Humanities & Social Sciences

Focusing on art practices that advocate, raise consciousness, and educate about the human right to reproductive health, this book analyses and compares forms of feminist artivism to interrogate bodily rights while closely examining the lived experiences of women and their right of free choice. The transnational framing engages with resurgent imperialist and colonial ambitions across global politics and with the attempts at disrupting these positionings by prioritising feminist care as instrumental for democracy and social justice. Key foci of this book include the ways in which arts activism operates, and its strategies and methods related to, for example, the types of artistic practice employed, approaches to dissemination and reach, and engaging the public. The analysis of these topics interrogates the potential of arts activism to work while other forms of activism may stumble, leading social change in thinking, practice and, finally, legislation. Countries covered include Finland, Poland, Portugal, Latvia, the United Kingdom, Chile, Brazil, the United States, and Australia. The book will be of interest to students and scholars studying art history, art theory and practice, gender studies, and women’s studies. Chapters 2 and 3 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 license. Chapter 4 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 license.

The aim of this research is to demonstrate the convergences between the rhymes of Dante's Commedia and Boccaccio's Caccia di Diana. The analysis developed on the rhymes has allowed us to understand that Boccaccio's work presents 44.6% of rhymes derived from the Comedia. The author, however, does not only retrieve rhymes from Dante, but he also uses contexts, images and syntagmas present in the three canticles. Caccia di Diana is the first work in tercets after the Commedia and the vulgarization of De Consolatione Philosophiae executed by Alberto Della Piagentina, so it is extremely interesting to note how the young Boccaccio approaches the Dantean model to begin composing in verse.

This open access book shows what teaching for democratic citizenship and peace can look like in classrooms in violent and less-violent contexts around the world. It features chapters written by leading scholars and practitioners working in Canada, Chile, Columbia, Cyprus, Lebanon, Mexico, South Africa, Spain, the UK and the USA. It includes sections on navigating contested history and heritage; language teaching that bridges social identities; teaching democratic engagement with conflictual issues; and students sharing authority and handling systemic violence. The chapters cover a wide range of topics with local and global significance including indigenous praxis as peace building, social conflicts, transformative hope, teacher training, and student voice. Vignettes of practice accompany each chapter, grounded in careful scholarship and teaching experience. The book shows how teachers and young people can feasibly nurture and learn non-violent ways of dealing with difficult conflicts and social tensions, to become agents of democratic revitalization and peacebuilding in their own communities and beyond. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was partially funded by The Weatherhead Canada Program.

This book reflects and analyses the working of power in the field of global health– and what this goes on to produce. In so doing, Rethinking Global Health asks the pivotal questions of, ‘who is global health for’ and ‘what is it that limits our ability to build responses that meet people where they are?’ Covering a wide range of topics from global mental health to Ebola, this book combines power analyses with interviews and personal reflections spanning the author’s decade-long career in global health. It interrogates how the search for global solutions can often end up far from where we anticipated. It also introduces readers to different frameworks for power analyses in the field, including an adaptation of the ‘matrix of domination’ for global health practice. Through this work, Dr Burgess develops a new model of Transformative Global Health, a framework that calls researchers and practitioners to adopt new orienting principles, placing community interests and voices at the heart of global health planning and solutions at all times. This book will be beneficial to students and academics working in the global and public health landscape. It will also hold appeal to activists, practitioners and individuals invested in the discipline and in health equity around the world.

This book is a study on gender representations in the language of the Italian TV news, adopting an interdisciplinary approach that integrates linguistic analysis with media analysis. The first part provides an overview of the theoretical and research framework on ‘language and gender’ and ‘media and gender’, with a brief presentation of the international theoretical models and an annotated review of the state of the art at a national level. Convergence and shared notions in the common perspective of ‘gender’ will be highlighted across the two fields. The second part features a corpus analysis of the female and male representations in the Italian TV news, which explores both the gender-based variations in the speech of the sources of the news and the thematization of women and men in news content. The results show a complex picture: the Italian news language still actively spreads asymmetrical and stereotypical representations, thus characterizing itself as androcentric and sexist, yet it also indicates signs of innovation compared to the past. In particular, the findings show that a more gender-aware news language conveys more gender-fair representations.

