A Sociocultural and Data-Driven Approach.
    Abstract: This handbook explores the rich and as yet understudied field of women’s writing during the nation-building years that characterized the global politics of the long nineteenth century. In the wake of the American and French Revolutions, the waning of the Spanish Empire, subsequent Latin American uprisings, and the Italian Risorgimento, nineteenth-century women writers cracked wide open the myths of gender, race, and class that had sustained the ancien régime. This volume shows that the transnational networks of women writing about politics, sexuality, economics, and the forging of the modern nation were much broader and more inclusive at a global level than has previously been understood. The handbook uniquely foregrounds French, Italian, Latin American, and Spanish women writers, focusing on the transnational nature of their relationships and cultural production within a growing body of research that casts an ever-wider net in the effort to document women’s voices. Claire Emilie Martin is Professor Emerita of Spanish at California State University, Long Beach, USA. She holds a doctorate from Yale University in Spanish American Literature. Her research focuses on nineteenth-century cultural and literary studies with a special emphasis on gender issues, domesticity, education, politics, and travel. She has published numerous articles and edited and co-edited several volumes on nineteenth-century Latin American women writers. Clorinda Donato is Professor of French and Italian at California State University, Long Beach, USA, and director of the Clorinda Donato Center for Global Romance Languages and Translation Studies. She is an eighteenth- and nineteenth-century scholar of French and Italian literature. Her most recent publication is Translation and Transfer of Knowledge in Encyclopedic Compilations, 1680–1830 co-edited with Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink (2021). .
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    ISBN: 9783031500855
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VI, 187 p. 17 illus., 12 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Philosophy of Engineering and Technology 46
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    Keywords: Technology ; Ethnology. ; Control engineering. ; Robotics. ; Automation.
    Abstract: 1. Diachronic Perspectives on Embodiment and Technology: Gestures and Artefacts – An Introduction -- 2. Playing with Arte(f)actors -- 3. The Ineffability of Motion in Robotics -- 4. Sophia the Robot as a Political Choreography to Advance Economic Interests: An Exercise in Political Phenomenology and Critical Performance-Oriented Philosophy of Technology -- 5. Gestures, Diagrams, and the Craft of Musical Composition -- 6. Describing Robot Gestures by Design and Agency: An Exploration with Dennett’s Stances -- 7. The Philosophy of Gesture and Technological Artefacts -- 8. The Orchestration of Bodies and Artifacts in French Family Dinners -- 9. Towards an Ecology of Gesture: A Review (and some Promising Paths) -- 10. Petrified Practice: Is there a Vernacular Choreography of Neanderthal Movements? -- 11. The logos of techné — A Case for Technology as Interdisciplinary Anthropology.
    Abstract: This book investigates the relationships between gestures and artefacts theoretically and historically, by analyzing different phenomena stemming from a variety of fields such as robotics, archaeology, gesture studies, anthropology, philosophy, and gestural practices like choreography, music performance, and composition. It underlines how embodiment and technology change the interplay between maker and artefact over time and appeals to students and researchers in these fields. Its goal is to enable the reader to understand that the recurring topics and questions as well as multi-level similarities are by no means accidental, but can best be understood if one pays attention to the intertwinements of materiality and cognition, praxis and techne.
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    ISBN: 9783031445613
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVIII, 482 p. 14 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Grammar, Comparative and general ; Grammar, Comparative and general ; Semiotics. ; Linguistics.
    Abstract: Ch. 1 – Laure Gardelle, Elise Mignot & Julie Neveux, “Why the morphosyntax / semantics interface matters for nouns” -- Part 1 – Combining syntax and semantics for new insights into the definition of nouns -- Ch. 2 – Paolo Acquaviva, “Nouns, names, and abstract kinds” -- Ch. 3 – Manon Philippe, “Proper names and the ‘noun’ / ‘name’ categories: pseudo-nouns, real names” -- Ch. 4 – Yayoi Nakamura-Delloye, “The noun class in Japanese: Morphosyntactic and semantic properties” -- Ch. 5 – Peter Lauwers, “Conversion vs coercion in the nominal field: two phenomena at the lexis-grammar interface” -- Part 2 – Interactions between the interpretation of nouns and their syntactic and semantic environment -- Ch. 6 – Wiltrud Mihatsch & Désirée Kleineberg, “The interaction of morphosyntax and semantics in Romance object mass nouns” -- Ch. 7 – Evelien Keizer & Elnora ten Wolde, “Of birds of prey and men of honour: head-classifier constructions in English” -- Ch. 8 – Laure Gardelle, “A swarm of helicopters, the last couple of weeks: a constructional analysis of the syntax/semantics interface for the classification of N1 as ‘collective’ or ‘quantificational’” -- Ch. 9 – Anne Jugnet & Philip Miller, “Polar nouns and Polar Concealed Questions” -- Ch. 10 – Olivia Reneaud-Jensen & Elise Mignot, “God, it’s amazing the junk people will buy! When a construction impacts lexical choices: The case of nouns in concealed exclamations” -- Part 3 - Nouns as syntactic and semantic organisers at phrase and discourse level -- Ch. 11 – Jan Rijkhoff, “Nouns and Iconicity of Distance: when syntactic proximity to the noun mirrors semantic closeness” -- Ch. 12 – John Flowerdew, “Resumptive post-modification as a cohesive feature of signalling nouns” -- Ch. 13 – Marie Turlais, “Influence of the headnoun and integration of the dependent in near-compound nominals such as high executive” -- Part 4 - Alignments and mismatches between morphology and lexical or contextual semantics -- Ch. 14 – Laurie Bauer, “The semantics of English nominalizations: How much is usage?” -- Ch. 15 – Julie Neveux, “From productive -ness word-formation to creative suffix -iness: the case of truthiness” -- Ch. 16 – Chris A. Smith, “How is stickage different from sticking? A study of the semantic behaviour of V-age and V-ing nominalisations (on monomorphemic bases)”. .
    Abstract: This edited book seeks to bridge a gap in the existing literature on nouns, by exploring the exact relationship between their formal and semantic characteristics. The introductory chapter offers a thorough state of the art on the morphosyntactic and semantic angles in definitions of nouns, provides evidence of misalignments between morphosyntactic and semantic features, and argues that a multi-criterial angle is in fact inherent in the definition of the class of nouns. The following chapters bring together a representative cross-section of international-level research on the morphosyntax/semantics interface for nouns, covering a wide variety of languages from French-based creoles, German and Japanese to English, French, Italian, Russian and Uzbek. The focus of the volume is to take a special focus on the currently underestimated dynamic interplay between morphosyntax and semantics, at both language and discourse levels. It will be of interest primarily to academics (specialists of nouns, as well as anyone interested in the interplay between morphology, syntax and semantics) and graduate students in areas such as syntax, semantics, morphology, theoretical linguistics and discourse analysis. Laure Gardelle is Professor of English Linguistics and Dean of the doctoral school of languages and literature (ED LLSH) at Grenoble Alpes University, France, and Chair of the French society for English linguistics (ALAES). Her research interests include the morphosyntax/semantics interface in the grammatical categories of gender and number, especially the tension between transparency and the opacification caused by language-internal parameters (such as grammaticisation or morphological attraction). Elise Mignot is Professor of English Linguistics and Head of the research centre CELISO (Centre de Linguistique en Sorbonne) at Sorbonne University, France. Her research focuses on the morpho-syntax /semantics interface in processes of noun-formation, studied in relation with the cognitive operation of categorization. Julie Neveux is a Senior lecturer in English Linguistics at Sorbonne University, France, and chair of the French association of English stylistics (SSA). Initially trained in philosophy, she develops a phenomenological approach of language, semantics and style, defining style as a phenomenon whose effects rely on the perceptibility, in discourse, of the speaker’s motivation (embodied cognition). .
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    ISBN: 9783031544231
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (VIII, 175 p. 1 illus.)
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Classical Liberalism
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    Keywords: Sombart, Werner ; Economics ; Europe ; Economic history. ; Finance, Public. ; socialism ; capitalism ; spirit of capitalism ; Max Weber ; Werner Sombart ; modern capitalism ; Marxism
    Abstract: 1. Introduction: Werner Sombart and the "Spirit" of Modern Capitalism -- 2. Sombart and the "Spirit" of Modern Capitalism-1900-1910 -- 3. Sombart and the "Spirit" of Modern Capitalism-1910-1920 -- 4. Sombart and the "Spirit" of Modern Capitalism-1920-1930 -- 5. Sombart and Modern Capitalism-The Essays -- 6. Conclusion: Sombart's "Spirit" of Modern Capitalism.
    Abstract: This book illuminates the work of Werner Sombart, a key contemporary of Max Weber, showing how his writing and thinking laid the groundwork for concepts of modern capitalism. Although the notion of the ‘spirit’ of modern capitalism is most associated with Weber, it was Sombart who first used this phrase, with Weber focusing mainly on socioeconomics while Sombart continued to develop his ideas around modern capitalism. This book critically analyses Sombart’s groundbreaking work, “Der moderne Kapitalismus” among his other writings to demonstrate how they may be read as a complementary alternative to Weber, providing a more detailed, sustained, and a comprehensive account of the genesis and nature of modern capitalism. This book will be of interest to a scholarly audience including students and researchers of the history of economic thought, as well as areas of sociology, politics, and political economy. Christopher Adair-Toteff is a philosopher and social theorist who has concentrated on social-political and social-economic issues in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Germany. His recent books include Carl Schmitt on Law and Liberalism (Palgrave 2020), Max Weber's Path from Political Economy to Social Economics (Routledge 2021) and The Early Austrian School of Economics: Money, Value, Capital (Routledge 2022). He also published Fundamental Concepts in Max Weber's Sociology of Religion (Palgrave 2015). .
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    ISBN: 9783031540561
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (VIII, 85 p. 42 illus., 37 illus. in color.)
    Series Statement: PoliMI SpringerBriefs
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    Keywords: Urban economics. ; Real estate business. ; Urban policy. ; Civic Crowdfunding ; Real Estate ; Public Administration ; Urban Regeneration ; Public Private Partnership
    Abstract: 1. Between Competition and Cooperation: The Enhancement of the City and the Territory -- 2. Measurement and Comparison of the Efficiency of the Permits Concession Processes of the Italian Municipalities -- 3. Alternative Strategies and Financial Instruments for the Enhancement of the Territory -- 4. Civic Crowdfunding and the Small Italian Municipalities.
    Abstract: This book presents some alternative models and financial instruments for the enhancement of public properties and urban regeneration operations. Set against the backdrop of the current scenario of competition between cities to attract investments (but also of cooperation in front of challenges posed by sustainable development issues), the book describes the role played by Public Administrations through the measurement and comparison of their efficiency in the bureaucratic procedures in the field of real estate and their knowledge and use of some alternative financial tools, particularly civic crowdfunding. Following a brief overview of public-private partnership, the book highlights the potentialities of civic crowdfunding for the enhancement of public real estate assets in the Italian territory, related to small municipalities, also including some case studies. These good practices prove civic crowdfunding a useful tool not only to finance and implement public interest initiatives, but also to transparently and directly involve citizens.
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    ISBN: 9783031522925
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXVIII, 256 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Issues in Science and Religion: Publications of the European Society for the Study of Science and Theology 8
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    Keywords: Religion ; Analysis (Philosophy). ; Religion. ; Religion and sociology. ; Naturalism. ; Social sciences.
    Abstract: Preface (Mark Harris) -- Introduction (Anne Runehov and Michael Fuller) -- Chapter 1. Curricular Evanescence: Theology, Philosophy, and the Study of Religion (Ab De Jong) -- Chapter 2. The Role of the Humanities in hermeneutic-anthropological perspective (Marcus Düwel) -- Chapter 3. The formation of religion vs. science in the late 19th century (Dirk Evers) -- Chapter 4. Is Compatibilist Freedom Meaningful Freedom? (Jenny Gillett) -- Chapter 5. Types of Transcendence: Their relevance for science-religion discussions (Niels Henrik Gregersen) -- Chapter 6. Clarity and Humility within and among Human Ways of Knowing (Tom Hastings) -- Chapter 7. From Contingency to Multiverses. A Theological Provocation (Michael Heller) -- Chapter 8. Silence and Silencing in democratic public spheres (Odile Heynders) -- Chapter 9. The Demon and the Mars Rover: the Varieties of Curiosity (Alfred Kracher) -- Chapter 10. Changing the planetary conversations: evolutionary and religious narratives of creationand evil (Anne Kull) -- Chapter 11. Christology and the Modern World. Poetry, Arts, Science and Jesus the Christ (Hubert Meisinger) -- Chapter 12. Is theology becoming more science-like when approaching science? A reconfiguration of humanities (Lluis Oviedo) -- Chapter 13. Willem Drees and the Varieties of Naturalism (Arthur Petersen) -- Chapter 14. The Science and Religion dialogue as an interdisciplinary endeavor (Knut-Willy Saether) -- Chapter 15. Faith as Commitment (Marcel Sarot) -- Chapter 16. Creation: beyond nothing and now (Christopher Southgate).
    Abstract: This book collects a multidisciplinary range of contributions focusing on the prolific and seminal work of Willem Drees in the fields of philosophy of religion, philosophy of the humanities, and science and theology/religion. Trained in both theoretical physics and theology/philosophy of religion, Drees holds doctoral degrees in both theology and in philosophy and, amongst other distinguished positions, held professorships at the University of Leiden and at the University of Tilburg. Drees was also Editor-in-Chief of Zygon, Journal of Religion & Science, between 2008 and 2018, and served as President of the European Society for the Study of Science and Theology (ESSSAT) between 2002 and 2008. In 2018, he was elected as member of the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities (KHMW). This contributed volume builds on Drees’ expansive and provocative scholarly contributions, notably around the concept and meaning of naturalism and the humanities to the fields of science and religion, as exemplified by his works Religion, Science and Naturalism (1996) and What Are the Humanities For? (2021). In a time where more and more young people across the globe are entering higher education such cross-disciplinary explorations and (re-)evaluations are vital to the field. Accordingly, by approaching his work from a variety of disciplines this collection illuminates the broad reach of Drees’ work and provides scholars from various fields with many new and rich opportunities avenues for research.
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    ISBN: 9783031530555
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XI, 162 p. 3 illus.)
    Series Statement: International Law and Economics
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Roy, Shubhangi When Do People Obey Laws?
    Keywords: Law and economics. ; Economics ; Law ; Social psychology. ; Law and social norms ; Law obedience ; Law and behaviour ; Legal compliance ; Law enforcement ; Law and economics ; Behavioral influence ; Human behavior ; Social communication ; Institutional conditions ; Law and social psychology ; Law obedience ; Interest lobbies
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Focusing on When Do People Obey Laws and Why It Matters -- Part I: Developing an Integrated Approach to Compliance -- Chapter 2. An Integrated Framework of Compliance With Law as Social Influence: When Law Changes Behaviors -- Chapter 3. When Law Changes Attitudes Within the Integrated Approach -- Part II: Applying an Integrated Approach to Compliance to Motivational Mechanisms of Why People Obey Laws -- Chapter 4. Understanding the Powers and Limits of Legal Expression to Create Change Through the Integrated Approach to Compliance -- Chapter 5. Understanding the Role of Procedural Justice in Compliance Through the Integrated Framework -- Chapter 6. Understanding When Do People Obey Laws Through an Integrated Approach to Compliance: Concluding Remarks.
    Abstract: This book examines the intricate dynamics of when individuals adhere to laws, taking into account the context in which laws attempt to shape human behavior. While existing literature touches upon various reasons why people comply with laws, the book focuses on a critical question which has been missing from the discussion: when do people obey laws? By treating law as a form of social communication, it develops an integrated framework to answer this question. It explores how social, psychological, and institutional conditions shape compliance decisions of individuals. What does a law signify? When does the compulsion to obey arise? When do individuals comply out of a fear for legal sanctions or social repercussions? Why do some laws have high symbolic values and others fail despite harsh punishments? The book unveils the contextual intricacies that underlie obedience to law. It challenges conventional wisdom and offers a fresh perspective on the power and limitations of law in shaping human behavior. For scholars and academics seeking a deeper understanding of legal compliance and role of law in shaping behaviors, this book will be an indispensable resource.
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    ISBN: 9783031540899
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXIV, 218 p. 21 illus., 16 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications
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    Keywords: Computer crimes. ; Law and economics. ; Criminology. ; Africa ; Crime. ; Technology.
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. Cyber Crime in Nigeria – Reviewing the problems -- 3. Methodology -- 4. Nigerian Financial Crimes Agencies and the Nigerian Police Force – research findings on forensic digital readiness -- 5. Implications for Financial Crime in Nigeria -- 6. Conclusion.
    Abstract: Nigeria has become one of the hotbeds of cybercrime since the liberalization of the telecommunication industry began in 1996. The scale and magnitude have been quite disturbing, not just for Nigeria but also for the international community, given the limitless boundaries of cybercrime. Like any other type of fraud, Internet fraud is primarily driven by financial gains. This book investigates the extent of the lack of digital forensic resources in Nigeria’s financial crime agencies. It is vital to have a proper resource inventory and capabilities to successfully confront the growing threat of financial crimes. While a few studies have suggested the lack of forensic capabilities in Nigerian cybercrime investigative agencies and the justice system, none have examined this in great detail, particularly in relation to specific skills gaps and resources needed in Nigeria’s financial crime agencies. This book contributes to the growing body of knowledge and clarifies the scope of the lack of digital forensic resources. Understanding the extent of the deficiency and its impact on caseloads could be crucial for developing a roadmap toward building forensic readiness and capability maturity for the agencies. This book presents the deficiencies in forensic readiness and recommends measures to fill this gap. This book also examines the specifics of the cybercrime caseloads and conviction records in Nigeria, identifying trends and patterns. The book explores other cybercrime complexities in Nigeria, such as common cybercrime taxonomies, prosecution, and conviction dynamics, juxtaposing it with select case studies in other jurisdictions. Drawing on extensive research, the book offers crucial insights for policymakers, researchers, and the public interested in new trends in cybercrime, digital forensic readiness, Nigerian financial crime agencies, and cybercrime investigations. .
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    ISBN: 9783031535376
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (VIII, 130 p. 22 illus.)
