Humanities & Social Sciences

Wenn wir Menschen als vernünftige Tiere verstehen, droht ein Widerspruch zwischen Bindung und Freiheit: Einerseits soll Vernunft darin bestehen, dass man die Normen des eigenen Handelns selbst bestimmt - dadurch realisiert sich Freiheit. Andererseits aber muss diesen Normen auch eine bindende Kraft zugesprochen werden. Wenn man sie immer wieder selbst bestimmt, scheint eine solche Kraft jedoch nicht verständlich zu werden. So entsteht der Eindruck, die mit Vernunft verbundene Bindung an Normen widerstreite der Freiheit der Selbstbestimmung. Zur Überwindung dieses Widerspruchs klärt Alexander Brödner den Zusammenhang zwischen Selbstbestimmung und Selbstkritik auf.

Digitale Transformationsprozesse verschärfen bestehende Ungleichheitsverhältnisse im Bildungssystem und betreffen vor allem Schüler:innen an Schulen mit dem sonderpädagogischen Schwerpunkt Geistige Entwicklung. Um Ursachen, Formen und Bedingungen dieses Digital-(Disability-)Divide zu untersuchen, wird entlang einer qualitativ-rekonstruktiven Forschungslogik der mediale Habitus von Sonderpädagog:innen analysiert, der grundlegend mit den sozialen Positionen der Akteur:innen sowie mit den Kapitalverhältnissen in diesem sozialen Feld zusammenwirkt und digitale Teilhabeprozesse (mit-)bestimmt.

Here six techno-economic trajectories are discussed in light of global challenges and the great changes that are taking place in the techno-scientific and social world: digitization of socio-economic processes, smart specialization, environmental sustainability and systemic resilience, knowledge intensive activities, health topics dealt with IA techniques, bio-economy and agri-food. For each trajectory focus area, actors and indicators are proposed.

We live in times of comprehensive datafication. Digital technologies allow ever more aspects of our lives and the planet to be measured and analyzed. This creates new ways of knowing and doing. All too often however, this development leads to a systematic devaluation of forms of knowing that cannot be quantified and processed digitally. Digital data and lived worlds, technical measurements and embodied experiences are based on fundamentally different ways of perceiving the world. This publication addresses the relationship between quantifiable and experiential knowledge and uses three transdisciplinary dialogues between the arts and sciences to ask how these differences can be articulated and made productive. This book documents and elaborates upon a one-day conference held under the same title at the Berlin University of the Arts, the Technische Universität Berlin in collaboration with the Zurich University of the Arts in June 2024. As a practical attempt to make productive the ambiguities of knowing based on dis/embodied experience, three pairs of researchers/artists, who collaborated over an extended period of time in order to share different perspectives on their common subject and expand on the resulting ambiguities in an open discussion were brought together. The texts assembled here are the introductory statements of each of the contributors, as well as condensed, edited versions of discussions that were triggered by them. With contributions from: Sénamé Koffi Agbodjinou, Johannes Fritz, Ulrich Ott, Anani Dodji Sanouvi, Felix Stalder, Michelle Christensen, Cornelia Sollfrank and Florian Conradi. Moderations: i.a. Ines Weigand, Shusha Niederberger.

In her early diaries the art historian Erica Tietze-Conrat discribes her eventfull life in Vienna in the 1920ies, were she had been in touch with all the important art circles of the time..

Using unpublished documents, this volume restores the meeting between two masters in a historical and ideal way: Norberto Bobbio and Silvio Trentin. Through the writings which Bobbio dedicated to Trentin between 1954 and 1991, the readers are introduced to Trentin’s world. They gradually discover Trentin’s exemplary biography, his clear moral personality and his commitment to anti-fascism and the Resistance, as well as the great themes of his work as a jurist and political thinker: the criticism of fascism, federalism and the idea of the 'third way'. As Bobbio observes, the fundamental reason why Trentin represents a still valuable example is that, through his life and thought, he has perfectly embodied the conception of politics as a desire of justice, as opposed to the will to dominate.

The abandonment of the long-term agricultural contracts, practically lifelong and hereditary, characteristic of the early Middle Ages, and the emergence of short-term mezzadria (sharecropping), the expression of a different relationship between landlords and peasants, characterized by greater control of work and a greater burden of impositions and levies, took place between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries in a progressive and laborious way, given the tenacity of custom and traditional use. The demographic collapse of the fourteenth century led to a general revision of economic and social relations, which favoured and accelerated this transition. This phenomenon was supported by urban legislation that protected the interests of the landowners. The example of Romagna, analyzed here, was common to several areas of central-northern Italy.

computer architecture; computer software selection and evaluation; formal logic; formal methods; model checker; model checking; multi core processors; program compilers; programming languages; semantics; software engineering; specifications; state space; verification

Courts and appellate courts, in the regular course of their work activities, produce numerous amounts of data, stored via computer media. Such data contain in themselves considerable informational potential, which can lend support in monitoring the efficiency and effectiveness of the operating methods of judicial offices. However, the process of transforming data into information requires the use of suitable quantitative analysis tools, which are made available by Statistics. This chapter focuses on the problem of monitoring the backlog of civil cases. In particular, some statistical indicators are described, the use of which is illustrated through specific applications.

