Humanities & Social Sciences

This book offers the most extensive exploration of divine temporality to date. It focuses on five main questions. First, what is time? Second, how is God responsible for the existence of time? Third, what does it mean to say that God is temporal? Fourth, what kind of structure might God give to a time series? Fifth, what are the implications for theological doctrines such as the Trinity, creation, providence, and life after death? The author offers a deep, critical engagement with the Christian tradition but also goes beyond to build analytic bridges to Jewish, Islamic, Hindu, and Jainist philosophical theology. The book provides an up-to-date discussion of issues within analytic metaphysics, philosophy of time, and philosophy of religion and draws on the resources of contemporary systematic, historical, and biblical theology. 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-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Li and his contributors explore how Taiwanese poets conceptualize their identities, employing multiple voices to challenge political hegemony and re-evaluate Taiwan’s colonial legacy and nationalism. Poetry in Taiwan exists at the intersection of Taiwanese, Mandarin, and Japanese languages and traditions. The rise of China has contributed to the shrinking of Taiwan’s international space, leading to Taiwanese cultures often being viewed as tributaries or by-products of China on the global stage. They focus on Taiwanese poetry to highlight a history of local resistance in gender, identity, cultural, and linguistic contexts. They deconstruct the hegemony and homogeneity of “Chineseness,” exploring multiple ways to reposition Taiwan on the map of world literature. Essential reading for scholars of Sinophone literature, as well as those interested in the history and culture of Taiwan.

European penology, the multidisciplinary scientific study of punishment carried out on the European continent, is booming. This Handbook aims to offer an overview of the current state of the art and cutting-edge penological research in Europe, covering all the regions (north, south, east, west) and Europe’s institutional organisations – the Council of Europe and the European Union – including research that may hitherto not have been published in English. The Handbook also reflects on whether there is anything distinctive or typically (not necessarily exclusively) European in the ways penology is applied in Europe. This challenge is taken up by a team of 5 editors and 60 authors from 21 different countries, reflecting a balance of gender, early and promising career, and established researchers. After the editors’ Introduction, the book is organised into three parts: Part I: European Penology – Scientific Developments discusses theoretical and methodological developments and important issues within comparative penology. Part II: European Penality – Developments in Penal Practices focuses on transversal European developments, particular groups of offenders and specific forms of punishment. Part III offers a reflection on penal policies and practices in Europe as seen from abroad. The Handbook offers graduate and postgraduate students, postgraduate researchers, academics and other research users, such as governments and NGOs, critical and up-to-date reflections on some of the most prominent discussions on penology in Europe today. Chapter 17 of this book is 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.

The volume is the result of the research project Claustra. Atlas of female spirituality. The book deals with the analysis of the religious landscape marked by the communities of the Poor Clares and Dominicans nuns. The investigation of the territorial structure of the various kingdoms takes place through five paths: knowledge of poorly studied areas in female monastic topography; understanding of foundational dynamics and the role of communities of religious mulieres; the dynamics of the urban layout and the processes of communication and action that created the monastic landscape; the importance of patronage and female sponsorship in foundational models and cultural promotion; the analysis of devotional practices and the material culture of communities in a functional, spatial and performative context. El presente volumen es el resultado de la investigación del proyecto Claustra. Atlas de espiritualidad femenina. El libro se ocupa del análisis del paisaje religioso marcado por las comunidades de clarisas y dominicas. Desde una estructura territorial por reinos se abordan cinco lineas: el conocimiento de áreas poco estudiadas en la topografía monástica femenina; la comprensión de dinámicas fundacionales y el papel de grupos de mulieres religiosae; la dinámica de implantación urbana y los procesos de interacción creadores de paisaje monástico; la importancia del mecenazgo y patronazgo femenino en los modelos fundacionales y de promoción cultural; el análisis de las prácticas devocionales y la cultura material de las monasterios femeninos en un contexto funcional, espacial y performativo.

