Humanities & Social Sciences

Der Sammelband greift Forschungsfragen und -anstze zur Grundbildung Erwachsener auf, die im Zuge der Alphadekade (2016-2026) entstanden sind. Damit gering literarisierte Jugendliche und Erwachsene in ihren Lebens- und Arbeitswelten erreicht werden knnen, mssen Ansprachekonzepte, Lernorte und -formate die Interessen und Lernbedrfnisse der Menschen bercksichtigen und stetig weiterentwickelt werden. Die Autorinnen und Autoren verbinden in ihren Beitrgen verschiedene Themen und Perspektiven mit Forschungsfragen zur Grundbildung. Dazu gehoren Soziale Arbeit, Jugendberufshilfe, Subjektorientierung, Habitus- und Milieuforschung, Klassismus, Partizipation und Partizipationsforschung. Es werden neue Impulse fur die Praxis abgeleitet.

Political Science

As Chinese performers have become more visible on global screens, their professional images - once the preserve of studios and agents - have been increasingly relayed and reworked by film fans. Web technology has made searching, poaching, editing, posting and sharing texts significantly easier, and by using a variety of seamless and innovative methods a new mode of personality construction has been developed. With case studies of high-profile stars like Jet Li, Jackie Chan and Donnie Yen, this ground-breaking book examines transnational Chinese stardom as a Web-based phenomenon, and as an outcome of the participatory practices of cyber fans.

The citizens of Europe are facing increasingly complex challenges to their career development nowadays. Over the span of their lifetime, they need to manage their careers, and make numerous decisions concerning education, training and employment - decisions, which seriously impact their futures and their wellbeing. To prepare citizens for these challenges, and to support them in the progress, competent career practitioners are needed. But what kinds of career practitioners are we talking about? And what do they need to be able to do? How can the quality of their training be assured? This handbook introduces common European competence standards for the academic training of career practitioners in Europe, together with some proposals and examples, of how to implement and establish such competence standards in practice. More than 200 experts from all across Europe have contributed to the development of these shared standards of the Network for innovation in Career Guidance and Counselling in Europe (NICE). The standards are already being used in many countries for the development of degree programmes.

The book analyzes socioeconomic through the lens of a lawyer. In the past decade the world has witnessed some severe financial and economic crises, espe­cially the financial crisis of 2007-2008 and the crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The author states that the socio-economic order has in the past four to five decades been thoroughly redesigned, generally favouring models that prio­ritize the free market over the public interest or even, more generally, government operation. He works out that during four to five decades, globalized, capitalist societies are facing a multiplicity of fundamental problems, such as: (1) increasing debt that severely burdens both the private and public sectors; (2) persistent poverty and an ever-increasing polarization between rich and poor, in addition to (3) intractable environmental problems that, fifty years after the Club of Rome's report entitled ‘Limits to growth’ (1972), has dragged the world into what in recent years has been referred to as "climate change." The book explains why all this is the direct result of value choices made from the late Middle Ages onwards, when in the Western world the societal models of that time were increasingly abandoned for a societal model that came to rely on the primacy of economic interests. The book not only subjects the ethical choices but also examines various problems it has caused and probes for possible ways out. This is an open access book.

The legal definition of child pornography is, at best, unclear. In part because of this ambiguity and in part because of the nature of the crime itself, the prosecution and sentencing of perpetrators, the protection of and restitution for victims, and the means for preventing repeat offenses are deeply controversial. In Refining Child Pornography Law, experts in law, sociology, and social work examine child pornography law and its consequences in an effort to clarify the questions and begin to formulate answers. Focusing on the roles of language and crime definition, the contributors discuss the increasing visibility child pornography plays in the national conversation about child safety, and present a range of views regarding the punishment of those who produce, distribute, and possess materials that may be considered child pornography.

