Humanities & Social Sciences

This monograph focusses on a cohesive group of four government buildings constructed in Adelaide during the 1970s. Designed by different architects, the buildings all feature monolithic, austere forms and broadly similar external concrete finishes, and are often described by casual observers as being Brutalist in style. But are any or all of them truly Brutalist?

The name DGGTB (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geschichte und Theorie der Biologie; German Society for the History and Theory of Biology) reflects recent history as well as German tradition. The Society is a relatively late addition to a series of German societies of science and medicine that began with the »Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Medizin und der Naturwissenschaften«, founded in 1910 by Leipzig University's Karl Sudhoff (1853-1938), who wrote: »We want to establish a ,German' society in order to gather German-speaking historians together in our special disciplines so that they form the core of an international society...«. Yet Sudhoff, at this time of burgeoning academic internationalism, was »quite willing« to accommodate the wishes of a number of founding members and »drop the word German in the title of the Society and have it merge with an international society«. The founding and naming of the Society at that time derived from a specific set of historical circumstances, and the same was true some 80 years later when in 1991, in the wake of German reunification, the »Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geschichte und Theorie der Biologie« was founded. From the start, the Society has been committed to bringing studies in the history and philosophy of biology to a wide audience, using for this purpose its Jahrbuch für Geschichte und Theorie der Biologie. Parallel to the Jahrbuch, the Verhandlungen zur Geschichte und Theorie der Biologie has become the by now traditional medium for the publication of papers delivered at the Society's annual meetings. In 2005 the Jahrbuch was renamed Annals of the History and Philosophy of Biology, reflecting the Society's internationalist aspirations in addressing comparative biology as a subject of historical and philosophical studies.

Die empirische Bestandsaufnahme liefert Daten und Analysen zur Frage, wie migrationsbedingte Diversität in Weiterbildungseinrichtungen umgesetzt wird. Befragt wurden 260 anerkannte gemeinnützige und kommerzielle Einrichtungen der Erwachsenenbildung in Nordrhein-Westfalen. Vor allem auf organisationaler Ebene beleuchtet die Studie bestehende Strategien und Konzepte der Weiterbildungseinrichtungen. In den Ergebnissen stellen die Autor:innen die erkennbaren Bedarfe heraus und diskutieren Empfehlungen für die diversitätsbewusste Weiterbildungsarbeit. Das Forschungsinteresse der Studie zielt darauf ab, den Wandel der Weiterbildungseinrichtungen sichtbar zu machen, ihre Konzepte theoretisch zu reflektieren und empirisch zu überprüfen.

Scriptural Vitality challenges the view that the Persian and Hellenistic periods constitute a time of decay, a period of ‘late Judaism’, languishing between an original, vibrant Judaism and the birth of Christianity. Instead, this book argues that the Second Temple period was one of untethered creativity and poetic imagination, of dynamism exemplified through philosophical translation, poetic composition, and a convergence of ancient Mediterranean cultures that gave birth to hermeneutic innovation. Building on Nietzsche’s critique of classical philology and drawing on new ways of reading the Dead Sea Scrolls, the book carries out a radical rethinking of biblical studies. Instead of seeking to reconstruct the original text and to find its original author or at least the original context of its production, Najman celebrates textual pluriformity and transformation, tracing ways in which texts and meanings proliferated within interpretive communities through new performances and fresh articulations of the past. Engaging with thinkers such as Friedrich Schlegel and Peter Szondi, whom biblicists have rarely considered, biblical philology is reimagined as the forward-moving study of the poetic processes by which Jewish communities re-created their past and revitalized their present. The Second Temple period emerges as a golden age of creativity, whose traces may still be discerned in Judaism and Christianity today.

Als in Europa der Zweite Weltkrieg zu Ende ging, begann ein bis heute umstrittenes Kapitel europäischer Geschichte: die Flucht und Vertreibung der Deutschen aus Ostmitteleuropa. Dieser geschichtspolitische Konflikt lässt sich 'besichtigen': Er materialisiert sich in verschiedenen europäischen Museen, die 'Flucht und Vertreibung' interpretieren und ausstellen. Vincent Regente arbeitet die erinnerungskulturellen Auseinandersetzungen am Beispiel von sieben aktuellen Museumsprojekten in Berlin, Danzig, Brüssel, Görlitz, Kattowitz, Aussig und München erstmalig vergleichend heraus. Sein konsequent trinationaler Ansatz, der die deutschen, polnischen und tschechischen Sichtweisen gleichermaßen berücksichtigt, eröffnet neue Perspektiven für das Verständnis des Diskurses über 'Flucht und Vertreibung'.

