Humanities & Social Sciences

Lange Zeit galt es als ausgemacht, dass die Bevölkerung in Deutschland immer weiter schrumpft. Doch dieser Trend hat sich umgekehrt – im Jahr 2045 könnten sogar bis zu 89 Millionen Menschen in Deutschland leben. Wie könnte dieses Deutschland aussehen? Wo würden die Menschen leben und arbeiten? Die Beitragenden aus dem Bundesinstitut für Bau-, Stadt- und Raumforschung (BBSR) zeigen auf, welche Aufgaben in den Bereichen Bauen und Wohnen, Infrastruktur und Wirtschaft sowie Sicherung des sozialen Zusammenhalts zu meistern wären. Sie fordern dazu auf, demografische Themen nicht an den Rand gesellschaftlicher Debatten zu drängen, sondern Probleme und Lösungsansätze sachlich fundiert und offen zu diskutieren.

This work is the fruit of the collaboration of a team of researchers dedicated to exploring the fascinating properties of titanium dioxide, the most widely used catalyst in various industries. Each chapter of this book is a testament to the invaluable contribution of each author, who has exhaustively compiled the available information on this versatile material. Throughout these pages, the advantages and disadvantages of titanium dioxide, its multiple synthesis methods, its optical properties, and the different crystalline phases in which it can be found are analyzed in detail. The various characterization techniques used to understand its characteristics and potential are also described fully. Likewise, the various applications of titanium dioxide are explored, with a special focus on its role as a photocatalyst in environmental remediation processes. It also addresses its applications in the field of renewable energies, such as solar cells and other highly relevant industries. Finally, the prospects of this material are presented, which position it as a key piece in developing innovative and sustainable technologies. This book is an indispensable reference for engineers and scientists from various disciplines interested in deepening their knowledge of this extraordinary material.

Lemon houses (limonaie) are ancient terraced citrus gardens that shape the landscape along the NW shore of Lake Garda (Northern Italy). We propose an interpretation of limonaie as a deeply anthropogenic, labour intensive, multifunctional landscape that shares many characteristics with the oases of the wider Mediterranean basin. Any intervention which aims at preserving the fragility and peculiarity of the area, as well as the intangible cultural heritage of the citrus cultivation, should be framed in a holistic agroecosystemic perspective, deeply rooted in the knowledge of the limonaie past.

In 1994, at the age of twenty-five, when the “terrible brokenness that comes with sexual assault” was folded deep within her body and thoughts of suicide were always close by, Erin Manning wrote The Perfect Mango at an almost feverish pitch: nineteen chapters in nineteen days, a sort of self-rescue operation, where writing became a form of making (and feeling) life otherwise. Throughout those nineteen days, and although not able to fully articulate it to herself at the time, Manning wrote her way into a “composition that asks how else life might be lived.” And in the rhythms of that composition, which was also a living, Manning was, and is, able to refuse the category and norm and stillness of “victim” (while still understanding the inheritances of violence) in order to follow instead the more-than-I as well as the joy of the “more-than of experience in the making.” Twenty-five years later, Manning allows these earlier writings to find their way back into the world, which is also a way of giving “voice to those moments of messy survival” while also asking us, who share in (and help to bear) those moments as readers, to consider “other ways of listening to the urgency that is living.” To (re)publish the book now is to give it a place in the world in a way that honors its force as something that is always beyond anyone’s claim to it, even Manning’s. In this sense, The Perfect Mango invites us, with Manning, to be in excess of ourselves, and also to consider, in Manning’s words, “how to create conditions for living beyond humanism’s fierce belief that we, the privileged, the neurotypicals, the as-yet-unscathed, the able-bodied, hold the key to all perspectives in the theatre of living.” Ultimately, The Perfect Mango and Manning’s reflections on its composition ask us to consider living “in the fierce celebration of a world invented by those modes of life which tear at the colonial, white, neurotypical fabric of life as we know it.”

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The book summarizes the current state of the know-how in the field of perovskite materials: synthesis, characterization, properties, and applications. Most chapters include a review on the actual knowledge and cutting-edge research results. Thus, this book is an essential source of reference for scientists with research fields in energy, physics, chemistry and materials. It is also a suitable reading material for graduate students.

What is »leisure«? What is »theory«? And how are the two connected? Andreas Kirchner explains that according to Aristotle's basic definitions of the concepts of »theoría« and »scholê«, both undergo characteristic developments in the course of history, and that the philosophy and theology of late antiquity significantly contributed to this. Plotinus' Neoplatonism thus decisively extends both concepts in their essential respects, and the emerging Christian theology, which the author examines by taking Marius Victorinus, Ambrose and, above all, Augustine as examples, then builds up its definition of »leisure« and »theory«. While based on philosophical foundations on the one hand, on the other it develops its own characteristic concepts following the personal concept of God and Christian assumptions. Andreas Kirchner shows how fundamentally the thought systems as well as the respective concept of God affect the conceptual design.