Schwerpunkte des Werkes bilden Vorläufer und Wahrnehmungen von Europa-Ideen sowie die Unterschiede und Verschiedenheiten von Europa, ergänzt um kritische Reflexionen der Geschichte der europäischen Einigung nach 1945 sowie Integration und Desintegration. Ferner widmen sich die Autorinnen und Autoren Europas Geschichts-, Gegenwarts- und Zukunftsperspektiven. Bereichert wird der interdisziplinäre Doppelband durch Mitwirkung prominenter Akteure, d. h. Diplomaten, Experten und Politiker aus Deutschland, Österreich und Europa, die allesamt von europäischen Institutionen berichten.

Bringing a unique perspective to the burgeoning ethical and legal issues surrounding the presence of artificial intelligence in our daily lives, the book uses theory and practice on animal rights and the rights of nature to assess the status of robots.Through extensive philosophical and legal analyses, the book explores how rights can be applied to nonhuman entities. This task is completed by developing a framework useful for determining the kinds of personhood for which a nonhuman entity might be eligible, and a critical environmental ethic that extends moral and legal consideration to nonhumans. The framework and ethic are then applied to two hypothetical situations involving real-world technology—animal-like robot companions and humanoid sex robots. Additionally, the book approaches the subject from multiple perspectives, providing a comparative study of legal cases on animal rights and the rights of nature from around the world and insights from structured interviews with leading experts in the field of robotics. Ending with a call to rethink the concept of rights in the Anthropocene, suggestions for further research are made.An essential read for scholars and students interested in robot, animal and environmental law, as well as those interested in technology more generally, the book is a ground-breaking study of an increasingly relevant topic, as robots become ubiquitous in modern society.

The four-volume set LNCS 13350, 13351, 13352, and 13353 constitutes the proceedings of the 22ndt International Conference on Computational Science, ICCS 2022, held in London, UK, in June 2022.* The total of 175 full papers and 78 short papers presented in this book set were carefully reviewed and selected from 474 submissions. 169 full and 36 short papers were accepted to the main track; 120 full and 42 short papers were accepted to the workshops/ thematic tracks. *The conference was held in a hybrid format This is an open access book.

"In recent years, organizations and authorities in Norway have put a critical spotlight on parenting practices among non-Western immigrants, based on a concern for young people's autonomy and self-determination. The purpose of this book – which deals with parenting and social control in immigrant families from Pakistan, Somalia and Sri Lanka – is to shed light on on this collision between different family norms and practices from different perspectives, and thus help to understand why family relations and social control have become a topic of contention in today's multicultural Norway. The books starting point is a sociological perspective on cultural differences, social control and change in a migration context. A key point of focus in the empirical analyzes are parental restrictions in young people's social life. How common are such restrictions within different groups? What significance do factors such as religiosity and socio-economic resources play in the exercise of social control? And what are the consequences for children's social participation, mental health and well-being? One aim is to contribute systematic quantitative knowledge on such issues. At the same time, the book contributes to a more qualitative understanding of people’s experiences and actions. How do parents from countries like Pakistan, Somalia and Sri Lanka experience raising children and young people in Norway? What concerns have they had regarding their children’s encounters with various parts of Norwegian society? And how do young people navigate between different expectations and demands from the families and communities on the one hand and among their peers and the larger society on the other? We focus on the question of social change. Is the organization of family relationships and the exercise of social control within immigrant populations characterized by continuity or change? And what kind of mechanisms drive such changes forward? The book, which is published as part of the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study in Norway, will illuminate these questions using quantitative data from a comprehensive survey of 16-17 year olds in Oslo and Akershus, as well as qualitative interviews – individually and in groups – with parents, adolescents and young adults with immigrant backgrounds as well as people in public help services and NGOs. "

