Humanities & Social Sciences

This contribution consists of two interviews with experts from the Dutch educational publishing field. The first interviewee, Rivka Mooren, works as project editor Higher Education at Pearson Benelux. She explains how handbooks and digital learning platforms develop from the conceptual stage to publication. In light of international developments in higher education publishing, Mooren expects that the market will become fully digital, although in Europe more slowly than in the United States. Secondly, Regine Reincke considers the larger trends and developments in Dutch educational publishing. She works as Head of Product for ParnasSys, an administrative system for students that is widely used in Dutch primary schools. She arrived at this position after a career in educational publishing. This allows her to reflect on the role of technology in the classroom, and how it may enhance, but not replace, traditional classes and books.

Drawing on diverse examples from literature, film, memoirs, and popular culture, Men, Masculinities, and Infertilities analyses cultural representations of male infertility. Going beyond the biomedical and sociological towards interdisciplinary cultural studies, this book studies depictions of men’s infertility. It includes fictional representations alongside memoirs, newspaper articles, ethnographies and autoethnographies, and scientific reporting. Works under discussion range from twentieth-century novel Lady Chatterley's Lover to romantic comedy film Not Suitable For Children, and science fiction classic Mr Adam, as well as encompassing genres including blockbuster romance and memoir. Men, Masculinities, and Infertilities draws upon both sociological and popular culture research to trace how the discourse of cultural anxiety unfolds across disciplines. This engaging work will be of key interest to scholars of popular culture studies, gender and women’s studies (including queer and sexuality studies), critical studies of men and masculinities, cultural studies, and literary studies.

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Die Dissertation untersucht den bergang von der Grundschule in die weiterfhrende Schule aus Kinderperspektiven. Dabei werden Transitionsprozesse und Bewältigungsstrategien analysiert und Empfehlungen fr einen gelingenden bergang erarbeitet. Die Arbeit widmet sich dem bildungsbiografisch bedeutsamen, in Deutschland oftmals ungleichheitsverstrkenden bergang von der Grundschule auf die weiterfhrende Schule. Die Autorin fokussiert sich im Besonderen auf die Sichtweisen der Kinder, um ein tieferes Verstndnis fr ihr Erleben sowie ihre Bewltigung des bergangs zu entwickeln und ihre eigene Rolle in diesem Prozess hervorzuheben. In einer qualitativen Längsschnittstudie wurden dafr 20 Viert- und Fünftklässler:innen zu ihren Erfahrungen vor und nach dem Schulwechsel befragt. Die Ergebnisse der Interviews und des innovativen methodischen Formats der Gedankenhöhlen zeigen, welche individuellen, sozialen und institutionellen Bedingungen den bergang aus ihrer Sicht beeinflussen. So verdeutlichen die befragten Kinder, was die gelingende Bewltigung dieses bergangsprozesses sowohl in der Orientierungsphase in der Grundschule als auch in der Ankommensphase auf der weiterfhrenden Schule einerseits bestrkt, andererseits auch hinderlich wirkt. Ziel der Dissertation ist es, sich der Bedeutung des Schulwechsels als bildungsbiografisches Ereignis in einer kinderstrkenden und entwicklungsorientierten Perspektive zu nhern. (Pdagogische) Handlungsempfehlungen fr gelingende bergange von der Grundschule in die weiterfhrende Schule aus der Perspektive der Kinder werden herausgearbeitet.

Sowohl der "Arabische Frühling" als auch das Erstarken der dschihadistischen Kampfgruppe "Islamischer Staat" haben die diversen islamistischen Bewegungen in den Fokus der medialen und publizistischen Aufmerksamkeit rücken lassen. Auf der Basis der Gesellschaftstheorie der Politik Niklas Luhmanns untersucht Thorsten Hasche mit der AKP, der al-Qaida und der Muslimbruderschaft drei zentrale Bewegungen des sunnitischen Islamismus. Historisch und vergleichend nimmt er dabei ihre Vordenker, ihre politischen Ideologien und ihre Strukturen in den Blick. Es wird deutlich: Der sunnitische politische Islam wird auch mittelfristig ein wirkmächtiger Bestandteil des weltpolitischen Systems bleiben.

