Humanities & Social Sciences

This book presents the first comprehensive study on U.S.-American female illustrators’ creative imaginations of femininity, 1890-1920. It offers insight into the multi-faceted visual-textual relations across mass and little magazines. Four case studies encompass analyses from magazine front and back covers, illustrated advertisements and advice columns, to illustrated suffragist serials, including magazine illustrations never studied before.

As developing countries with recent histories of isolation and extreme poverty, followed by restoration and reform, both Cambodia and Vietnam have seen new opportunities and demands for non-state actors to engage in and manage the effects of rapid socio-economic transformation. This book examines how in both countries, civil society actors and the state manage their relationship to one another in an environment that is continuously shaped and (re)constructed by changing legislation, collaboration and negotiation, advocacy and protest, and social control. Further, it explores the countries’ divergent experiences whilst also uncovering the underlying basis and drivers of civil society activity that are shared by Cambodia and Vietnam. Crucially, this book engages with the contested nature of civil society and how it is socially constructed through research and development activities, by looking at contemporary discourses and manifestations of civil society in the two countries, including national and community-level organisations, associations, and networks that operate in a variety of sectors, such as gender, the environment and health. Drawing on extensive fieldwork conducted in Cambodia and Vietnam, this book will be of huge interest to students and scholars of Southeast Asian studies, Southeast Asian politics, development studies and civil society.

Higher education is in crisis. Students are disengaged, lecturers are burned out, and universities seem more preoccupied with rankings and revenue than with knowledge and wellbeing. But rather than dwell on the problems, this book focuses on solutions—on hope. Bringing together a diverse range of educators and practitioners, this collection showcases real-world innovations that challenge the status quo and offer glimpses of a more humane and inspiring educational future. From rethinking systems and curriculum design to fostering imaginative collaboration and exploring the role of technology, the book highlights practical, hopeful interventions that are already making a difference. This is not a manifesto of complaints but an invitation to reimagine education. The contributors offer fresh perspectives from around the world, illustrating how small but meaningful changes can transform learning spaces, empower educators, and inspire students. For academics, teachers, administrators, and anyone invested in the future of education, this book serves as both a source of inspiration and a call to action. It is an evolving ecosystem of ideas—grounded in practice, rich with possibility, and rooted in radical hope. Now is the time to create the change we wish to see.

Few African countries provide for an explicit right to a nationality. Laws and practices governing citizenship effectively leave hundreds of thousands of people in Africa without a country. These stateless Africans can neither vote nor stand for office; they cannot enrol their children in school, travel freely, or own property; they cannot work for the government; they are exposed to human rights abuses. Statelessness exacerbates and underlies tensions in many regions of the continent. Citizenship Law in Africa, a comparative study by two programs of the Open Society Foundations, describes the often arbitrary, discriminatory, and contradictory citizenship laws that exist from state to state and recommends ways that African countries can bring their citizenship laws in line with international rights norms. The report covers topics such as citizenship by descent, citizenship by naturalisation, gender discrimination in citizenship law, dual citizenship, and the right to identity documents and passports. It is essential reading for policymakers, attorneys, and activists. This second edition includes updates on developments in Kenya, Libya, Namibia, South Africa, Sudan and Zimbabwe, as well as minor corrections to the tables and other additions throughout.

This paper investigates the role that prefixes played in the development of the Slavic aspect category utilizing concepts from dynamic systems theory. It is argued that the bleaching of the prefix u- was crucial in the development of the perfectivizing function of Common Slavic prefixes, and that the semantic concept of change of state functioned as an attractor in the development of the network of prefixes and the aspect category as a whole.

This essay explores the historical and sociological evolution of racism, tracing its transformation from early biological and cultural forms to contemporary economic expressions. While classical racism was rooted in pseudo-scientific notions of racial superiority, modern racism has become more subtle, often serving as a tool for legitimizing labor exploitation, particularly in the context of immigration. A key focus is placed on the agricultural sector in Italy, where migrant workers—especially in regions like Tuscany—face systemic forms of exploitation through temporary contracts, subcontracting practices, and exclusionary immigration policies. These dynamics give rise to new forms of racialized labor relations and institutional racism, where subordination extends beyond economics to include symbolic and cultural dimensions. The essay argues that racism and exploitation are deeply interconnected and cannot be addressed separately. To counter these trends, it calls for inclusive policies and a cultural shift that places social justice and integration at the center of public debate.

This book takes the relationship between physics and sociology as its subject, focusing on the philosophical dispute between emergentism and reductionism. It argues that the mystery behind emergence disappears when we abandon the lawful understanding of causality in favor of a powers view. Adopting a critical realist perspective, it offers a completely novel approach, arguing that the mystery associated with emergence is an artifact of the Humean covering law model of causality assumed by both sides of the reductionism and emergentist debate. In this debate, both reductionists and emergentists have focused on how a single whole or composite relates to its parts and have commonly operated with an understanding of causality in terms of lawful regularities among events. As a result, emergentists have been left with a dilemma: Either admit that laws governing higher-level behavior can be explained by lower-level laws, which is reductionism, or leave the existence of the higher-level laws a mystery. The first book-length publication that addresses – and attempts to resolve – the debate over emergence and reductionism and that gives attention to emergence across the ontological levels from physics to social behavior, it will have a lively readership among critical realists. It will also be of interest to philosophers of mind, philosophers of science, social scientists, and theoretically oriented practitioners in chemistry, biology, and psychology.