    Series Statement: Professional Practice in Governance and Public Organizations
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Ehnts, Dirk Modern Money Theory
    Keywords: Macroeconomics. ; Finance. ; Economics. ; Modern Monetary Theory ; Financial Policy ; Monetary Policy ; Monetary Theory ; Introduction to Modern Monetary Theory ; Economic Policy ; Inflation ; Government Spending ; Central Banks ; Government Bonds ; International Trade ; Financial Economics ; Monetary Systems
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The Biden Administration and the Copernican Turn -- Chapter 3. The paper currency of Virginia (1760s) and its lessons -- Chapter 4. Modern Money Theory as Part of Economics -- Chapter 5. What is economic policy? -- Chapter 6. Economic policies based on MMT -- Chapter 7. Outlook.
    Abstract: This book explains how central banks, banks and governments create money. Written in an accessible style, this book provides an introduction to modern monetary theory without requiring any prior knowledge of economics. It covers the most important aspects of monetary theory, including inflation targeting, government spending, and international trade, as well as economic policy to achieve macroeconomic goals, such as price stability, full employment and sustainable use of resources. Accordingly, it offers a valuable asset for students of economics, central bankers, banking professionals, and academics alike.
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    ISBN: 9783031493829
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 271 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: International Law and the Global South, Perspectives from the Rest of the World
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    Keywords: International law. ; Trade regulation. ; Mediation. ; Dispute resolution (Law). ; Arbitration (Administrative law). ; Economic history.
    Abstract: Introduction - Legal protection offered to foreign investment in Latin America: context and general trends -- PART I- International Investment Law in Latin America: Where do we Stand? -- Brazilian CFIA - Evolution towards the traditional? -- INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT LAW IN CHILE: RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN TIMES OF REFORM -- International Investment Law and its scope in Argentina -- Venezuelan investment arbitration experience: from unilateral termination of Dutch treaty, the denunciation of ICSID Convention to its continued participation as respondent State in investment arbitration -- Philip Morris v. Uruguay through the lens of the ISDS trilemma -- PART II - Trends in dispute governance and settlement -- Dispute Prevention Methods in the Brazilian Agreements on Cooperation and Facilitation of Investments (CFIAs) -- THE BRAZILIAN BRANCHES IN THE ARBITRATION BENCH: CHALLENGES AND POSSIBILITIES IN FACE OF THE “PRECATÓRIO” SYSTEM AND CONSENSUALITY -- PART III - Trends in connecting investment law toHuman Rights -- The 2017 BIT Model of Colombia: A Human Rights Assessment from Investment Disputes against the State -- Peru and International Investment Agreements: Legal and Institutional challenges under a Business and Human Rights Perspective -- PART IV - Trends in Regionalization -- Mexico in International Investment Law: From NAFTA to USMCA.
    Abstract: The book brings to light how Latin American states have traditionally stood before the field of International Investment Law and Arbitration. It delves into their posture of resistance to critically examine how their perspective has gradually changed and how they have adapted and molded their investment agreements so as not to leave their position as players in the field of International Investment Law. Many Latin American states have appeared as defendants before international investment tribunals and some of these, like Venezuela, Bolivia or Ecuador, have denounced their international investment agreements. Deeming the law field as imbalanced, they have looked for alternatives to continue providing legal protection to foreign investors while protecting their right to regulate in the name of public interest. Some interesting investment agreements models, sometimes of a different ilk, have consequently flourished and have arrested the attention of those studying or working with international investment law. The main objective of this book is to critically discuss how Latin American states have accepted, resisted, or adapted themselves to international investment law and arbitration. Accordingly, the general connection between these states and international investment law are explained in an introduction which examines the general trends as per which Latin American states have offered a legal protection to foreign investments. The first part enters the merits of where international investment law and arbitration stand in some Latin American states whereby the experience of Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Venezuela, and Uruguay are discussed. The following parts explain the trends in international investment law and arbitration in Latin America. These trends are namely related to dispute settlement and governance, to the connection between investment law and human rights and finally to regionalization. In these parts, the experience of states like Brazil, Colombia, Peru, and Mexico are perused.
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    ISBN: 9783031494604
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (VIII, 382 p. 7 illus., 4 illus. in color.)
    Series Statement: Economic Analysis of Law in European Legal Scholarship 16
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    Keywords: Finance ; sustainability ; financial markets ; regulation ; carbon prices ; carbon markets ; green public finance ; green taxes ; SDGs ; ESG ; climate change ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Part I - Financial sector, regulation, supervision and sustainability: Rute Saraiva, ESG factors in pensions funds regulations: Why, how far have they gone, and what is the potential for improvement? -- Luciane Moessa, Benchmarking of national ESG banking regulations: State of art and remaining challenges -- Sofia Santos, The importance of practicality: The role of a transition green asset ratio for banks -- Miguel Morgado, EIB Group Climate Bank Roadmap 2021-2025 -- Part II – Markets and Climate change: Ruthie Lazenby, Evaluating additionality analyses: California Cap and Trade and the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative -- Tatiana Falcão, Paying the piper: On the legal qualification of carbon prices -- Miguel Patrício, The Economics of adaptation to climate change and its main challenges -- Part III – Green public finance, budgeting and procurement: Paulo Alves Pardal, When climate change knockson the finance minister's door -- Carlos Marinheiro, Amílcar do Rosário e Sousa and Ana Pinheiro, The climate dimension of fiscal policy sustainability: best practices in Green Budgeting and lessons for Portugal -- Pedro Infante, Government procurement and sustainable development in the WTO -- Part IV - Green taxes: Janet Milne, Environmental taxation and ESG: Silent Partners -- María Amparo Grau Ruiz, International fiscal cooperation to better integrate public and private efforts on sustainability: the case of carbon offset credits -- Karolina Tetlak, The Use of windfall taxes on the energy sector to support the green transition in the EU -- Filipe de Vasconcelos Fernandes, The European "fit for 55" package and the Portuguese tax benefits system – Prospective analysis and reform proposals -- André Alfar Rodrigues, "Fit for 55" – The EU plan for a green transition -- Solange Morais Juvandes, Jurisdictional assessment of environmentaltaxation.
    Abstract: Sustainable (public and private) finance is closely interlinked with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The latter focus on enhancing the protection of both social and environmental assets at the local and global level, from the real economy and everyday life to financial markets and public policies, thereby laying the groundwork for a transition. Global sustainability challenges – including climate change, natural resource depletion, and rising inequality – are affecting the commercial environment and real economy in a way that presents both risks and opportunities for the private and public financial sectors. On the one hand, policymakers and investors (including banks and pensions funds) are increasingly recognizing the environment’s implications for the financial sector through both physical and transitional risks, producing impacts on financial services and products, not to mention corporate governance. On the other hand, governments and European and international institutions are aware of their sustainability-related responsibilities and the consequences of their actions. Both regulate and supervise financial markets but also use their budgetary and tax policies (e.g. carbon tax) and their participation in financial markets (e.g. green bonds and development banks) to overcome sustainability challenges. Therefore, the objective of this book is to help readers understand how private and public financial systems can be modified to create better value for society through sustainable approaches and initiatives such as the integration of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors in investment, procurement, and budgeting.
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    ISBN: 9783031499678
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIV, 280 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Philosophy. ; Economics. ; Law ; Social sciences
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction: Breaking Free from Private Control Over Knowledge -- Chapter 2: First Prolegomena: A Brief History of Intellectual Property -- Chapter 3: Prolegomena: Rationalisation of Intellectual Property -- Chapter 4: Prolegomena: The Dangers of Intellectual Property -- Chapter 5: Conclusion: Social Disintegration and the Privatisation of Knowledge.
    Abstract: The Paradox of Intellectual Property in Capitalism is an innovative book that comprehensively discusses and analyses intellectual property under capitalistic social conditions and relations. It not only addresses some historical developments of intellectual property but also brings to the fore the very notion of what knowledge is, knowledge creation, and knowledge production and appropriation within a Marxist framework. Nonetheless, the adopted approach pays heed to multiple fields of knowledge, providing rich discussions that facilitate the understanding of actual social totality in which capitalism, knowledge production and appropriation, and the struggles of appropriation mutually reinforce each other, although not devoid of antagonisms and contradictions. In light of contemporary capitalism, the transformations that social property relations are undergoing must be scrutinised – such as those brought about by the development of digitalisation and the convergence between big pharma and tech giants. What are the conditions of intellectual property creation today? What theoretical assumptions does it make? Under what social relations is intellectual property produced? Throughout, the emphasis is not on individual cases or symptoms but on the overarching logic: the logic of capitalism as revealed in intellectual property. João Romeiro Hermeto holds a PhD in philosophy from the Witten/Herdecke University, Germany.
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    ISBN: 9783031512285
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 306 p. 19 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Historical-Analytical Studies on Nature, Mind and Action 13
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    Abstract: 1. Introduction (Péter Hartl) -- 2. Replicability and Faith in science: Implications of Tacit Knowledge(Agnès Festré and Stein Østbye) -- 3. Attributing Meanings to “Science”, “Faith”, and “Society” (Richard W. Moodey) -- 4. Science, Faith and Society and Polanyi’s Metaphysical Account (Phil Mullins) -- 5. "Interpretations of Nature” in Polanyi’s Science, Faith and Society (John Preston) -- 6. That Our World Might Endure: Polanyi’s “Primary Education” (Jon Fennell) -- 7. The Architecture of Public Trust (Diane Yeager) -- 8. The Enlightenment is Dead, Long Live the Enlightenment! - Towards a Post-critical Age of Reasonm (Gábor Bíró) -- 9. From Scientific Truth to Tradition-Encased Personal Meaning - Polanyi’s Critique of Enlightenment Ideas (Walter Gulick) -- 10. Michael Polanyi’s Understanding of Totalitarianism Against the Backdrop of Liberal Civilization (Struan Jacobs) -- 11. The Galilean Principle of Relativity: The Ultimate Fundament ofMoral Inversion (Dániel Paksi) -- 12. Inversions and Conversions, Moral and Otherwise (Andrew Grosso) -- 13. The Tragedy of the Liberal Theory of Science (Stephen Turner) -- Index.
    Abstract: The book is arguably the first comprehensive collection of essays on Michael Polanyi’s social, political philosophy. The essays combine philosophical and historical approaches to show Polanyi’s social thought in the context of his epistemology and philosophy of science as well as the 20th century intellectual history. This volume appeals to specialists in Michael Polanyi’s philosophy, political philosophers who are interested in the 20th century political thought, mainly conservative-liberal political tradition. Furthermore it appeals to scholars focusing on the intersections between epistemology and political philosophy.
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    ISBN: 9783031406249
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XV, 273 p. 37 illus., 3 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: New Dramaturgies
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    Keywords: Theater ; Theater. ; Cultural industries.
    Abstract: Chapter1. Multilingual Dramaturgies: Theories, Politics, and European landscape -- Part I: Questions Of Language -- Chapter 2. The Failures of Multilingual Dramaturgies: The blind poet by Needcompany -- Chapter 3. Multisensory, Multilingual Dramaturgy as a Tool for Social Change: Nie Mów Nikomu (Don’t Tell Anyone) by Scena Robocza.-Chapter 4. Dramaturgy of Incomprehensibility and Encounter in Odin Teatret’s The Tree -- Part II: Multilingual Adaptations -- Chapter 5. Multilingual Histories of Europe: Sir David Pountney on The Passenger and Memories of Auschwitz -- Chapter 6. Multilingualism as Mask and Virus: The Dialogue with Tradition in the Theatre of Radosław Rychci -- Chapter 7. Actors as Creators of Multilingual Dramaturgies: Teatro Inverso and Their Transnational Adaptations -- Part III: Local And Trans-Local Tales Of Cities And Their Communities -- Chapter 8. Dramaturging the Multilingual Community: Dramaturg Nina Thunnissen on the Work of Frisian Tryater -- Chapter 9. Multilingualismand Dramaturgy of History and Democracy: the Lithuanian National Theatre’s Žalia pievelė -- Chapter 10. Local and Global Politics in Malmö’s Teater Foratt and Teater JaLaDa -- Part IV:Webbed Dramaturgies -- Chapter 11. Towards Porous Europe: Multilingual Dramaturgies in Rimini Protokoll’s 100% City -- Chapter 12. Towards Aesthetics of Transatlantic Theatre: Multilingualism in SignDance Collective International’s production of Carthage/Cartagena by Caridad Svich.-Chapter 13. Making Europe: How Anne Bérélowitch’s Directorial and Training Practices Open Spaces for New Multilingual Dramaturgies -- Chapter 14. Towards New European Theatre.
    Abstract: “A brilliant book on the practices and politics of making multilingual theatre in a in a European continent in flux where language is anything but stable.” — Professor Maria Delgado, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London “Profoundly impactful for our understanding of dramaturgy, translation, collaboration.” —Professor Patrick Lonergan, University of Galway Multilingual Dramaturgies provides a study of dramaturgical practices in contemporary multilingual theatre in Europe. Featuring interviews with international theatremakers, the book gives an insight to diverse approaches towards multilingual theatre and its dramaturgy that reflect cultural, political, and economic landscapes of contemporary Europe, its inhabitants, and its theatres. First-hand accounts are contextualized to reveal a complex set of negotiations involved in the creative and political tasks of staging multilingualism and engaging the audience, as well as in practical issues like funding and developing working models. By bringing voices of artists together and providing a critical commentary, the book reveals multilingual dramaturgies as webbed practices of differences that also offer new ways of understanding and performing identity in European context. Multilingual Dramaturgies sheds light on an exciting theatre practice, argues for its central role in European future, and highlights potential directions for its further development. Kasia Lech is a scholar, actor, storyteller, dramaturg, puppeteer, and Associate Professor in Global Performance History at the University of Amsterdam. Her research and creative practice explore theatre through practice-based and traditional scholarship and primarily focus on theatre in relation to multilingualism, verse, translation, migration, dramaturgy, and cross-cultural encounters. Kasia is the author of Dramaturgy of Form: Performing Verse in Contemporary Theatre (2021). She performed internationally and co-founded Polish Theatre Ireland, a multilingual theatre company based in Dublin. She is an Executive Director at TheTheatreTimes.com, a global theatre portal which seeks to decolonize theatre criticism. She co-convenes the Translation Adaptation Dramaturgy working group at the International Federation for Theatre Research. .
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    ISBN: 9783031476020
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VI, 404 p. 8 illus.)
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    Series Statement: AIDA Europe Research Series on Insurance Law and Regulation 9
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    Keywords: Private international law. ; Conflict of laws. ; International law. ; Comparative law. ; Environmental Law. ; Law ; Contracts. ; Common law. ; Commercial law. ; Environmental law, International.
    Abstract: Law and environment. Prevention, control, responsibility -- Global Governance of the Environment and implications for the Insurance Industry -- Environmental liabilities and Insurance Law in the EU -- Environmental Liabilities and Insurance Law in the United Kingdom -- Managing Environmental Risk through Insurance: China -- Environmental Liabilities and Insurance Law in the United States -- Environmental Civil Liability In The Mercosur Region South America -- Environmental insurance product -- Prevention in environmental insurance -- Loss adjustment in the environmental insurance and the role of the loss adjuster -- Waste insurance -- Underwriting Environmental Risks for Carbon Capture Usage and Storage (CCUS) Coverage: Challenges and Best Practices Forward -- Liability for environmental damage in aviation -- Liability for environmental damage in outer space and its insurance -- Liability for pollution damage to the marine environment.
    Abstract: This book identifies the role of insurance in a comprehensive system for managing environmental risks at the local, regional and global level. National and international legal instruments regulating environmental protection, especially aspects like pollution, are not precisely reflected in insurance concepts intended to cover environmental risks. As such, there is a need to identify environmental risks and to propose a taxonomy of environmental risks for various types of insurance coverage. The authors refer to the issues of liability in environmental protection, the scope of insurance coverage and comment on specific issues the importance of which has been noticed by the legislator or insurance practice. The book examines these issues horizontally and vertically from various standpoints, focusing on insurance as a means of managing environmental risks. In this regard, it mainly concentrates on (1) identifying and analyzing environmental risks and methods for managing them via private and public instruments, and (2) insuring these risks. The book is intended for all those interested in the field of insurance and environmental risk regimes, including lawyers, academics and legal professionals.
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    ISBN: 9783031527562
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXVIII, 320 p. 1 illus.)
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    Series Statement: History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences 36
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    Keywords: Biology ; Europe ; Science ; Evolution (Biology).
    Abstract: Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Jean Baptiste Lamarck: La marche de la nature -- Chapter 2. Herbert Spencer: The tripartite model -- Chapter 3. Interlude: The cluster of plasticity and the impact of its transfer -- Chapter 4. John Hughlings Jackson: A clinical scientist -- Chapter 5. Théodule Armand Ribot: ‘Scientific psychology’ in France -- Chapter 6. Interlude: ‘Hierarchy’ in nineteenth century Spencerian Lamarckism / neo-Lamarckism and its transfer -- Chapter 7. David Émile Durkheim: Founding ‘scientific sociology’ -- Chapter 8. Sigmund Freud, a neo-Lamarckist – Short Coda -- Chapter 9. Interlude: ‘Collectivity’ in the nineteenth century between the biological and the social -- Concluding reflection -- Appendix: Concise biographical portraits -- Notes -- Index.
    Abstract: The book presents an original synthesizing framework on the relations between ‘the biological’ and ‘the social’. Within these relations, the late nineteenth-century emergence of social sciences aspiring to be constituted as autonomous, as 'scientific' disciplines, is described, analyzed and explained. Through this framework, the author points to conceptual and constructive commonalities conjoining significant founding figures – Lamarck, Spencer, Hughlings Jackson, Ribot, Durkheim, Freud – who were not grouped nor analyzed in this manner before. Thus, the book offers a rather unique synthesis of the interactions of the social, the mental, and the evolutionary biological – Spencerian Lamarckism and/or Neo-Lamarckism – crystallizing into novel fields. It adds substantially to the understanding of the complexities of evolutionary debates during the last quarter of the nineteenth century. It will attract the attention of a wide spectrum of specialists, academics, and postgraduates in European history of the nineteenth century, history and philosophy of science, and history of biology and of the social sciences, including psychology.
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    ISBN: 9783031456978
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIV, 128 p. 14 illus., 13 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Springer Series on Asian Criminology and Criminal Justice Research
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    Keywords: Criminology. ; Crime. ; Technology.