The Habsburg crownland Galicia was one of the poorest region of the Habsburg Monarchy and could in the 19th century only rudimentarily catch up with industrialization and income growth of other regions. The book shows how over the long run the unequal transregional entanglements, in particular concerning commodity trade, alongside with the imperial economic policy restrained Galicia’s economic development between 1772 and 1914.

The Conference on Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design (FMCAD) is an annual conference on the theory and applications of formal methods in hardware and system verification. FMCAD provides a leading forum to researchers in academia and industry for presenting and discussing groundbreaking methods, technologies, theoretical results, and tools for reasoning formally about computing systems. FMCAD covers formal aspects of computer-aided system design including verification, specification, synthesis, and testing.

This handbook is intended to provide students, practitioners and, more generally, anyone wishing to approach the subject with a tool to acquire a consistent knowledge of the notions and legal concepts relating to the protection and flow of personal data. The analysis of the laws, not limited to the General Data Protection Regulation (EU Reg. 2016/679) and also extended to some aspects of the most recent legal acts, such as the Data Act (EU Reg. 2023/2854) and the Data Governance Act (EU Reg. 2022/868), is enriched by an examination of the most relevant European and national case law, which is essential to understand the rationes and the actual scope of the rules that shape the current law.

Argentine and Brazilian documentary cinema is experiencing a recent trend that is characterized by a growing use of audiovisual material of private and family origin. Until now, this creative practice based on family archives has received little attention in Latin American documentary studies, despite being very productive both in the region and beyond. Based on a detailed study of four documentaries considered paradigmatic for their respective contexts —Papirosen (2011), by Gastón Solnicki; In the Intense Now (2017), by João Moreira Salles; Elena (2012), by Petra Costa and Silence Is a Falling Body (2017), by Agustina Comedi—analyzes how the use of films or home videos, at first glance very personal, it is not only usually accompanied by a politicized reading of the family past. Furthermore, the use of the family archive as a "counter-archive" in these films can be understood as an important element in the construction of political and social meanings in contemporary documentary. The films examined offer new approaches to a wide range of topics ranging from the aftermath of the Shoah to overcoming personal trauma, from the major political events of the 20th century to the micropolitics of the body and gender. At the same time, they question the traditional notion of "political cinema" and expand the spectrum of what can be considered political in documentary film.

This book explores core issues in the emerging field of World Anglophone Studies. It shows that traditional frameworks based on the colonial and imperial legacies of English need to be revised and extended to understand the complex adaptations, iterations, and incarnations of English in the contemporary world. The chapters in this volume make three significant interventions in the field: First, they showcase the emergence of Anglophone literatures and cultures in parts of the world not traditionally considered Anglophone – Cuba, the Arab world, the Balkan region, Vietnam, Algeria, and Belize, among others Second, they feature new zones of contact and creolization between Anglophone literatures, cultures, and languages such as Swahili, Santhali, Ojibway, and Hindi, as well as Anglophone representations of colonial encounters and contemporary experiences in non-Anglophone settings such as Cuba, Angola, and Algeria And finally, the volume turns to Anglophone literary and cultural productions on new platforms such as social media and Netflix and highlights the role of English in emergent sites of resistance involving women, Indigenous populations, queer and other non-heteronormative sexualities, as well as post-conflict societies Mapping linguistic transgressions and the transmigration of cultural tropes between Englishes, vernaculars, and a wide variety of other languages with a rich set of case studies, this volume will be essential reading for courses such as world literatures in English, postcolonial studies, anglophone studies, literature and culture, Indian Ocean worlds, Global Englishes, and Global South studies.

