Humanities & Social Sciences

This open access volume of LIDC contributions focuses on how competition and intellectual property laws incorporate sustainability objectives. Businesses are increasingly embracing sustainability objectives, driven by the international community. Although competition and intellectual property law are certainly not the only tools for addressing sustainability issues, they can play a role in moving toward a more sustainable society. Sustainability has gained prominence in competition law in all jurisdictions covered in this volume. The contributions focus on classic questions such as whether sustainability agreements restrict competition and, if so, to what extent businesses can be exempted on efficiency grounds. The papers also raise a number of questions, in particular concerning the treatment of non-market efficiencies. The soft law and case law produced by competition authorities are examined, and the leadership role of some competition authorities in the field – from advocacy to policy papers and sustainability guidelines – is highlighted. The authors call for more individual guidance to provide enhanced transparency and clarity to industry, advisors and society at large on sustainability issues, with guidelines or sustainability-related block exemptions providing even greater legal certainty. With regard to intellectual property, the contributions examine various important issues, such as the need for intellectual property rights to remain technology-neutral, ways to promote the use of sustainable technologies and incentives for licensing, and ways to promote the dissemination of sustainable technologies, including compulsory licensing, cross-licensing, open source or FRAND licensing, and replacing the destruction of counterfeit goods with recycling. The papers also discuss greenwashing and how it can be addressed through revisions to trademarks and related rights.

Veto rights can be a meaningful source of power only when leaving an organization is extremely unlikely. For example, small European states have periodically wielded their veto privileges to override the preferences of their larger, more economically and militarily powerful neighbors when negotiating European Union treaties, which require the unanimous consent of all EU members. Jonathan B. Slapin traces the historical development of the veto privilege in the EU and how a veto—or veto threat—has been employed in treaty negotiations of the past two decades. As he explains, the importance of veto power in treaty negotiations is one of the features that distinguishes the EU from other international organizations in which exit and expulsion threats play a greater role. At the same time, the prominence of veto power means that bargaining in the EU looks more like bargaining in a federal system. Slapin's findings have significant ramifications for the study of international negotiations, the design of international organizations, and European integration.

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This book places tipping points in their scientific, economic, governmental, creative, and spiritual contexts. It seeks to offer a comprehensive set of interpretations on the meaning and application of tipping points. Its contribution focuses on the various characterisations and metaphors of tipping points, on the scope for anticipating their onset, the capacity for societal resilience in the face of their impending arrival, and for better ways of communicating and preparing societies, economies, and governments for accommodating them, and hence to turn them into responses which buffer and better human well-being. Above all, the possibility of preparing society for creative and benign ‘tips’ is a unifying theme. The conclusion is sombre but not without hope. Thresholds of profound change can combine earth system-based relatively abrupt shifts with human-caused alterations of these disturbed patterns which, coupled together, produce more rapid onsets and greater tensions and stresses for governments and economies, as well as socially unequal societies. There is still time to predict and address these thresholds but too much delay will make the task of accommodation very difficult to achieve with relevant-scale community support. There are many examples of adaptive resilience throughout the world. These should be identified, supported, and emulated according to cultural acceptance and emerging economic realities. But there is no guarantee that the necessary adjustments can be made in time, as emerging patterns of outlook and governance do not appear to be conducive to manage the very awkward transitions of appropriate response.

The subject of aprince dressing as a gardener to approach his beloved is dear to the European theatrical tradition: the model of Don Duardos by Gil Vicente (1562), reprinted in El rincipe viñador by Luis Vélez de Guevara (1668), is also used in French theatre, which proposes a variation in Le Prince déguisé by Georges de Scudery (1636), partly based on the novel Grisel y Mirabella by Juan de Flores (1524). This subject was later integrated into 17th century Italian theatre, starting with Venetian opera. This essay analyses in particular some works produced in Venice in the middle of the century, starting with Il prencipe giardinieroby Benedetto Ferrari (1644), whose subject anticipates first L’Oristeo (1651) by Giovanni Faustini and Francesco Cavalli, and Laurindo by Gio. Andrea Moniglia, written in 1657 and printed as Il principe giardiniere under the name of Giacinto Andrea Cicognini starting from 1664.

Community Arts from the Margins explores the transformative power of community arts practices across diverse social, political, and cultural contexts. Bringing together a wide range of methodological approaches – including Theatre for Development, Theatre of the Oppressed, playback theatre, indigenous storytelling, and folk media – this volume demonstrates how arts-based practices are being used to drive social change and amplify the voices of marginalised communities throughout the Global South. Contributors include leading scholars and practitioners, who offer grounded case studies that interrogate the possibilities and tensions involved in using arts-based methodologies for resistance, identity formation, health and well-being, civic engagement, and social transformation. Informed by long-term practice, critical reflection, and deep collaboration with local communities, the book presents participatory art-based practices that highlight the ways artists today are using community arts to address complex, intersectional issues in rapidly changing contexts. This book is an essential read for applied theatre practitioners, scholars, and students. It would also be of interest to those involved in the fields of theatre studies, acts and activism, Africana studies, and anthropology. 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.

Anlässlich des 200. Geburtstags des Begründers des MAK-Museums für angewandte Kunst, der Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien und des Instituts für Kunstgeschichte der Universität Wien widmet sich dieser Band Rudolf von Eitelbergers (1817–1885) zahlreichen kunst- und kulturpolitischen Initiativen und Interventionen. Namhafte internationale und österreichische AutorInnen beleuchten in 19 Beiträgen Eitelbergers Wirken in Kunstgeschichte, Kunsttheorie und Kunstgewerbe, ebenso wie in der Ideologie der Stadterweiterung und Ringstraßenarchitektur, der überregionalen Kunst- und Kulturpolitik, dem künstlerischen Ausbildungssystem und nicht zuletzt auch in der bürgerlichen Frauenbewegung.