    Abstract: Chapter 1 Introduction to child sexual abuse online -- Chapter 2 Online child sexual abuse and modus operandi -- Chapter 3 Law enforcement perspective -- Chapter 4 Legislature and judicial perspective -- Chapter 5 Parental Perspective -- Chapter 6 Victim rehabilitation, incident prevention and mitigation -- Chapter 7 Efforts Taken by Law Enforcement Agencies Across India -- Chapter 8 Roadmap ahead and recommendations -- Chapter 9 Conclusions -- Chapter 10 Outlook.
    Abstract: This book discusses the phenomenon of child sexual abuse material (CSAM), in the context of the Indian law enforcement and criminal justice system. It helps readers understand the complexities involved in these types of online crimes, and the perspectives of various stakeholders involved in the investigation and justice process. This volume analyzes the unique challenges faced by law enforcement when dealing with cybercrime, and specifically when the victims are minors. Representing a unique analysis of the surge of child sexual abuse material on the internet during COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns, this book discusses cybercrime and societal behavior patterns. With practical remedial steps to control and preclude online child sexual abuse, this volume will be of interest to law enforcement, researchers, and child protection advocates in India and other developing digital economies.
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    ISBN: 9783031560422
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (V, 80 p. 34 illus. in color.)
    Series Statement: SpringerBriefs in Economics
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    Keywords: Industrial organization. ; Business logistics. ; Control engineering. ; Robotics. ; Automation. ; Labor economics. ; International trade. ; Industries. ; Offshoring ; Deindustrialisation ; Global value chains ; Nearshoring ; Reshoring ; Employment ; Value added ; Global markets ; Manufacturing ; Regionalization ; Automotive industry ; Europe ; North America ; Industrial renaissance ; Automation ; Globalization ; Pandemic ; Geopolitics
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Deindustrialisation in the New Millennium -- Chapter 3. Empirical Analysis of Global Value Chains -- Chapter 4. Regionalisation of Global Value Chains in Manufacturing -- Chapter 5. Deindustrialisation Over Time -- Chapter 6. Conclusion.
    Abstract: This book analyses the possible regionalization of global value chains, particularly in manufacturing. Amidst calls for an industrial renaissance in Europe and a resurgence of manufacturing jobs in the United States, the dynamics of global value chains have been reshaped by global pandemics, geopolitical tensions, and increased automation. Employing a multi-regional input–output model, the book scrutinizes the decline in offshoring afer the mid-2010s. It sheds light on regionalization as a pivotal force redefining global markets, and focuses on Europe and North America, revealing the strengthening of regional ties. Discussing future challenges, the book will appeal to scholars, students, and researchers, as well as practitioners and policy-makers interested in a better understanding of (de)globalization nuances connected to the evolving role of manufacturing in global value chains.
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    ISBN: 9783031444784
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XV, 159 p. 14 illus., 12 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
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    Keywords: Collective memory. ; Cultural property.
    Abstract: Introduction: Why collect and preserve protest memories? -- Chapter 1 A memory studies approach to protest -- Chapter 2 Rapid response collecting in the Womens' March: from the streets to the museum -- Chapter 3 Archives of protest and protesting archives -- Chapter 4 Protesting monuments and creating new urban spaces -- Conclusion: Toward a critical understanding of protest memory work.
    Abstract: This is a fascinating study of the challenges faced by cultural institutions in collecting and curating the memory of protest. Written in a clear and accessible manner which will appeal to a wide readership, it offers a compelling argument about the civic value of giving protest an afterlife. Highly recommended. - Ann Rigney, Utrecht University, The Netherlands This short book enlivens memory as something that can spark protest and propel the commemoration, re-use and attempted management of its ‘afterlives’ by various players. Case studies of the Women’s March and London’s environmental river activisms offer rich models for readers seeking to understand the prefigurative political possibilities of activist collaborations with cultural institutions and for cultural workers alike. A terrific read. - Kylie Message, Australian National University, Australia This book addresses the emergence of ‘protest memory’ as a powerful contemporary shaper of ideas and practices in culture, media and heritage domains. Directly focused on the role of museum and archive practitioners in protest memory curation, it makes a compelling contribution to our understanding of how social movements and activist experiences are publicly remembered and activated for social and environmental justice. Red Chidgey is Senior Lecturer in Gender and Media at the Department of Culture, Media & Creative Industries, King’s College London. They are co-investigator of the Afterlives of Protest Research Network (AHRC) and former co-chair of the Memory & Activism working group of the Memory Studies Association. Joanne Garde-Hansen is Professor of Culture, Media and Communication in the School of Media and Communication at the University of Leeds, and has published widely on media and memory, media and water, and media histories. She led the Afterlives of Protest Research Network (AHRC) while at the University of Warwick.
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    ISBN: 9783031393075
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXV, 388 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Historical linguistics. ; Linguistics. ; Grammar, Comparative and general ; Language and languages ; Language and languages.
    Abstract: PART I: INTRODUCTION TO ICONS OF THE ALPHABET -- Chapter 1. Another book on the alphabet? -- PART II: THE CONTRONYMS -- Chapter 2. Aitch: When a letter loses its phonetic 'ead but gains an orthographic foothold -- Chapter 3. Double U: When two /u/ make one /w/ and the phonetics of consonantalization -- PART III: THE AMBINYMS -- Chapter 4. The vocalic ambinyms: Pronouncing Ay as /e/, Ee as /i/ and I as /aɪ/ but Oh as /o/ and Yue as /ju/ -- Chapter 5. Cee and Gee: The consonantal ambinyms and the digraph combination plus -- PART IV: THE TAUTONYMS -- Chapter 6. Vee and Zee: English fricatives find their voice -- Chapter 7. The vowel-consonant tautonyms: Syllabic consonants in Etruscan and English -- Chapter 8. Procrustean vowel length: The bimoraic weight of VC and CVV tautonyms -- PART V: CONCLUSION -- Chapter 9. Alphabetic iconography: A metalinguistic guide to phonologies and orthographies. .
    Abstract: This book examines the names by which we refer to the letters of the English alphabet, arguing that these letter names provide unrivalled insights into the phonological structure of English, present and past, as well as the many peculiarities of English pronunciation and spelling. Classified either as contronyms, ambinyms or tautonyms, the modern phonological profiles of our ancient Semitic letter names reveal what is unique to English, what is fundamental to language and how letter names emerge as the semiotic product of interchanging languages combined with intralanguage change. This volume promises a much more extensive and deeper linguistic treatment of English letter names than has previously been attempted. It will be of particular interest to students and scholars of historical linguistics, phonology and orthography, the history of English, semiotics, and language and literacy teaching. .
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    ISBN: 9783031550089
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XVI, 187 p. 74 illus., 54 illus. in color.)
    Series Statement: Contributions to Regional Science
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    Keywords: Regional economics. ; Spatial economics. ; Economic geography. ; Geographic information systems. ; Agriculture ; Urban economics. ; Spatial Interaction ; Land Use ; Sustainable regional development ; Systemic Cost Benefit Analysis ; Regional Science ; Spatial economics ; climate change ; econometrics ; spatial planning
    Abstract: This book develops spatial interaction models for the analysis of human interaction within space, in terms of both accessibility and land use. Presenting case studies on the Azores and Morocco, it covers applications in various regions of Europe and Africa. The respective models simulate land use, employment, households, commuting and shopping movements and land values, employment distribution for basic activities, changes in accessibility, and changes in land suitability due to climate change. This book will appeal to scholars and students of regional and spatial science, ecological economics, and agricultural economics, as well as to spatial planners and practitioners dealing with issues of spatial planning to address such problems as unsustainable land use, adaptation to climate change, desertification of rural areas heavily dependent on land use, and the impacts of external shocks on land and property values.
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    ISBN: 9783031558818
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 202 p. 3 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Philosophy. ; Postcolonialism. ; Terrorism. ; Political violence. ; Political science
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. Reimagining the colonial condition: understanding unhappiness in context to the colonial wound -- 3. Violent Technologies: A Historico-Philosophical Analysis -- 4. Internal Violence: A Critique of Absolute Socialisations -- 5. Corrective Sexual Violence in South Africa: a crime against the deviant Sexualised Other -- 6. Women, violence, and social activism: From Aba women’s protest to #EndSARS protests -- 7. An anger-based contextualist account of justifiable violence: An African case study -- 8. Reimagining Civil-Military Relations from a Quadrumvirate Interaction Perspective -- 9. Reading Contemporary Decolonial Iconoclasm in Belgium with Žižek, Yousfi and Fanon -- 10. A postcolonial theory of recognition: Honneth and Fanon on violence and mutual recognition.
    Abstract: This volume explores the role of violence generally but with specific reference to African concepts and themes, and the significance they have for social redress. The contributors interpret African concepts and themes to include accounts of violence, explicitly or implicitly construed from indigenous axiological resources like Ubuntu or personhood and from those works that are not African in origin but have become central in African moral, political and legal thought, such as Hannah Arendt’s On Violence and Walter Benjamin’s Critique of Violence. The volume contributes to moral philosophy, social philosophy, African philosophy, and political philosophy/theory. It situates itself within the Global South, specifically the African perspective, to explore, articulate, and defend (or even critique) African conceptions of violence. This volume also takes seriously the need to tap into the intellectual resource of the African and diasporic African episteme thru thinkers such as Steve Biko, Frantz Fanon and Reiland Rabaka. It appeals to students and researchers working in philosophy and related disciplines on violence in Africa and the postcolonial context.
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    ISBN: 9783031535413
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(X, 305 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Studies in Global Science Fiction
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    Keywords: Oriental literature. ; Fiction. ; Popular Culture. ; Translating and interpreting. ; China
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Kang Youwei’s Book of the Heavens and the Porous Epistemological Grounds of Early-modern Chinese Science Fiction -- Chapter 3. Intelligent Humanoid Machines: Imaginations of Physical and Mental Transformation in late Qing Literature and Their Intellectual Origins -- Chapter 4. The King of Electricity from China: Science, Technology, and the Vision of World Order in Late Qing China -- Chapter 5. Formal Fictions: “Chinese” “Science” “Fiction” in Translation -- Chapter 6. The Writing Editors: Late Qing and Republican Media Professionals as Authors of Science Fiction -- Chapter 7. Projecting Eco-Futures: Cinematic Visions of Utopian Science and Ecology from the Mao Era to the Deng Era -- Chapter 8. Information, the Body, and Humanism in the Chinese Cyber Novel Forty Millennia of Authenticity Cultivation -- Chapter 9. Open Up Your Brain Hole: Spatial Imaginaries in Chinese Online Science Fiction -- Chapter 10. Of Illness and Illusion: The Chaosmology of Han Song’s Hospital Trilogy -- Chapter 11. Liu Cixin and the Cosmic Pastoral -- Chapter 12. Bodies in Transformation: The Politics of Post-80s Science Fiction Authors Chi Hui, Chen Qiufan, and Zhang Ran -- Chapter 13. The Posthuman and the Neo-Baroque in Taiwan Science Fiction .
    Abstract: "The collection, a first-of-its-kind project in English-language scholarship, heralds a kind of Chinese sf studies 2.0, emphasizing the multiple points of origin and the sheer diversity of the histories, cultures, aesthetic expressions, and transmedial forms that together make up the sprawling field of “Chinese science fiction.” —Veronica Hollinger, co-editor, Science Fiction Studies This volume brings together emerging approaches and addresses shifting paradigms in Chinese science fiction studies, offering a window on fan cultures, internet fiction, gender, eco-criticism, post-humanism and biomedical discourse. These studies present a “second wave” of Chinese science fiction studies, re-evaluating the canon of Chinese science fiction print and cinematic production, and expand the range of critical approaches to the subject. These studies also demonstrate that Chinese science fiction represents a significant contribution to modern Chinese cultural production, both in terms of its value, speaking powerfully to our modern condition, and its sheer volume in terms of production and consumption. Chinese science fiction speaks to both China’s rapidly shifting reality, its political multiplicity and its formless future, voicing the anticipations and anxieties of a new epoch filled with accelerating alterations and increasing uncertainty. Mingwei Song is Professor of Modern Chinese Literature at Wellesley College. He is the author of numerous books and research articles, including Young China: National Rejuvenation and the Bildungsroman, 1900–1959 (2015) and Fear of Seeing: A Poetics of Chinese Science Fiction (2023). Nathaniel Isaacson is Associate Professor of Modern Chinese Literature in the Department of World Languages and Cultures at North Carolina State University. He is the author of Celestial Empire: the Emergence of Chinese Science Fiction (2017). Hua Li is Professor of Chinese in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Montana State University. She has published Contemporary Chinese Fiction by Su Tong and Yu Hua: Coming of Age in Troubled Times (2011) and Chinese Science Fiction during the Post-Mao Cultural Thaw (2021).
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    ISBN: 9783031508325
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 293 p. 9 illus., 7 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.). ; Television broadcasting.
    Abstract: Paul Sheehan and Blythe Worthy, “Introduction” -- Part 1: Making Comedy Central -- Paul Giles, “The Aesthetics of Television: Genre, Auteur, Canon” -- Paul Sheehan, “Difficult Laughter: Modernist Aesthetics in Better Things and Atlanta” -- Part 2: Criminals, Outlaws, Auteurs -- Shannon Wells-Lassagne, “Entente Cordiale: Sherlock (BBC) and Lupin (Netflix), a Tale of Two Fandoms” -- Thomas Britt, “What Is Television? Two Auteur Series in Literary Contexts” -- Ryan Twomey, “Remixing the Law: Timely and Untimely Politics in Lindelof’s Watchmen ” -- Part 3: Adaptive Disruption: Young Adult and Children’s Television -- Debra Dudek, “Ambiguous Endings and Disrupted Paratexts in The End of the F***ing World and I Am Not Okay With This” -- Sabina Rahman, “From Medieval Legend to Modern Superheroics: Arrow as a 21st-Century Robin Hood” -- Katrine Kwong, “(Re)animating Shakespeare: Screen Theatre, on Television and Online” Pamela Demory, “Queering Emily Dickinson for the Millennial Age” -- Part 4: Transnational Dramas, Transcultural Contexts Blythe Worthy, “The Suburban Serial: tracing textual and community limits in Jane Campion’s Top of the Lake” -- Susan Lever, “Witnessing: Indigenous Life Experience on Television” -- Meenakshi Bharat, “The Dialectic of Transnational Adaptation: The Problematic Web Adaptation of A Suitable Boy” Trisha Dunleavy, “Complex Teenage Passion: Normal People and the Affordances of Cultural Specificity” -- Afterword: Christine Geraghty.
    Abstract: Adapting Television and Literature is an incisive collection of essays that explores the growing sub-category of television adaptations of literature and poetics. Each chapter questions inflexible notions of film / literature and adaptation / intertext, focusing judiciously on emergent or overlooked media and literary forms. These lines of enquiry embrace texts both within and beyond ‘adaptation proper’, to reveal the complex relationships between literary works, television adaptations, and related dialogues of textual interconnectivity. Adapting Television and Literature proposes, in particular, a ‘re-seeing’ of four genres pivotal to television and its history: caustic comedy, which claims for itself more freedoms than other forms of scripted television; auteurist outlaw drama, an offbeat, niche genre that aligns a fixation on lawbreakers with issues of creative control; young adult reinventions that vitalise this popular, yet under-examined area of television studies; and transcultural exchanges, which highlight adaptations beyond the white, Anglo-American programming that dominates ‘peak TV’. Through these genres, Adapting Television and Literature examines the creative resources of adaptation, plotting future paths for enquiries into television, literature and transmedial storytelling. Paul Sheehan is an Associate Professor of Literature at Macquarie University, Sydney. He is the author of two monographs, Modernism, Narrative, and Humanism (2002) and Modernism and the Aesthetics of Violence (2013), both with Cambridge UP. His work on film / television and literary studies includes book chapters on The Matrix Trilogy, HBO’s Deadwood, and Michael Haneke; as well as journal articles on Werner Herzog and HBO’s True Detective. He is currently working on a project about Black modernism and blues culture. Blythe Worthy is a sessional academic in the film studies and English disciplines at The University of Sydney. Blythe has had their research on television and film published by the University of California Press, Edinburgh University Press, Springer, and Rowman and Littlefield. Blythe is Managing Editor of the Australasian Journal of American Studies and has worked in research for SBS and ABC television.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXII, 248 p. 1 illus.)
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    Series Statement: Eminent Voices in Business Ethics 55
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    Keywords: Business ethics. ; Catholic Church. ; Religion and sociology.
    Abstract: Part I. EXPLORING THE SOURCES OF THE CATHOLIC TRADITION -- Chapter 1. Catholic Theology on Economics and Business: A Long Tradition -- Chapter 2. The Anthropological Grounds of Economic Activity -- Chapter 3. A Person-Friendly Ethics -- Chapter 4. Freedom and Commitment to the Common Good -- Part II. ECONOMIC SYSTEM, BUSINESS AND SOCIETY -- Chapter 5. Ethics in the Free Market Economy -- Chapter 6. Identity and Purpose of the Business Firm -- Chapter 7. Responsibility and Sustainability -- Chapter 8. Economic Policymaking and Corporate Governance -- Part III. LEADING BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS -- Chapter 9. Ethics in Decision-Making -- Chapter 10. The Centrality of Work in the Production Process -- Chapter 11. Service to Customers -- Chapter 12. The Christian Ethos in Leadership and Organizational Cultures.
    Abstract: Humanism in business is not only an alternative to economism but a way to human excellence. Humanism presented here revolves around the rich notion of “human person”, keystone of modern personalist philosophy and Catholic Social Teaching. From this perspective this book is offered to everyone, believer and nonbeliever alike. The person-centered humanism considers the human-wholeness, individual and relational, with subjectivity, self-determination, openness to transcendence, and with capacity not only to possess but also to give. It also highlights the uniqueness of each person, endowed with a high constitutive dignity and in continuous process of flourishing toward human plenitude. An attitude of respect and good will is due to non-personal beings, while persons deserve to be treated with justice and even with love of benevolence. The book is prepared in dialogue with mainstream of thought in business and business ethics and focused on exploring ways to improve some conventional views. It includes some proposals such as a person-based ethics, ethics understood as intrinsic to business activity, the consideration of the company as an organized community of persons, and the purpose of the company oriented toward the common good through a double mission, internal and external. It is also suggested substituting the notion of “stakeholder” for the richer one of “relationholder.”.
