Humanities & Social Sciences

Who and what is a ‘male writer’? While ‘writing women’ are almost a genre in their own right, represented in popular and scholarly anthologies, ‘male’ writing, which has probably shaped ideas of masculinity more than any other cultural practice, rarely receives historiographical attention. This observation is the starting point for the volume’s reflections on historiographical perspective: Where and how have men written about themselves and about the self in the other? In a series of essays, the volume explores men’s self-documentation and autobiographical writing in relation to gender.

For a growing number of people, democracy has become synonymous with broken promises and abandoned commitments. Governments everywhere are not listening to their citizens’ concerns on matters of fundamental importance. As a result, ordinary men and women of all political persuasions are demanding transformations, not just to government policies, but to the methods of governance themselves. They realize that in the periods between general elections, they have great difficulty having their voices heard, because they have no formal role in constructing political agendas. This open access book focuses on one way to address this problem, by establishing a continual dialogue between individuals and their governments, hence forcing politicians to constantly pay attention to “the people.” Larry Patriquin argues for the creation of permanent citizens’ assemblies, which would be charged with examining issues of public concern and giving advice to governments. For those troubled by our current democratic impasse, Permanent Citizens’ Assemblies: A New Model for Public Deliberation will give hope that practical reforms are possible and that new institutions can become effective components of governance in nations across the globe. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.

The rapid growth of the Internet interconnectivity and complexity of communication systems has led us to a significant growth of cyberattacks globally often with severe and disastrous consequences. The swift development of more innovative and effective (cyber)security solutions and approaches are vital which can detect, mitigate and prevent from these serious consequences. Cybersecurity is gaining momentum and is scaling up in very many areas. This book builds on the experience of the Cyber-Trust EU project’s methods, use cases, technology development, testing and validation and extends into a broader science, lead IT industry market and applied research with practical cases. It offers new perspectives on advanced (cyber) security innovation (eco) systems covering key different perspectives. The book provides insights on new security technologies and methods for advanced cyber threat intelligence, detection and mitigation. We cover topics such as cyber-security and AI, cyber-threat intelligence, digital forensics, moving target defense, intrusion detection systems, post-quantum security, privacy and data protection, security visualization, smart contracts security, software security, blockchain, security architectures, system and data integrity, trust management systems, distributed systems security, dynamic risk management, privacy and ethics.

Crafting the Movement presents an explanation of why the Swedish working class so unanimously adopted reformism during the interwar period. Jenny Jansson discusses the precarious time for the labor movement after the Russian Revolution in 1917 that sparked a trend towards radicalization among labor organizations and communist organizations throughout Europe and caused an identity crisis in class organizations. She reveals that the leadership of the Trade Union Confederation (LO) was well aware of the identity problems that the left-wing factions had created for the reformist unions. Crafting the Movement explains how this led labor movement leaders towards a re-formulation of the notion of the worker by constructing an organizational identity that downplayed class struggle and embraced discipline, peaceful solutions to labor market problems, and cooperation with the employers. As Jansson shows, study activities arranged by the Workers' Educational Association became the main tool of the Trade Union Confederation's identity policy in the 1920s and 1930s and its successful outcome paved the way for the well-known "Swedish Model." Thanks to generous funding from Uppsala University, the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access volumes from Cornell Open (cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open) and other Open Access repositories.

Was ist die Aufgabe von Kulturdolmetscher*innen? Sollen Sprach- und Integrationsmittler*innen neben dem Dolmetschen auch Soziale Arbeit leisten? In Qualifizierungsveranstaltungen für Sprach-, Kultur- und Integrationsmittler*innen müssen insbesondere migrantische Teilnehmende weitreichende Aufgaben übernehmen und dabei professionell handeln, während die Tätigkeiten selbst unter prekären Bedingungen stattfinden – so wird z.B. die Etablierung im Ehrenamt mit Bezug auf Hilfe und Integration legitimiert. Fenna La Gro zeigt, warum die Kulturmittlung zwischen Dolmetschen und Sozialer Arbeit Gefahr läuft, rassistische Ungleichheit und Diskriminierung zu reproduzieren, statt ihr entgegenzuwirken.

This open access book presents the evaluation of undiscovered oil and gas resources and reserves growth in 468 basins around the world, as well as the potential of unconventional recoverable resources of seven types, including shale oil, heavy oil, oil sands, oil shale, shale gas, coalbed methane, and tight gas. The evaluation methods used are innovative, incorporating both conventional and unconventional oil and gas resources evaluation methods that utilize plays as the fundamental evaluation unit based on various exploration maturity levels. The evaluation results obtained independent intellectual property rights and provide an overview of the future exploration potential and prospects of different regions. It is a valuable reference for researchers, practitioners, and students involved in petroleum exploration.

The emerging development of genetic enhancement technologies has recently become the focus of a public and philosophical debate between proponents and opponents of a liberal eugenics – that is, the use of these technologies without any overall direction or governmental control. Inspired by Foucault’s, Agamben’s and Esposito’s writings about biopower and biopolitics, the author sees both positions as equally problematic, as both presuppose the existence of a stable, autonomous subject capable of making decisions concerning the future of human nature, while in the age of genetic technology the nature of this subjectivity shall be less an origin than an effect of such decisions. Bringing together a biopolitical critique of the way this controversial issue has been dealt with in liberal moral and political philosophy with a philosophical analysis of the nature of and the relation between life, politics, and technology, the author sets out to outline the contours of a more responsible engagement with genetic technologies based on the idea that technology is an intrinsic condition of humanity.

