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The digital pdf of Chapter 16 is available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This collection brings together leading figures in the study of international relations to explore praxis as a perspective on international politics and law. With its focus on competent judgments, the praxis approach holds the promise to overcome the divide between knowing and acting that marks positivist international relations theory. Building on the transdisciplinary work of Friedrich Kratochwil, this book reveals the scope, limits and blind spots of praxis theorizing.

The Jesus trilogy: Critical reflections on Jesus' divinity, ascension and resurrection brings together three deeply reflective theological essays that challenge and reimagine some of the most enduring assumptions about the person and work of Jesus of Nazareth. Written by Chris Jones, this scholarly, yet accessible collection invites readers into an honest, critical and compassionate pilgrimage focused on central Christian doctrines, not to undermine faith but to recover its depth, integrity and human significance. The trilogy originated from the suspension of Dr Peter Nagel by the Dutch Reformed Church following his thought‑provoking article ‘Problematising the Divinity of Jesus: Why Jesus is not θεός’ (2019). In defending Nagel, Jones began a theological exploration that developed into three interconnected essays. The first in this trilogy of essays examines the question of Jesus' divinity, tracing how a metaphorical understanding of ‘Son of God’ gradually evolved into an ontological dogma that risks overshadowing the humanity of Jesus. The second essay reflects on the ascension through dialogue with the late Emeritus Professor Andries Gideon van Aarde, whose critical yet faithful scholarship deeply shaped Jones's thought. The third, written in memory of Van Aarde, explores the resurrection as a metaphor for spiritual transformation and renewed human consciousness rather than a literal, physical event. Drawing on biblical scholarship, philosophy and historical theology, The Jesus trilogy argues that Christian faith and ethics should be rooted not in metaphysical speculation but in the radical humanness and moral vision of Jesus. His message of mercy, justice and inclusivity remains as relevant and transformative today as it was in the first century. By recovering Jesus' ethical and spiritual message from the layers of dogmatic tradition, Jones offers a compelling contribution to contemporary Christological discourse. This book will engage theologians, clergy and all studious readers seeking a faith that is intellectually honest, ethically grounded and spiritually alive.

In an innovative cultural history of Argentine movies and radio in the decades before Peronism, Matthew B. Karush demonstrates that competition with jazz and Hollywood cinema shaped Argentina's domestic cultural production in crucial ways, as Argentine producers tried to elevate their offerings to appeal to consumers seduced by North American modernity. At the same time, the transnational marketplace encouraged these producers to compete by marketing "authentic" Argentine culture. Domestic filmmakers, radio and recording entrepreneurs, lyricists, musicians, actors, and screenwriters borrowed heavily from a rich tradition of popular melodrama. Although the resulting mass culture trafficked in conformism and consumerist titillation, it also disseminated versions of national identity that celebrated the virtue and dignity of the poor, while denigrating the wealthy as greedy and mean-spirited.

Gibt es Parallelen zwischen Michel Foucaults und Ernst Jüngers politischem Denken? Auf den ersten Blick scheint dies abwegig. Doch Nasser Ahmed deckt in Foucaults »Sexualität und Wahrheit I« und Jüngers »Der Arbeiter« denselben Typus biopolitischen Denkens auf und zeigt, wie nah sich beide Ansätze sind. Zwischen der Biomacht auf der einen und der Lebensmacht auf der anderen Seite erhellt er einen Raum, der in bisherigen politischen Einordnungen unsichtbar geblieben ist: Foucault und Jünger stehen als biopolitische Denker auf derselben Seite einer fundamentalen Zweiteilung des politischen Denkens, welche das Politische weniger als Funktion der Verständigung, sondern eher als Funktion des Kampfes versteht.

Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Sources, the transformative successor to Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History (first published in 1964), provides a unique venue for scholars to offer fresh readings of evidence from the period 400–1600. This annual is dedicated to the fundamental scholarship of analysis and interpretation led by direct engagement with the sources—written, visual, material—in any form, from editions, translations, and commentaries to reports, notes, and reflections. By foregrounding the most basic approach of working outwards from the evidence, it aims to foster conversations across disciplines, regions, and periods, as well as to become a reference point for original approaches and new discoveries. This supplementary volume comprises essays on sources from the pre-modern world authored by members of the Medieval Studies Research Group, University of Lincoln, to mark the launch of the new (fourth) series.

Welche Herausforderungen ergeben sich einerseits beim Einsatz digitaler Techniken als Gegenstand rechtlicher Regulierung und andererseits hinsichtlich der Veränderung des Rechts durch die Digitalisierung? Die Potentiale der digitalen Transformation sollen genutzt und Risiken für individuelle und kollektive Schutzgüter vermieden werden. Die Entstofflichung digitaler Güter, vielfältige Entgrenzungen und Intransparenzen, die Dominanz privater Normsetzung im IT-Bereich und Asymmetrien in den Machtverhältnissen sind nur einige der strukturell verankerten Hemmnisse erfolgreicher Gestaltung. Die Möglichkeiten des Rechts, aber auch die Schwächen bisheriger Regulierung werden zum Thema. Der Autor plädiert für eine transdisziplinär inspirierte und transnational informierte Rechtswissenschaft, die nicht nur die Mikrowirkungen der Setzung und Anwendung von Recht, sondern auch die infolge der digitalen Transformation besonders bedeutsamen Makrowirkungen in den Blick nimmt.

