Humanities & Social Sciences

The book collects the contributions of scholars from disciplines of education and digital representation to jointly investigate the lines of development of education to art and heritage. Pedagogical knowledge brought into digital environments, both Augmented Reality and Immersive Virtual Reality, enhances its effectiveness in the signification of an educational experience whose main objectives seem to be art in all its forms and cultural heritage in all its expressions.

Report on rescue excavation in 1996 by Tees Archaeology at housing development site where human remains were revealed. Evidence recovered indicated it was an EBA cemetery with remains of up to 20 individuals, both burials and cremations. A high-status burial of a woman had various objects of jet, while a male had a stone macehead. Evidence for mummification of some bodies.

After the election of Donald Trump in 2016, a group of poets, artists, and activists conceived of a project wherein they could respond to the sudden and seemingly relentless barrage of Trump’s dystopian executive orders with a series of their own orders. The project, titled “Executive Orders,” was envisioned as a collaborative, freeform, “emergency” prose poem that would generate real-time responses to current events and the emerging American political landscape. The result was a poetic catalog of the people’s executive orders—orders that are at turns serious, absurd, satirical, philosophical, critical, utopian, and so on. Executive Orders began as one community’s effort to cope with and respond to the tidal wave of reactionary policies enacted or proclaimed during the years of Trump’s first administration. As an index of historical happenings that charts events in rough chronological order (including the Muslim-country travel ban, Black Lives Matter protests, the Brett Kavanaugh hearings, the youth climate march, the January 6th riot at the US Capitol, and many other events), it stands as a documentary record of this historical period from the perspective of artists, writers, leftists, progressives, and other contributors, many of them anonymous. Executive Orders is also an experiment in crowdsourced collaborative making that tells a story about the ways we can—and can’t—come together to form a collective that could have a voice in political deliberations.

This open access edited collection shows how neoliberalism continues to shape higher music education institutions, curricula design and learning cultures, as well as the various ways of transitioning from education to work and the world of uncertainty and job insecurity currently being experienced by a younger generation of musicians. The book brings together empirical studies, activist voices, theoretical reflections and autoethnographic studies from a broad range of disciplines, work contexts and geographical regions. These contributions examine how race/ethnicity, gender and class pervade the creation, performance and teaching of music and create the context for the reproduction of social inequalities. They also illuminate the notions of employability, entrepreneurialism and meritocracy that underpin higher music education and the music labour markets in Italy, Portugal, the Netherlands, Sweden, Estonia, Hungary, Finland, the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada and China, and provide insights into the strategies used by musicians to manage their precarious working lives. Finally, this collection specifically highlights alternative pedagogical approaches and activist tactics for moving forward in the era of Black Lives Matter, #StopAsianHate and #MeToo. 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 mdw - University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.

This chapter examines the question of whether mental categories come in both conscious and unconscious forms, focusing on the case of volition. Drawing out the implications of the fact that volition is a personal-level phenomenon, an argument against the possibility of unconscious volition is developed. Three objections to that argument are then considered: the first appeals to minimal actions and the exercise of expertise; the second appeals to Benjamin Libet’s studies regarding the Readiness Potential; and the third appeals to relational conceptions of consciousness. All three arguments are found to be uncompelling. The chapter concludes by revisiting the question of whether mental categories can, in general, take both conscious and unconscious forms.

This book explores how the conceptions of episcopacy shaped the identity of the bishops of France in the wake of the reforming Council of Trent (1545-63). It demonstrates how the episcopate, initially demoralized by the Wars of Religion, developed a powerful ideology of privilege, leadership and pastorate that enabled it to become a flourishing participant in the religious, political and social life of the ancien régime. Arguing that the traditional images portrayed by Trent and prelates such as Charles Borromeo of Milan did not offer a comprehensive model of episcopal spirituality, government and pastoral care, the study examines the distinctive images of episcopacy that were developed by French reformers and theologians to respond to the specific demands of ecclesiastical leadership and reform in seventeenth-century France. It then assesses the ways in which an increasingly assertive episcopate put these ideals into practice, and explains that the bishops' tempestuous relations with the religious orders, the Jansenists, the papacy and the Bourbon monarchy were profoundly shaped by their gallican, conciliarist and independent views of episcopal duties and prerogatives. This is the first publication to analyse the attitudes of Tridentine bishops towards their office by considering the French episcopate as a recognisable caste, possessing a variety of theological and political principles that allowed it to dominate the French church. It will be indispensable to those interested in the culture of early modern catholicism and the ancien régime.

