Humanities & Social Sciences

The rapid development of new information and communication technologies has changed people’s everyday life and consumption patterns significantly. The worldwide spread of those technologies provides many innovations for consumers, but it can also bear risks, such as the indiscriminate collection, storage and cross-border flow of personal data, illegal spying on Internet activities, dissemination of personal information, and abuse of user passwords. The study deals with the current state of consumer data protection law in Brazil, China and Germany from a comparative perspective. It covers the main legal issues of consumer privacy and data protection in these countries and seeks to explain current issues and case law concerning consumer data protection from a practical perspective.

This open access book revisits the theoretical foundations of urban planning and the application of these concepts and methods in the context of Southern countries by examining several case studies from different regions of the world. For instance, the case of Koudougou, a medium-sized city in one of the poorest countries in the world, Burkina Faso, with a population of 115.000 inhabitants, allows us to understand concretely which and how these deficiencies are translated in an African urban context. In contrast, the case of Nueve de Julio, intermediate city of 50.000 dwellers in the pampa Argentina, addresses the new forms of spatial fragmentation and social exclusion linked with agro export and crisis of the international markets. Case studies are also included for cities in Asia and Latin America. Differences and similarities between cases allow us to foresee alternative models of urban planning better adapted to tackle poverty and find efficient ways for more inclusive cities in developing and emerging countries, interacting several dimensions linked with high rates of urbanization: territorial fragmentation; environmental contamination; social disparities and exclusion, informal economy and habitat, urban governance and democracy.

Language plays an essential role both in creating law and in governing its implementation. Providing an accessible and comprehensive introduction to this subject, Language and Law:describes the different registers and genres that make up spoken and written legal language and how they develop over time; analyses real-life examples drawn from court cases from different parts of the world, illustrating the varieties of English used in the courtroom by speakers occupying different roles; addresses the challenges presented to our notions of law and regulation by online communication; discusses the complex role of translation in bilingual and multilingual jurisdictions, including Hong Kong and Canada; and provides readings from key scholars in the discipline, including Lawrence Solan, Peter Goodrich, Marianne Constable, David Mellinkoff, and Chris Heffer. With a wide range of activities throughout, this accessible textbook is essential reading for anyone studying language and law or forensic linguistics.

Diese Monographie untersucht Leonard Nelsons Kritik an der Erkenntnistheorie. Leonard Nelson war in den ersten dreißig Jahren des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts ein bekannter Philosoph, der zusammen mit dem Neukantianismus seine Bedeutung verlor. In letzter Zeit lässt sich jedoch eine deutliche Zunahme des Interesses an Neukantianismus beobachten. Dieses Buch leistet somit einen wichtigen Beitrag zu den neuen Tendenzen in der gegenwärtigen philosophischen Geschichtsschreibung und der systematischen Erforschung der zeitgenössischen Philosophie. Der Autor stellt darin eine eingehende und systematische Analyse der Kritik von Nelson an der Erkenntnistheorie dar. Diese Kritik wird vor allem aus der Sicht des Neukantianismus vorgenommen, aber auch andere wichtige Referenzen wie Phänomenologie und Positivismus werden berücksichtigt.

Diese Arbeit befasst sich mit einer Entwicklung der deutschen komparativen Korrelativkonstruktionen (KK) wie je mehr ich esse, desto dicker werde ich. Zur Untersuchung wurden verschiedene historische und gegenwartssprachliche Korpora verwendet. Die Untersuchungsergebnisse werden im Theoriefeld der Konstruktionsgrammatik analysiert. Ein zentrales Ergebnis dieser Arbeit ist, dass die Entwicklung der Literalität in der deutschen Sprachgeschichte einen relevanten Beitrag zur Konstruktionalisierung und zum Konstruktionswandel der KK leistet.