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    ISBN: 9783031498411
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XVII, 202 p.)
    Series Statement: South Asian Public Administration
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    Keywords: Public administration. ; Political science. ; e-governance ; India ; Sri Lanka ; public service delivery ; new public management ; South Asian public administration ; SDG ; COVID-19 ; Pakistan ; Bangladesh ; South-South cooperation ; ICT ; pandemic recovery ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This edited volume bridges the gap between theoretical underpinnings of South Asian public administration and practices on the ground to understand the future path of public administration in the region. The ten chapters highlight the post-covid contemporary trajectories of public administration and the civil society in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. In addition, each case study is tied to a relevant UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG), using the SDG framework to provide useful insights for transfer of knowledge and learning within the South Asian region and highlight the “South- South” and “South-North” exchange. Illustrating the unique challenges and opportunities faced by South Asian countries post-pandemic, this volume will be of interest to scholars and students of public administration, governance, South Asian politics, and the SDGs.
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    ISBN: 9783031419928
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(X, 548 p. 24 illus., 22 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Data Science, Machine Intelligence, and Law 3
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    Keywords: Information technology ; Mass media ; Artificial intelligence. ; Robotics.
    Abstract: Hans Steege, Ilaria Amelia Caggiano, Maria Cristina Gaeta and Benjamin von Bodungen, Introduction -- Christian Pek and Sanne van Waveren, Autonomous Vehicles – A Technical Introduction -- Part I – Africa: Jessica Anne Steele and Rakhee Dullabh, South Africa: Motor vehicle collisions liability regime applied to automated vehicles -- Part II – America: Mark A. Geistfeld, Civil Liability for Motor Vehicle Crashes in the United States: From Conventional Vehicles to Autonomous Vehicles -- Juan F. Córdoba-Marentes and Obdulio Velásquez-Posada, Self-driving cars regulation in Colombia -- Part III – Asia: Mingyan Nie and Yuan Shen, Autonomous Driving in China -- Antonios Karaiskos, Autonomous Driving and Civil Liability in Japan -- Thomas Hufnagel and Jaryl Lim Zhi Wei, En-route to a driverless city-state: Examining the current legal landscape for autonomous vehicles in Singapore -- Jeung-Jun Park and Jun-Kyu Ahn, Civil Liability Regime on Autonomous-Driving Vehicle Accident in Korea -- Part IV – Australia: Angelika Yates and Samuel Siskovic, Steering the transition to automated vehicles in Australia - Current status and regulatory changes ahead -- Part V – Europe: Orian Dheu, Jan De Bruyne, Peggy Valcke, Ilse Samoy, Autonomous Vehicles and Civil Liability in Belgium -- Benjamin von Bodungen and Hans Steege, Liability for automated and autonomous driving in Germany -- Lionel Andreu, The law applicable to autonomous cars driving in France -- Angela Fernández Arévalo and Juan Paplo Murga Ferández, Civil liability for damage caused by autonomous vehicles under Spanish law -- Maria Cristina Gaeta, Italian civil liability applicable to self-driving cars -- Eric Tjong Tjin Tai, Civil liability for self-driving cars in Dutch law -- Jörg Zehetner, Merve Cetin and Angelika Holzer, The Civil Liability for Self-driving Cars in Austria -- Vasile Luha, Dr. Bogdan Florea and Silvia Maican, Liability in the case of autonomous cars in Romania -- Anton Olsson and Karl Montelius, Autonomous vehicle andliability in Sweden -- Part VI – The United Kingdom: Felix Boon, Automated vehicle liability in Great Britain.
    Abstract: In the automotive sector, digitalisation, connectivity and automation are rapidly expanding. In tomorrow’s vehicles, human beings will merely be passengers – which raises a host of complex legal issues regarding accidents involving self-driving vehicles. This book is the first to offer a comprehensive, global overview of civil liability regimes for all levels of vehicle automation in jurisdictions that represent some of the most important markets for the automotive industry. After a technical introduction to how self-driving cars work, the individual chapters analyse the liability for driving automation at SAE J3016 levels 0 through 5 from a country-specific perspective. All chapters were written by experts in the field and follow a uniform legal structure. Hence, the book offers an essential comparative analysis of similarities and differences in the jurisdictions examined, while also providing suggestions for future legislative changes at the national and international level. The book is not only relevant for legal scholars and practitioners but will also be of particular interest to anyone involved in the design, manufacture, distribution and operation of self-driving vehicles.
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    ISBN: 9783031391330
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIX, 301 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Feminist theology. ; Liberation theology. ; Ethics. ; Africa ; Philosophy, African.
    Abstract: 1. Introduction: Ethics and Philosophy, African Women’s Perspective -- Part I Ethics, African Philosophy and Liberation -- 2. Katie Geneva Cannon’s Cross-Cultural and Bridge-Building Womanist Ethics -- 3. “A Beautiful Black Pearl Bead”: Dube’s Poetics of Spiritual Esthetics of Dark Luminosity -- 4. Ethics and Values of Mercy A. Oduyoye’s Theology of Liberation -- 5. Social Motherhood and Masculinization of the Church in Bernadette Mbuy-Beya’s Ethics and Philosophical Anthropology -- 6 -- The Ethics of Liberation of Rosemary Nkoyo Edet and Peggy Mulambya-Kabonde -- Part II Founding Matriarchs on African Communal Philosophy and Environmental Ethics -- 7. Beyond Isirika: Problematizing and Theorizing Musimbi Kanyoro’s Communal Ethics -- 8. Hannah Kinoti: African Religion, Community Consciousness, and Virtue Ethics -- 9. Ethics, Gender, and Philosophy of Puleng LenkaBula -- 10. Ethics and Philosophy of Anne Nasimiyu Wasike -- 11. Environmental Ethics of African Women Theologians -- Part III Ethics of Reading for Liberation and Biblical Interpretation -- 12. Unveiling Hidden Narratives: Musa Dube’s Postcolonial Feminist Lens on Biblical Studies -- 13. Bosadi Hermeneutics: Mapping Masenya’s Journey of Collisions and Relationships in Biblical Interpretation -- 14. Ethical Readings of Elna Mouton: Exploring Gender, Household Code, and Ethos in New Testament Writings -- 15. Afterword: A Flame Blazes in the Darkness!.
    Abstract: This volume explores the ethical and philosophical paradigms presented by most of the influential Matriarchs of the Circle of African Women Theologians. It critically evaluates the effectiveness of their ethical and philosophical theories, models, and frameworks in pursuing justice and liberation for women in Africa and globally. The authors address critical questions: How have African women theologians reimagined existing ethical paradigms? What original ethical and philosophical ideas have they generated? How have their ethical frameworks influenced the theologies and interpretations they have developed? What purposes do their ethical and philosophical paradigms serve? How do these renderings intersect with various social categories, including gender, race, class, sexuality, capitalism, and colonialism? What liberating frameworks do they propose? The volume further explores the dialogue between distinct African contexts and universal experiences and values. It explores how universal themes such as humanity, human dignity, rights, justice, motherhood, and more can coexist with communal African concepts and themes. It contemplates how embracing African approaches engages these themes more globally, bringing together particular African contexts of women and the universal ethical, philosophical, and theological theories, models, and frameworks to advance the cause of justice and liberation for African women and women worldwide into the future. Beatrice Okyere-Manu is a Professor of Applied Ethics at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Léocadie Lushombo is Assistant Professor in Theological Ethics at the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University and Visiting Professor at the Catholic University of the Congo.
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    ISBN: 9783031585050
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(IX, 148 p. 2 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Archimedes, New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology 72
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    Keywords: Science ; Science ; Philosophy. ; Methodology.
    Abstract: Dedication -- Chapter 1. The characteristics and diversity of experimentation in the sciences (Catherine Allamel-Raffin, Jean-Luc Gangloff and Yves Gingras) -- Chapter 2. Experimentation in physics (Yves Gingras) -- Chapter 3. Experimentation in chemistry (Jean-Pierre Llored) -- Chapter 4. Experimentation in the life sciences (Laurent Loison) -- Chapter 5. Experimentation in psychology (Jean Audusseau) -- Chapter 6. Experimentation in sociology (Dominique Raynaud) -- Chapter 7. Experimentation in economics (Herrade Igersheim & Mathieu Lefebvre) -- Chapter 8. Experimentation in management science (Vincent Helfrich) -- Chapter 9. Experimentation in Medecine (Stéphanie Dupouy) -- Chapter 10. The medical clinic as an experimental practice (Jean-Christophe Weber) -- Chapter 11. Experimentation in Archeology (Nicolas Monteix).
    Abstract: This book takes a novel approach by highlighting comparative and long-term historical perspectives on experimental practice. The juxtaposition of accounts of natural, social, and medical experimentation is very enlightening, especially because the authors put the emphasis on the different kinds of objects of experimentation (physical matter, chemical reagents, social groups, organizations, sick individuals, archeological remains) and demonstrate how much the kinds of objects matter for the practice of experimentation, its methods, tools, and methodologies. Taken together, the chapters raise several fascinating questions for further study: What do these different approaches have in common? Why do we call them “experimentation”? What are the intersections among the fields and their developments? The volume engages philosophical approaches that are not well known to Anglophone readers (Bachelard, Bergson, Bernard, Canguilhem, among others) and brings to attention a wealth of Francophone secondary literature on past and present scientific experimentation. The collection fills a yawning gap in science, science studies, and philosophy of science teaching, making it particularly valuable philosophers and historians of science in all subfields.
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    ISBN: 9783031432309
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XXI, 454 p. 81 illus., 40 illus. in color.)
    Series Statement: Springer Texts in Business and Economics
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Kinder, Tony Problem-solving and Learning for Public Services and Public Management
    Keywords: Public administration. ; Knowledge management. ; Political science. ; Technological innovations. ; Learning frameworks ; Public services providers ; Policy-making ; Service models ; Artificial intelligence ; Technology ; Digitalisation ; E-technology ; E-services ; Sustainability ; Inequality ; Climate ; Public goods ; Service users ; Education ; Health ; Security ; Communal living ; E-commerce ; E-democracy
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Problem-solving and Public Services -- Chapter 3. Public Value, Values, and Public Services -- Chapter 4. E-public Services -- Chapter 5. Local Public Sector Innovation -- Chapter 6. Organising in Self-organising Ecosystems -- Chapter 7. Learners, Teachers and Leaders -- Chapter 8. Entrepreneurial Activity -- Chapter 9. Knowledge Flows and Services Improvements -- Chapter 10. Governances and Sustainability -- Chapter 11. Inequality, Climate and Dialectical Problemsolving -- Chapter 12. Conclusions.
    Abstract: In this textbook readers will acquire knowledge of problem-solving and learning to enhance both efficiency and the experience of service users in rapidly changing service environments, that can create new service models. Emphasizing that, above all else, individuals are at the centre of services, the book goes deeply into the nature of public services and their logic-of-practice. By applying learning and problem-solving approaches, the reader gains practical capabilities in addition to an appreciation of the latest research literature. Following a multidisciplinary, international approach, the book suggests a new typology of problem-framing and presents many examples of how new service solutions can be created in any public service context. The book offers a conceptual toolkit to understand and analyse dynamically changing services and the application of new technologies. Topics covered include pressing issues surrounding public services, such as e-technology, digitalisation, e-services, artificial intelligence, entrepreneurialism, sustainability, climate, inequality, developing economies, and smart cities. Chapters follow a similar structure: issue, problems, what we know, learning framework, worked example, theory and practice conclusions, as well as teacher and learner notes. Addressing advanced undergraduate and graduate students of public administration, public management, political science, sociology, computer science, and information systems, the book will also be a valuable resource for practitioners, i.e. experts and managers in public organizations, professionals in organizations working at the business and public sectors, consultants, and IT suppliers.
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    ISBN: 9783031487354
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XXXIV, 606 p. 172 illus., 147 illus. in color.)
    Series Statement: Contributions to Economics
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    Keywords: Development economics. ; Economic development. ; Economic policy. ; Regional economics. ; Spatial economics. ; Economic history. ; Ukraine ; Eastern Europe ; Economic management ; National security ; Tourism and hospitality sector ; Public marketing ; Key infrastructure ; Urban development ; Quantitative research ; Case studies ; Information and communication technology ; Novel strategies for economic development ; Urban environmental progress ; Development data ; Development policy ; Reducing poverty ; Prosperity ; Economic dynamics ; Territorial infrastructure development ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Part 1: Strengthening National Security Through Technology and Governance -- Chapter 01. Public Governance of the National Security of Ukraine -- Chapter 02. Utilizing Information and Communication Technology Systems for the Formation of National Security -- Chapter 03. Conceptual Framework of Ukraine’s National Security: Regulatory Examination Using Information and Communication Technologies -- Chapter 04. An Integrated Methodological Framework for Advancing Information and Communication Technology in Environmental Protection Within the Context of Ukraine’s National Security -- Part 2: Strategies for Sustainable Economic Development -- Chapter 05. Standardizing Business Management by Greening Domestic Production -- Chapter 06. Modeling a System of Adaptive Management of Manufacturing Enterprises in Ukraine: Political, Economic, Socio-cultural, and Technological Analysis -- Chapter 07. Advancing State Regulation of Information and Communication: a Framework for Managing the Complex Socioeconomic System in Ukraine -- Chapter 08. Insurance Companies and Territorial Positioning in Ukraine’s Post-war Economic Development: a Comprehensive Historical Analysis, 2015-1019 -- Chapter 09. Challenges and Perspectives in Assessing Technological Development: a Focus on Ukraine's Processing Industry -- Chapter 10. Enhancing Competitiveness Management in Ukraine’s Post-war Industrial Enterprises: Theoretical Insights and Strategic Implications -- Chapter 11. Examining the Link Between Corporate Sustainability and Financial Performance: an Empirical Study With Implications for Post-conflict Ukraine -- Chapter 12. Ukraine’s Potential for Sustainable Development: Exploring Global Implications Amidst Conflict and Reconstruction -- Part 3: Advancing Tourism Development and the Hospitality Sector -- Chapter 13. Modern Trends and Spatial Planning of Hotel Complexes: Navigating Uniqueness, Challenges, and Post-war Development in Ukraine’s Tourism Landscape -- Chapter 14. Tourism Development and Resilience in Ukraine: Challenges and Enhancing Competitiveness -- Chapter 15. Sustainable Tourism Development and Strategies in Ukraine: Balancing Environmental, Social, and Economic Dimensions -- Chapter 16. Sustainable Ecotourism Development: Integrating Public Marketing, Community Engagement, and Environmental Stewardship in Ukraine -- Part 4: Marketing and Communication for Territory Development -- Chapter 17. Adaptive Marketing Strategies for Post-conflict Reconstruction, Regional Development, and Sustainable Growth in Ukraine -- Chapter 18. Marketing Strategies and Communication Dynamics for Territorial Development in Post-conflict Ukraine -- Chapter 19. Intersecting Territorial Development, Spatial Planning, and Marketing: a Multidisciplinary Exploration of Post-conflict Ukraine -- Chapter 20. Strategic Communication and Public Marketing for Territory Positioning in Ukraine: Media Engagement, Resource Utilization, and Image Formation -- Part 5: Urban Transformation and Infrastructure Advancements -- Chapter 21. Enhancing Urban Solid Waste Management Through an Integrated Geographic Information System and Multicriteria Decision Analysis: a Case Study in Post-war Reconstruction -- Chapter 22. Statistical Modeling for Forecasting Pipeline Reliability: Post-war Reconstruction Strategies for Heating Networks in Ukraine -- Chapter 23. Urban Evolution: Analyzing Architectural and Functional Transformations in Railway Station Complexes for Post-war Reconstruction in Ukraine -- Chapter 24. Innovation in Ukraine’s Construction and Post-war Recovery: the Transformative Power of Information Technology -- Chapter 25. Architectural Software Trends: Bridging Education and Practice to Build Ukraine’s Future -- Chapter 26. Optimizing Urban and Social Planning Structures in Medium-sized Cities: Lessons From Uzhhorod for Post-war Reconstruction in Ukraine -- Chapter 27. Towards Standardization and Modernization: Advancing a Cadastral System in Ukraine -- Chapter 28. Building Sustainable and Resilient Cities in Ukraine: Functional Zoning and Form-based Codes in Urban Development.
    Abstract: This authoritative handbook offers insights into the complexities of post-war reconstruction and development economics in Ukraine. Covering a broad spectrum of topics, from bolstering national security to fostering sustainable economic growth, it offers a comprehensive understanding of the economic dynamics, factors, and practical applications shaping policy and programs. The book explores the multifaceted requirements for enhancing fiscal, economic, and social aspects, including security, education, working conditions, domestic and international policies, and market conditions. Using traditional and innovative analytical tools, it unravels the complex relationship between macroeconomic and microeconomic factors in Ukraine's post-war landscape, charting a path towards economic growth. Key themes within this handbook encompass development data, statistical capacity building, research and knowledge creation, national indicators, and impact evaluation. An indispensable reference for Ukraine's future and a must-read for researchers and policy analysts focused on Eastern European economies, this handbook illuminates the journey from war-torn nations to more prosperous ones.
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    ISBN: 9783031457210
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXI, 380 p. 6 illus., 1 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Federalism and Internal Conflicts
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    Keywords: Comparative government. ; Peace. ; Innenpolitik ; Machtstruktur ; Koalition ; Kooperation ; Politische Kooperation ; Partei ; Politisches System ; Konkordanzdemokratie
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction: Power-Sharing in the Global South -- Chapter 2: Power-Sharing in the Global South in Comparative Perspective: Patterns and Practices -- Chapter 3: The Idea of Power-Sharing in South Africa’s Transition from Apartheid to Constitutional Democracy (1983–1993) -- Chapter 4: Power-Sharing in Colombia: Bipartisanship, Leftist Insurgencies, and Beyond -- Chapter 5: Power Sharing Processes in post-Arab Spring Tunisia: From Elite Compromise to Presidential Monopolization -- Chapter 6: Power-Sharing in India: Limits of Territorial Arrangements and the Relevance of Consociationalism -- Chapter 7: Power-Sharing in Nigeria’s Divided Society: Structures, Conflicts and Challenges -- Chapter 8: Power-Sharing in Malaysia: Coalition Politics and the Social Contract -- Chapter 9: The Puzzle of Power-Sharing in Mauritius -- Chapter 10: Lebanon: Consociationalism Between Immobilism and Reform -- Chapter 11: Consociational Democracy Without Minority Veto? Power-Sharing in Ethiopia -- Chapter 12: The Power-Sharing Arrangements in Iraq: The Instability Within -- Chapter 13: “The Unloved Child Matures”: Power-Sharing in Burundi -- Chapter 14: On the Adoptability of Power-Sharing in Syria, Eduardo Wassim Aboultaif -- Chapter 15: The Pacific Islands: The Centrality of Context for Power-Sharing in the Global South -- Chapter 16: Conclusion: The Power-Sharing Lifecycle across the Global South, Allison.