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In dem Sammelband werden Reformprojekte vorgestellt, die Teilnehmende eines afrikanisch-asiatischen Qualifizierungsprogramms für Dekane an ihren Heimathochschulen umgesetzt haben. In den Projekten haben sie Veränderungen in verschiedenen Bereichen initiiert. Dazu gehören Verbesserungen in Forschung und Lehre sowie die Einführung einer Qualitätssicherung. Im "DIES International Deans' Course" werden Managementfähigkeiten für Fakultätsmanager:innen im afrikanischen und südostasiatischen Raum vermittelt. Die Autorinnen und Autoren zeigen, dass es auch unter schwierigen Bedingungen möglich ist, erfolgreiche Änderungsprozesse auf den Weg zu bringen. Alle Beiträge des Bandes sind auf Englisch verfasst.

The Baden Administrative Court was the first administrative court to be established in Germany and began its work in October 1863 in Karlsruhe. In 2013, the anniversary of its founding provided the occasion to reflect on the 150-years history of administrative justice in Germany. The essay is based on a lecture delivered by the then President of the Federal Administrative Court to mark the anniversary.

Grounded in systemic family therapy and drawing on a variety of other models to enhance skills development, this book is a comprehensive, practical guide to working with families. This second edition is thoroughly updated and includes new chapters which cover working with First Nations Families, diversity and family therapy, understanding emotions, and dialogical reflective processes. The book begins with a focus on the therapeutic relationship and use of self as a foundation, and from there provides the reader with practical, skill-oriented guidelines for working with families. From the first session to addressing the complexities of separated parents, parent-child relational breaches, family of origin issues, wider systems, managing emotions, diversity, and much more, the book takes the reader through core practices that will become essential skills for family work. Written by an expert team of authors committed to innovative and contextual practice, this book is for experienced clinicians who want to learn to work with families and for beginning therapists to learn from a structured approach to developing complex skills.

A kötet egy, az alkoholizmusból felépülő közösség, az Anonim Alkoholisták (A.A.) átfogó bemutatására vállalkozik. Nyomon követi kialakulásának történetét egyesült államokbeli alapításától globális közösséggé fejlődéséig, kitérve a rendszerváltással meginduló magyarországi elterjedésére. Feltárja azokat a vallási, filozófiai és tudományos eszméket, melyekben a közösség elképzelései gyökereznek, majd azt a folyamatot, ahogy nézetei, a kezdeti vallási elképzelésektől elszakadva, azokon túllépve, spirituális szemléletté fejlődtek. Elemzi az A.A. alkoholizmusról mint betegségről kialakított, a modern orvostudományra is hatást gyakorló felfogását, tizenkét lépéses felépülési programját, illetve szervezetének és működésének elveit, melyek a múlt század közepétől egyre több, különböző szenvedélybetegségekből felépülő közösség számára szolgáltattak mintát, és jelentősen hozzájárultak a század utolsó harmadától kibontakozó pszichospirituális józan kultúrához. A szerző elemzéseiben nem csupán az A.A.-hoz kapcsolódó közösségi és szakirodalomra, hanem többévnyi, A.A.-gyűléseken és -találkozókon végzett résztvevő megfigyelésre, a közösség tagjaival készült számos interjúra, valamint egy kérdőíves vizsgálatra támaszkodik, betekintést nyújtva a magyarországi A.A.-közösségben józanodók életvilágába. Madácsy József (1970–) mintegy húsz éve a Pécsi Tudományegyetem Közösségi és Szociális Tanulmányok Tanszékének oktatója, ma tanszékvezetője. Fő oktatási és kutatási területei a szenvedélybetegség, a felépülés lehetőségei és a segítő munka etikája. Egyetemi munkája mellett autogén tréner és addiktológiai tanácsadó a Rovienne Pszichológiai Központban, illetve az INDIT Közalapítványnál önkéntes munkában támogat problémás szerhasználattal küzdőket.