Gentrification is reshaping cities worldwide, resulting in seductive spaces and exclusive communities that aspire to innovation, creativity, sustainability, and technological sophistication. Gentrification is also contributing to growing social-spatial division and urban inequality and precarity. In a time of escalating housing crisis, unaffordable cities, and racial tension, scholars speak of eco-gentrification, techno-gentrification, super-gentrification, and planetary-gentrification to describe the different forms and scales of involuntary displacement occurring in vulnerable communities in response to current patterns of development and the hype-driven discourses of the creative city, smart city, millennial city, and sustainable city. In this context, how do contemporary creative practices in art, architecture, and related fields help to produce or resist gentrification? What does gentrification look and feel like in specific sites and communities around the globe, and how is that appearance or feeling implicated in promoting stylized renewal to a privileged public? In what ways do the aesthetics of gentrification express contested conditions of migration and mobility? Addressing these questions, this book examines the relationship between aesthetics and gentrification in contemporary cities from multiple, comparative, global, and transnational perspectives.

Digital Humanities Workshops is the first volume to focus explicitly on the most common and accessible kind of training in digital humanities (DH): workshops. Drawing together the experiences and expertise of dozens of scholars and practitioners from a variety of disciplines and geographical contexts, the chapters in this collection examine the development, deployment, and assessment of a workshop or workshop series. In the first section, "Where?", the authors seek to situate digital humanities workshops within local, regional, and national contexts. The second section, "Who?", guides readers through questions of audience in relation to digital humanities workshops. In the third and final section, "How?", authors explore the mechanics of such workshops. Taken together, the chapters in this volume answer the important question: why are digital humanities workshops so important and what is their present and future role? Digital Humanities Workshops examines a range of digital humanities workshops and highlights audiences, resources, and impact. This volume will appeal to academics, researchers and postgraduate students, as well as professionals working in the DH field.

In the major field of design and manufacturing of mechanical, production, automobile, and industrial engineering, typical and advance methodologies and processes are implemented for the best performance of product or machinery. Thus, the concept of tribology has come into practice for even better performance. Nowadays, it is very important that the tribological knowledge be implemented at each stage of design and manufacturing to minimize the frictional and wear losses, and ultimately these will serve as best preference for the economical growth of the nation. Currently, tribologists are playing vital role in the same direction. This book contains original and innovative research studies on recent applications of tribology, contributed by the group of selected researchers describing the best of their work. Through its 11 chapters, the reader will have access to work in 3 major areas of tribology. These are surface engineering and coating, friction and wear mechanism, and lubrication technology. The first part of the book from Chapters 1 to 4 deals with the surface treatment and coating through which component life can be improved by reducing wear rate. The second part of the book from Chapters 5 to 7 deals with tribo-testing and tribo-system monitoring for friction and wear mechanism presented with real-life case studies. The third part from Chapters 8 to 11 discusses the advances in lubrication, which also includes the role of nanolubricants and lubrication additives. This book may be of interest to research scholars, academicians, industrialists, professional engineers, and specialists in these related areas and would also be of immense help to various practicing engineers, technologists, managers, and supervisors engaged in the maintenance, operation, and upkeep of different machines, equipments, systems, and plants of various industries.

Linguistics for Legal Interpretation is a language resource for scholars and practitioners of law who engage and work with statutory interpretation. It draws on lexical semantics, pragmatics and sociolinguistics to both understand and solve language challenges central to the interpretation effort. In addition, this book offers best practice guidelines for dictionary use as well as an introduction to corpus linguistic methods to assist legal interpreters in determining either ordinary or technical meaning. The book illustrates the various language tools and devices by applying them to case law and legislation, and it does so in an accessible style of writing. Terrence R Carney is Associate Professor of Afrikaans Linguistics at the University of South Africa. He specialises in the language of law.