Das Buch Autorität und Autonomie in der Pädagogik – Eine frameanalytische Betrachtungsweise bietet eine umfassende Darstellung der Methodologie der Erziehungswissenschaftlichen Frameanalyse. Exemplarisch wird diese auf den Fachdiskurs zu Antinomien im Lehrberuf angewendet. Ziel ist die Untersuchung des professionsspezifischen Spracherwerbs von Lehramtsstudierenden und die Etablierung "professionsspezifischer Frames" und deren Prägung durch den Fachdiskurs. Die Forschung nutzt computergestützte Techniken, um berufliche Diskurse zu analysieren und charakteristische Sprech- und Denkweisen sichtbar zu machen. Im Fokus stehen die Antinomien pädagogischer Prozesse, insbesondere die Spannung zwischen Autorität und Autonomie. Dabei wird das Praxisfeld von Lehrpersonen als von Paradoxien geprägt beschrieben und methodisch beleuchtet. Mit der Entwicklung einer frameanalytischen Professionstheorie schlägt das Buch u.a. ein innovatives Modell für die Lehrer*innenbildung vor.

This scholarly book is Volume 2 of a duology that seeks to stimulate conversations among development evaluators, commissioners of evaluations and development programme decision-makers about the role of evaluation in addressing inequality and fostering an equitable society in Africa. The book chapters explore the following questions: (1) Take stock of what we know about inequality – what inequality is in the African context, and how does it affect the lives of the citizens of African countries? (2) What does equitable evaluation mean? How can the concept of equitable evaluation be adopted in evaluation practice? (3) What lessons can be learnt from evaluations of interventions that address inequality at various levels (sectoral, programmatic and project) levels? (4) What epistemological transformation in evaluation practice is needed to achieve an equitable society? and (5) How have issues of inequality manifested within evaluation practice through organisations, institutions and international development? This book’s target audience is academics engaged in the field of developmental programmes in sub-Saharan Africa.

The ‘Corner Country’, where Queensland, South Australia and New South Wales now converge, was in Aboriginal tradition crisscrossed by the tracks of the mura, ancestral beings, who named the country as they travelled, linking place to language. Reproduced here is the story of the two Ngatyi, Rainbow Serpents, who travelled from the Paroo to the Flinders Ranges and back as far as Yancannia Creek, where their deep underground channels linked them back to the Paroo. Jeremy Beckett recorded these stories from George Dutton and Alf Barlow in 1957. Luise Hercus, who has worked on the languages in the area for many years, has collaborated with Jeremy Beckett to analyse the names and identify the places.

Mandates and Missteps is the first comprehensive history of Australian government scholarships to the Pacific, from the first scheme in 1948 to the Australia Awards of 2018. The study of scholarships provides a window into foreign and education policy making, across decades, and the impact such policies have had on individuals and communities. This work demonstrates the broad role these scholarships have played in bilateral relationships between Australia and Pacific Island territories and countries. The famed Colombo Plan is here put in its proper context within international aid and international education history. Australian scholarship programs, it is argued, ultimately reflect Australia, and its perception of itself as a nation in the Pacific, more than the needs of Pacific Island nations. Mandates and Missteps traces Australia's role as both a coloniser in the Territory of Papua and New Guinea and a participant in the process of decolonisation across the Pacific. This study will be of interest to students and scholars of international development, international education and foreign policy.

The Angkorian World explores the history of Southeast Asia’s largest ancient state from the first to mid-second millennium CE. Chapters by leading scholars combine evidence from archaeology, texts, and the natural sciences to introduce the Angkorian state, describe its structure, and explain its persistence over more than six centuries. Comprehensive and accessible, this book will be an indispensable resource for anyone studying premodern Asia. The volume’s first of six sections provides historical and environmental contexts and discusses data sources and the nature of knowledge production. The next three sections examine the anthropogenic landscapes of Angkor (agrarian, urban, and hydraulic), the state institutions that shaped the Angkorian state, and the economic foundations on which Angkor operated. Part V explores Angkorian ideologies and realities, from religion and nation to identity. The volume’s last part reviews political and aesthetic Angkorian legacies in an effort to explain why the idea of Angkor remains central to its Cambodian descendants. Maps, graphics, and photographs guide readers through the content of each chapter. Chapters in this volume synthesise more than a century of work at Angkor and in the regions it influenced. The Angkorian World will satisfy students, researchers, academics, and the knowledgeable layperson who seeks to understand how this great Angkorian Empire arose and functioned in the premodern world.

Economics