    Abstract: "Assessing consociationalism and other forms of power-sharing from across the Global South, this volume is both timely and needed, helping to broaden and deepen our understanding of how such arrangements come into being, how they function, and how they adapt over time. The book will be of interest not only for power-sharing scholars but for anyone interested in understanding the challenges of making democracy work in divided societies across the Global South." ---Arend Lijphart, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of California San Diego Power-sharing serves as a popular conflict resolution device at war’s end. Yet, the performance record of such arrangements is highly variable, sometimes leading to peace and stability and at other times to immobilism and institutional collapse. This book explores the adoption, function, and dissolution of power-sharing arrangements across the Global South, including case studies of Colombia, Ethiopia, Malaysia, and Iraq, and others to make sense of this mixed record. Authors identify a range of contextual factors as well as significant variations in the institutional rules and their meaning across the cases that help to explain divergent power-sharing outcomes. Emphasis throughout the chapters is placed on system adaptability for power-sharing success. Eduardo Wassim Aboultaif is assistant professor of politics at the Higher Institute of Political and Administrative Sciences in the Holy Spirit University of Kaslik, Lebanon. Soeren Keil is Academic Head of the International Research and Consulting Centre at the Institute of Federalism, University of Fribourg, Switzerland. Allison McCulloch is Professor of Political Science at Brandon University, Canada.
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    ISBN: 9783031526893
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XVII, 70 p. 21 illus.)
    Series Statement: SpringerBriefs in Economics
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    Keywords: Power resources. ; Environmental economics. ; Industrial policy. ; Technological innovations. ; firm strategies ; technological trajectories ; grand challenges ; research and development ; computational chemistry ; environmental sustainability ; Stockholm Convention ; patent ; patent analysis ; toxicology ; risk management ; agochemical industry
    Abstract: The temporal geography of chemical inventions: the case of persistent organic pollutants -- Assessing policy impact on organizational inventions: the case of the stockholm convention -- Are we moving towards a toxic-free world? Insights from patent analysis in the pesticide business.
    Abstract: The Brief explores the relationship between industrial dynamics, business strategies, and environmental regulations in the agrochemical industry. Focusing on contested technologies that continue to be used despite evidence of their hazardous impacts, the book calls for investigating the potential hazards during the inventive phase of companies to anticipate future risks. Combining patent analysis with computational chemistry and toxicology, the author examines the toxicity of chemical inventions and the effectiveness of environmental regulations in curbing harmful products. The result is a comprehensive dataset that combines patent data with chemical structures, which provides valuable insights into firms' innovation strategies as well as their potential hazards. Underscoring the importance of effective regulation in addressing social and environmental challenges, this Brief will be of interest to researchers and practitioners at the intersection of numerous fields, including economic policy, industrial economics, agribusiness, management, life sciences, and sustainability.
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    ISBN: 9783031530159
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 257 p.)
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    Series Statement: Philosophy and Politics - Critical Explorations 29
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    Keywords: Political science ; Ethics. ; Political science. ; Artificial intelligence.
    Abstract: Introduction -- Part I: Framing algorithmic democracy -- Chapter 1. The democratic drift -- Part II: Ethical and political challenges of Algorithmic Democracy -- Chapter 2. The Second Age of Artificial Intelligence -- Chapter 3. The virtual politician: on algorithm-based political decision-making -- Chapter 4. Digital twins: on algorithm-based political participation -- Chapter 5. Platformization: the dangers of the artificial public sphere -- Chapter 6. Moral learning by algorithms: the possibility of developing morally intelligent technology -- Chapter 7. The metaverse: building a digital hyper-economy -- Part III: Against algorithmic democracy: scope and ethical-discursive perspectives for an expansion of deliberative democracy -- Chapter 8. Artificial ethics: on the automation of morality -- Chapter 9. Critique of algorithmic reason -- Chapter 10: Dialogic digital ethics: from explicability to participation -- Chapter 11: Civil society: an ethical framework for algorithmic democracy -- Chapter 12. Institutional design for an embedded algorithmic democracy -- Index.
    Abstract: Based on a deliberative democracy, this book uses a hermeneutic-critical methodology to study bibliographical sources and practical issues in order to analyse the possibilities, limits and consequences of the digital transformation of democracy. Drawing on a two-way democracy, the aim of this book is intended as an aid for thinking through viable alternatives to the current state of democracy with regard to its ethical foundations and the moral knowledge implicit in or assumed by the way we perceive and understand democracy. It is intended to stimulate reflection and discussion on the basis that, by addressing what we understand as democracy, we can inevitably influence the reality known as democracy. Democracy’s evident regression in today’s world makes this all too apparent: it has become a hostage to all kinds of autocracies and technopopulisms, which are supported to a greater or lesser extent by the current algorithmic revolution.
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    ISBN: 9783031469626
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XV, 279 p. 15 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Linguistics ; Emigration and immigration. ; Knowledge, Sociology of. ; Islam and the social sciences. ; Islamic sociology. ; Judaism. ; Journalism.
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction and outline -- Chapter 2. Methodology -- Chapter 3. Development over time -- Chapter 4. Phenomenological structure -- Chapter 5. Social roles of Jews and Muslims -- Chapter 6. Acculturation strategies -- Chapter 7. Emotional tone -- Chapter 8. Group homogeneity -- Chapter 9. Conclusion and recommendations.
    Abstract: This book uses a comparative research design to analyze the reporting on the Jewish minority and the Muslim minority in German newspapers from 2010-2019, asking whether minorities are truly treated as equals in the reporting of the mainstream German media. After providing historical and socio-political context for both groups as minority populations in Germany, the authors make use of qualitative and quantitative methods to examine sentiment and determine whether the media demonstrates a unifying or a well-differentiated portrayal of the two groups. The findings show that reporting on these groups is not as unbiased as many in Germany believe. Drawing on frameworks including the needs-based model of reconciliation, the revised integrated threat theory, and the model of acculturation strategies, the book then discusses the implications for both journalistic reporting and broader social policies in support of a constructive encounter of dominant and non-dominant groups in a diverse society. This book will be of interest to scholars and students in the field of migration, integration and intergroup relations, as well as those in communication, media studies, and discourse analysis. Katharina F. Gallant is a senior researcher at the Center for Development Research (ZEF) at the University of Bonn, Germany. Jolanda van der Noll is a senior researcher at the Chair of Community Psychology at the FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(X, 285 p. 6 illus., 5 illus. in color.)
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als New forms of human trafficking
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    Keywords: Human rights. ; Civil rights. ; European communities. ; Organized crime. ; Transnational crime. ; Law ; Criminal law
    Abstract: Chapter 1. “Don't Give Me Moral, but a Social Ideal”: From the Social Condemnation of Prostitution to the Criminalisation of Sexual Exploitation: Pimping and Human Trafficking in the Portuguese Penal Code -- Chapter 2. Cross-Border Organized Crime and Human Rights: The Awfulness of Trafficking in Human Beings. Chapter 3. Combating Human Trafficking in South Africa -- Chapter 4. Human Trafficking Policies in Scandinavia: What Happens When International Obligations Meet National Problem Definitions? -- Chapter 5. Fight Against Human Trafficking in Poland: From Theory to Practice -- Chapter 6. The Silenced Coercion of Voodoo over Nigerian Women Trafficked from West Africa to Europe -- Chapter 7. Transvestites and Transwomen in Human Trafficking for Sexual Exploitation: A Study In Brazil -- Chapter 8. Romania – Trendstetter in European Human Trafficking? -- Chapter 9. Individuals Treated As Nonpersons and the Challenge to Criminal Justice: The Specific Problems Facing Victims of Trafficking in Human Beings -- Chapter 10. Trafficking in Human Beings as an Hourglass Paradigm -- Chapter 11. The Formal Institutions of Control and the Victims of Human Trafficking: From Frequency to Impunity -- Chapter 12. Human Trafficking in Slovenia: Contemporary Issues -- Chapter 13. How Organized is Labour Trafficking? On the Involvement of Organized Criminal Groups in Labour Exploitation -- Chapter 14. Human Trafficking in Brazilian Law: The New Legal Definition -- Chapter 15. Trafficking in Persons vis-à-vis the Recent Jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights: Lessons for Brazil.
    Abstract: This book analyses new forms of human trafficking taking into account the transposition of the Directive 2011/36/UE which sets out minimum standards to be applied throughout the European Union in preventing and combating trafficking in human beings and protecting its victims. Sexual exploitation of trafficked persons is at its highest rate. After COVID-19, new forms of sexual exploitation have been identified, specifically in the Global South. The book analyses new forms of exploitation used by traffickers to coerce victims. Combining the perspectives of academic researchers with those of highly skilled professionals from governmental institutions, this book is a unique contribution, promoting collaboration in preventing and combating human trafficking crime, and in raising awareness of this ongoing problem.
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    ISBN: 9783031529399
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XII, 199 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Law and Philosophy Library 145
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    Keywords: Law
    Abstract: 1 Introduction -- Part I. Domain: conceptual, empirical and historical explorations of access to justice -- 2 Is there a (Human) Right of Access to Justice? -- 3 Equal access to justice: Three interpretations -- 4 Duties of assistance and the criminal/civil distinction -- 5 Unmet legal needs: identification and rich descriptions -- Part II Normative foundations -- 6 The need for a theoretical base: four arguments -- 7 Why capabilities? On the duty to, at times and provisionally, pause, cool down, and listen -- 8 The instrumentalities of access to justice in defending democratic cooperation -- Part III. Practical applications. Testing the political principles of equal access to justice -- 9 Free legal counsel and access to justice -- 10 Is group litigation legitimate? -- 11 Still Against Settlement? -- 12 Conclusion.
    Abstract: It is wrong when someone cannot exercise their rights in a court of law because they have no money to pay for a good lawyer, because they are too scared of the possible consequences, or because they simply don’t know that the law protects them. But does that mean governments have an obligation to intervene? And if so, how? This book provides the first systematic philosophical theory of equal access to justice. It begins by identifying the content of claims to equal access to justice. Then, it reviews traditional political and legal arguments on the right of access to justice, which it argues are both illuminating and insufficient. The best comparative way to approach equal access to justice, the book argues, is to think through the requirements of a moral, pre-political, duty to – at times and provisionally – pause, cool down and listen: in other words, we ought to demand that governments step in and protect access rights, because we have a moral and pre-political interest in cultivating our ability to comply with this duty. It is the recognition of this duty which best explains both law’s potential for promoting, as well as its potential for endangering, equal justice. In closing, the book tests this novel theory of equal access to justice against contemporary trends and reforms in procedural law. .
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XII, 195 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Literature, Modern ; Poetry. ; Literature. ; Culture
    Abstract: Chapter 1: ‘While Yet a Boy I Sought for Ghosts’: Contexts -- Chapter 2: ‘Rending the Veil of Mortal Frailty’: Queen Mab (1813) -- Chapter 3: ‘Who Lifteth the Veil of What is to Come?’: Alastor (1816) -- Chapter 4: ‘And is This Death?’: ‘Seeing’ the Unseen, and Visionary Experimentation (1816-20) -- Chapter 5: ‘Where the Eternal Are’: Adonais (1821) -- Chapter 6: Shadows and Dreams: Conclusions.
    Abstract: “Andrew Lacey’s original approach to Shelley’s poetic practice and thought offers a timely reconsideration of the poet’s conceptualisation and treatment of death. This focus on death in Shelley’s artistic vision reveals fresh connections between those familiar and lesser-known poetic works. Lacey’s persuasive readings remain alert throughout to telling philosophical, scientific, textual, and biographical details.” — Professor Mark Sandy, Durham University, UK This book provides the first modern, in-depth analysis of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s engagement with the phenomenon of death. It argues that, for Shelley, this most nebulous of realities represents, first and foremost, possibility: Shelley’s poetic writings on death are both numerous and varied, presenting his reader, with differing degrees of confidence over the course of his brief but brilliant career, with several key visions of what death might be or actually is. Shelley’s Visions of Death stresses the seldom-appreciated fact that death was one of Shelley’s most enduring preoccupations, and also demonstrates the poet’s power to imagine, with startling variety, that which lies beyond the boundaries of experience. Andrew Lacey is a scholar of the literature and culture of the Romantic period. In the last decade, he has worked as Senior Research Associate, on the Davy Notebooks Project and the Davy Letters Project, in the Department of English Literature and Creative Writing at Lancaster University, UK. He assisted in the preparation of The Collected Letters of Sir Humphry Davy (4 volumes, 2020) and Volume Four of The Poems of Shelley in the Longman Annotated English Poets series (2014). He is Co-Editor of Nineteenth-Century Contexts: An Interdisciplinary Journal, and a former winner of the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association Keats-Shelley Prize.
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    ISBN: 9783031450471
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXI, 364 p. 22 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Language and languages ; Ethnology ; Culture. ; Latin American literature. ; Language policy. ; Knowledge, Sociology of.
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Part I Tracing the Development of Discourses in the Caribbean -- Chapter 2. Styles and Stylistic Change in Creole Languages: Formal Language in the Eastern Maroon Creole -- Chapter 3. Towards a Discursive History of the Caribbean as a History of Genres -- Part II Discourse and Public Policy in the Caribbean -- Chapter 4. Critical Discourse Studies and Curriculum Development in Trinidad and Tobago: Exploring Discursive Practices in Education Policy -- Part III Discursive Constructions of the Caribbean Prime Minister -- Chapter 5. Taking Responsibility: Conceptual Metaphor and the Accession Stage of Leadership in Eric Williams’ Inward Hunger: The Making of a Prime Minister -- Chapter 6. Masking the Critic: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Newspaper Editorials -- Chapter 7. “The Most Honourable Brogad”: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Jamaica’s Prime Minister as Hero, Sex Symbol and Villain on Social Media -- Part IV Stylistic Appraisals of Caribbean Literary Discourse -- Chapter 8. “He Was Oppressed by a Sense of Loss”: Stylistic Constructions of the Tragic in A House for Mr Biswas -- Chapter 9. Selvon’s Stylistics: Self-Conscious Language Production in An Island Is a World -- Chapter 10. Storifying Caribbean Cricket: Voice and Perspective in Paul Keens-Douglas’s “Tanti at de Oval” -- Part V Gender, Media, and Discourse in the Caribbean -- Chapter 11. Digital Discourses on Gender-Based Violence in Trinidad and Tobago -- Chapter 12. Media Representation of Gender-Based Violence in Two Cases and Related Examples: A Multimodal Discursive Study./.
    Abstract: This edited collection represents a first-of-its-kind exploration of English-related discourses in the Caribbean. Drawing from Critical Discourse and stylistic analyses, the book's wide-ranging chapters examine language as it is produced within the complex demographic milieu of the region. It addresses a critical lack of linguistic scholarship on discourse types from the Caribbean, since the major academic focus in the post-independence era has been on descriptive and interventionist work in Creole Linguistics. This volume seeks to add new dimensions to language in practice with its focus on the development of discourse types within the region, public policy, discourses surrounding the galvanising figure of the Caribbean Prime Minister, literary discourses, and gender and media representations. As a site of great variation, linguistic and otherwise, the Caribbean provides unique insight into the interplay of the socio-political and language in contemporary societies in the Global South. Based on work presented at the University of Trinidad and Tobago’s “Stylistics, Critical Discourse Analysis and Language Use in the Caribbean” 2021 conference, the book draws together papers from established Caribbeanists seeking to bridge the existing theoretical and analytical gap between the more macro, socio-political aspects of studies in the social sciences, and the more micro features of linguistic analysis. With its breadth of coverage and analysis, this volume has implications for work being done at all levels of university scholarship in the social sciences, media discourses, decolonisation practices, and language and society in postcolonial and multi-ethnic contexts worldwide. Ryan Durgasingh is a Research Fellow at Ruhr University, Bochum, and PhD candidate at the University of Münster, Germany, where his work focuses on morphosyntactic variation in Caribbean Englishes. His research interests include stylistics, Critical Discourse Studies, variationist sociolinguistics, and corpus-based approaches to linguistic analysis. Nicha Selvon-Ramkissoon is an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Education Programmes, University of Trinidad and Tobago. Her main areas of interest are in Language Arts Curriculum Development, Second Dialect/Language Pedagogy, Critical Discourse Studies, and Translanguaging pedagogy for migrant communities.
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    ISBN: 9783031472114
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XV, 353 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Italian and Italian American Studies
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    Keywords: Motion pictures, American.