In recent years, historiographical reflection has devoted more and more attention to the rela- tionship between the exercise of power and the processes of production/management of doc- uments, understood as real instruments of government, capable of guaranteeing the correct functioning of the administrative apparatus of kingdoms, principalities, republics and lord- ships, more or less extensive. The essay investigates one of the most important noble archives of the fifteenth-century Southern Italy, the archive of the Prince of Taranto, Giovanni Antonio Orsini del Balzo, which over time has been invested by a vast process of dispersion. The fundamental objective is to take stock of the most consistent core of documents, coming from the principality of Taranto, and merged into the fond of the Regia Camera della Sommaria of the Archivio di Stato of Naples.

Die Praxis der Sozialen Arbeit ist besonders aufmerksam für das Scheitern: Entweder präventiv oder als direkte Intervention ist sozialarbeiterisches Handeln auf die Bewältigung von Krisen und Problemlagen ausgerichtet. In der Forschung fällt die Soziale Arbeit im Vergleich zu anderen Fächern durch geringe Promotionsintensität und Einwerbung von Forschungsmitteln auf. Im Rahmen dieses Buches wird daher der Frage nachgegangen, wie die Kompetenzen im Umgang mit Krisen und Scheitern in der Praxis der Sozialen Arbeit auch für die Wissenschaft der Sozialen Arbeit nutzbar gemacht werden können.

Translation Classics in Context carefully considers the relationship between translation and the classics. It presents readers with revelatory and insightful case studies that investigate translations produced as part of nexuses of colonial resistance and liberation across Africa and in Ireland; translations of novels and folklore collections that influence not just other fictions, but stage productions and entire historical disciplines; struggles over Ukrainian and Russian literature and how it is shaped and transferred; and the role of the academy and the curriculum in creating notions of classic translations. Along the way it covers oral poetry, saints, scholars, Walter Scott and Jules Verne, not to mention Leo Tolstoy and the Corpse Bride making her way from folklore to Frankenstein and into the world of Disney animation. Contributors are all leading scholars, and the book is accessible and engaging, assuming no specialist knowledge. Chapter 6 of this book is 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.

This book is an attempt at a new interpretation of Stravinsky’s thoughts about music and art, an interpretation made in dialogue with the philosophy of new music and 19th-century artistic ideas. It is also a proposal for a new method of analysing the construction of his musical masterpieces (for example a proposal of new formal sound-units: partons with perceptual invariance), a method in-spired by research into cognitive psychology. Furthermore, in the analysis of Stravinsky’s music, the author emphasises its connection with the Eastern and Western traditions of European culture and links with Plato’s triad of values.

Critical reflection (CR) is an important process for making decisions on complex issues that influence individuals and societal life. The ability to inform our perceptions and thoughts through the results of critical reflection on our assumptions is fundamentally important in order to face the challenges connected to adult life (Kreber, 2012). Under the perspective of transformative learning (Mezirow & Associates, 2000), the paper discusses the similarities and differences between the ways in which the Italian and Nigerian higher education systems support students’ critical reflection. The results show how the two systems are on the right track to implementing the process at the micro and meso levels.

Offering a unique reading experience, this book examines the epistemologies of interculturality and explores potential routes to review and revisit the notion anew. Grounded in different sociocultural, economic and political perspectives around the world, interculturality in education and research bears a paradoxical attribute of 'contradictions' and 'inconsistencies', making it a polysemous and flexible notion that has no definitive diagnosis and requires constant unthinking and rethinking. The author provides a toolbox of 'out-of-box ideas' in the form of fragmental yet standalone writings and follow-up questions concerning stereotypes about the very notion of interculturality and conceptual and methodological flaws in the way it is used. Readers are encouraged to critically reflect about interculturality as it stands today in global research and education. In identifying the paradoxes of interculturality and proposing alternative directions, the book stimulates a diversity of thoughts about the notion that goes beyond the 'West'. The book will be an essential reading for scholars, students and educators interested in education philosophy, applied linguistics and the broad field of intercultural communication education.

