Humanities & Social Sciences

Was haben Geld und Tod miteinander zu tun? In frühneuzeitlichen Diskursen werden beide auf bisher unbeachtete und oft überraschende Weise zusammengebracht. Anhand wenig beachteter Schriften berühmter Figuren der europäischen Geistesgeschichte – John Lydgate, Nicolaus Copernicus und Paracelsus von Hohenheim – geht Peter Löffelbein der kulturgeschichtlichen Bedeutung des Phänomens nach. Dabei deckt er historische Verflechtungen u.a. von Geldtheorie, Theologie und Naturphilosophie auf und macht deutlich, wie sehr die Epistemologien der Neuzeit dem angeblich so anderen Denken der Vormoderne verpflichtet sind.

The book takes up the (post-)operaist concept of immaterial labour (cf. Maurizio Lazzarato: 1998, Toni Negri, Michael Hardt: 2000) and relates it to spatial processes and architectural projects from the 1960s. The book’s title is the hypotheses of its investigation. It allows to be exemplified with the following questions: Do we find, parallel to a dominant cultural practice of immaterial labour new forms and orders of architecture? Which forms does it take on? Or does workplace architecture disappear at all parallel to the blurring of the formerly clearly marked spaces of the factory?

MedSens index provides the environmental status of subtidal rocky coastal habitats based on open data collected by trained volunteers using the Reef Check Mediterranean Underwater Coastal Environment Monitoring protocol. It is based on 25 species, incorporating their sensitivities to the EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive pressures and their distributions and abundances. MedSens was applied along the Tuscan Archipelago National Park Islands’ coasts, providing the mean sensitivity of the assemblages. It can help decision-makers in implementing marine biodiversity conservation measures.

Die Erde befindet sich in einem vom Menschen bewirkten, tiefgreifenden Veränderungsprozess. Um dieses dringliche Problem neu anzugehen, nehmen die Autor*innen dieses Bandes den Begriff der „Zone“ zum Ausgangspunkt für eine kritische Ökologie. Das „Denken in Zonen“ hält der Makro-Perspektive des Planetarischen den Blick auf das Heterogene und Prozesshafte, auf die Übergänge, Grenzen und Singularitäten von Räumen entgegen. In den Vordergrund rücken damit die Handlungsmacht und Relationalität von Räumen, um die drastischen, ebenso materiellen wie epistemischen Veränderungen und Verschiebungen im Verhältnis des Menschen zur Erde im Anthropozän besser zu fassen. Mit Aufsätzen von Florian Auerochs, Jeanne Etelain, Mary Louise Pratt und Robert Stockhammer versammelt dieser Band erstmals maßgebliche Zugänge zu Begriff und Ästhetik der Zone, die seine Tragweite als Instrument ökologischen Denkens in den Kulturwissenschaften aufzeigen.

Die der Krankenversorgung immanente Caritas ist ebenso keine Gegenkategorie zur Ökonomie, also zu einem wirtschaftlichen Handeln, wie auch das Management der sozialen Verantwortung nicht auf die Moderation (scheinbar) gegensätzlicher Interessen von Patienten, Mitarbeitern und Trägern beschränkt ist. Im Gegenteil: Auch im Krankenhaus ist – wie in jeder anderen wirtschaftenden Organisation – soziale Verantwortung als strategische Aufgabe zur Stärkung der Wettbewerbsfähigkeit und Bewältigung von Veränderungen zu definieren und personell wie institutionell dauerhaft zu implementieren. – Wie können die Akteure in einem Krankenhaus soziale Verantwortung wahrnehmen und umsetzen und zugleich für eine nachhaltige Performance sorgen? – Wer sind die unterschiedlichen Stakeholder und welche Positionen und Aspekte sind bei welchen unternehmerischen Entscheidungen zu berücksichtigen? – Welche sind die Messgrößen für sozial verantwortliches Handeln und damit die Zielgrößen und Handlungsfelder der Verantwortungsträger? – Welche sind die personellen und institutionellen Voraussetzungen für ein Management der sozialen Verantwortung? Diese Fragen werden umsetzungsorientiert dargestellt und durch Praxis-Beispiele zur Entwicklung und Implementierung eines neuen Managements der sozialen Verantwortung ergänzt.