This open access book discusses the impact of cross-border migration on the relationships between sovereign states. While there is already a vast amount of literature on immigration, it often focuses on issues such as human rights, citizenship, and social integration, reflecting the contemporary interests of Western countries. However, as long as the most fundamental norm of international politics remains the mutual recognition of exclusive jurisdictional rights over territory by sovereign states, people crossing borders pose various challenges to this system of sovereign states. It is this awareness of the issue that makes this book unique. This book examines the implications of the movement of people across national borders both for the state and for international politics. From the standpoint of international politics, the focus of the examination is the international political meaning of the transnational phenomenon of the movement of people. This is an interest that extends from the study of international political economy, which questions the significance for international politics of the transnational phenomena of international trade and international finance.

Esta obra presenta el problema del desconocimiento de la naturaleza jurídica del fenómeno denominado “cláusulas abusivas”, partiendo de la existencia de la gran diversidad de planteamientos y tratamientos jurídicos dados a dicho fenómeno a nivel internacional, con principal énfasis en el ordenamiento jurídico colombiano, donde se encuentran distintas concepciones y consecuencias para el mismo fenómeno. Ante dicha situación se pretende determinar cuál es la naturaleza jurídica de las cláusulas abusivas, los elementos y requisitos para que se configure dicho fenómeno jurídico para poder determinar cuál es la consecuencia jurídica que debe aplicarse al mismo, procurando una simetría entre una y otra, así como un entendimiento a mayor profundidad del fenómeno que tanta importancia ha cobrado a nivel internacional en los últimos años debido a la masificación y estandarización de la contratación en los distintos sectores económicos y comerciales.

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.Widely studied and hotly debated, the Silk Road is often viewed as a precursor to contemporary globalization, the merchants who traversed it as early agents of cultural exchange. Missing are the lives of the ordinary people who inhabited the route and contributed as much to its development as their itinerant counterparts. In this book, Kate Franklin takes the highlands of medieval Armenia as a compelling case study for examining how early globalization and everyday life intertwined along the Silk Road. She argues that Armenia—and the Silk Road itself—consisted of the overlapping worlds created by a diverse assortment of people: not only long-distance travelers but also the local rulers and subjects who lived in Armenia’s mountain valleys and along its highways. Franklin guides the reader through increasingly intimate scales of global exchange to highlight the cosmopolitan dimensions of daily life, as she vividly reconstructs how people living in and passing through the medieval Caucasus understood the world and their place within it. With its innovative focus on the far-reaching implications of local practices, Everyday Cosmopolitanisms brings the study of medieval Eurasia into relation with contemporary investigations of cosmopolitanism and globalization, challenging persistent divisions between modern and medieval, global and quotidian.

The rooting of the Italian Muslim presence raises, beyond any exploitation, problems of a different nature that are difficult to solve. Inevitably, the need to understand the content of the principles and rules that govern Islam is destined to grow and pass from the restricted circle of specialists to the wider audience of legal, social and cultural operators. This agile volume, created to provide students with easy-to-use teaching material, tries to intercept this question through seven lessons that summarise the peculiar profiles and the most current issues of the Islamic legal system such as sources, marriage, the theme of human rights, female genital mutilation and the birth of Islamic banks. In the final part of the volume, ample space is given to the solutions that Western legislators have (or have not) developed to respond to the specific needs of Muslims living in Europe.