A book full of boxes. A box in itself. An unboxing. This book explores boxes in their broadest sense and size. It invites us to step into the field, unravel how and why things are contained and how it might be otherwise. By turning the focus of Science and Technology Studies (STS) to boxing practices, this collation of essays examines boxes as world-making devices. Gathered in the format of a field guide, it offers an introduction to ways of ordering the world, unpacking their boxed-up, largely invisible politics and epistemics. Performatively, pushing against conventional uses of academic books, this volume is about rethinking taken-for-granted formats and infrastructures of scholarly ordering – thinking, writing, reading. It diverges from encyclopedic logics and representative overviews of boxing practices and the architectural organization of monographs and edited volumes through a single, overarching argument. This book asks its users to leave well-trodden paths of linear and comprehensive reading and invites them to read sideways, creating their own orders through associations and relating. Thus, this book is best understood as an intervention, a beginning, an open box, a slim volume that needs expansion and further experiments with ordering by its users.

This book explores the manner in which a variety of public benefits such as environmental protection and consumer safety have been accommodated through the authorisation process within competition law and policy in Australia. While the regulator’s use of its discretion can be explained as a triumph of practice over theory, this book explores the potential for competition principles to be imbued by the wider discourses of democratic participation and human rights. In doing so it makes a significant contribution to the Australian competition policy as well as reconceptualising the way in which discretion is used by regulators. … a very important and creative contribution to the literatures on both business regulation in general and Australian competition and consumer protection law in particular. It pays special attention to an everyday regulatory function that is often ignored in scholarship. And it is very important in challenging—on both empirical and normative policy oriented grounds—a narrowly economic approach to competition law, and proposing an alternative understanding and practice for the public benefit test in ACCC authorisations. Professor Christine Parker The data Vij Nagarajan has analysed is quite unique in its focus. It is a kind of data and analysis that has not been completed before in the international literature. It is well written, theoretically sophisticated and incisive in its policy analysis. John Braithwaite

Besser verstehen, selbstständiger entscheiden, mitgestalten - das wünschen sich gering literalisierte Erwachsene vor allem in ihrem Alltag. Aber wie lassen sich diese erreichen und zum besseren Lesen und Schreiben motivieren? Die Autorinnen und Autoren des Sammelbandes berichten über Alphabetisierungs- und Grundbildungsmaßnahmen, die sich an der Lebenswelt der Teilnehmenden orientieren: Kindererziehung, Gesundheit, Finanzen, Freizeitaktivitäten. Hier werden Menschen in ihrem gewohnten sozialen Umfeld und zu Alltagsthemen angesprochen. Wie das Konzept der aufsuchenden Bildung umgesetzt werden kann, wird in Erfahrungsberichten vorgestellt, die fünf Kapiteln zugeordnet sind: I Kooperation und Netzwerke, II Ansprache, Sensibilisierung und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit, III Lernsettings und Lernorte, IV Themenbezogene Grundbildung, V Qualifizierung, Professionalisierung und Verstetigung. Damit richtet sich der Sammelband an Praktiker:innen, Wissenschaftler:innen und Politiker:innen, die im Bereich der Erwachsenenbildung, Alphabetisierung und Grundbildung und der Sozialen Arbeit Entscheidungen treffen.

Wie lässt sich das Programm transformatorischer Bildung auf den Bereich religiöser Bildungsprozesse anwenden? Marcin Morawski widmet sich dem in der Erziehungswissenschaft von Hans-Christoph Koller und Winfried Marotzki angestoßenen Diskurs und überträgt ihn in den religionspädagogischen Kontext. Dabei nutzt er die Reflexionsphilosophie Paul Ricœurs und die reflexive Hermeneutik Theodor Schulzes, um die Biographien polnischstämmiger Religionslehrer*innen im Hinblick auf fremdheitsbedingte Bildungsprozesse zu analysieren. So zeigt sich, dass religiöse Bildung nicht auf Sachwissen reduziert werden darf, sondern Impulse geben muss, anders zu denken und zu handeln.