Humanities & Social Sciences

During the mid-20th century, old South Greenlanders still spoke their genuine dialects when Mâliâraq Vebæk, herself a South Greenlander, born 1917, collected on tape stories and descriptions of pre-modern daily life from 42 informants. In this volume, the texts appear in dialectal transcription and translated into English, as well as in sound on the inserted CD-Rom, containing the tape recordings. Among the South Greenlandic dialects, the southernmost from the Cape Farewell region, which is now extinct, attracts particular interest, because this area received emigrants from the gradually depopulated southeast coast during the 19th century. The so-called qavak-dialect of the Cape Farewell region thus became an interesting mixture of the southeast and southwest Greenlandic dialects. This publication is targetted at linguists and is the first and only presentation of the South Greenlandic dialects. A phonological introduction is offered for the benefit of the linguists, but any reader of English (or the dialects) interested in stories, Greenland etc. can fully enjoy the texts.

Transcribed, translated and annotated edition of the construction site diary as part of the research project "Engineering nationality" of the Université de Strasbourg and the University of Innsbruck in collaboration with the Fondation de l'Œuvre Notre-Dame in Strasbourg.

"The objective of this chapter is to improve collaborative practices and exercises, taking the unforeseen into account. The major focus is on the process of making collaboration exercises and the planning phase of these potential learning situations. Two educational perspectives will be explored in order to improve the planning work itself and, possibly, also training for the unforeseen. The use of social technology, together with didactic thinking, may enhance the extent and quality of collaboration training. Planners also need to deliberate upon the importance of “standard” or traditional exercises in combination with collaboration, seeing the whole picture and the exercise as a program. On the other hand, it is of vital importance to train in the realms of the unforeseen, entering the uncharted waters of learning outside known territory."

Proofs of Genius: Collected Editions from the American Revolution to the Digital Age is the first extensive study of the collected edition as an editorial genre within American literary history. Unlike editions of an author’s “selected works” or thematic anthologies, which clearly indicate the presence of non-authorial editorial intervention, collected editions have typically been arranged to imply an unmediated documentary completeness. By design, the collected edition obscures its own role in shaping the cultural reception of the author. In Proofs of Genius, Amanda Gailey argues that decisions to re-edit major authorial corpora are acts of canon-formation in miniature that indicate more foundational shifts in the way a culture views its literature and itself. By combining a theoretically-informed approach with a broad historical view of collected editions from the late eighteenth century to the present (including the rise of digital editions), Gailey fills a gap in the textual scholarship of the editing history of major figures like Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman and of the American literary canon itself.

The Turn to the Native is a timely account of Native American literature and the critical writings that have grown up around it. Arnold Krupat considers racial and cultural "essentialism," the ambiguous position of non-Native critics in the field, cultural "sovereignty" and "property," and the place of Native American culture in a so-called multicultural era. Chapters follow on the relationship of Native American culture to postcolonial writing and postmodernism. Krupat comments on the recent work of numerous Native writers. The final chapter, "A Nice Jewish Boy among the Indians," presents the author's effort to balance his Jewish and working-class heritage, his adherence to Western "critical" ideals, and his ongoing loyalty to the values of Native cultures.

There has been a systemic shift in contemporary design professions, with the concomitant need for placing the requisite 21st-century skills and capabilities for such professions at the forefront of curriculum design. This chapter describes the development of a new Bachelor of Design curriculum which, drawing on internal and external stakeholder needs and sound educational precepts, includes a suite of transdisciplinary Impact Lab units, titled Place, People, Planet and Purpose. Alongside specialisation in one of seven disciplines, labs form a compulsory part of the curriculum - discrete yet linked units of study scaffolded across the program and designed to engender transdisciplinarity in authentic design contexts. Whilst the charter for the Labs is robust, the challenges of delivering such units are also outlined. A clear case is made for links between transdisciplinarity and ‘impact’ in the curriculum within a future-focused narrative of ethical, responsible and transformational design for positive global change.