This groundbreaking book explores the power of collaborative AI in amplifying human creativity and expertise. Written by two seasoned experts in data analytics, AI, and machine learning, the book offers a comprehensive overview of the creative process behind AI-powered content generation. It takes the reader through a unique collaborative process between human authors and various AI-based topic experts, created, prompted, and fine-tuned by the authors. This book features a comprehensive list of prompts that readers can use to create their own ChatGPT-powered topic experts. By following these expertly crafted prompts, individuals and businesses alike can harness the power of AI, tailoring it to their specific needs and fostering a fruitful collaboration between humans and machines. With real-world use cases and deep insights into the foundations of generative AI, the book showcases how humans and machines can work together to achieve better business outcomes and tackle complex challenges. Social and ethical implications of collaborative AI are covered and how it may impact the future of work and employment. Through reading the book, readers will gain a deep understanding of the latest advancements in AI and how they can shape our world. Converging Minds: The Creative Potential of Collaborative AI is essential reading for anyone interested in the transformative potential of AI-powered content generation and human-AI collaboration. It will appeal to data scientists, machine learning architects, prompt engineers, general computer scientists, and engineers in the fields of generative AI and deep learning. Chapter 1 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution- No Derivatives (CC-BY -ND)] 4.0 license.

In der Reihe Slavistische Beiträge werden vor allem slavistische Dissertationen des deutschsprachigen Raums sowie vereinzelt auch amerikanische, englische und russische publiziert. Darüber hinaus stellt die Reihe ein Forum für Sammelbände und Monographien etablierter Wissenschafter/innen dar.

Ländliche Räume in Deutschland werden durch internationale Migration bunter. Verschiedene Gruppen von Migrant:innen wanderten und wandern in Kleinstädte und Landgemeinden zu. Diese Zuwanderergruppen haben unterschiedlich stark ausgeprägte Ressourcen und können demnach die Orientierung an ihrem neuen Wohnort und die gleichberechtigte Teilhabe in verschiedenen Bereichen des gesellschaftlichen Lebens – oder anders formuliert Integration – zu einem gewissen Grad selbst leisten oder benötigen Unterstützung. Besonders Geflüchtete sind Zielgruppen staatlicher Integrationsleistungen einerseits und der Aktivitäten ehrenamtlicher Initiativen und Einzelpersonen andererseits. Auf eindrucksvolle Art und Weise trug das Engagement zahlreicher Ehrenamtlicher in der Aufnahme von Geflüchteten in den vergangenen Jahren zu einer enormen gesellschaftlichen Mobilisierung, zum einen aus bestehenden Vereinen und Organisationen heraus, aber auch von Menschen, die bislang nicht engagiert waren, bei. Auf lokaler Ebene ist ehrenamtliches Engagement unverzichtbarer Bestandteil von erfolgreicher Integration von Neuzugewanderten. Das Projekt EMILIE zielt darauf ab, die Rolle und Wirkung ehrenamtlichen Engagements für die Integration unterschiedlicher Gruppen von Neuzugewanderten besser zu verstehen und Gelingensfaktoren für ein nachhaltiges Engagement zu identifizieren. Deshalb liegt ein besonderes Augenmerk auf den Beweggründen für das freiwillige Engagement, den Zielgruppen der Tätigkeiten Freiwilliger sowie den Veränderungen der ehrenamtlichen Betätigung im Zeitverlauf. Um diese Fragestellungen zu beantworten, wurden empirische Erhebungen in Form von qualitativen Interviews, die einen biographisch-narrativen und einen ortsbezogenen, lokalen Forschungsansatz kombinierten, in vier ländlichen Landkreisen in Bayern, Rheinland-Pfalz, Sachsen-Anhalt und Schleswig-Holstein durchgeführt. Diese Herangehensweise sowie die Ergebnisse der Erhebungen werden in diesem Band vorgestellt.