This book discusses disciplinary struggles in education from three perspectives. The chapters in the first section analyse the disciplinary character of educational practice and institutions. The second section focuses on justification of educational knowledge in transmission between theory and practice. The contributions of the third section problematise the aims and functions of educational practice and theory, which are critical for understanding the implications of disciplinary struggles in education for the future. Although the chapters focus on certain historical periods, forms and contexts of education, they provide insights, which are useful and relevant for a wider discussion in the eclectic and diverse theories and practices of education.

The book deals from a medical history and ethical point of view with the relationship between the doctor and the healthcare workers-patient, and on the other side the patient. The author traces the evolution of this important relationship in the history of medicine: from a paternalistic relationship to patient self-determination. The focus of this relationship is linked to end-of-life with particular attention to taking care of patient in a very difficult period with full attention, with full dignity. The author’s choice of a multidisciplinary approach is very interesting to dealing with the different topics and the marked and continuous recourse to Medical Humanities about medical training and healthcare workers training is a new approach to relations with doctors, patients, healthcare workers and health institutions.

The book explores methods, strategies, and platforms for the circulation and dissemination of Opera in contemporary times within an international context through a multidisciplinary approach. The contributions examine genre transformations, adaptations, and remediations of Opera, as well as multimedia tools and strategies aimed at engaging new generations with musical theatre.

This book offers a critical and interdisciplinary exploration of large language models (LLMs), examining how they reshape our understanding of language, cognition, and society. Drawing on philosophy of language, linguistics, cognitive science, and AI ethics, it investigates how these models generate meaning, simulate reasoning, and perform tasks that once seemed uniquely human—from translation to moral judgment and literary creation. Rather than offering a purely technical account, the book interrogates the epistemic, ethical, and political dimensions of LLMs. It explores their limitations, their embedded biases, and their role in processes of automation, misinformation, and platform enclosure. At the same time, it reflects on how LLMs prompt us to revisit fundamental questions: What is understanding? What is creativity? How do we ascribe agency or trust in a world of synthetic language? Written for scholars, students, and curious readers across the humanities, social sciences, and computer science, this is both a philosophical inquiry and a practical guide to navigating the era of generative AI. It invites readers to think critically about the promises and perils of language technologies—and about the kind of future we are shaping with them.

Much as in other locations around the world, civil uprising, particularly rooted in the activism of young people and students, plagued France during May of 1968. Massive strikes and occupations succeeded in paralysing France’s economy and bringing the country to the verge of a leftist revolution. This book studies the life trajectories of many ordinary protestors during the period, using statistics andpersonal narratives to analyse how this activism arose, its impact on people’s personal and professional lives, and its transmission through familial generations.

Sprache, Technik und Medien stellen das philosophische Denken heute überall in Frage. Dessen Traum der Vernunft scheint ausgeträumt. Vor allem die Katastrophen des 20. Jahrhunderts haben jede Idee einer Versöhnung obsolet gemacht. Der vorliegende Band fragt deshalb, was es heißt, Abschied von der Philosophie zu nehmen. Doch zeigt er an Denkfiguren von Platon bis Derrida, dass die Philosophie den Abschied von sich selbst immer auch schon gedacht hat. Denn die Philosophie kreist um eine Differenz, die sich begrifflich nicht einholen lässt. Diese Differenz insistiert als Frage einer »Ethik« in jedem Begriff, der sich denken lässt. Auf ihr lässt sich kein System begründen - weder philosophisch noch politisch oder technisch. Aber kein System entgeht ihr. Und dies macht den Abschied ebenso definitiv wie unabschließbar.

Die nachträgliche Kolorierung des schwarzweißen Materials war in der Stummfilmepoche eine verbreitete Praxis. Die Filme wurden hand- oder schablonenkoloriert, viragiert und getont. Die häufig ostentativ ausgestellte Materialität der aufgetragenen Farbe stand in einem Spannungsverhältnis zum fotografischen Bild und bewirkte eine spezifische Dynamik zwischen dem Eindruck von Flächigkeit und Plastizität. Kolorierungen kamen in Serpentinentanzfilmen, den ornamentalen Motiven der Féerien, in Trickfilmen oder Moderevuen besonders zur Geltung. In dieser Hinsicht weisen die applikativen Farbtechniken des Films viele Parallelen zu anderen farbigen Bildmedien der Epoche auf (wie Gebrauchsgrafik oder Modeillustration). Zudem zeigt der kolorierte Film seine Nähe zur industrialisierten Ästhetik, vornehmlich zur visuellen Form kommerzieller Farbpaletten. In dieser Studie wird die farbige Fläche des kolorierten Films im Kontext einer intermedialen Geschichte des Ästhetischen untersucht. Farbe als Attraktion, ostentative Materialität und Element medialer Selbstreflexion der Kunst tritt aus dieser Perspektive als eine Sinnfigur der chromatischen Moderne und der populären visuellen Kultur des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts hervor.

The idea that persons or animals possess properties of two types, physical and mental, or psychological and cognitive, inevitably raises the question of how such cognitive properties can be causally efficacious, with respect to other cognitive, physiological, or physical properties, of the person herself or her environment. People, though composed exclusively of atoms like any other material object, have emergent properties that none of those components possess. Among them are cognitive properties. These properties give a person the power to cause both cognitive and physiological events and processes. The Material Mind defends a version of reductionist materialism. It modifies the conceptual framework of the debate by situating psychological and physiological properties of persons within a hierarchy of levels of reality. The Material Mind develops a concept of reduction that is compatible both with scientific change and with the possibility of multiple reduction bases. It shows that cognitive and other higher-level properties can be construed as causal powers, develops a concept of emergence compatible with reduction, and shows that the integration of the mind into a scientific conception of the world does not deprive mental properties and events of causal efficacy. The book defends the possibility of downward causation of physiological effects by cognitive causes, by questioning the justification of both the principle of the causal closure of the physical domain and the principle of causal-explanatory exclusion.