    Abstract: Chapter 1/Introduction Daniele Fioretti and Fulvio Orsitto -- PART I -THE IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCE :Silent Films -- Chapter 2 Races to the Rescue in an Ethnic Urban Milieu: D.W. Griffith and the Biograph Italian Dramas Irene Lottini -- Chapter 3The Italian (1915) and the Representation of Italian Immigrants in Silent American Cinema Bernard Kuhn Revising Gender and Ethnic Perspectives -- Chapter 4: Italianness and Foundational Masculinity in Edward Dmytryk’s Rendition of Pietro Di Donato’s Christ in Concrete Gloria Pastorino -- Chapter 5 A Sting from the Past: Femininity and Ethnic Roots in Helen De Michiel’s Tarantella (1995) Daniele Fioretti -- Chapter 6: The Celluloid Closet: Sex, Power, and Coming Out Repression of the Italian American Closet in Nunzio’s Second Cousin (1994), Kiss Me, Guido (1997), and Mambo Italiano (2003) Ryan Calabretta-Sajder -- Chapter 7From True Love (1989) to Union Square (2011): Recovering the Exploded Family in Nancy Savoca’s Films Gloria Pastorino -- Chapter 8: A Realistic Tale of Improbable Friendship. Notes on Matthew Bonifacio’s Amexicano (2007) Claudia Peralta and Fulvio Orsitto -- PART II - ITALIAN AMERICANS IN OTHER MEDIA -- Chapter 9: Italian American Gangsters Taking on a New Line of Work in Luc Besson’s The Family (2013) Rosetta Caponetto Giuliani -- Chapter 10: The Transnational Puppet: From Italy and Back Federico Pacchioni -- Chapter 11: Comfortable and Uncomfortable Fictions: Italian Americans in the First Decades of Television Fulvio Orsitto -- Chapter 12: Looking Back, Moving Forward: Italian Americans on Television from the 1970s to the1990s Fulvio Orsitto -- Chapter 13: Italian Americans on Television in the New Millennium: From Small to Smaller Screen(s) Fulvio Orsitto -- Chapter 14: The Goddess and the Huntress: Diana and DC’sHelena Bertinelli Felice Italo Beneduce -- Chapter 15: CNN’s Searching for Italy: Stanley Tucci as Foodways Icon Alan J. Gravano -- Chapter 16: Chef/Cook, Influencer, Mixologist, Travel Host: Stanley Tucci as Everyman Alan J. Gravano -- Chapter 17: An Unlimited Memeiosis of The Godfather: Diachronic and Synchronic Observations of a Pervasive and Ubiquitous Meme Anthony Dion Mitzel -- PART III - INTERVIEWS -- Chapter 18: Interview with Helen De Michiel Daniele Fioretti -- Chapter 19: Interview with Tony Vitale Daniele Fioretti -- Chapter 20: Interview with Michela Musolino Daniele Fioretti -- Chapter 21: Interview with Anthony Julian Tamburri Ryan Calabretta-Sajder.
    Abstract: Italian Americans in Film and Other Media examines the representation of the Italian immigrant experience from D.W. Griffith’s Biograph Italian Dramas (1908-1913) to the present day. Building on the editors’ previous volume Italian Americans in Film, this collection broadens their scope to address marginalized aspects of Italian Americanness, including the work of women directors and depictions of same-sex relationships. The book consists of three parts. Part I, “The Immigrant Experience”, focuses on feature films and is divided into two sections: “Silent Films” (which analyses some of Griffith’s early films and Barker’s The Italian, 1915), and “Revising Gender Perspectives”, which includes chapters focusing on single films – such as Dmytryk’s Christ in Concrete (1949), De Michiel’s Tarantella (1995), and Bonifacio’s Amexicano (2007) – and survey essays that discuss the Italian American ‘celluloid closet’ and some of Savoca’s films. Part II, “Italian Americans in Other Media”, offers a wide range of essays informed by different approaches that investigate the immigrant experience in terms of transmediality and transnationality. The types of media examined in this section include television and graphic novels as well as puppetry, Instagram, and Internet memes. Part III contains interviews with Italian American scholars, movie directors, and performers. Together, the contributions to this collection demonstrate the vitality, mutation, and persistence of Italian Americanness in visual media. Daniele Fioretti is Associate Teaching Professor of Italian at Miami University, USA. He is the author of Utopia and Dystopia in Postwar Italian Literature (2017) and Carte di fabbrica. La narrativa industriale in Italia 1934-1989 (2013). He co-edited the book Italian Americans in Film: Establishing and Challenging Italian American Identities (2022). Fulvio Orsitto is Director of the Georgetown University campus in Fiesole, Italy. He has published more than thirty essays and book chapters on Italian and Italian American literature and cinema, and has edited and co-edited ten volumes, including Pasolini: American Perspectives (2015), TOTalitarian ARTs: The Visual Arts, Fascism(s) and Mass-society (2017), and Italian Americans in Film: Establishing and Challenging Italian American Identities (2022).
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 388 Seiten) , Diagramme, Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Studies in Energy, Resource and Environmental Economics
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    Keywords: Power resources. ; Environmental economics. ; Energy policy. ; Energy and state. ; Technology ; Information technology. ; Stadt ; Konzeption ; Stadtentwicklung ; Klimaänderung ; Umweltfaktor ; Soziales Feld ; Einflussgröße ; Stadtplanung ; Governance ; Smart cities ; Climate Change ; Ecology ; Smart Governance ; Energy transition ; ICT ; smart mobility ; sustainability ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: 1. Innovation and Smart Cities Research: A Review and Future Directions -- 2. The role of the fourth industrial revolution technologies in driving smart cities -- 3. Finance and economic return of smart city projects -- 4. Cities transformation and benefits of Smart Cities -- 5. Cities: the new form of international environmental governance -- 6. Smart Energy Cities: The Role of Behavioral Interventions in Reducing Electricity Demand in Buildings in Principality of Monaco -- 7. Back to the future: tapping into ancient knowledge toward human centered smart cities -- 8. Environmental retrofitting, a mandate for NEZ livable and sustainable GCC cities -- 9. A comprehensive smart system for social housing -- 10. Smart Modelling for Greener Urban Environments: The Digital Twin of the City of Imola -- 11. MUST-B: a multi-agent model to envisage the future challenges of sustainable urban development -- 12. A Systematic Literature Review on an Expansion of Transit-Oriented Development’s Station Areas -- 13. Ergonomics of access: a new, broad and inclusive vision to better understand the links between the urban context on the conditions of access, accessibility and appropriation of resources of daily life in active modes -- 14. Mobility hubs, an innovative concept for a sustainable urban mobility? State of the art, guidelines and assessments of two European experiences -- 15. Micromobility in urban areas: Evaluation of several scenarios with respect to detailed characteristics of the city -- 16. Smart Cities initiatives and perspectives in emerging economies -- 17. Data driven urban management for Saudi cities: Practices, challenges, and opportunities -- 18. Smart Cities: GCC and Kuwait Experience -- 19. Smart Cities from an Indian Perspective: Evolving Ambitions and Incorporating Sustainable Practices.
    Abstract: This open access book discusses the socioeconomic, environmental, and policy implications of smart cities. Written by international experts in energy economics and policy, the chapters present wide range of high quality theoretical and empirical studies at the nexus of social, entrepreneurial, governmental and ecological transformation. The book covers a wide range of topics, with a view towards providing empirical evidence of the benefits of smart cities as well as practical frameworks for smart city initiatives. Topics discussed include: smart city transition pillars, innovation for smart and sustainable cities design and implementation, smart city governance, smart mobility within cities, and smart cities in emerging economies. This volume will be of use to students and researchers interested in resource economics, energy economics, sustainability, ICT, and governance, as well as policymakers working on smart city initiatives.
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    ISBN: 9783031526770
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XXII, 633 p. 99 illus., 87 illus. in color.)
    Series Statement: Advances in African Economic, Social and Political Development
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    Keywords: Power resources. ; Applied ethics. ; Economics. ; Energy policy. ; Energy and state. ; Energy Regulation ; Energy Policy ; Energy Transition ; Africa's Energy ; Power Sector Reform ; Energy and Gender ; Energy Institutions ; Regulatory Institutions ; Renewable Energy ; Energy Access ; Energy Stakeholder management ; Performance of utilities ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Part I. Political Economy of Energy Regulation in Africa -- Chapter 1. The dynamics of energy regulation in Africa (Ishmael Ackah) -- Chapter 2. Africa’s Transition to Cleaner Energy: Regulatory imperatives and Governance Dynamics (Sidique Gawusu) -- Chapter 3. The Political Economy of Electricity Sector Regulation in Africa: A Comparative Analysis (Crispin Bobio) -- Chapter 4. The political economy of the next wave of power sector reforms in Africa: evidence from Zimbabwe, Kenya, and Namibia (Christine Juta) -- Chapter 5. Legal and Regulatory Pathways for Sub-Saharan Africa’s Energy Access and Energy Transition Agenda (Ivie Ehanmo) -- Chapter 6. Policy framework and regulations to promote clean energy and energy transition in ECOWAS countries (Charly Gatete) -- Chapter 7. Effective regulation and the energy transition in Zambia (Naa Adjekai Adjei) -- Chapter 8. The rationale of Economic Regulations: Theoretical Review (Haliru Dikko) -- Chapter 9. Power Sector Regulation in Africa in an Energy Transition Era (Pauline Anaman) -- Chapter 10. Role and Challenges of The African Energy Regulator in The Midst of Global Economic Storm (Benjamin Ashitey Armah) -- Chapter 11. Regulating Public utilities within a crisis’s situation in Africa (Etutu Mawondo Shalman) -- Chapter 12. The Electricity Tariff and Utility Performance: Evidence from Ghana, Uganda and Namibia Electricity Market (Jeffrey Baiden) -- Part II. Regional Electricity Markets Development -- Chapter 13. Major challenges in Africa in the development of competitive electricity markets. An analysis of the ECOWAS Regional Electricity Market (Charly Gatete) -- Chapter 14. Regional Power Trade in Africa: The Different Institutional and Regulatory Models of African Power Pools (Mohamed A. Eltahir Elabbas) -- Chapter 15. An outlook on a Future-Proof Regulated Cross-Border Electricity Market in Africa (Oghosa Erhahon) -- Chapter 16. Cross-border power trading model for SSA; Challenges andopportunities of operationalizing power pools in Africa (Ishmael Ackah) -- Chapter 17. Competitiveness and sustainability of electricity markets in the ECOWAS region: evolution of reforms, regulations challenges and markets integration (Charly Gatete) -- Part III. Emerging Technologies and the Energy Transition -- Chapter 18. Energy-Related Climate Change Reportage in Africa: Has the Media Gotten It Right? (Maame Esi Eshun) -- Chapter 19. Effect of fossil fuel subsidies on renewable energy transition in sub-Saharan African countries (Souleymane Diallo) -- Chapter 20. The Gains and Pains of the Energy Transition. A perspective on Sub Saharan Africa (Ishmael Ackah) -- Chapter 21. Willingness to Change to Electric Cars: Is the Ghanaian Consumer Ready? (Ishmael Ackah) -- Chapter 22. Economic power and the transition to renewables in South Africa (Sumayya Goga) -- Chapter 23. An analysis of imported clean cooking technologies. Implications for policy development in Ghana (Crispin Bobio) -- Chapter 24. Natural Gas as a Transition Fuel; Domestic Natural Gas Production and Energy Security in Ghana (Paul Minsung Gyeng) -- Part IV. Gender Mainstreaming in the Energy Sector -- Chapter 25. Putting Gender on the Corporate Agenda in Ghana’s Oil and Gas Industry (Phil Faanu) -- Chapter 26. The impact of gender, culture and other African traits in cooperating with energy regulators (Dominic Kwesi Eduah) -- Chapter 27. Imperatives for Gender Mainstreaming in Energy Sector Regulation In Africa (Ifeyinwa Ikeonu) -- Part V. Concluding Chapter -- Chapter 28. The future of energy regulation in Africa (Charly Gatete).
    Abstract: This book analyzes the political economy governing energy regulation across the African continent. Presenting case studies that span diverse energy sectors and countries, it provides an overview of their complex political and regulatory frameworks. The book explores emerging technologies and energy markets, highlighting Africa’s preparedness for the energy transition, and sheds light on the pivotal role of cross-border energy trade with regard to energy access. Further, it examines regulators’ influence within regional power pools, as well as their contribution to gender mainstreaming in the energy sector, addressing vital social issues. This book is divided into five parts, the first of which focuses on the political economy of energy regulation. The second part discusses emerging technologies and climate change issues, while the third examines regional energy markets, and regional institutional collaboration. The fourth part features contributions on gender mainstreaming, while part five rounds up the coverage. The book will be of interest to policymakers and investors in Africa, as well as scholars interested in energy regulation and economics.
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    ISBN: 9783031507809
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XII, 134 p. 30 illus., 7 illus. in color.)
    Series Statement: Contributions to Economics
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    Keywords: Finance. ; Financial engineering. ; Computer science. ; Mathematics ; Social sciences ; Quantum States ; Oracles ; Quantum Fintech ; Quantum Money Schemes ; Quantum Dynamics ; Quantum Computing ; Monte Carlo Simulations ; Quantum Measurement ; Quantum Circuits ; Quantum Algorithms
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Preliminaries -- Chapter 3. Quantum Algorithms -- Chapter 4. Quantum Financial Technology.
    Abstract: This book offers an introduction to quantum technology that is specifically tailored to economists, students of economics, and professionals in the financial and payments industries. The book reviews quantum speedups that have been identified for algorithms used to solve and estimate economic models, including function approximation, linear systems analysis, graphical modeling, Monte Carlo simulation, matrix inversion, principal component analysis, linear regression, dynamic programming, interpolation, numerical differentiation, and true random number generation. It also provides an overview of quantum financial technology and its potential applications in economics and finance. Written by an interdisciplinary team with backgrounds in economics, computer science, and physics, this book offers a valuable guide for researchers and practitioners who want to understand the implications and possibilities of quantum technology for the field of economics.
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    ISBN: 9783031519758
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(X, 65 p. 25 illus., 24 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Law of the sea. ; International law. ; Aeronautics ; Aerospace engineering. ; Astronautics. ; Geotechnical engineering.
    Abstract: 1. Introduction: Yvonne Karimi-Schmidt -- 2. keynotes -- 3. laudation -- 4. Thanks -- 5. Selected relevant literature on the topic -- 6. authors.
    Abstract: This book provides insight into the significance of the law of outer space in promoting order, cooperation, and peaceful activities in space. It emphasizes the advantages of having a legal framework in place to govern space exploration and utilization, rather than relying on power and force. .
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XIX, 144 p. 9 illus.)
    Series Statement: CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance
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    Keywords: Power resources. ; Environmental economics. ; Industrial management ; Business ethics. ; environmental degradation ; Turkey ; Circular Economy ; ciruclar economy transition ; circular fashion ; sustainable luxury consumption ; Sustainable Turkey ; sustainable revolution ; Konferenzschrift
    Abstract: Introduction -- The Convergence of Digital Transformation and Sustainable Revolution (Yusuf Can Erdem) -- The impact of artificial intelligence on entrepreneurial orientation and a case study of a multi-national company headquartered in Turkey (Arzu Şar İçöz) -- The Impact of e-Waste Minimization on the Actualization of SDG 12: Responsive Consumption and Production (Burcu Arsan, Ayşe Gönül Demirel) -- How can the Circular Economy contribute to the achievement of SDG 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth? (Deniz Palalar Alkan, Esin Yücel Karamustafa, Burcu Arsan) -- Sustainable Development Goal 5 - Gender Equality: A Study on the Logistics Sector (Esin Yücel Karamustafa) -- econdhand Fashion Consumption in Circular Economy (Hande Begüm Bumin Doyduk) -- Circular economy touch to luxury fashion: second-hand luxury fashion platforms in Turkey (Muteber Tuzcu, Özge Kirezli) Investigating sustainable luxury consumption in Turkey (Fulya Midilli, Aslı Tolunay) -- The more supportive, the better, the more adaptive, the best: leadership support, strategic flexibility, and green management practice adoption in SMEs (Rifat Kamasak, Deniz Palalar Alkan) -- Hedging green stocks: What can multiscale analysis tell us? (Sercan Demiralay, Hatice Gaye Gencer, Selçuk Bayraci) -- The Role of Green Finance in Eco-friendly Investments (Tülay Yazar Öztürk) -- Turkey's Energy and Environmental Policies in the Context of Transition to the Circular Economy Model (Damla Özekan) -- The impact of the environmental problems on the protest movement in contemporary society (Kyrgyzstan’s case) -- Conclusion.
    Abstract: This edited volume provides a multisectoral, multidisciplinary analysis of the circular economy in Turkey. The chapters delve into different segments of the economy, monitoring the progress of the transition to circularity as it is occurring. Written by experts in the circular economy, chapters touch on different aspects of the sustainability transition—from AI and entrepreneurship to luxury fashion to green finance. Chapters also refer directly to applicable UN Sustainable Development Goals, noting the progress made towards related development targets. This volume will be of use to students, academicians, experts, and professionals interested and working on different aspects of circular and green economies.
    Note: "The Circular Economy Series (CES) – II International Conference, held on the 18th and 19th of November 2022, combined industry experts and researches to explore, share, and advance knowledge on transition of Turkey to the Circular Economy model." - Seite vii
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    ISBN: 9783031497483
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XX, 382 p. 5 illus., 4 illus. in color.)
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    Keywords: Economic policy. ; Social policy. ; Economics. ; Finance. ; Economic development. ; Faith-based Economics ; Capitalism ; Public Goods ; Religious Economics Model ; Globalisation ; Islamic Economic Model ; Macroeconomics ; Pareto Optimum ; Moral Economics ; Equitable Optimality theory ; Economic vision ; Economic roadmap ; Equitable outcomes ; Rethinking economics ; Ethical socio-economic
    Abstract: Setting the Stage -- Basis of Conventional Economics -- Production and the Public Goods Problem in Capitalism -- Intersection of Capitalism and Anti-Essentialism: The Contradictions Arising from this Encounter -- The Overselling of Globalisation -- The Rise of Religious Economics Model: Critiques of the Islamic Economics Doctrine -- Islamic Economics Model: The Counter Argument to its Critiques -- The Clash of Ideals -- The Essence of Faith-Based Economics: The Islamic Economic Thought -- Economics and the Knowledge Crisis -- Learning and Convergence -- Rethinking Economics, Constructing the Equitable Optimality Theory Part One: Philosophical Underpinning -- Rethinking Economics, Constructing the Equitable Optimality Theory Part Two: Macroeconomics -- Rethinking Economics, Constructing the Equitable Optimality Theory Part Three: Microeconomics -- A Vision for the Future.
    Abstract: This book advocates for a transformative shift in economics, emphasising the need to manage finite resources equitably while safeguarding universal well-being. It introduces the Equitable Optimality economic theory, departing from materialistic views and championing a theory deeply rooted in moral economy, values, and ethics. By integrating spirituality, social justice, and ethics into economic analysis, this model contends that economics can serve the welfare of all, offering a unique lens for economic theory and policy. It challenges prevailing materialistic economic paradigms by proposing an interest-balanced/free financial economy. This economic theory prioritises profit-sharing, societal objectives, and equitable resource allocation, aiming to create a more inclusive society. However, practical implementation and comprehensive research are crucial for understanding its impact and overcoming transitional challenges. The Equitable Optimality economic theory provides a valuable perspective within economics, focusing on ethical foundations, acknowledging non-monetary values, and humanising economic agents. It does not aim to replace conventional economic theories but offers an alternative framework to inspire innovative approaches to economic models and policymaking. Its broader policy perspective aims to foster a more prosperous and harmonious society by integrating ethical considerations, equity and justice into economic decision-making and emphasising societal welfare.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 391 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: International relations. ; Security, International. ; International economic relations.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Permanent Counterrevolution, Technocracy, and World War III -- Chapter 2: Shock and Stress -- Chapter 3: Trauma-Based Mind Control -- Chapter 4: Fear and Thread -- Chapter 5: Cognitive Attack -- Chapter 6: Weaponised Deception -- Chapter 7: Mass Paranoia and Hysteria: Turning Society against itself -- Chapter 8: The coming Unrest.