Contested Airport Land draws attention to the accelerating airport development in the Global South. Empirical studies provide nuanced analysis of socioeconomic, administrative, and political dynamics on the land beyond the airport grounds, such as the project area of greenfield development, the airport city, or land resources reserved for future airport expansion. The authors in this book emphasise why airport construction is a politically sensitive issue in low-income and low-middle-income countries, which serve as the last development frontier of the aviation sector. They argue that observed airport development was rather motivated by the perception of airports as engines for national economic growth, while improving air mobility of national populations was not the main driver. Under dominant national development visions, airport-induced dynamics threatened local livelihoods by triggering economies of anticipation, the reconfiguration of land markets, rapid land use changes, a transition from rural to urban livelihoods, the displacement of communities, the perpetuation of human–wildlife conflicts, or inter-ethnic violence. The authors also highlight colonial path dependencies; legal pluralism in land tenure; the hegemonic relations between builders, investors, and the affected residents; as well as strategies of local protest movements. This book is recommended for readers interested in infrastructure-induced conflicts and environmental injustice.

Wie wird Krankheit im Bild inszeniert und was sagt das über Geschlecht aus? Anhand der Darstellungen von Syphilis, Tuberkulose und Gicht analysiert Johanna Johnen geschlechtsspezifische Zuschreibungen in der Kunst. Krankheit ist nicht nur medizinisch, sondern auch gesellschaftlich codiert: als Zeichen dämonisierter Weiblichkeit, als Sinnbild für domestizierte Reinheit der weiblichen Oberschicht oder als ambivalenter Ausdruck männlicher Dekadenz. So offenbaren sich komplexe Verflechtungen von Geschlecht, Klasse und Rassifizierung in der Ikonografie der Krankheitsdarstellungen – ein kritischer Blick auf historische Bildwelten und ihre machtvollen Zuschreibungen.

Conducting research that is emotionally demanding can negatively impact the health and wellbeing of researchers if adequate planning and support is not in place. Institutions are rigorous in their requirement for research proposals to consider physical health and safety risks to participants and researchers, and emotional risks to participants. There is less requirement for proposals to consider how the research might be emotionally demanding for those conducting it, and how this might affect them. Researchers in social and public health science at University of Glasgow identified a local need for a more consistent approach to considering emotional impact on researchers when planning, conducting, and disseminating research, and developed guidance addressing this need. This paper shares the process of, and findings from, staff consultation carried out in advance of writing guidance on ‘Facilitating and Supporting Emotionally Demanding Research’, the recommendations made within this guidance, and steps the authors have taken since then to develop a peer support network in Scotland.

This volume reports one of the most important sites in the Tripolitanian hinterland. It contains detailed studies of the many buildings of the settlement (including a pagan temple) and its cemeteries. Particular attention is devoted to the monumental tombs for which the site is justly famous. Specialists’ finds reports cover Roman pottery and lamps, coins, glass, Latin and Libyan inscriptions and altars, Islamic pottery, coins and mirror boxes, skeletal remains, wood and charcoal samples, botanical remains and textiles.

The story of Joseph, based on revelation, has attracted the attention of writers in almost every era. It has been repeatedly written in the form of new texts, either in verse or prose. The text we have is a long epic written in quatrains. Although comparative academic studies have been conducted on copies of such texts, most of them have not been published as books and remain as unpublished theses, thus failing to reach readers. We thought it would be useful to compile this copy, which was previously published in the Turkish Studies journal after being transcribed into Latin letters, into a book, together with the original copy in the old script and with some necessary information added. If the same line was written twice in a quatrain, if the quatrain was incomplete, or if there was a discrepancy in rhyme, meter, or meaning, a partial text restoration was attempted using the text from Râsim Deniz’s doctoral thesis, and these parts were written in italics. In the original text, some words written with gayn and kef, such as “öğüt, bagışla-, baf, degin,” were transcribed with a soft g (ğ). Words whose spelling in the -i form was “ye üzeri hemze” were written as -yı, -yi (kıssa’i=kıssayı, Zelhâ’i=Zelhayı). In the transcribed text, no apostrophe (‘) was used to separate suffixes after proper nouns. Folio numbers are shown at the end of the page in the Latin alphabet text. The “Introduction ,“ a ”transliterated text“ (not a transcription) for comparison purposes, a ”text in old letters” (which may also be useful for linguistic studies), a bibliography, an index, and a glossary.