The book presents the life of Louis Wolowski (1810–1876). Born into a family of Frankist Jews in Warsaw, Wolowski participated in the Polish insurrection of 1830–1831 and later settled in France. Specializing in political economy, Wolowski became a professor at the prestigious Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers at the age of 29 and a member of the Academy in 1855. In 1852 he founded Crédit Foncier, one of the most important French banks and actively participated in the banking revolution of the second half of the 19th century. He also had a political career. Wolowski served as a deputy and from 1875, a life senator. Representing the liberal center of the French political scene, he played a crucial role in the establishment of the Republic in France.

The benefit of cohort studies and registers in patient-oriented collaborative research depends largely on the quality of the data recorded there. Supply and quality research depend on scientifically proven methods and procedures to ensure high data quality. This guideline contains corresponding recommendations for the management of data quality in registers, cohort studies and data repositories. In the second edition, a significantly expanded set of indicators is provided and the use of the indicators is described as an example for different types of empirical research projects. The guideline is rounded off by a current literature review and analysis. It is therefore an important part of the range of measures to improve and ensure data quality in medical research.

This book proposes traveling vicariously with documentary and fiction films directed by Mariano Llinás, Alicia Scherson, Karim Aïnouz, Marcelo Gomes, Cao Guimarães, José Luis Torres Leiva, Tiziana Panizza, Jonathan Perel, Gustavo Fontán, Ignacio Agüero, Raúl Ruiz, Patricio Guzmán and Enrique Ramírez. It attends to the very richness of cinema in its potential not to passively represent real physical spaces, but to reconfigure new ways of thinking and inhabiting open space geographies in the contemporary world from a perspective attentive to the dimension of affects. The landscapes, maps and itineraries configured by this set of films allow us to experience alternative notions of temporality and ways of connecting with others.

As science communication has moved online, a range of important new genres have emerged: crowdfunding proposals, blogs, microblogs, databases, and more. Rhetorics of Science Online takes up these genres to explore how scientists are adapting their communications, how publics are increasingly involved in science, and how boundaries between experts and non-experts continue to erode.

Was lässt sich unter Demokratiebildung verstehen? Dieser Frage widmet sich das zweibändige Werk hinsichtlich der theoretischen Reflexion und praktischen Umsetzung in verschiedenen Schulformen und Fachdidaktiken. Neben der kritischen Auseinandersetzung mit gesellschaftspolitischen und pädagogischen Perspektiven werden spezifische Herausforderungen wie Inklusion, Partizipation und der Umgang mit Ideologien der Ungleichwertigkeit diskutiert. Durch zahlreiche Beiträge aus verschiedenen fachdidaktischen Perspektiven bietet das Werk eine interdisziplinäre Grundlage, um Demokratiebildung als Querschnittsaufgabe in der schulischen Bildung zu verankern. In Band 1 wird zunächst die grundlegende Frage aufgegriffen, was alles unter Demokratiebildung verstanden werden kann. Außerdem werden die die spezifischen Herausforderungen der Demokratiebildung in ausgewählten Schulformen beleuchtet. Schließlich wird Demokratiebildung mit anderen pädagogischen Ansätzen und Querschnittsaufgaben von Schule und Lehrer:innenbildung verknüpft, wie Ideologien der Ungleichwertigkeit.

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book presents methods to evaluate sustainable development using economic tools. The focus on sustainable development takes the reader beyond economic growth to encompass inclusion, environmental stewardship and good governance. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide a framework for outcomes. In illustrating the SDGs, the book employs three evaluation approaches: impact evaluation, cost-benefit analysis and objectives-based evaluation. The innovation lies in connecting evaluation tools with economics. Inclusion, environmental care and good governance, thought of as “wicked problems”, are given centre stage. The book uses case studies to show the application of evaluation tools. It offers guidance to evaluation practitioners, students of development and policymakers. The basic message is that evaluation comes to life when its links with socio-economic, environmental, and governance policies are capitalized on.

Colonial and apartheid-era historical narratives in South Africa often disregard oral testimonies, leaving significant gaps in understanding the country’s rich and complex past. This scholarly book explores the methodologies and ethics of oral history to address these omissions and to elevate oral testimonies as vital tools in historical scholarship. This book brings together ten chapters authored by leading academics and researchers. It critically examines how oral history methodologies can be contextualised within South Africa’s diverse and multifaceted society. Rather than focusing on Eurocentric approaches, it emphasises the need to rethink the ethics and practices of oral history from an Afrocentric perspective. Through its transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary lens, spanning history, indigenous knowledge studies, museum and archival studies, and folklore, this book advocates for the recognition of interviewees as knowledge holders, fostering meaningful exchanges rather than mere knowledge extraction. The authors emphasise the need to protect and expand oral history archives, ensuring the representation of marginalised voices and redressing past injustices. This volume, with original research, illuminates the transformative potential of oral history in South Africa, offering new arguments and perspectives. It aims to inspire scholars, researchers, and specialists to rethink conventional practices and to bridge the divide between written and oral histories. This is essential literature for scholars and practitioners in history, oral history, theology, museum studies, and related fields, as it reimagines the role of oral testimonies in producing inclusive and credible historical narratives.

An academic approach to the popular use of video production technology