The 16th International Workshop on Beryllium Technology (BeWS-16) took place on 19–20 October 2023 in Santander, Spain, alongside ICFRM-21. Organized by “Leading” in Cantabria with support from KIT, the hybrid event gathered ~50 participants from academia, research, and industry. The program covered beryllium fabrication, recycling, FLiBe, irradiation damage, modeling, and safety. Awards were presented, and BeWS-17 is planned for autumn 2025 in Japan.

Ground-based/terrestrial radar interferometry (GBRI) is a scientific topic of increasing interest in recent years. The GBRI is used in several field as remote sensing technique for monitoring natural environment (landslides, glacier, and mines) or infrastructures (bridges, towers). These sensors provide the displacement of targets by measuring the phase difference between sending and receiving radar signal. If the acquisition rate is enough the GBRI can provide the natural frequency, e.g. by calculating the Fourier transform of displacement. The research activity, presented in this work, concerns design and development of some advanced GBRI systems. These systems are related to the following issue: detection of displacement vector, Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) and radars with 3D capability.

During his lifetime, Suzuki Takao, the well-known Japanese sociologist of language, developed a model for interpreting unfamiliar Japanese compounds by assigning a kun-reading to each constituent kanji.

Lugares ¿Qué lugares? suspects that the links and correspondences between Captain Ahab's boundless ocean and Bartleby's cenobitic office go beyond Melville: that they transcend their author and the terse universe of the word. What is the common trait between the human lap in which someone takes shelter, the cavern in which the hermit isolates himself, the enclosure limited by the parenthesis, a theatre stage, and a city built with lines or composed of images? When does a place, a space, an atmosphere, a text, an architecture, a cartography or a sequence become a place and how and why does it lose its status as such? Threaded with questions, Lugares ¿Qué lugares? gathers some hypotheses.

Locating Africa on the global stage, this book examines and compares external involvement in the continent, exploring the foreign policies of major states and international organizations towards Africa. The contributors work within a political economy framework in order to study how these powers have attempted to stimulate democracy, peace and prosperity in the context of neo-liberal hegemony and ask whom these attempts have benefited and failed.

Irish Writers and The New Yorker in the Mid-Twentieth Century draws on archival research in the New Yorker records to uncover the contractual details of the first-reading agreement, The New Yorker ’s “fat” payments, and Irish writers’ relationships with their editors and peers. The book offers fresh readings of the Irish stories in the publishing context of the magazine. The Irish writers examined in this book include celebrated authors, Elizabeth Bowen, Edna O’Brien, Benedict Kiely, and John McGahern. It also includes Irish and Irish-American writers whose literary works are lesser known today: Patricia Collinge, Walter Macken, Norah Hoult, and Elizabeth Cullinan. Combining the methodologies of archival research and periodical studies, this book tells the cultural history of Irish writers’ connections with one of America’s most influential publications, contributing to a better understanding of the transatlantic and commercial dimensions of Irish literature in the mid-twentieth century. This is an informative research survey for students and scholars in Irish literature and periodical studies. The Introduction and Chapter 1 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 International license.

Since 1945, camps as a form of temporary mass housing have been either ignored or discussed only in the margins of architectural history. In this book, Antje Senarclens de Grancy examines for the first time the camps built in the early 20th century within a context of modern architecture and urban planning. In the refugee camp, modernist forms are condensed, accelerated and radicalized as if under a magnifying glass: ideas of rationalization and hygiene, of standardization and prefabrication, of urban planning, and of managing individual needs in a context of war and catastrophe. The focus is on refugee camps set up by the Habsburg state during the First World War as instant cities and planned by architects for purposes of internment and control.

Wie lesen und deuten wir die Welt, in der wir leben? Wer ist der Mensch als Gegenüber von Natur und Technik? Welcher Unterschied liegt in den Selbstzuschreibungen »religiös« oder »gläubig«? Mit der Akteur-Netzwerk-Theorie und einer Auflösung der klassischen Gegenüberstellung von Natur und Kultur ist das Denken Bruno Latours zu einer gefragten Ressource in gegenwärtigen Debatten geworden. Die Beiträger*innen des Bandes gehen seinem Anspruch nach, eine »symmetrische« Anthropologie zu entwerfen, in der Materiellem ein mitentscheidender Platz für die Wert- und Urteilsbildung zukommt – denn dieses Denken gibt auch der Theologie wertvolle Impulse.