Um den Begriff des Originals gibt es heftige Debatten. Können Fälschungen ebenso gut sein wie Originale? Wann sind Kopien vielleicht sogar besser? Und ist die Zeit des Originals nicht überhaupt vorbei? Dabei tritt die Frage, was ein Original eigentlich sei, oft in den Hintergrund. Doris Reisinger stellt die These auf: Der Begriff des Originals ist nicht nur nicht obsolet, er hat auch nicht notwendig mit Neuheit, Urheberschaft oder ästhetischem Wert zu tun - das Problem des Originalbegriffs besteht schlicht darin, dass seine komplexe Struktur verkannt wird. Vor diesem Ausgangspunkt erarbeitet sie einen Explikationsvorschlag, der die Beantwortung einer ganzen Reihe von Fragen dieser klassischen philosophischen Debatte erlaubt.

Local history lessons in the GDR were intended to make a significant contribution to the political and natural history education of children in the first four years of school. But what didactic approaches and what areas of tension were present in local history lessons? This question forms the starting point for the study of three selected lesson concepts from local history lessons in the GDR. The study follows the approach of historical subject teaching research. An important point is also the question of what conclusions can be drawn from the analysis of the historical lesson concepts for current didactic and pedagogical thinking. Translated with DeepL.com (free version)

Active citizenship became a research issue for adult learning and education in 1995 when the Council of Ministers decided to make 1996 the Year of Lifelong Learning. Moreover, the Lisbon programme, in the year 2000, reinforced the relevance of the issue and, along with employability, connected it to lifelong learning. That is why since 2001 comparative adult learning and education researchers have put a specific focus on analysing active citizenship and bridging it to adult learning. For this very reason, a distinguished Comparative Working Group was formed at the 2019 Winter School of the Erasmus+ Intall project—on the one hand, to collect different national/regional and local narratives and understandings of active citizenship and, on the other, to gather examples, good practices, formations of active citizens, or trajectories of how to learn for active citizenship as routes and processes of lifelong learning. The same Winter School comparative group tried to analyse the similarities and differences collected in an effort to relate them to existing theoretical frames offered by key authors on the topic, including Baert, Jansen, Jarvis, Johnston, Wildemeeersch, and others. This paper discusses the experiences of the comparative working group and formulates some special conclusions and comments for further actions of comparative studies in adult learning and education.

In der Dissertation werden Einfluss und Wirkung von Emotionen auf das Handeln pädagogischer Führungskräfte in Kindergarten, Schule und Erwachsenenbildung erforscht. Der Autor untersucht auf Basis eigener Erhebungen und mit dem Ansatz der komparativen Berufsgruppenforschung die Relevanz und Wirkmächtigkeit von Emotionen. Ausgehend von der Rekonstruktion emotional konnotierter, aufgeladener oder herausfordernder Situationen entwickelt er eine gegenstandsbezogene Theorie emotionaler Professionalität. Im Mittelpunkt steht hier die Analyse verschiedener Spannungsverhältnisse, Antinomien und Paradoxien des Berufsalltags von Führungskräften. Durch das strukturelle Verständnis emotional geprägter Situationen und das Erkennen funktionaler und dysfunktionaler Handlungsstrategien können pädagogische Führungskräfte das eigene professionelle Handeln reflektieren. Die Studie verknüpft die Diskurse um Emotionen, Führung und Professionalität mit Blick auf die pädagogischen Berufspraxis.

The 43rd UID conference, held in Genova, takes up the theme of ‘Dialogues’ as practice and debate on many fundamental topics in our social life, especially in these complex and not yet resolved times. The city of Genova offers the opportunity to ponder on the value of comparison and on the possibilities for the community, naturally focused on the aspects that concern us, as professors, researchers, disseminators of knowledge, or on all the possibile meanings of the discipline of representation and its dialogue with ‘others’, which we have broadly catalogued in three macro areas: History, Semiotics, Science / Technology. Therefore, “dialogue” as a profitable exchange based on a common language, without which it is impossible to comprehend and understand one another; and the graphic sign that connotes the conference is the precise transcription of this concept: the title ‘translated’ into signs, derived from the visual alphabet designed for the visual identity of the UID since 2017. There are many topics which refer to three macro sessions: - Witnessing (signs and history) - Communicating (signs and semiotics) - Experimenting (signs and sciences) Thanks to the different points of view, an exceptional resource of our disciplinary area, we want to try to outline the prevailing theoretical-operational synergies, the collaborative lines of an instrumental nature, the recent updates of the repertoires of images that attest and nourish the relations among representation, history, semiotics, sciences.

