Humanities & Social Sciences

Marcel Mauss schrieb 1923 in seinem Essay Die Gabe, er habe in den Motiven des Gabentauschs »einen der Felsen gefunden, auf denen unsere Gesellschaften ruhen«. Bis heute wirft diese These Fragen auf: Wie stiftet die Gabe Solidarität, Anerkennung und Vertrauen in vormodernen Gesellschaften? Gelingt ihr das auch in modernen Gesellschaften? Aufbauend auf einer pointierten Rezeptionsgeschichte von Mauss' Essay und im Dialog mit Denkern aus Philosophie, Politik- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften kommt dieses Buch zu dem Ergebnis, dass die Gabe neben Markt und Staat eine zentrale Funktion in unserer Gesellschaft hat. Darüber hinaus wird gezeigt, welche politischen Konsequenzen daraus resultieren und wie Gabeninteraktionen zur Sicherung des sozialen Gefüges genutzt werden können.

Since 2014, the project "Coding da Vinci," which was funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation from 2019 to 2022, has been connecting communities of cultural enthusiasts and technologically minded people with German art institutions to unfold the creative potential of our digital cultural heritage. This publication does not just report on the project but also provides a practical guide to successfully organizing a cultural data hackathon.

Ennek a színházi nevelés területét vizsgáló kötetnek a célja, hogy helyzetképet adjon az országos állapotról, és elemzéseken keresztül betekintést nyújtson a terület fontosabb témáiba. 2023 tavaszán a Károli Gáspár Református Egyetem Színházpedagógiai és Színházszociológiai Kutatócsoportja országos adatgyűjtést végzett, melynek eredményeit Cziboly Ádám tanulmánya elemzi. Golden Dániel a korszerű tanulás megközelítéseit és a részvétel pedagógiai szerepét vizsgálja. Gemza Melinda a fenntarthatóság érdekében a kőszínházak társadalmi felelősségvállalását hangsúlyozza, példaként a Csokonai Színház ifjúsági programját említve. Bethlenfalvy Ádám a TIE műfajában a színház és interakció viszonyát elemzi. Szemessy Kinga és Végvári Viktória a kortárs tánc- és bábelméletek részvételi folyamatát vizsgálja. Kiss Gabriella a kortárs magyar szcéna innovatív, kollaboratív munkafolyamatait és a kontingencia dramaturgiáját elemzi.

This book is about making weather warnings more effective in saving lives, property, infrastructure and livelihoods, but the underlying theme of the book is partnership. The book represents the warning process as a pathway linking observations to weather forecasts to hazard forecasts to socio-economic impact forecasts to warning messages to the protective decision, via a set of five bridges that cross the divides between the relevant organisations and areas of expertise. Each bridge represents the communication, translation and interpretation of information as it passes from one area of expertise to another and ultimately to the decision maker, who may be a professional or a member of the public. The authors explore the partnerships upon which each bridge is built, assess the expertise and skills that each partner brings and the challenges of communication between them, and discuss the structures and methods of working that build effective partnerships. The book is ordered according to the “first mile” paradigm in which the decision maker comes first, and then the production chain through the warning and forecast to the observations is considered second. This approach emphasizes the importance of co-design and co-production throughout the warning process. The book is targeted at professionals and trainee professionals with a role in the warning chain, i.e. in weather services, emergency management agencies, disaster risk reduction agencies, risk management sections of infrastructure agencies. This is an open access book.

This volume presents the experience of developing a new undergraduate curriculum on "Environmental and Resources Engineering" at the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje in FYR Macedonia, in the framework of the TEMPUS CD_JEP_19028_2004 DEREC – Development of Environmental and Resources Engineering Curriculum (2005-2008). This publication describes the methodology, instruments and processes employed in the curriculum development. It is divided into two main parts. The first part describes the European Consortium approach (including papers from all representatives of Consortium Member institutions in the European Union and the external project experts). The second part describes the approach adopted by the various faculty representatives of the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje and the South East European University of Tetovo, in FYR Macedonia. This book is designed to serve as an updated, coherent and concrete set of instruments for the achievement of similar project objectives.

The Covid-19 pandemic has been expressed in various ways through visuality and performance, and some of its more nuanced cultural implications have taken place in a realm that goes beyond words. Through the exploration of the visual culture produced during and in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, The Pandemic Visual Regime: Visuality and Performativity in the Covid-19 Crisis highlights the key role played by images in shaping our understanding of the epochal transformations our society is undergoing. This book argues that visuality and its relationships with the performative have played such a significant role in the Covid-19 pandemic that we can even speak of the emergence of a “pandemic visual regime,” a new way of seeing and representing the world under this global emergency. Through an interdisciplinary framework, The Pandemic Visual Regime aims to answer an array of questions: In which ways have the effects of the pandemic been racialized, thereby reinforcing white supremacy? How are our responses to Covid-19 shaped by the Hollywood “outbreak narrative” of films such as Contagion? How has design responded to our new pandemic needs? How have infographics affected our perception? In which new ways have we come to inhabit private, public, and virtual space? Regarding the latter, what changes have there been in the forms of digital surveillance? On the other side of the spectrum, what forms has mutual aid taken and what have been our forms of relating with nature, both during lockdown and after lockdown was over? All these questions open the field to rethinking the visuality of our post-pandemic zeitgeist.