Gesellschaftlicher Wandel und sozialpolitische Veränderungen sind eng miteinander verknüpft. Dabei vollzieht sich Wandel unter anderem über Altersgruppen, Geburtskohorten sowie gesellschaftliche und familiale Generationen. In welcher Weise stellen Altersgruppen, Geburtskohorten sowie Generationen Bezugspunkte sozialpolitischer Regelungen dar? Welche Ungleichheiten hinsichtlich sozialpolitischer Regelungen oder Verteilungsergebnisse bestehen zwischen ihnen? Diese Fragen stehen im Mittelpunkt des Sammelbandes. Die Beiträge nehmen gegenwärtige Entwicklungen der (vorrangig deutschen) Arbeitsmarkt-, Renten-, Familien- und Wohnungspolitik und ihre Auswirkungen auf Ungleichheiten zwischen Altersgruppen, Geburtskohorten und Generationen in den Blick. Konzeptionelltheoretische Aufsätze sind ebenso vertreten wie empirische; letztere umfassen sowohl quantitative als auch qualitative und institutionelle Analysen. Mit soziologischen, politikwissenschaftlichen, ökonomischen sowie rechtswissenschaftlichen Abhandlungen wird die Thematik aus verschiedenen disziplinären Perspektiven beleuchtet. Damit leistet der Band einen fundierten und facettenreichen Beitrag zu aktuellen sozialpolitischen Debatten. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

Unser Handeln ist zu einem großen Teil darauf ausgerichtet, was wir von uns geben und empfangen. Im Werk Jacques Derridas werden Geben und Nehmen in ihrer Widersprüchlichkeit entfaltet. Hans Holleis zeigt, wie es die paradoxe Form der Gabe erlaubt, sie gewinnbringend auf nahe Themenfelder wie Vergebung und die Hingabe im Opfer zu übertragen: Als ob die Widersprüche unseres ökonomischen Handelns unsere Fähigkeiten zu Vergebung und aufopfernder Hingabe hervorrufen würden. Dabei wird die komplexe Sprechweise Derridas mit den Begriffsfeldern von Différance und Dekonstruktion verständlich erläutert und im Kontext einer Debatte um den Begriff der Postmoderne aufbereitet.

Literature and classroom teaching have a complex relationship: literature is not a subject that can be conveyed or taught in the conventional sense. It cannot be fully understood in a traditional way, and it allows for individual aesthetic approaches. Classical school-based teaching situations are often at odds with this. This volume presents perspectives on how literary-aesthetic learning can be inspired outside the classroom and how it can engage different channels than traditional instruction. The authors explore informal reading circles, book fairs, events in libraries, and collaborative projects between universities, schools, and non-school mediation institutions, as well as out-of-school experiences of aesthetic perception in urban spaces, moorlands, or parks. The contributions in this volume advocate for opening up literature education to new formats beyond the classroom.

Through studies of beheaded Irish traitors, smugglers hung in chains on the English coast, suicides subjected to the surgeon's knife in Dresden and the burial of executed Nazi war criminals, this volume provides a fresh perspective on the history of capital punishment. This book has two open access chapters under a CC BY license.

Agony for Others investigates the phenomenological, rhetorical, and political challenges of representing pain in literature. Pain cries vary between cultural and linguistic groups, and pain expression (such as grimacing or crying) can likewise vary in quality and intensity from person to person, affected by disability, temperament, and past experiences with pain, as well as the experiencer’s own understanding of what that pain is and what it means. Jessica Colangelo explores pain's role as a subjective indication of objective damage; that, contrary to claims of its subjective privacy, the feeling of pain is always felt in terms of an objectively existing entity (one’s physical body) which is perceivable by others. Thus, pain enters into intersubjectivity through the physical body—one's expressions, words, actions, presence—which then mediates between the self and the other. Drawing on disability studies, phenomenology, philosophy, and literary studies, Colangelo examines works by Virginia Woolf, James Baldwin, Sarah Kane, Elie Wiesel, and Margaret Edson to argue that the belief that pain is incommunicable and thought-destroying obscures its central role in relationships and community formation. Agony for Others demonstrates that pain is not excluded from, but rather constitutive of, intersubjectivity, and argues that the aesthetic dimension of interpretation is essential to understanding the ethical and political role of pain.

The study is the first to comprehensively examine the significance of literary multilingualism in German-language literature of the 20th and 21st centuries. In analyzes of works by Franz Kafka, Dada, Mascha Kaléko, Paul Celan, W.G. Sebald, Yoko Tawada and others, historical-cultural, literary aesthetic and media dimensions of text-internal multilingualism are worked out.