The main objective of this book is to provide an innovative set of concepts and tools regarding company management, internal and external stakeholders and social responsibilities, reflecting the necessities and opportunities generated by the digital transformation, the transition to a knowledge-based economy, and the COVID-19 crisis. The book, based on a holistic vision and contextual approach of business, contributes to the development of company management and stakeholder and social responsibility theories and practices, being structured in 12 chapters. The original company management vision, approaches, and tools are based on three pillars: a new "manager–relevant stakeholder" rather than "manager–subordinate" managerial paradigm; a new type of company social responsibility rather than corporate social responsibility; and a new concept of company-relevant stakeholder rather than that of salient stakeholders. The book contains two innovative managerial mechanisms: the managerial synapse and company-relevant stakeholders-based management system able to help companies and stakeholders face successfully the challenges of digital transformation and the COVID-19 crisis and to generate greater organization functionality and performance. The book will be of interest to company managers and management specialists, management academics, consultants and researchers, and MBA students interested in a style of management with social responsibility at the forefront.

Over two million years ago, when beings identifiable as belonging to the human species left their first traces on the planet, insects had already been present for approximately four hundred million years. Whether airborne, terrestrial, aquatic, or concealed within the earth, they have served as carriers of life, disease, suffering, death, pleasure, annoyance and fear. In every corner of the planet (and perhaps even beyond), they have invariably accompanied the existence of various creatures, including humans. Hence, it comes as no surprise that insects have been extensively depicted in various forms of human cultural expression, ranging from legends and myths to art, literature, medicine, cuisine and religious practices. Among other insects, crickets are a constant presence in Classical Chinese poetry. This study will embark on an exploration of the early stages in the development of the intricate symbolic and metaphorical system associated with crickets in poetry, drawing from the two oldest collections of Chinese poetry: the Book of Poetry and the Elegies of Chu. However, its primary focus will be directed towards the presence of crickets in the poetry of Du Fu (712-770), one of the foremost Chinese poets. Specifically, the study will delve into examining how these insects are employed, their function, context, and the imagery intertwined with them within Du Fu's poetic works.

From the mid-1980s, meat consumption in Italy and the western world have stabilised and, in the face of a well-established food security, we have witnessed a changed sensitivity for ethical issues, such as animal welfare and environmental impacts of farms. Analysing the sustainability of meat and cured meats means studying in the most objective way possible different topics concerning both the consumer and the livestock production. This volume presents an interdisciplinary study to describe the “5 faces” of meat sustainability: nutrition, environmental impacts and the circular economy applied to farms and industry, food security and animal welfare, the economic aspects of supply chains and the fight against food waste.

Textiles accompany us throughout our lives, au fil du temps , from the cradle to the grave. Aspects of time, seasons and chronology play an important role when exploring textiles and clothes in antiquity. The time of textiles appears highly gendered, embodied, tangible, and concrete. Textiles follow their own timeframes and paces, and they connect us to the past in an intimate and diachronic way because we still wear woven fabrics, as people did in antiquity. Textiles themselves are ephemeral and rarely survive in archaeological contexts. But when they do, they can show evidence of a long life. This book is about the time of textiles in ancient Greece: how time was articulated and conceived via clothing and textile production and how clothes conveyed time, seasons, ages, lifetimes and chronological periods. Textiles moreover symbolized eternity and destiny, as the spinning goddesses of fate called Moirai by the ancient Greeks. These goddesses spin, measure and cut the thread of a person's life. The book invites university students in history, archaeology and classics, as well as interested readers, craft communities and Humanities scholars to reflect on diverse dimensions of time in ancient Greece through the study of textiles and clothes.

The Routledge Handbook of Environmental History presents a cutting-edge overview of the dynamic and ever-expanding field of environmental history. It addresses recent transformations in the field and responses to shifting scholarly, political, and environmental landscapes. The handbook fully and critically engages with recent exciting changes, contextualizes them within longer-term shifts in the field, and charts potential new directions for study. It focuses on five key areas: Theories and concepts related to changing considerations of social justice, including postcolonial, antiracist, and feminist approaches, and the field’s growing emphasis on multiple human voices and agencies. The roles of non-humans and the more-than-human in the telling of environmental histories, from animals and plants to insects as vectors of disease and the influences of water and ice, the changing theoretical approaches and the influence of concepts in related areas such as animal and discard studies. How changes in theories and concepts are shaping methods in environmental history and shifting approaches to traditional sources like archives and oral histories as well as experiments by practitioners with new methods and sources. Responses to a range of current complex problems, such as climate change, and how environmental historians can best help mitigate and resolve these problems. Diverse ways in which environmental historians disseminate their research within and beyond academia, including new modes of research dissemination, teaching, and engagements with stakeholders and the policy arena. This is an important resource for environmental historians, researchers and students in the related fields of political ecology, environmental studies, natural resources management and environmental planning. Chapters 9, 10 and 26 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.