Cancer is a transnational condition involving the unprecedented flow of health information, technologies, and people across national borders. Such movement raises questions about the nature of therapeutic citizenship, how and where structurally vulnerable populations obtain care, and the political geography of blame associated with this disease. This volume brings together cutting-edge anthropological research carried out across North and South America, Europe, Africa and Asia, representing low-, middle- and high-resource countries with a diversity of national health care systems. Contributors ethnographically map the varied nature of cancer experiences and articulate the multiplicity of meanings that survivorship, risk, charity and care entail. They explore institutional frameworks shaping local responses to cancer and underlying political forces and structural variables that frame individual experiences. Of particular concern is the need to interrogate underlying assumptions of research designs that may lead to the naturalizing of hidden agendas or intentions. Running throughout the chapters, moreover, are considerations of moral and ethical issues related to cancer treatment and research. Thematic emphases include the importance of local biologies in the framing of cancer diagnosis and treatment protocols, uncertainty and ambiguity in definitions of biosociality, shifting definitions of patienthood, and the sociality of care and support.

This book provides empirically grounded insights into the causes, trajectories, and effects of a severe decline in university autonomy and the relationship to other dimensions of academic freedom by comparing in-depth country studies and evidence from a new global timeseries dataset. Drawing attention to ongoing discussions on standards for monitoring and assessment of academic freedom at regional and international organizations, this book identifies a need for clearer standards on academic freedom and a human rights-based definition of university autonomy. Further, the book calls for accompanying international oversight and the inclusion of criteria related to academic freedom in international university rankings. Five expert-authored case studies on academic freedom from diverse nations (Bangladesh, Mozambique, India, Poland, and Turkey) are included in the volume. Drawing on both qualitative and quantitative evidence, the book offers a unique and timely contribution to the field and will be of great interest to scholars, researchers, and students in the fields of higher education, human rights, political science and public policy. This Open Access book is available at www.taylorfrancis.com, and has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

In Suspect Saints and Holy Heretics Janine Larmon Peterson investigates regional saints whose holiness was contested. She scrutinizes the papacy's toleration of unofficial saints' cults and its response when their devotees challenged church authority about a cult's merits or the saint's orthodoxy. As she demonstrates, communities that venerated saints increasingly clashed with popes and inquisitors determined to erode any local claims of religious authority. Local and unsanctioned saints were spiritual and social fixtures in the towns of northern and central Italy in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. In some cases, popes allowed these saints' cults; in others, church officials condemned the saint and/or their followers as heretics. Using a wide range of secular and clerical sources—including vitae, inquisitorial and canonization records, chronicles, and civic statutes—Peterson explores who these unofficial saints were, how the phenomenon of disputed sanctity arose, and why communities would be willing to risk punishment by continuing to venerate a local holy man or woman. She argues that the Church increasingly restricted sanctification in the later Middle Ages, which precipitated new debates over who had the authority to recognize sainthood and what evidence should be used to identify holiness and heterodoxy. The case studies she presents detail how the political climate of the Italian peninsula allowed Italian communities to use saints' cults as a tool to negotiate religious and political autonomy in opposition to growing papal bureaucratization.

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In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird ein datengetriebenes Vorgehen für die Analyse und Synthese von Produkteigenschaften entwickelt, das auf dem Modell der Produktmerkmale und -eigenschaften von WEBER basiert. Im Kontext der Veränderungs- und Anpassungsgestaltung werden die Produktmerkmale und -eigenschaften als Variablen innerhalb eines Machine Learning Modells betrachtet. Die Erzeugung eines Machine Learning Modells erfolgt anhand der aus dem CRISP-DM entwickelten Schritte Datenaufbereitung, Modellierung, Evaluation und Optimierung, wodurch die Anwendung der datengetriebenen Analyse und Synthese ermöglicht wird. Ein konsistentes Datenmanagement ist während des gesamten Modellierungsprozesses erforderlich. Zu diesem Zweck wurde ein Konzept zur datengetriebenen Analyse und Synthese entwickelt, welches im Kontext der benötigten Daten dargestellt und entsprechend eingeordnet wird. Die vorliegende Arbeit hat zum Ziel, die drei Bereiche Metamodellierung, Lösungsraumerzeugung und Datenhaltung zu verbessern. Dabei wird festgestellt, dass nur eine gemeinsame Betrachtung aller drei Bereiche möglich ist. Die Erweiterung der Metamodellierung um globale und lokale Bauteileigenschaften durch Deep Learning (datengetriebene Analyse), ermöglicht die Lösungsraumerzeugung für neue Bauteilentwürfe in der datengetriebenen Synthese. Die Datenhaltung und die semantische Integration durch Metadaten begleiten dabei die jeweiligen Modellierungsprozesse. Zusammenfassend lässt sich feststellen, dass insbesondere Deep Learning die Erzeugung neuer Metamodelle ermöglicht, die u. a. eine ortsaufgelöste Beschreibung bei hinreichender Genauigkeit zu lassen. Darüber hinaus zeigen die vorgestellten Ansätze neue Möglichkeiten auf, mit Hilfe von Lösungsräumen schnell fertigbare Bauteilentwürfe zu erzeugen. Die in diesem Beitrag erarbeiteten Grundlagen und Methoden sind unmittelbar im Entwicklungsprozess anwendbar.