After its independence in 1957, Ghana sent specialists to both German states for professional education and training. This transnational entanglement history takes various perspectives to analyze the goals that Ghana, the FRG, and the GDR pursued with these programs during the Cold War and their respective development plans. It also takes into account the interests of Ghanaian specialists and the freedom they had to make their own decisions.

Music of the Baduy People of Western Java: Singing is a Medicine by Wim van Zanten is about music and dance of the indigenous group of the Baduy, consisting of about twelve-thousand people living in western Java. It covers music for rice rituals, for circumcisions and weddings, and music for entertainment. The book includes many photographs and several discussed audio-visual examples that can be found on DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.c.5170520. Baduy are suppposed to live a simple, ascetic life. However, there is a shortage of agricultural land and there are many temptations from the changing world around them. Little has been published on Baduy music and dance. Wim van Zanten’s book seeks to fill this lacuna and is based on short periods of fieldwork from 1976 to 2016. Readership: Ethnomusicologists and anthropologists, especially those interested in ethnic minority groups. It is also meant for scholars, NGOs and administrators of intangible cultural heritage and people of Baduy descent.

Energy Worlds in Experiment is an experiment in writing about energy and an exploration of energy infrastructures as experiments. Twenty authors have written collaborative chapters that examine energy politics and practices, from electricity cables and energy monitors to swamps and estuaries. Each chapter proposes a unique format to tell energy worlds differently and to stimulate energy imaginaries: thesis, propositions, interviews, stories, card games, and a graphic novel. The book offers practitioners, students, and scholars a range of new tools to help think, engage and critique energy politics, practices and infrastructures.

This book is a collection of theoretical advanced summer institute lectures by world experts in the field of collider physics and neutrinos, the two frontier areas of particle physics today. It is aimed at graduate students and beginning researchers, and as such, provides many pedagogical details not generally available in standard conference proceedings.

What is it that really binds Dutch people together? That's the central question of many public debates.This study focuses on the the role of victimhood on our concept of society. Drawing on the works of the American philosopher Richard Rorty, the author discusses morality, criminality, religion, sexual abuse and legalisation of prostituiton.

Female authors from the Varnhagen Collection such as Charlotte von Ahlefeldt, Helmina von Chézy, Amalie von Imhoff, Amalie Schoppe, Fanny Tarnow, Karoline von Woltmann, Caroline de la Motte Fouqué, Amalie von Voigt, and others distinguished themselves in the literary field by their broad and varied impact – being writers, translators, journalists, educators and functioning as mediators between different cultures and literatures. The archived traces of these activities are intertwined and extended in the collection by traces of archiving activities: notes, dossiers, annotations. These constellations can be made accessible and interconnected through digital editions, whereby they in turn take on a discourse-shaping function. This as well as the diversity of collection assemblages is elaborated in the broad range of contributions of the volume.