Az elmúlt években a hazai felsőoktatási intézmények számára egyre fontosabbá vált a (digitális) pedagógiai megújulás és a célzott keretek között folyó oktatásfejlesztés. Az oktatók, kutatók és akadémiai támogatók saját munkakörükhöz kapcsolódó tudás- és kompetenciafejlesztésének egyetemen belüli deklarált színterei a különböző felsőoktatás-fejlesztési központok (FFK) – angolul Centres for Teaching and Learning (CTL). Szerepük, számosságuk és jelentőségük folyamatosan nő, a hazai felsőoktatás felzárkózni látszik a nemzetközi folyamatokhoz. A kiadvány áttekintést nyújt erről az izgalmas, jelenleg is zajló folyamatról, esettanulmányok, jógyakorlatok, hazai és nemzetközi együttműködési hálózatok, valamint konkrét értékelési és tervezési keretrendszerek bemutatásával támogatva új központok kialakulását, illetve a már működők fejlesztését is.

Neben der Zeitschrift Wiener Slawistischer Almanach erscheinen seit 1980 auch 2-3 Mal jährlich Sonderbände (seither 94 Ausgaben) mit literaturwissenschaftlichem oder linguistischem Schwerpunkt. Die literarische Reihe umfasst Monographien oder Tagungsbeiträge aus allen Bereichen der aktuellen slavischen Literaturwissenschaft und weit darüber hinaus (Medientheorie, Kulturwissenschaft, Literaturkritik). Die Beiträge oder Monographien erscheinen in der Regel in deutscher, russischer oder endlischer Sprache. Publikationsvorschläge an [email protected]

The first genocide of the twentieth century, though not well known, was committed by Germans between 1904–1907 in the country we know today as Namibia, where they exterminated hundreds of Herero and Nama people and subjected the surviving indigenous men, women, and children to forced labor. The perception of Africans as subhuman—lacking any kind of civilization, history, or meaningful religion—and the resulting justification for the violence against them is what author Elizabeth R. Baer refers to as the “genocidal gaze,” an attitude that was later perpetuated by the Nazis. In The Genocidal Gaze: From German Southwest Africa to the Third Reich, Baer uses the metaphor of the gaze to trace linkages between the genocide of the Herero and Nama and that of the victims of the Holocaust. Significantly, Baer also considers the African gaze of resistance returned by the indigenous people and their leaders upon the German imperialists.

"As a spokesman for disaffected youth of the post-1960s, Murakami Haruki has become one of the most important voices in contemporary Japanese literature, and he has gained a following in the United States through translations of his works. In Dances with Sheep, Matthew Strecher examines Murakami’s fiction—and, to a lesser extent, his nonfiction—for its most prevalent structures and themes. Strecher also delves into the paradoxes in Murakami’s writings that confront critics and casual readers alike. Murakami writes of “serious” themes yet expresses them in a relatively uncomplicated style that appeals to high school students as well as scholars; and his fictional work appears to celebrate the pastiche of postmodern expression, yet he rejects the effects of the postmodern on contemporary culture as dangerous. Strecher’s methodology is both historical and cultural as he utilizes four distinct yet interwoven approaches to analyze Murakami’s major works: the writer’s “formulaic” structure with serious themes; his play with magical realism; the intense psychological underpinnings of his literary landscape; and his critique of language and its capacity to represent realities, past and present. Dances with Sheep links each of these approaches with Murakami’s critical focus on the fate of individual identity in contemporary Japan. The result is that the simplicity of the Murakami hero, marked by lethargy and nostalgia, emerges as emblematic of contemporary humankind, bereft of identity, direction, and meaning. Murakami’s fiction is reconstructed in Dances with Sheep as a warning against the dehumanizing effects of late-model capitalism, the homogenization of the marketplace, and the elimination of effective counterculture in Japan."

The partnership established between the Irish Airports Authority and its trade unions in the mid-1990s was groundbreaking in promoting union and staff involvement in all aspects of company decision-making. This book charts the progress, achievements and obstacles faced by the partnership based on full access to the partners, documents, observations on how the partnership functioned and three surveys of the company's workforce.

This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 29th European Symposium on Programming, ESOP 2020, which was planned to take place in Dublin, Ireland, in April 2020, as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2020. The actual ETAPS 2020 meeting was postponed due to the Corona pandemic. The papers deal with fundamental issues in the specification, design, analysis, and implementation of programming languages and systems.