Humanities & Social Sciences

In the history and folklore of Australia’s Commonwealth Public Service, the idea of the ‘Seven Dwarfs’ has been remarkably persistent. Originally a witty epithet applied to a powerful group of senior public servants, the term has come to represent the professionalisation of Australian government administration during the Second World War and post-war reconstruction era, and into the following two decades of expansion. This was a period when, for the first time, talented university graduates entered the public service, rose to senior levels, and exerted great influence over the affairs of the Commonwealth. With the secure tenure of being permanent heads of departments, they defined the age of the public service mandarin. This book explores the lives and influence of the Seven Dwarfs and their colleagues, bringing together the leading researchers on post-war Australian administration. Featuring four thematic chapters and ten biographical portraits, it offers a fascinating insight into the workings of the Commonwealth Public Service during a critical period in its history.

The book offers an examination of issues, institutions and actors that have become central to Muslim life in the region. Focusing on leadership, authority, law, gender, media, aesthetics, radicalization and cooperation, it offers insights into processes that reshape power structures and the experience of being Muslim. It makes room for perspectives from the region in an academic world shaped by scholarship mostly from Europe and America.

This open access book analyzes the achievements and challenges of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) from the macro and industrial, real and financial, domestic and international perspectives, and explores the opportunities for future development and related public policy issues. It is a new research achievement of CICC Research and CICC Global Institute on major issues in China’s new development stage. The year 2023 marks the tenth anniversary of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Over the past decade, BRI has established more than 3,000 cooperation projects, galvanized nearly 1 trillion U.S. dollars of investment, created more than 420,000 jobs, and lifted nearly 40 million people out of poverty. BRI has made remarkable achievements in promoting connectivity and cooperative development between China and participating countries, and has been welcomed by the international community both as a public good and a cooperation platform. Compared with ten years ago, the global environment has undergone profound changes. COVID-19 epidemic has brought great impacts to the world, and the post-epidemic economic recovery is uneven, with some long-term scarring effects still emerging. New changes and constraints, such as geopolitical events, industry chain adjustment, and green transition, have also exerted far-reaching influences on the economic fundamentals and global governance. Under the new situation, international cooperation mechanisms, including BRI, are facing new problems and challenges, which need to be explored and solved in practice. This book is both academically rigorous and readable, and provides valuable references for public policy departments, enterprises, and financial institutions who seek to better understand the macro, financial and industrial trends of BRI.

Gedächtnismetapher oder realer Ort, wissenschaftliche Ressource oder Herrschaftsinstrument – was bedeutet die Multidimensionalität des aktuellen Archivbegriffs für die Musikwissenschaft? Wie und warum werden „Archive“ geformt, wer errichtet sie für wen, welche Quellen enthalten sie und wie speist sich die Musikhistoriographie aus ihnen? In konkreten Beispielen aus archivalischer Praxis und kulturwissenschaftlich informierter musikhistorischer Forschung diskutieren die Beiträge des vorliegenden Bandes Aspekte der Musikgeschichtsschreibung als Teil und Resultat von komplexen Überlieferungsprozessen. Reflektiert werden Implikationen und Potenziale verschiedener Archivdiskurse rund um Fragen der Sichtbarkeit und Unsichtbarkeit, der Machtverhältnisse und des Geschlechts.

Pre-Modern Europe`s diverse ethnic and religious groups were in continuous contact with each other and also with "cultures" beyond Europe. This collected volume analyzes these reciprocal exchange processes, taking into consideration connections between Christians, Jews, and Moslems as well as relationships between Western Europe, the Byzantine Empire, the Near East, and India.

The writer Marguerite Duras was a key figure in post-war French cinema, pioneering innovations such as the disjunction of film and image, and the primacy given to voices, silence and music. Her multisensorial approach opened up new spaces for the female experience to be expressed. Although she worked with some of the best French visual technicians and musicians of her time, critiques have often neglected the visual and sonic aesthetics of her films, and their effects on spectators. Drawing on theories of embodiment and spectatorship, this book analyses the tactility and multisensoriality of Duras’ films, and how they relate to her female-centred perspective.