This open access book challenges the contemporary relevance of the current model of knowledge production. It argues that the full digitisation of society sharply accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic has added extreme complexity to the world, conclusively exposing the inadequacy of our current model of knowledge creation. Addressing many of the different ways in which reality has been transformed by technology – the pervasive adoption of big data, the fetishisation of algorithms and automation, and the digitalisation of education and research – Viola examines how the rigid conceptualisation in disciplines’ division and competition is complicit of promoting a narrative which has paired computational methods with exactness and neutrality whilst stigmatising consciousness and criticality as carriers of biases and inequality. Taking the humanities as a focal point, the author retraces schisms in the field between the humanities, the digital humanities and critical digital humanities; these are embedded, she argues, within old dichotomies: sciences vs humanities, digital vs non-digital and authentic vs non-authentic. Through the analysis of personal use cases and exploring a variety of applied contexts such as digital heritage practices, digital linguistic injustice, critical digital literacy and critical digital visualisation, the book shows a third way: knowledge creation in the digital.

Um eine Analyse der Bildlichkeit im Prosawerk Marlinskijs vornehmen zu können, bedarf es im Vorfeld einer Skizzierung dessen, was eine solche Untersuchung zu leisten imstande ist. Dem bildlichen Ausdruck als Interpretationseinheit, seinem Inhalt und seiner Stellung im Kontext soll das Hauptaugenmerk der vorliegenden Arbeit gelten. Denn die Art und Weise, wie Marlinskij bestimmte Sachverhalte neu und überraschend benennt, läßt Rückschlüsse auf sein Verhältnis zur Welt und seine persönliche Sicht der Dinge zu. Die durch den Autor vorgenommenen subjektiven Neuzuweisungen von Bezeichnungen und Begriffen lassen den Leser einen tiefen Einblick in die Gedankenwelt des Dichters tun und zu den verborgenen Ebenen seines dichterischen Werkes vorstoßen.

Beim Jamming-Übergang verändern sich die mechanischen Eigenschaften eines Granulats drastisch, wenn die Partikeldichte des Systems zunimmt: Loses Granulat verhält sich wie eine Flüssigkeit oder ein Gas und leistet nur geringen Widerstand unter externer Belastung. Im Jamming-Zustand bleiben die relativen Partikelpositionen jedoch im Wesentlichen unverändert, und das Granulat ist stabil gegenüber äußerer Einwirkung. Technische Anwendungen des Jamming-Übergangs sind insbesondere im Bereich Soft-Robotics zu finden (z. B. der granulare Robotergreifer, granulare Pfoten oder granulare Metamaterialien). Meist bestehen sie aus einem Granulat, das von einer Membran umhüllt ist. Der Jamming-Übergang wird dann erreicht, indem das Granulat aufgrund eines Unter-drucks komprimiert wird. Diese Arbeit stellt eine Methode zur Simulation solcher Anwendungen vor. Die Methode ermöglicht es, in Diskrete-Elemente-Simulationen neben dem Granulat auch Membranen zu simulieren. Für den granularen Robotergreifer wird anhand von Simulationen gezeigt, dass mit Granulaten aus weichen Partikeln hohe Haltekräfte erzeugt werden, während mit Granulaten aus harten Partikeln nur geringe Haltekräfte aufgebracht werden können. Zusätzlich wird das Deformationsverhalten eines granularen Metamaterials im Jamming-Zustand untersucht und charakterisiert. Es wird u. a. gezeigt, dass bei großen Deformationen des Materials das Kontaktnetzwerk neu gebildet wird, sich die Granulatpartikel jedoch kaum reorganisieren. Ein weiterer Schwerpunkt dieser Arbeit liegt auf der Untersuchung von Granulaten in vibrierten Zylindern unter Bedingungen der Schwerelosigkeit. Durch die Vibration kommt es neben einem periodischen Jamming-Übergang auch zu Konvektion, die erwartungsgemäß immer eine Symmetrieachse senkrecht zur Vibrationsrichtung aufweist. Es wird gezeigt, dass diese Symmetrie bei bestimmten Vibrationsparametern oder einer Neigung des Zylinders entgegen der Vibrationsrichtung gebrochen ist, und auf die Ursache dieser Symmetriebrechung eingegangen.