These conference proceedings contain the presentations given at the 19th Göttinger Workshop on Family Law, which took place on November 10, 2023. The workshop was held on the occasion of a legislative initiative of the German government coalition, concerning the so-called “Verantwortungsgemeinschaft” (community of responsibility). This reform proposal raised questions about the prerequisites and consequences of such communities, as well as the extent of regulatory necessity. In light of these considerations, the workshop focused on how responsibility and community are practised and should be regulated beyond the concepts of marriage and the nuclear family, e.g. in non-marital cohabitation, step- or queer families or elderly communities and other elective affinities. In addition to the jurisprudential and comparative legal perspectives, the social sciences have also been taken into account.

This book on hybrid electric vehicles brings out six chapters on some of the research activities through the wide range of current issues on hybrid electric vehicles. The first section deals with two interesting applications of HEVs, namely, urban buses and heavy duty working machines. The second one groups papers related to the optimization of the electricity flows in a hybrid electric vehicle, starting from the optimization of recharge in PHEVs through advance storage systems, new motor technologies, and integrated starter-alternator technologies. A comprehensive analysis of the technologies used in HEVs is beyond the aim of the book. However, the content of this volume can be useful to scientists and students to broaden their knowledge of technologies and application of hybrid electric vehicles.

This book examines the politics of revenue bargaining in Africa in a time when attention to domestic revenue mobilisation has expanded immensely. Measures to increase taxes and other revenues can -but do not always- lead to a process of bargaining, where revenue providers negotiate for some kind of a return. This book offers in-depth analyses of micro-instances of revenue bargaining across five African countries: Mozambique, Senegal, Tanzania, Togo, and Uganda. All case studies draw on a common theoretical framework combining the fiscal contract theory with the political settlement approach, which enables a systematic exploration into what triggers revenue bargaining; how these processes unfold; and finally, if and when they reach an agreement (whether a fiscal contract or not). From the empirically rich case narratives emerges a story of how power and initial bargaining position influence not only whether bargaining emerges in the first place, but also the processes and their outcomes. Less resourceful taxpayers are in a more difficult position to raise their voice, but in some cases even these groups manage to ally with other civil society groups to protest against tax reforms they perceive as unfair. Indirect taxes such as VAT often trigger protests, and so do sudden changes in tax practices. Revenue providers rarely call for improved services in return for paying tax, which would be expected to nurture the foundation for a fiscal social contract. Instead, revenue providers are more likely to negotiate for tax reductions, implying that governments’ effort to increase revenue is impeded. We do find many instances of state-society reciprocity when ruling elites try to be responsive to revenue providers’ demands. Hence, this book gives insight into the nature and dynamics not only of revenue bargaining but of policy-making in general as well as the implications hereof for state-society reciprocity in Africa.

In Reciprocity, Truth, and Gender in Pindar and Aeschylus, author Arum Park explores two notoriously difficult ancient Greek poets and seeks to articulate the complex relationship between them. Although Pindar and Aeschylus were contemporaries, previous scholarship has often treated them as representatives of contrasting worldviews. Park’s comparative study offers the alternative perspective of understanding them as complements instead. By examining these poets together through the concepts of reciprocity, truth, and gender, this book establishes a relationship between Pindar and Aeschylus that challenges previous conceptions of their dissimilarity. The book accomplishes three aims: first, it shows that Pindar and Aeschylus frame their poetry using similar principles of reciprocity; second, it demonstrates that each poet depicts truth in a way that is specific to those reciprocity principles; and finally, it illustrates how their depictions of gender are shaped by this intertwining of truth and reciprocity. By demonstrating their complementarity, the book situates Pindar and Aeschylus in the same poetic ecosystem, which has implications for how we understand ancient Greek poetry more broadly: using Pindar and Aeschylus as case studies, the book provides a window into their dynamic and interactive poetic world, a world in which ostensibly dissimilar poets and genres actually have much more in common than we might think.