Die wissenschaftliche Erforschung der Hörfunkwerbung wurde bisher weitgehend vernachlässigt. Dies gilt besonders für die Wirkung ablenkender Tätigkeiten. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit erfolgt erstmals eine umfassende Systematisierung der Wirkung akustischer Werbemittel. Mögliche Ablenkungseffekte werden dargestellt und theoretische Ansatzpunkte zu ihrer Erklärung aufgezeigt. Ein umfassender Bezugsrahmen gibt Aufschluss über die Faktoren, die den Einfluss unterschiedlicher Paralleltätigkeiten auf die Werbewirkung bestimmen. Aus den Ergebnissen eines aufwendig durchgeführten Experiments werden Implikationen für die Werbepraxis abgeleitet.

Time and the Ancestors: Aztec and Mixtec Ritual Art combines iconographical analysis with archaeological, historical and ethnographic studies and offers new interpretations of enigmatic masterpieces from ancient Mexico, focusing specifically on the symbols and values of the religious heritage of indigenous peoples.; Readership: Scholars and students working on the archaeology, art, history and anthropology of Mexico, as well as the general public interested in Mexican indigenous culture.

cosmos - cosmology - culture - myths

This paper presents an enhanced BIM logger designed to capture both geometry and attribute changes of building element geometries, thereby offering a transparent source of representation of the BIM authoring process. The authors developed the logger and reproduction algorithm using the Revit C# API based on the analysis of information required to define building elements and associated attributes. The enhanced BIM log was evaluated through a case study of Villa Savoye designed by Le Corbusier. Despite negligible discrepancies, the results show that the enhanced BIM log can accurately represent the BIM authoring process capturing and reproducing 92.45% of the building elements from the original BIM model. Future research can focus on expanding the scope of logging and probing the potential of automating the BIM authoring process using these enhanced BIM logs

Growing numbers of nonhuman companions (smart objects, technical environments, sensor technologies used to augment the human body) are creating affective synching between human and nonhuman agency. Unlike the unconscious of psychoanalysis, this book argues, the resulting nonconscious is no longer coupled to a subject grounded in language, instead acting as an affective link between technical, mental, and physical processes. But how is this nonconscious to be understood? Is it something additional, a new zone intervening between the unconscious and consciousness? Or does it fundamentally call into question the distinction between the two?

The Lithic Imagination from More to Milton explores how stones, rocks, and the broader mineral realm play a vital role in early modern England’s religious and cultural systems that in turn informs the period’s poetic and visual imagination. The twin buttresses of a human lifespan and the gyre-like turns of England’s long Reformation provide a broad dome under which to locate the many textual and visual archives this book studies. These texts and images participate in specifically English histories (literary, artistic, political, religious), although Continental influences are frequently in dialogue. The religious orbit tracks the rivalries firstly between Jewish and Christian culture, touches on Christianity’s tension with Islam, but most intently follows the antagonisms of Catholic and variants of Reformed or Protestant belief. The bibliography features canonical names such as Shakespeare, Spenser, Donne, Wroth, Herbert, Milton, and Pulter, but puts them in company with lesser-known religious polemicists, alchemists, anatomists, painters, mothers, and stonemasons. The visual archive attends to biblical illustration, tapestries, church furniture, and paintings, anatomical drawings, as well as statues to form a multimedia archive. Similarly, the lithic embraces a wide continuum of mineral forms from bodily encrustations like the kidney and bezoar stone, to salt, iron, limestone, marble, flint, and silicon. The assemblage of materials speaks to aspirational imperial fantasies, looming colonial conquests, syncretism, and supersession, as well as issues of gender and the race-making category of hue, alongside elitist ideologies of an elect, chosen people. All connect via the storied pathways of stone as densely material and a foundation for the abstract imaginary along the scala naturae. Across these human–stone encounters, stone fascinates and betrays and is equal parts damnation and salvation.

Die vorliegende Untersuchung beschäftigt sich mit der russischen Versepik im 19. Jahrhundert. Ohne auf die literaturtheoretische Diskussion um den allgemeinen Gattungs- und Typusbegriff näher einzugehen, soll versucht werden, einen Beitrag zur Geschichte der literarischen Form zu schreiben, die im russischen Sprachgebrauch mit "poema" (Poem) bezeichnet wird.

This open access book focuses on the practical application of electromagnetic polarimetry principles in Earth remote sensing with an educational purpose. In the last decade, the operations from fully polarimetric synthetic aperture radar such as the Japanese ALOS/PalSAR, the Canadian Radarsat-2 and the German TerraSAR-X and their easy data access for scientific use have developed further the research and data applications at L,C and X band. As a consequence, the wider distribution of polarimetric data sets across the remote sensing community boosted activity and development in polarimetric SAR applications, also in view of future missions. Numerous experiments with real data from spaceborne platforms are shown, with the aim of giving an up-to-date and complete treatment of the unique benefits of fully polarimetric synthetic aperture radar data in five different domains: forest, agriculture, cryosphere, urban and oceans.

This Open Access book is an anthropological urban study of the Emirate of Dubai, its institutions, and their evolution. It provides a contemporary history of disability in city planning from a non-Western perspective and explores the cultural context for its positioning. Three insights inform the author’s approach. First, disability research, much like other urban or social issues, must be situated in a particular place. Second, access and inclusion forms a key part of both local and global planning issues. Third, a 21st century planning education should take access and inclusion into consideration by applying a disability lens to the empirical, methodological, and theoretical advances of the field. By bridging theory and practice, this book provides new insights on inclusive city planning and comparative urban theory. This book should be read as part of a larger struggle to define and assert access; it’s a story of how equity and justice are central themes in building the cities of the future and of today.