The end of the Cold War opened a Pandora's box of regionalism and separatism across Europe, and today they once again pose a significant threat to the territorial and political integrity of the traditional nation-states. Yet, the existence of various subnational groups is inevitable in democratic states. The scope of separatism and regionalism in Europe is quite wide. It includes de facto states, such as Kosovo, Transnistria, and North Cyprus; strong separatist movements aimed at achieving independence, like Catalonia, Basque Country, Scotland, Flanders, and Faroe Islands; strong movements aimed at achieving a more regional autonomy, for example, Lombardy and Veneto; and weaker regional movements, which could potentially escalate in the future, such as Transylvania in Romania or Vojvodina in Serbia. This edited volume tackles all the above-mentioned regional moments and even includes Greenland as a bonus. It brings together seventeen prominent scholars from a wide range of European and North American academic institutions who compiled ten chapters to shed light on the revival of regionalism and separatism via a thorough evaluation and analysis of some of the most important current separatist and regionalist/autonomist movements across modern Europe. Chris Kostov is an Adjunct Professor in the School of International Relations at IE University Madrid, Spain. He earned his PhD in History and Canadian Studies from the University of Ottawa, Canada. His main academic interests include Balkan and modern European nationalism and Communist repressions in Cold War Eastern Europe.

This open access book features a diverse collective of arts and humanities researchers, educators and creative practitioners, sharing their thoughts and experiences of how to approach gender nonconformity creatively and ethically, including from a decolonial perspective. While substantial work has addressed the ethics and practicalities of working with trans and gender-nonconforming participants in social science research, approaches to gender nonconformity in arts and humanities research, teaching and practice still remain underexplored. Here, contributors share their thoughts and experience on topics including centring trans people and people of colour in fan adaptations of Les Misérables; moving beyond medicalised approaches to trans history; responding to the early modern history of gender nonconformity through poetic-performative closet dramas; and using trans history to decolonise history teaching. The editors’ draw out the book’s practical and theoretical implications, reflecting on what it means for marginalised people to ‘forge a home’ within the arts and humanities in our contemporary political moment. This book is an invaluable resource for academics, educators, performers and activists invested in finding new, trans-affirming, decolonial and anti-racist ways to engage with gender nonconformity in their work. 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 the Bloomsbury Open Collections Library Collective.

Die kontroversen Diskussionen um die politische Entwicklung in Russland seit der Machtübernahme durch Wladimir Putin im Jahr 2000 reißen nicht ab. Der Abbau demokratischer Rechte, wirtschaftliches Wachstum und Stabilität werden als Kennzeichen der Putin'schen Herrschaft hervorgehoben. Philipp Casula fokussiert in seiner Analyse hingegen auf die Genese des politischen Diskurses im Zeitraum 2000-2008 und erarbeitet dessen hegemoniale und populistische Tendenzen mithilfe der Ansätze von Ernesto Laclau. Die Studie wirft ein neues Licht auf die russische politische Entwicklung und produziert Erklärungen für die Regime-Stabilität Russlands unter Putin jenseits üblicher transformationstheoretischer Modelle.

In diesem Open Access Buch nähert sichNicole Marion Mueller mithilfe innovativer digitaler Methoden dem japanischen Übersetzungspluralismus im 20. Jahrhundert und seinen historischen Rahmenbedingungen an. Dabei bezieht sie sich auf Thomas Mann, der Japans Intellektuelle wie kaum ein anderer deutscher Autor geprägt hat. Manns Erzählwerke wie insbesondere Tonio Kröger wurden nicht nur im alten japanischen Bildungssystem intensiv rezipiert, sondern in der Folge auch in zweistelliger Anzahl ins Japanische übersetzt. Diese bisher kaum wissenschaftlich aufgearbeitete Übersetzungsvielfalt, einschließlich der zuvor verborgenen Wechselwirkungen zwischen den Texten sowie der Zusammenhänge mit historischen Kontextfaktoren, wird durch Implementierung eines auf digitalen Themenmodellen basierenden Mixed Methods-Ansatzes erstmalig erschlossen.