The three-part work provides a first synthetic account of the history of the Polish intelligentsia from the days of its formation to World War I. Part two (1832-1864) analyses the growing importance of the intelligentsia in the epoch marked by the triumph of the Polish romanticism. The stress is put on the debates of the position of intelligentsia in the society, as well as on tensions between great romantic ideas and realities of everyday life. A substantial part deals with the genesis, outbreak and defeat as well as the consequences of the national uprising in 1863, whose preparation was to a high degree the work of the intelligentsia. The work combines social and intellectual history, tracing both the formation of the intelligentsia as a social stratum and the forms of engagement of the intelligentsia in the public discourse. Thus, it offers a broad view of the group’s transformations which immensely influenced the course of the Polish history.

From the fashion label Dior being accused of cultural appropriation after using American Indian imagery in an ad campaign for its “Sauvage” fragrance, to the backlash against Kendall Jenner’s afro-esque hairstyle in Vogue, debates about cultural appropriation have reached a fever pitch. In this much-needed analysis of the phenomenon Aurélia Bardon and Jennifer Page step back and ask: when is cultural appropriation wrong and when are we right to criticize it? Their analysis of wrongful cultural appropriation centers on three questions: whether appropriation involves theft; whether it communicates disrespect; and whether it disregards requests made by marginalized groups about their cultural practices. Sometimes, they argue, it is structural injustice rather than individual wrongdoing that is at stake. They examine cultural appropriation’s political dimensions, asking whether the state should be neutral between appropriative and non-appropriative artistic expression. They contrast bans on wrongful cultural appropriation and the state’s using its expressive power as a speaker, spender, and educator to discourage it. They also consider the ethical questions that arise when cultural appropriation debates spur further debates about online shaming and cancel culture. Using cases from music, fashion and the arts, Cultural Appropriation: Wrongs and Rights will be of great interest to students and researchers in philosophy, politics and related subjects, such as race and ethnic studies, sociology, and cultural studies. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY)] 4.0 license. Supported by the Publication Fund of the University of Konstanz, Germany, and the Open-Access Publication Funding Program of the Office for the Advancement of Research at John Jay College, City University of New York, USA.

To examine the origins, characteristics, and outcomes of resilient governance with Chinese characteristics, this open access book takes Guangzhou, a typical Chinese city from 1990 to 2015, as an example. Through participant observation, semi-structured interviews, and the collection of secondary data, this book finds that (1) the institutional context can be described as an authoritarian land-oriented pro-growth regime; (2) there are three phases with different patterns of governance: the Primitive Market Phase (1990–1998), the Pure Government Phase (1998–2006) and the Multiple Players Phase (2006–2015); (3) redevelopment can serve as a model of resilient governance because it changes in time in a dynamic environment to maximise economic growth; (4) an authoritarian land-oriented pro-growth regime is the key to support such a resilient governance model. This is an open access book.