Carbon nanotubes, one of carbon allotropes, exhibit remarkable properties and have numerous current and potential applications. Both computational and experimental studies, synthesis, characterization, and applications of carbon nanotubes are unquestionable areas of high interest. Multiple reviews and books have been devoted to various aspects of CNT synthesis, characterization, applications, etc. Our book will be highly attractive and undoubtedly useful for the broad audience of students and researchers interested in the ever-developing area of CNTs, providing them with detailed knowledge of various aspects of this field, its current state-of-the-art, different applications, and perspectives of development.

This collection of essays by a team of international scholars offers a wide-ranging examination of the key concepts of 'space and time' in the work of the Greek biographer and philosopher Plutarch of Chaeronea (1st-2nd centuries CE). Combining philological and socio-cultural approaches, the essays demonstrate how space and time can shed new light on Plutarch's biographical, philosophical, religious and political thought.

In this innovative open-access study, Jörg Schaub demonstrates that the aesthetic is essential to democratic societies’ aspiration to realize a life of equal freedom for all. Revisiting seminal eighteenth-century aesthetic treatises, Schaub advances a new interpretation of modern aesthetics and, in doing so, lays the groundwork for his original account of Hegel’s post-ideal conception of aesthetics. He argues that what lies at the core of these accounts—and gives them their cultural significance—is the value they accord to free perceptual, emotional, and imaginative exploration of the world, and he shows how this orientation transforms our understanding of the values of freedom and equality. Building on this interpretation of modern aesthetics, Schaub develops a novel conception of aesthetic recognition that expands familiar recognition relationships by bringing into view the consideration we owe one another as perceiving, feeling, and imaginative beings. Through a range of case studies, he shows that many conflicts in democratic life are also struggles for aesthetic recognition. This perspective yields a critical theory of aesthetics capable of diagnosing and criticizing forms of aesthetic misrecognition. Schaub brings aesthetics into dialogue with social and political philosophy and critical theory. His study constitutes a significant intervention in the long-standing debate about aesthetics and politics, reshaping how we think about freedom in democratic life. 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 funded by the University of Essex.

ln der Forschung geht man allgemein davon aus, dass die drei Romane Gončarovs "Obyknovennaja isiorija" (1847), "Oblomov" (1859) und "Obryv" (1869) eine Trilogie bilden. Diese Annahme ist der Untersuchungsgegenstand der vorliegenden Arbeit. Es geht darum festzustellen, ob die Annahme einer Trilogie berechtigt ist oder ob die Forschung in stillschweigender Übereinkunft einem im Anfang von Gončarov selbst kreierten Mythos folgt.

This anthology explores possibilities to acknowledge human motion, and traces thereof, as heritage. Today, with the increasing interest in local and sustainable connections, and in bodily and spiritual enhancement, we see a growing use of walking tracks both in landscapes within reach from urban centres and in more remotely located or ‘wild’ areas. The corona pandemic has further propelled these trends. Of course, landscapes that are commonly understood as wilderness or ‘nature’ are in most cases clearly influenced by human actions and movements. While walking trails tend to be regarded as pathways to experience nature and as tools to promote public health, they could also be seen and used as routes to culture and history, indeed as pathways to the past. Based on a Swedish research project with the aim to explore the multiple dimensions of walking, paths and movement, this volume engages and discusses the potential effects of such an expansion of the heritage register.

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.

Tree planting is used by many municipalities as a natural solution to the challenges of climate change. This choice makes it possible to lower temperatures by combating urban heat islands, provide support for biodiversity, improve the living environment and the physical and mental health of city dwellers. Trees in the city, whether alone, in rows or in an urban park, depend on their interactions with the organisms associated with them in their leaves, wood and soil, but also on their links with neighbouring trees and with the urban ecosystem. Strongly linked to human activities, the tree in the city and the urban forest are subject to precise management, the issues and methods of which have evolved over time. The urban environment presents constraints but also offers opportunities for the development of trees. In return, trees and forests help to shape the urban environment, with a desired benefit for human populations, making them ecological as well as political objects. This book is aimed at an informed readership, particularly students and teachers of life and environmental sciences, geography, sociology and political science. It will also be of interest to urban planners, green space managers and elected municipal officials.

In those Slavic languages where the vocative inflectional case endings are used inconsistently, a statistically increased occurrence of vocative’s endings can be observed with nouns having a diminutive or hypocoristic semantics. Assuming that is the ‘affective charge’ of some specific nouns which enhances the probability of vocative case forms, the present paper has two aims: 1. to verify empirically in three Slavic languages (Serbian, Polish, Bulgarian) whether the vocative case is better preserved with nouns having a derogatory semantics (insults and bad words), 2. to establish which are the rules governing their use.