    Abstract: David Hughes was one of the few academics who questioned the mainstream narrative following the attacks that triggered the War on Terror. That gave him a crucial advantage when the Covid emergency was declared. In this provocative study he explores in depth how governments have declared war on their populations to achieve a transformation to a technocratic dictatorship. The combination with psychological techniques developed over many decades makes this a particularly grave danger, which requires careful dissection to be understood and resisted. This book, the first of a two-volume set, provides that analysis. ~ Kees van der Pijl, author of States of Emergency. Keeping the Global Population in Check (Clarity Press, 2022) (The Netherlands) The silent coup engineering global central control depends heavily on asymmetrical warfare – including extensive investment in and application of psychological and neurological weaponry. In this book, David Hughes documents the development and application of a wide portfolio of soft and hard – and often invisible – weapons to brutally manipulate minds and emotions to engineer the adoption of technocracy. The first step to not falling victim is to see these 21st century weapons of war clearly. Hughes’ formidable scholarship helps you to do so. ~ Catherine Austin Fitts, Publisher, The Solari Report (United States) David A. Hughes is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Lincoln. He received his undergraduate and master’s degrees from Oxford University and holds doctorates in German Studies (Duke University) and International Relations (Oxford Brookes University). His research focuses on psychological warfare, "9/11," "Covid-19," the deep state, technocracy, global class relations, and resurgent totalitarianism. Camouflaged by “Covid-19,” an undeclared global class war was initiated in 2020, aimed at replacing liberal democracy with technocracy, a novel, biodigital form of totalitarianism. The opening campaign involved the largest psychological operation in history, intended to demoralise, disorientate, and debilitate the public. This volume deals with the application of shock and stress, trauma-based mind control, the use of fear and threat, cognitive attack, weaponised deception, and techniques for turning society against itself.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(IX, 268 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Theology. ; Catholic Church. ; Religion and politics.
    Abstract: Part One – What Did the Council Teach and What’s Wrong with It? -- Chapter One: Why Study Vatican II on Church-State Relations? -- Chapter Two: Survey of Conciliar Documents on Ecclesiology and the Lay Apostolate in Politics -- chapter Three: Defining the Debate in Political Theology -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Two ways of classifying political theology to be rejected -- 3.3 A qualified acceptance of an alternative classification -- Chapter Four: Reading DH through the Lens of Ecclesial Ethics -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 'Not Late Enough: The Divided Mind of Dignitatis Humanae Personae' -- 4.3 Distinguishing the arguments that are distinctive to ecclesial ethics -- 4.4 First argument: DH's distinctions between nature-grace, reason-revelation -- 4.5 Second argument: distinction between religion and politics -- Chapter Five: Reading LG, AA, and GS through the Lens of Ecclesial Ethics -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 The structure of Cavanaugh's argument -- 5.3 The problematic ecclesiology underlying Catholic Action -- 5.4 The elusive presence of Vatican II in Cavanaugh's thought -- 5.5 The critique of the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church -- 5.6 The critique of the Decree on the Lay Apostolate -- 5.7 The critique of the Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World -- 5.8 Summary of critique -- Chapter Six: A Critique of Hauerwas and Cavanaugh -- 6.1 Why Hauerwas and Cavanaugh are not sectarians -- 6.2 The modern state as an irredeemable foe -- 6.3 The church as a contrast society -- 6.4 Conclusion -- Part Two – How Can the Church’s Teaching be Corrected? -- Chapter Seven: Methodological Introduction -- Chapter Eight: Powers and Principalities in the New Testament -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Scholarship on the Powers -- 8.3 The Powers: Created, fallen, defeated -- 8.4 Political authority as one of the Powers -- 8.5 Oliver O'Donovan on the Powers and political authority -- 8.6 Conclusion -- Chapter Nine: Deliverance from the Powers in the church -- 9.1 The sacramental shape of the church -- 9.2 Baptism -- 9.3 Eucharist -- 9.4 Participating in the threefold office: Prophet, Priest, King -- 9.5 Ordained ministry -- Chapter Ten: Learning from the Ambiguous Legacy of Christendom -- 10.1 Bearing witness before the Powers -- 10.2 Mission leading to martyrdom or mutual service -- 10.3 From Two Cities to Two Swords -- 10.4 The Gospel’s impact on political authorities -- Chapter Eleven – Conclusion -- Bibliography.
    Abstract: “To revisit the legacy of Vatican II as it attempted to reconstruct the relation of church and state around a theology of the laity; to honour its ambitions to escape from the straitjacket of a two-level theory of authority; to enrich it with concepts drawn from the primary missionary impulses of the apostolic church and the debates of contemporary political theology; those are the very considerable ambitions of this constantly stimulating book. It should prove rewarding to Christians in all churches, taking one major Christian achievement of the twentieth century as a starting point for an ecumenical approach to the challenges of political life in the twenty first.” —Oliver O'Donovan, Professor Emeritus, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK Should religion and politics be kept apart? What should be the relationship between the church and the state? M.Y. Ciftci answers these questions by studying the most important event in the recent history of the Catholic Church: The Second Vatican Council (1962-65). The book provides a new interpretation of the Council’s teaching on church-state relations to better appreciate its flaws and need for reform. By paying attention to the (often overlooked) importance given by the Council to the lay apostolate, it reveals how the Council did not reform, as is often thought, but retained a flawed conception of the laity’s role in politics. It then proposes a new framework for understanding church-state relations using the ressourcement method of returning to scripture and tradition, and by a critical dialogue with Oliver O’Donovan and various Protestant biblical scholars of the Powers in the New Testament. Ciftci shows how fruitful an self-consciously ecumenical approach can be for political theology. As most ressourcement theologians have overlooked political issues, and since ecumenical theology rarely touches on issues of church-state relations, this work makes an original contribution to the ressourcement project and to ecumenism. M. Y. Ciftci is Public Bioethics Fellow at the Anscombe Bioethics Centre. He was previously Etienne Gilson Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto.
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    ISBN: 9783031563478
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIV, 294 p. 19 illus., 4 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Criminology. ; Crime
    Abstract: Part I- Policing and Use of Force. -- Chapter 1. Understanding Police Use of Force in the United States -- Chapter 2. Examining Assaults on Police Officers: An International Review of the Factors that Influence the Occurrence of these Attacks -- Chapter 3. Recalibrating Minimum Force: Some Unintended Consequences of Tom Swift’s ‘Electronic Rifle’ -- Part II- Police Ethics and Corruption. -- Chapter 4. Understanding and Preventing Police Deviance and Corruption based on Experiences and Trends in the United States -- Chapter 5. The Contemporary Status of Ethics in Policing -- Chapter 6. Ethical Dilemmas in South African Policing and Criminal Justice -- Part III-Police and Traffic Safety. -- Chapter 7. Evaluating Strategies to Enhance Traffic Safety -- Chapter 8. Traffic Enforcement in New Zealand: A Failed Experiment? -- Chapter 9. Policing and investigating criminal activities by gangs using e-bikes, e-scooters and e-motorcycles in the United Kingdom -- Part IV-Police and Community Outreach and Collaboration -- Chapter 10. Initiatives to improve Police – Community Collaboration and Trust -- Chapter 11. Understanding the Implementation of Community-oriented Policing in the New Zealand Police -- Chapter 12. Regional Differences in the Perception of American Adolescents on Police Objectivity and Fairness -- Part V- Improving Police Service Delivery -- Chapter 13. The Role and Contribution of the Police Planner in Improving Police Service Delivery -- Chapter 14. Effective Strategies to Enhance Police Service Delivery -- Chapter 15. An Analysis of Complementary Law Enforcement: Comparing the Hungarian and South Korean Models for more effective Police Service Delivery -- Chapter 16. Afterword: Examining Contemporary Challenges in Policing.
    Abstract: This book comprehensively examines five key areas of concern across the field of policing. These critical issues include: police use of force, police ethics and integrity, traffic safety, police-community collaboration, and optimizing organizational performance and service delivery. The chapters that follow provide a global, multi-faceted approach to analyze these core professional issues, examine them through sociological and theoretical lenses, and ultimately propose policy recommendations to ensure optimal professionalism and organizational effectiveness. The book focuses on issues, including: • Enhancing public trust and confidence • Effective crime control • Rule of law • Social justice • Best procedures and practices This book is ideal for upper-level undergraduate and graduate-level students, criminal justice and law enforcement practitioners and policy makers, and criminal justice and criminology researchers.
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    ISBN: 9783031403453
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIX, 227 p. 3 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature
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    Keywords: Literature, Modern ; Literature, Modern ; Literature, Modern ; Medicine and the humanities. ; Great Britain
    Abstract: 1 The Story of Tuberculosis in Ireland: An Overview.-2 The Nameless Scourge: Tuberculosis in Ireland, 1800–the Present.-3 The Unspoken Menace -- 4 Dracula, Ireland’s Vampiric Vector -- 5 The Lingering and “The Dead”: Illusion and Irony in Early Twentieth-Century Irish Fiction -- 6 Contagion and Community in Irish Fiction 1900–1942 -- 7 Naming the Scourge and the “Sanatorium of the Imagination”.
    Abstract: This book focuses on Ireland’s lived experience of tuberculosis as represented in the nation’s fiction; not surprisingly, the disease both manifests and conceals itself with devastating frequency in literature as it did in life. It seeks to place the history of tuberculosis in Ireland, from 1800 until after its virtual eradication in the mid-Twentieth Century, in conversation with fictional representations or repressions of a condition so fearsome that until very recently it was usually referred to by code words and euphemisms rather than by its name. Rachael Sealy Lynch, Associate Professor Emerita of English at the University of Connecticut, USA, works primarily in the field of recent and contemporary Irish women writers, and, more recently, in the medical humanities. She has published widely, with a focus on sex, stigma, and shame, on writers including Anne Enright, Jennifer Johnston, Molly Keane, Edna O’Brien, Emma Donoghue, Mary Lavin, and Liam O’Flaherty.
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    ISBN: 9783031146633
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 283 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in British Musical Theatre
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    Keywords: Theater ; Musical theater. ; Cultural industries. ; Theater. ; Theater
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. Chapter 1: Cosmopolitan musical theatre styles at the Lane (1918-1934) -- 3. Chapter 2: The Drury Lane Musical Theatre Spectacle (1931-1939): “Hearts Splintering in Waltz Time” -- 4. Chapter 3: The Lane and ENSA (Entertainment National Services Association) headquarters (1939) -- 5. Chapter 5: Rodger’s and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! Carousel and South Pacific: Imported Americana -- 6. Chapter 6: Ruritanian Imperialism in The King and I (1953) -- 7. Chapter 7: Fading Empire and British imitation: Lerner and Loewe -- 8. Chapter 8: Hello Dolly and the resurgence of the British musical the nostalgia of Lost Empire Word -- 9. Epilogue.
    Abstract: This monograph centres on the history of musical theatre in a space of cultural significance for British identity, namely the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, which housed many prominent American productions from 1920-1970. It argues that during this period Drury Lane was the site of cultural exchanges between Britain and the United States that were a direct result of global engagement in two world wars and the evolution of both countries as imperial powers. The critical and public response to works of musical theatre during this period, particularly the American musical, demonstrates the shifting response by the public to global conflict, the rise of an American Empire in the eyes of the British government, and the ongoing cultural debates about the role of Americans in British public life. By considering the status of Drury Lane as a key site of cultural and political exchanges between the United States and Britain, this study allows us to gain a more complete portrait of the musical’s cultural significance in Britain. Dr. Arianne Johnson Quinn is an archivist, librarian, and scholar. She is currently the Music Special Collections Librarian at the Warren D. Allen Music Library, Florida State University, USA. She holds a Ph.D. in Musicology from Princeton University, and has worked as Digital Archivist and Research Associate for the Noël Coward Archive Trust. Arianne has been on the faculty of the Florida State Honors Program, South Georgia State College and Tallahassee Community College. Her research focuses on the intersections between the American and British musical in London’s West End from 1920-1970, particularly the works of Noël Coward, Kurt Weill, Lerner and Loewe, Irving Berlin, Cole Porter and Rodgers and Hammerstein. .
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    ISBN: 9783031455315
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 176 p. 37 illus., 36 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Criminology. ; Crime ; Neuseeland ; Polizei ; Polizeibeamter ; Geschichte 1886-2019 ; Risiko ; Tod ; Gewalttätigkeit ; Schusswaffe
    Abstract: PART I The lethal risks context and how they are managed: Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Methodology -- Chapter 3 Risk Management and Lethal Risks – Organizational -- Chapter 4 Risk Management – Tactical -- PART II The nature of lethal risks between 1886 and 2019: Chapter 5 Environmental Variables: Population, Officer Numbers and Who Faces Lethal Risk? -- Chapter 6 Analysis: 1886 to 1999 (Publicly Available Reporting) -- Chapter 7 Analysis: 1886 to 1999 (Publicly Available Reporting) -- PART III Observations and thoughts regarding the research and the future: Chapter 8 Observations -- Chapter 9 Where To From Here? -- Chapter 10 Conclusion.
    Abstract: This book examines the lethal risks faced by police and traffic officers in Aotearoa New Zealand. It tracks lethal risk volume and type across 134 years of the New Zealand Police/Ngā Pirihimana o Aotearoa’s 137-year existence. Using data gathered from public records, official government reporting, and comparative studies, it reveals the current situation with regards to lethal risks from 1886 to 2019. The book identifies and presents two lethal risk hierarchies, the first for the period 1886-1999 and the second for the period 2000-2019. The hierarchies establish that the lethal risks faced come from: • Firearms • Assaults • And, potentially, cutting/stabbing attacks It determines that the nature of lethal risk has not changed, but rather the volume has reduced, meaning today’s officers are less likely to be harmed by lethal risk encounters than their predecessors were. This volume is an ideal starting point for researchers and practitioners interested in developing further scholarly research on lethal force and lethal risks faced by law enforcement officers and the organization they belong.
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    ISBN: 9783031395703
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIV, 230 p. 3 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    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: 9783031445842
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 427 p. 18 illus., 5 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Security, International. ; Political science. ; Human rights. ; International relations. ; Diplomacy. ; Internationaler Konflikt ; Grenzkonflikt ; Kollektive Sicherheit ; Internationale Politik ; Innere Sicherheit ; Menschenrecht ; Governance ; Europa
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Migration Policies in the OSCE Region (Anisa Abeytia) -- Chapter 2. Early Warning Models in the OSCE: Adoption and Re-Invention (Alina Isakova) -- Chapter 3. NATO and EU Strategic Security Environment (Aybike Yalcin-Ispir) -- Chapter 4. Patterns of Border Disputes Amongst OSCE Countries (Halina Sapeha) -- Chapter 5. Assessing Water (Ir)Rationality in the Disputed Region of Nagorno-Karabakh (Leonardo Zanatta) -- Chapter 6. Vetting as a Tool for Strengthening Judicial Integrity in the OSCE Region (Teodora Miljojkovic) -- Chapter 7. Human Rights Adjudication in Central Asia (Saniia Toktogazieva) -- Chapter 8. Human Rights and Social Media: Challenges and Opportunities for Human Rights Education (Joanna Kulesza) -- Chapter 9. Digital Citizen Activism in Central Asia: Beyond Contestation and Cooperation (Bakhytzhan Kurmanov) -- Chapter 10. The Dilemma of Good Governance vs. Power Grab in Georgia (Shalva Dzebisashvili) -- Chapter 11. Transformations of Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine towards EU Membership (Malkhaz Nakashidze) -- Chapter 12. Backsliding Rule of Law and “Stabilotocracy” in Montenegro (Mirko Đuković).
    Abstract: This open-access book explores the security dynamics amid the polarization, shifting borders, and liquid governance that define the Zeitenwende era in Europe's eastern neighbourhood and Central Asia. Presenting various case studies, the volume unveils the intricate web of border dynamics and practices, including the nuanced interplay of border disputes within the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) member states. The contributions shed new light on how contested borders and liquid modes of governance have impacted the engagement of international organizations such as the European Union (EU), North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and OSCE in security crises and conflict prevention. Delving deeper, a special part dissects the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict and examines European and international responses. By analyzing the stances of diverse European countries, their neighborhood, and international organizations, this section uncovers commonalities and disparities in their approaches to the Ukrainian crisis.
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    ISBN: 9783031362798
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVIII, 301 p. 20 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Music. ; Ethnology ; Culture. ; Emigration and immigration ; Diplomacy.
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction: Music and Cultural Diplomacy in the Middle East—Geopolitical Reconfigurations for the Twenty-First Century -- Part I Music as Cultural Diplomacy: History and Historiographic Perspectives -- Chapter 2. From the Ottoman Twilight to the Roaring Twenties: The Early Career of Sharif Muhiuddin Haidar -- Chapter 3. Strike an Elizabethan Pose: Early Music Diplomacy—Queen Elizabeth I’s Clockwork Organ Gift to the Ottoman Court -- Part II Musical Diplomacy: Migration, Diaspora, and Deterritorialised Power -- Chapter 4. Melodies Heard and Unheard: The Promise and Limits of Cultural Diplomacy Through Music -- Chapter 5. Cultural Diplomacy Despite the State: Mobility and Agency of State and Amateur Musicians in Turkish Classical Music Choirs -- Chapter 6. Shahnameh in the Classroom: Iranian Music and DIY Cultural Diplomacy in the UK -- Part III Soft Power in State, Statecraft and Music-Making -- Chapter 7. Umm Kulthum and Cultural Diplomacy in Egypt -- Chapter 8. Performing Soviet Cultural Diplomacy: “Western Art Music” and Musicians in Cairo 1955–1970 -- Chapter 9. Musical Diplomacy in Mandate Palestine from 1936 to 1948 -- Part IV Affective and Sensorial Diplomacy in Transnational Spaces -- Chapter 10. Music as Cultural Diplomacy: Analyzing the Role of Musical Flows from the Arab Levant to New Cultural Poles in the Arab Gulf in the Twenty-First Century -- Chapter 11. Arabian Violence: Censorship in Morocco’s Techno Underground -- Chapter 12. Musical Delineations of a PostNational Space for National Struggle: Hazara, Kurdish, and Baloch Cases -- Chapter 13. Epilogue: Cultural Diplomacy, Some Discontents./.