Wie verändern sich Lernen und unser Verständnis von Lernen, wenn ChatGPT eine Frage schneller beantwortet als jede Recherche im Nachschlagewerk? Was bedeutet es für die Rolle von Lehrenden, wenn Lernende ihre Überlegungen bereits in einer frühen, noch unsicheren Phase des Denkens und Verstehens mithilfe Künstlicher Intelligenz (KI) strukturieren, hinterfragen oder weiterentwickeln? Welchem Wandel unterliegt der Anspruch an didaktisches Design, wenn digitale Assistenten für Lernende wie Lehrende zu Gesprächspartnern werden? Welchen Einfluss hat der ubiquitäre Einsatz von KI auf Lehr-Lerninhalte und Bildungsziele in Schule, Hochschule und weiteren Bildungskontexten? Und wie verändert sich die Beziehung zur Welt und zu sich selbst, wenn KI zum ständigen Begleiter des Denkens wird? Beiträge:01 Forschendes Lernen mit KI in der Hochschule02 Die Entwicklung der Handlungsfähigkeit beim Einsatz vonKI-Tools zur Python-Programmierung. Eine Grounded-Theory-Studie zum Einsatz von KI-Tools im projektbasierten Lernen anHochschulen03 Zum Umgang mit „Wahr-Scheinlichkeiten“. Lehr- und Forschungsprojektzur KI-gestützten Literaturarbeit04 How to tell a Story – Storytelling mitt els KI zur Gestaltung vonLehr-Lern-Szenarien05 Förderung KI-bezogener Kompetenzen bei Lehramtsstudierenden.Praxis- und theorieorienti erte Entwicklung und Evaluati oneines hochschuldidakti schen Konzepts06 Künstliche Intelligenz und Inklusion aus der Sicht (angehender)Lehrkräft e – eine explorati ve Studie zum chancengerechtenEinsatz generati ver KI07 Wenn der KI-Tutor kommt. Didakti k in postdigitalen Zeiten08 Hey Google, Mama oder ChatGPT. Selbstständige und nichtselbstständige Hausaufgabenbearbeitung von Schüler:innender Sekundarstufe IAllgemeiner Teil09 Körper und Hochschullehre: Dimensionen der Wahrnehmungdurch DozierendeRezensionen10 Sammelrezension zum Schwerpunktt hemaCall for Papers 2026

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This handbook is an interdisciplinary introduction to the Anthropocene, the epoch in which the combined impact of humans and their technologies on the Earth system is comparable to that of natural forces. To more concretely consider the historical, political, and epistemological conditions behind the Anthropocene, the handbook takes the water city of Venice, along with its cultural–natural ecology, as the paradigm of the ongoing geoanthropological transformation of the planet. In connection with the educational program of the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, the contributions herein reflect environmental humanities research, with an emphasis on hydrosociology, supported by the UNITWIN/UNESCO Chair on Water Heritage and Sustainable Development and the NICHE Centre for Environmental Humanities. The handbook contains a series of lessons, in which scholars with different backgrounds and disciplinary training examine the historical development of the human–nature relationship from multiple comparative perspectives. Unit One (four lessons) offers an overview of Anthropocene Venice, ranging from a discussion of riverine and aquatic mythologies to the history of water science and management, from antiquity to the industrial age. Unit Two (three lessons) deals with the general question of the Anthropocene, the genealogies of the concept, and its articulation as a problem of oversight and knowledge economy, including artistic vistas (e.g., bird’s-eye view, vedute, and aerial photography). Unit Three (three lessons) is a comparative discussion of water cities – Venice, Tenochtitlán, and Bangkok – against the background of hydrophilia, the lasting connection between humans and aquatic environments in history. Unit Four (four lessons) explores the cultural politics of the Anthropocene, with a special emphasis on the following issues: the social underpinnings of science and technology, the mission of eco-artistic movements, resistance to the extractivism of material resources and cultural commons, and the struggles for the rights of nature against ecocide.

Rassismus rückt als strukturelles Problem (in) der Pädagogik im deutschsprachigen Diskurs zunehmend in den Fokus der Erziehungswissenschaft. Vor dem Hintergrund einer zunehmenden öffentlichen Debatte über Rassismus und Kolonialismus sowie der steigenden Prävalenz rassistischer Diskriminierung und Gewalt leistet dieses Jahrbuch einen bedeutenden Beitrag zur kritischen Auseinandersetzung und Differenzierung. Sein Ziel ist es, die Komplexität rassistischer Verhältnisse, Mechanismen und Erfahrungen in den Bereichen Erziehungswissenschaft und Pädagogik zu beleuchten und zur Sprache zu bringen. Der Fokus liegt dabei dezidiert auf den deutschen Verhältnissen, die aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven in den Blick genommen werden.

Bridging black feminist theory with disability studies, Sami Schalk traces how black women's speculative fiction complicates the understanding of bodyminds in the context of race, gender, and (dis)ability, showing how the genre's exploration of bodyminds that exist outside of the present open up new social and ethical possibilities.

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]