Life sciences; Ecology ; Forestry; Soil science; Soil conservation; Sustainable development; Geobiology

Menschliche "Schwärme", also lose verbundene und nicht hierarchische Personenmehrheiten, stellen das Recht vielfach vor bekannte und neue Regulierungsaufgaben. Wesentliche Treiber der losen Zusammenschlüsse sind Kommunikationsplattformen im Internet. Sie halten die Infrastruktur bereit, auf der sich die Schwarmdynamik entfalten kann. So entsteht eine emergente Kollektivität, die ebenso Chancen wie auch Regulierungsherausforderungen mit sich bringt. Besonders deutlich zeigt sich dies im Phänomen des Shitstorms: Eine Vielzahl von teils geringfügigen Einzelbeiträgen hat insgesamt erhebliche Auswirkungen auf das Leben des Geschädigten. Auch in andere Rechtsgebiete dringen "Schwärme" vor: Besondere Prominenz haben etwa "wilde Streiks" im Arbeitsrecht oder das swarm trading im Kapitalmarktrecht erlangt. Der vorliegende Band rückt das Phänomen der emergenten Kollektivität ins Zentrum der Betrachtung, um sich den genannten rechtlichen Herausforderungen zu nähern.

Emerging Markets/Globalization; Innovation/Technology Management; Business Strategy/Leadership; International Economics; Operations Management

This volume presents new results on Bronze Age metallurgy in Central Europe and the Balkans. The papers discuss recent developments and results concerning the production and use of copper, trade and exchange of raw materials and alloying practices.

The book “Über Almen, zwischen Agrikultur & Trashkultur“ (About Alpine Pastures: agriculture and trash-culture) leads the reader from agricultural use of alpine meadows to touristic use and further to romanticistic views by urban societies. External views of alpine agriculture culminate in a complete virtualization of the term “Alm” (i.e. alpine pasture). This sociological study focuses on the view of Alpine peasants and how they cope with modern challenges.

Floating Power uses the development of a Turkish-built floating power plant in Ghana as a vehicle to analyze how inventive infrastructure shapes South-South relations and embodies broader imaginations of energy futures.

What kind of Work-Related activities/programmes do Italian teachers propose to their students? What are common elements considered in the designing of Work-Related activities by those proposing them? A multiple case study research programme was chosen as a method to explore the current Italian situation regarding Work-Related teaching and learning methods in Higher Education (Coll et al. 2008; Dirkx 2011) and to define some possible methodological recommendations to encourage the design of Work-Related Learning activities/programmes

The highly productive subfield of literary studies analysing digital fiction has so far primarily focussed on what makes these digital phenomena new and thus different from their analogue predecessors. This book takes these valuable approaches as a given and sets out to add another piece to the mosaic by instead foregrounding continuities, historical parallels, and pre-digital literary theory to analyse these seemingly new phenomena in a larger context of cultural production and human expression. This introductory chapter outlines the main aims of the book, provides an overview of the material considered in the analysis, and orients the reader in the overall structure of the following chapters.

This is an open-access book which is devoted to rediscovering the early history of phenomenology in confrontation with the legacy of Franz Brentano by discussing Leopold Blaustein’s philosophy. It offers a unique perspective on the history of the phenomenological movement by presenting the development of Blaustein’s theory. Blaustein was a philosopher educated by Kazimierz Twardowski in Lvov, but he also held research stays in Freiburg im Breisgau (where he studied under Edmund Husserl) and in Berlin (where he met Carl Stumpf). Blaustein’s work is usually classified as phenomenology yet some scholars question this by claiming that Blaustein was radically critical of Husserl’s phenomenology. This text addresses these divergent opinions by claiming that Blaustein was both a descriptive psychologist and a phenomenologist. Moreover, the book shows that these two motives were intertwined in Blaustein’s writings and require a reference to other traditions such as the Gestalt theory of Stumpf, and the humanistic psychology of Dilthey. This volume examines sources, context, and applications of the methods used by Blaustein in his original philosophy. It appeals to philosophers, especially phenomenologists, epistemologies, and historians. The more specialized chapters are also relevant to historians of the phenomenological movement and the Brentanian tradition.