    Abstract: This edited volume offers innovative perspectives on the study of music as cultural diplomacy in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), a region often overlooked in such discussions. It offers an innovative contribution to the field of ethnomusicology, as well as political science and international relations, by highlighting the agency of non-state actors (local voices, communities, and grassroots organizations), thereby contributing towards de-centering the state, hitherto conceived as the chief player in cultural diplomacy. This volume is divided into four main parts organized along the following themes: 1. History and Historiography, 2. Migration, Diaspora, and Ethics, 3. Statecraft and Music Making, and 4. Affective and Sensorial Diplomacy. The perspectives offered in this volume offer a deeper exploration of bottom-up initiatives of cultural diplomacy through music, instead of the more usual analyses of top-down, state-directed programmes. Overall, the aim is to reconceptualize Middle Eastern, North African and Arab Gulf musical practices in their relationship to power and cultural diplomacy in order build a broader and pluri-dimensional account of these contentious relationships. Maria M. Rijo Lopes da Cunha has been a Danish Institute in Damascus Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Ethnomusicology at the Department for Arts and Cultural Studies of the University of Copenhagen (2019 - 2021 and 2022). Jonathan Shannon is Professor of Anthropology at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, The City University of New York. Søren Møller Sørensen is Associate Professor Emeritus at Department for Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen. Virginia Danielson retired as Director of Libraries, New York University Abu Dhabi and is currently an Associate of the Music Department at Harvard University.
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    ISBN: 9783031421747
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXI, 218 p. 2 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Twenty-first Century Perspectives on War, Peace, and Human Conflict
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    Keywords: Peace. ; Diplomacy. ; Security, International. ; International relations. ; Nichtstaatliche Organisation ; Politischer Konflikt ; Innenpolitik ; Friede ; Schlichtung ; Mediation ; Norm ; Diffusion ; Myanmar
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction: Unsettled Reflections from Golden Valley, Myanmar -- Chapter 2: Promoting Peace or Pushing Norms? Understanding Normative Agency in Mediation Processes -- Chapter 3: New Kids on the Block: The Rise of NGO Mediators in Mediation and Peacemaking -- Chapter 4: The Promised Land of Inclusive Peace: NGO Mediators as Norm Promoters of Inclusion -- Chapter 5: What’s in a Norm? What Normative Frameworks in Myanmar Reveal about Inclusivity -- Chapter 6: Chronicles of a Norm for Sale: Norm Entrepreneurship in the Myanmar NCA Negotiations -- Chapter 7: “The Trouble with Inclusivity”: How Promoting Inclusive Peace led to an Exclusive Outcome -- Chapter 8: Conclusion: The Life and Death of Inclusive Peace in Myanmar.
    Abstract: Can informal actors such as NGOs mediate peace agreements? If so, how does it work and what are the consequences for international peace mediation? This book tackles these questions and more through looking at the role of nongovernmental (NGO) mediators in promoting “inclusive peace” to negotiating parties in Myanmar’s Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) negotiations from 2011-2015. The author argues that NGO mediators, traditionally seen as part of civil society or as weak mediators with little power or leverage, have become established mediation actors alongside more formal actors and are redefining the mediation field through norm promotion. However, even if NGO mediators can promote norms, the book questions whether they should promote norms in the first place, as the NCA process shows how the promotion of inclusivity contributed to a more exclusive outcome of years of peace negotiations in Myanmar. The outcome of the NCA process presents a critical and cautionary tale of promoting a presumed universal norm into a given locale and expecting a certain outcome without understanding how an external norm interacts with existing normative frameworks. This is an open access book. Julia Palmiano Federer holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Basel and a Master in International Affairs from The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. Dr. Palmiano Federer is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Ottawa and the Head of Research at the Ottawa Dialogue, an organisation that specializes in the resolution of armed conflicts around the world through Track Two diplomacy, a form of unofficial and informal dialogue between warring parties. She is also currently a Senior Fellow at the Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Collaboratory at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership.
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    ISBN: 9783031452895
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XXIII, 450 p. 7 illus., 2 illus. in color.)
    Series Statement: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Banking and Financial Institutions
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    Keywords: Financial services industry. ; Financial engineering. ; Finance ; fintech innovations ; covid-19 measures ; SDG policy priorities ; commercial banking ; commercial banking business models ; fintech-based payment service providers ; post-covid 19 economic downturn ; Digitizing the commercial banking business model ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Foreward, by Vittorio Santoro -- Chapter 1 Introduction, by the Editors -- Part I “The EUROPEAN UNION” -- Chapter 2Intermediaries’ model in banking and finance and the treatment of fintech in the European Union: a critical approach, by Patrick Barban -- Chapter 3 FinTech and competition regulatory concerns in the EU banking business framework, by Gabriella Gimigliano -- Chapter 4 Prudential regulation policy responses to financial technological innovations: the future for banks and crypto-finance?, by Iris H-Y Chiu -- Chapter 5 Digitalizing the commercial bank business model: vanishing brank branches and the risk of financial exclusion of the elderly, by Anne-Christine Mittwoch, Anne-Marie Weber, Weronika Herbert-Homenda, and Weronika Stefaniuk -- Chapter 6 The “game changer” in the euro area: Banking Union and commercial banking, by Lucia Quaglia -- Chapter 7 The financing of problem banks: critical issues and challenges ahead, by Marco Bodellini -- Chapter 8 The review of the EU bank crisis management and deposit insurance framework, by Johannes Langthaler -- Chapter 9 Sustainable commercial banking in European Union Law: a renewed mandate for commercial banks?, by Pablo Iglesias Rodriguez -- Chapter 10 Commercial banks and competition concerns – SDG policy priorities, by Lela Mélon and Alenka Recelj Mercina -- Part II “The Anglo-Saxon SYSTEMS” -- Chapter 11 Central Bank Digital Currency and the Agenda of monetary devolution, by Leonidas Zelmanovitz and Bruno Meyerhol Salama -- Chapter 12 Open banking in the UK: a co-opetition scenario for innovation and evolution in the UK retail banking sector, by Nikita Divissenko -- Chapter 13 Rethinking crypto-regulation for crypto-investors in the UK, by Joy Malala and Folashade Adeyemo -- Chapter 14 Cross-border recognition of foreign resolution actions: the statutory regime in the United Kingdom, by Shalina Daved, Clare Merrified & Michael Salib -- Chapter 15 The impact of climate change on the economy and financial system: legal aspects of the Bank of England’s response, by Jack Parker and Ann Corrigan -- Part III “CHINA AND SOUTH KOREA” -- Chapter 16 Chinese commercial banks and fintech-competition and collaboration, by Ding Chen -- Chapter 17 Fintech and banking reform: a perspective from China, by Wang Feimin, Xu Duoqi, and Cheng Xuejn -- Chapter 18 Prudential regulation of the banking-like business of fintech companies in China, by Yangguang Xu and Zhirou Li -- Chapter 19 Recent changes and prospects of banking services regulations and supervision in Korea, by Sung-Seung Yun and GiJin Yan -- Part IV “Looking ahead” -- Chapter 20 Final remarks, by Antonella Brozzetti.
    Abstract: The book investigates commercial banking, covering the European framework, the Anglo-Saxon systems, and the Asian area in a comparative approach in trying to answer the following questions: Which is the commercial banking business model of the future? What do we expect a bank to be and to do in the new economic and social reality? How might banking supervision over commercial banks as well as market competition change? The book showcases how three factors or driving forces influence the future of commercial banking: i) fintech innovations (such as artificial intelligence, cryptocurrencies, blockchain, algorithmic trading, machine learning and electronic payments, to name a few), ii) covid-19 measures, and iii) SDG policy priorities. Geared toward academics, scholars and students of banking and financial services, the book will explore how these three factors have different weight in the different legal contexts. Chapter 11 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com. Marco Bodellini is a Senior Research Scientist in sustainable finance at the ADA chair in financial law and inclusive finance at the University of Luxembourg, House for Sustainable Governance and Markets, and a Lecturer in banking and financial law at the University of Bergamo. His main areas of research include bank crisis and resolution, corporate governance of financial institutions, systemic risk and financial stability, shadow banking and investment funds, fintech, and sustainable finance. He is a member of the expert group advising the European Parliament on bank crisis management matters, a member of the Advisory Panel of the International Association of Deposit Insurers (IADI), and a Special Advisor to the Unidroit Secretariat on bank insolvency. Gabriella Gimigliano is a Lecturer of Law at the University of Siena, where she held the Jean Monnet Chair in EU Money Law. Her main areas of research include law of money and payments, banking law, Islamic finance, and economic regulation. Dalvinder Singh is a Professor of Law in the School of Law at the University of Warwick, and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Law at the University of Bergamo. He is the editor of the Journal of Banking Regulation and Financial Regulation International. He is also a member of the Advisory Panel of the International Association of Deposit Insurers (IADI).
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    ISBN: 9783031527401
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XVII, 188 p. 51 illus., 5 illus. in color.)
    Series Statement: Financial and Monetary Policy Studies 57
    Uniform Title: Inflation: Lehren für heute aus Krisen von gestern
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    Keywords: Macroeconomics. ; Economic history. ; Economic policy. ; Labor economics. ; Inflation ; productivity oriented wage development ; Monetary policy ; Income policy ; Macroeconomics ; Wage bargaining systems ; Inflationary waves ; wage policy ; inflationary price shocks ; German hyperinflation ; public debt ; GDP growth ; Fiscal policy ; Deflation ; Great Depression ; Central bank policy ; Financial crisis ; Euro crisis ; Covid-19 pandemic ; Stagflation
    Abstract: Chapter 1. introduction -- Chapter 2. The German Hyperinflation of 1923 -- Chapter 3. Macroeconomic Developments from the End of theof the 1960s to the early 1980s -- Chapter 4. The Inflation Wave from the Late 1960s onward -- Chapter 5. Comparison of developments in the various countries -- Chapter 6. The economic situation in the four countries after the price level shock 2021.-Chapter 7. Conclusions and Recommendations -- Chapter 8. Theoretical Explanations of Price Level Changes.
    Abstract: In light of the resurgence of inflation in developed industrialised countries following a period of inordinately low inflation, this book analyses the causes and devastating effects of inflation by drawing lessons from the past. Focusing on the German hyperinflation of the 1920s and the inflationary waves of the 1970s, it examines the resulting economic crises and their influence on the subsequent periods of social and political turmoil, namely the fascism of the 1930s and the neoliberal revolution of the 1980s. Featuring five detailed case studies on inflationary waves in various countries in the 1970s, the book identifies economic policy errors of the past, seeking to prevent their recurrence. Offering empirical and theoretical insights alike, the authors present strategies for effectively combating inflation and deflation. In turn, the book assesses the complex ties between wage increases, income distribution, and price changes, ultimately providing valuable recommendations on how wage policy can be used to stabilise price level increases at a low level in a world characterised by diverse and extreme economic shocks. “The Resurgence of Inflation” fosters a vital discourse on wage and price dynamics, economic development and the role of trade unions, making it an essential read for policymakers, economists, and anyone seeking a deeper understanding of today’s economic challenges.
    Note: Translation from the German language edition: "Inflation: Lehren für heute aus Krisen von gestern" by Michael Heine and Hansjörg Herr, © The authors 2023. Published by Metropolis-Verlag
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    ISBN: 9783031467714
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVI, 244 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Springer Studies in Law & Geoeconomics 2
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    Keywords: International law. ; Trade regulation. ; Commercial law. ; European Economic Community.
    Abstract: The EU Foreign Subsidy Regulation – Why, What and How? by Lena Hornkohl -- Economic Sanctions as an Instrument of Foreign Investment Control by Tamás Szabados -- Balance of Payments-Related Restrictions on the Freedom of Investment by Claus Zimmermann -- Next-level Screening? The Case of Outbound Investment Screening by Jonas Fechter -- Determining the Role of FDI Screening in International Investment Law by Kilian Wagner -- States’ Shareholding as a Tool of Investment Control in Strategically Important Companies: Any Consequences for International Responsibility? by Bartosz Soloch -- Screening Authorities in the EU: Considerations on Governance, Powers, and Accountability by Jacques Bourgeois and Alessandra Moroni -- The Evolving Concept of National Security and Foreign Investment Screening Procedures with Particular Reference to the Italian Regime by Maria Rosaria Mauro -- National Security and Essential Security Interests in CJEU Jurisprudence by Marek Jaśkowski.
    Abstract: This second volume of highly topical two-volume set “The Investment Weapon” continues to present pioneering research for the purpose of developing a common analytical foundation and framework for the emerging interdisciplinary research field of investment control. This second volumes shifts the focus from the policy context to the legal and regulatory aspects of investment controls, specifically from an international, transnational, and comparative law perspective. The topics range from control of subsidized investments to non-national security related investment controls and alternatives to investment screening.
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    ISBN: 9783031432859
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XLII, 292 p. 8 illus., 6 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Peace. ; Middle East ; Middle East
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Growing Up in Vienna (1949-1967) -- Chapter 2. Experiencing the Unfolding of the Peace Process (1967-1990) -- Chapter 3. From the Madrid Conference to the Conclusion of the First Oslo Accord (1991-1993) -- Chapter 4. The Oslo Process of Trial and Error Unfolds (1993-1999) -- Chapter 5. From Hope Under Benjamin Netanyahu to Disaster Under Ehud Barak (1999-2001) -- Chapter 6. The Need to Rethink Possible Action (2001) -- Chapter 7. Maintaining the Struggle for a Two-State Solution under Sharon and Olmert (2001-2009) -- Chapter 8. The Netanyahu-Obama Years (2009-2017) -- Chapter 9. Seeking a Way Forward: Brainstorming in Norway and the Conclusions of the Abraham Accords (2017-2021) -- Chapter 10. Netanyahu’s Election Victory of 2022: The Challenge Ahead -- Chapter 11. My Suggested Conclusions for Future Peace Activists.
    Abstract: This book describes the evolution of the Israeli-Palestinian peace-seeking process from 1967 to the present. Written from the perspective of Israel’s most prominent peace activist, it offers an unparalleled insider’s account of a crucial set of negotiations intended to settle a seemingly endless conflict. Hirschfeld’s historical narrative provides a wealth of knowledge and experience that is indispensable to anyone seeking to seriously approach the Middle East conflict. The book’s thorough analysis of the successes and failures of all peace efforts since the Six-Day War represents an essential asset for future negotiators, politicians, diplomats and peace activists alike. Moreover, the book shares pearls of human wisdom that anyone searching to resolve conflicts in general should take to heart. The book is of burning topicality. Not only with a view to the normalisation process between Israel and Arab countries that began with the recent Abraham Accords (2020) but also regarding the new “age of war” in Europe, sparked by Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine. “The memoir is most impressive and detailed. For peace process “junkies” this is a goldmine of information, including much that is not well known or understood. It is a sourcebook for those who succeed us in trying to bring peace to the region.“ —Dan Kurtzer, former US ambassador to Egypt and Israel and author of several books on the Israeli-Palestinian peace process "The thorough analysis of success and failures of all peace efforts since the Six Day War will provide precious support for future negotiators, politicians, diplomats and peace activists. The book is burning topicality." —Susanne Wasum Rainer, German Ambassador to Israel since 2018 .
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    Cham : Springer International Publishing | Cham : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
    ISBN: 9783031392597
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 263 p. 12 illus., 4 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Studies in Mobilities, Literature, and Culture
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    Keywords: Literature ; European literature. ; Oriental literature. ; World history. ; Culture. ; Emigration and immigration.
    Abstract: Introduction: “Cultural Mobilities and Interactions Between Modern China and Italy” Valentina Pedone, University of Florence and Gaoheng Zhang, University of British Columbia -- Chapter 1: “Chinese Mobility, Routes and Traces: Early-20th Century Discovery of Italian Culture” Alessandra Brezzi, Sapienza University of Rome -- Chapter 2: “Dragomans, Interpreters and Diplomats: Chinese Language Knowledge by Italians in Early 20th Century” Federico Masini, Sapienza University of Rome -- Chapter 3: “Mobility, Architecture, Chronotope: Tianjin’s Italian Concession, the 1930s” Gaoheng Zhang, University of British Columbia -- Chapter 4: “Representations of Socialist Mobility in Post-WWII China-Italy Cultural Exchange” Yang Wang, University of Colorado Boulder and Martina Tanga, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston -- Chapter 5: “Maoist China through the Lens of Italian Visitors (1950s-1970s)” Xin Liu, Penn State University -- Chapter 6: “The Journey and the Memory: 20th-century Travel Notes on Italy” Miriam Castorina, University of Florence -- Chapter 7: “Becoming Chinese-Italian: The Formation of a New Italian Ethnic Minority” Daniele Cologna, Insubria University -- Chapter 8: “Chased by Chineseness: Distance and Proximity in Chinese Italian Creative Expression” Valentina Pedone, University of Florence -- Chapter 9: “‘Ne vedrai delle belle in questo paese!’ Literary Representations of the Italian Community in China” Chiara Giuliani, University College Cork.
    Abstract: This book offers a critical analysis of global mobilities across China and Italy in history. In three periods in the twentieth century, new patterns of physical mobilities and cultural contact were established between the two countries which were either novel at the time of their emergence or impactful on subsequent periods. The first two chapters provide overviews of writings by Italians in China and by Chinese in Italy in the twentieth century. The remaining chapters cover: Republican China’s relationships with Italy and Italian Fascist colonialism in China during the 1920s–1930s; Italian travelers to China during the Cold War from the 1950s to the 1970s; migrations between China and Italy during the 2000s–2010s. In analyzing these cultural mobilities, this book opens a new line of inquiry in Chinese-Italian Cultural Studies, which has been dominated by historical study, and contributes a significant case study to the scholarship on global cultural mobilities.
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