Arguably one of the most characteristic features of the teacher-student relationship is its multifaceted asymmetry in knowledge, ability, experience, dependency, power, etc. The ambivalent significance of this asymmetry for the teacher-student interaction has been highlighted by educational researchers, teachers, and teacher educators alike. The asymmetrical relationship structure is assumed to be central to the “grammar of schooling” that enables pedagogical interaction in the classroom and sets its parameters. At the same time, it is also considered to pose challenges to teachers in their interaction with students. So far, however, no conceptual account of the asymmetry has been proposed, and few studies have investigated it systematically as a complex, multifaceted feature of the teacher-student relationship. This qualitative study examines the asymmetry from the teachers’ perspective. Drawing on structural-theoretical accounts of teacher professionalism and systems-theoretical conceptions of pedagogical communication, it develops a schematic conception of the asymmetry and its complexity that provides a heuristic frame of reference for the empirical study. Using an approach based on Mannheim’s and Bohnsack’s praxeological sociology of knowledge, the study asks how teachers experience their interaction with students regarding the asymmetry of their relationship and how they deal with and shape the asymmetry when interacting with students. The study focuses on the concept of collective orientations, or habitus, of teachers, i.e., collective, embodied, tacit knowledge that underlies the teachers’ actions as implicitly practice-guiding principles. The findings show that the interviewed teachers perceive the asymmetry as being shaped coconstructively through the interaction of teacher and students, although the interviewed teachers differ in how they experience the process of this co-construction: as antagonism or as congruence in co-construction. Moreover, the teachers take for granted the asymmetry of the relationship and their position as superior in knowledge, ability, and experience as well as power and control. They routinely and as a matter of course rely on this position when interacting with students. However, different collective orientations underlie this reliance on the asymmetry. Two contrasting types of orientations have been reconstructed: orientations primarily centered on the assumed requirements of pedagogical practice and orientations primarily centered on the teachers’ self-interest. Furthermore, the complexity of the asymmetrical relationship structure as spelled out by the heuristic-theoretical conception is not reflected in how the teachers experience their interaction with students regarding the asymmetry and how they deal with it. On the one hand, the interviewed teachers focus on selected aspects of the asymmetry. On the other hand, how they deal with the asymmetry is structurally analogous across theoretically distinguishable aspects. These results raise further questions on how teachers experience and deal with the asymmetry as well as more metatheoretical questions regarding the conception of collective orientations underlying teachers’ professional practice.

The here collected contributions relating to the 46th International Conference of the Representation Disciplines Teachers, organized jointly by Sapienza University of Rome, Roma Tre University, and San Raffaele Roma University, aim to offer the scientific community a reflection on the theoretical and methodological aspects related to the concept of èkphrasis, a term that, in the field of representation, concerns descriptive, analogical, and digital activities that generate new knowledge in several areas of application. The Conference aims to place at the center of the discussion an interpretation of the concept of research that, without neglecting an idea of study, protection, and enhancement of environmental and cultural heritage, focuses on the needs of contemporary society and its possible developments, making use of innovative theoretical, methodological, and operational activities, including those characterized by an interdisciplinary approach. According to this interpretation, research can also be seen as a foreshadowing of the definition and testing of experimental proposals aimed at exploring new areas of investigation: this opens up imaginative and utopian perspectives in the relationship between the sciences, the arts, and the disciplines that contribute to common goals, through the experimentation of methods, techniques, and languages for conceiving, prefiguring, designing, and representing.

This timely book explores current trends and future possibilities for undergraduate career education, the nature of the changing workplace, and its impact on students in colleges and universities. Built on decades of experience in career development and professional learning, the editors raise and investigate multiple critical issues facing career educators in higher education today: preparing students for the future of work; exploring the increasing centrality of experiential learning in career education; examining innovative paradigm shifts in career education; and developing strategies for equity-focused and inclusive programming for all students. Reckoning with the effects of COVID-19 on the world of career development, this book draws on contributions from leading scholars, entrepreneurs, and practitioners from across the fields of education, business, STEM, and the humanities to offer an inclusive and innovation-focused approach to supporting scholars, practitioners, and students involved with career education, development, and counseling for a new generation—and a new world of work.

In the 1990s, Los Angeles was home to numerous radical social and environmental eruptions. In the face of several major earthquakes and floods, riots and economic insecurity, police brutality and mass incarceration, some young black Angelenos turned to holy hip hop—a movement merging Christianity and hip hop culture—to “save” themselves and the city. Converting street corners to open-air churches and gangsta rap beats into anthems of praise, holy hip hoppers used gospel rap to navigate complicated social and spiritual realities and to transform the Southland’s fractured terrains into musical Zions. Armed with beats, rhymes, and bibles, they journeyed through black Lutheran congregations, prison ministries, African churches, reggae dancehalls, hip hop clubs, Nation of Islam meetings, and Black Lives Matter marches. Zanfagna’s fascinating ethnography provides a contemporary and unique view of black LA, offering a much-needed perspective on how music and religion intertwine in people’s everyday experiences.