Humanities & Social Sciences

Knowledge can and does enable, specifically through engagement between higher education institutions, the third sector (mostly non-profit organisations), public service role players and the communities. The purpose of the research is reciprocal building, sharing and utilisation of knowledge for mutual enablement and capacity building.

This volume discusses the transformational role that carbon – both as a concept and as a distinct set of material forms and effects – has come to play in social and cultural life. As a proxy for greenhouse gas emission data, carbon has grown to become a phenomenon that can no longer be accounted for solely within the technoscientific vocabulary of climate scientists. The Cultural Complexity of Carbon examines the extent to which our knowledge of carbon affects the way that human beings relate to each other and to the climate and/or the environment. It draws on case studies from a diverse range of topics including peatland restoration, religion and energy systems to explore questions that have so far been under-explored in the current literature. These questions include whether the recognition of carbon’s role in climate change leads to an incremental adaptation of lifestyles or to cultural or existential transformations, but also more concretely how carbon is made meaningful, and how these meanings are attached to ideals of cultural change or continuity. Spanning multiple perspectives and disciplinary positions, this volume provides a go-to point for the next generation of ethnographic studies of carbon and climate change. It cuts across what has hitherto been largely separate literatures in anthropology, geography and sociology to provide a meta-level orientation to how contemporary narratives of the role of carbon are being told. By addressing the intimate social and cultural changes that stem from humanity’s involvement with its natural and climatic resources, this volume is of interest to students and scholars of climate change within the social sciences and environmental humanities.

Este volumen colectivo analiza cómo la traducción especializada y otras prácticas de mediación lingüística se transforman en entornos de trabajo cada vez más mediados por herramientas digitales. Lejos de una perspectiva tecnocéntrica, la obra examina de qué modo estos entornos influyen en la producción y evaluación de textos especializados, así como en los marcos profesionales y formativos en los que se desarrollan. El libro reúne estudios sobre identidad profesional del traductor, formación, posedición y experiencia de usuario, terminología, simplificación y accesibilidad textual y audiovisual, entornos y prácticas profesionales y traducción jurídica. Los capítulos abordan situaciones reales de trabajo y analizan el impacto de las herramientas digitales en la toma de decisiones lingüísticas y terminológicas. El volumen combina marcos teóricos consolidados con estudios empíricos y concibe la traducción y la mediación lingüística como prácticas situadas, condicionadas por el contexto, las tecnologías disponibles y las exigencias profesionales actuales.

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Dass die literarische Erzählung auf eine sich rasant verändernde, komplexer werdende Wirklichkeit in analoger Weise antwortet, ist ein naheliegender Gedanke. André Steiner fragt in diesem Kontext, wie sich Komplexität im literarischen Text manifestiert und welche Verfahren der Analyse vonseiten der Literaturwissenschaft in Anschlag gebracht werden können. Dabei geht er von einem immer noch bestehenden Forschungsdefizit aus und fragt nach möglichen Gründen dafür. Denn überraschenderweise sind die methodischen Werkzeuge bereits weitgehend vorhanden. Es kommt nur darauf an, sie mit Einsichten aus der Komplexitätsforschung zu rekombinieren.

Das vorliegende Open-Access-Buch zeigt, wie Fabeln im Philosophieunterricht der Sekundarstufe I eingesetzt werden können, um philosophische Gedanken bei Kindern und Jugendlichen anzustoßen. Dabei werden zunächst Kriterien für die Auswahl geeigneter Fabeln vorgestellt, wobei insbesondere die vermeintliche Lehre der Fabel in den Hintergrund rückt. Eine umfangreiche Katalogisierung von Fabeln nach philosophischen Themenbereichen kann Lehrkräften Entlastung bei der Auswahl geeigneter Fabeln bieten. Ein Vorschlag zum Umgang mit Fabeln im Philosophieunterricht schließt sich an. Die aus unterrichtlichen Erprobungen gezogenen Erkenntnisse zeigen: Wenn Fabeln nicht mit Blick auf ihre Lehre im Unterricht eingesetzt werden, werden Schüler*innen zur Formulierung differenzierter philosophischer Gedanken angeregt, die anhand der Fabel systematisch vertieft und reflektiert werden können.

Augmented Reality (AR) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are technological domains that closely interact with space at architectural and urban scale in the broader ambits of cultural heritage and innovative design. The growing interest is perceivable in many fields of knowledge, supported by the rapid development and advancement of theory and application, software and devices, fueling a pervasive phenomenon within our daily lives. These technologies demonstrate to be best exploited when their application and other information and communication technology (ICT) advancements achieve a continuum. In particular, AR defines an alternative path to observe, analyze and communicate space and artifacts. Besides, AI opens future scenarios in data processing, redefining the relationship between man and computer. In the last few years, the AR/AI expansion and relationship have raised deep transdisciplinary speculation. The research experiences have shown many cross-relations in Architecture and Design domains. Representation studies could arise an international debate as a convergence place of multidisciplinary theoretical and applicative contributions related to architecture, city, environment, tangible and intangible Cultural Heritage. This book collects 66 papers and identify eight lines of research that may guide future developments.

This open access volume provides the first-ever comprehensive framework of indicators to measure progress in the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. It analyses the development of thinking in the field of children’s rights on the significance of monitoring, and compiles a set of structural, process and outcome (SPO) aspects of children’s human rights-based indicators, for each article in the Convention. It draws on existing measures wherever possible, and involves wide-ranging consultation with experts in the field, along with 2000 children from 35 countries around the globe. This volume provides guidance on the implementation of children’s rights which will be of value to, among others, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, governments, policy-makers, advocates, and academics. The potential to measure the actions of governments in meeting the obligations they signed up to in the Convention provides an important contribution towards accountability to children. The indicators and associated analysis can serve as both guidance on what needs to happen to ensure the realisation of children’s rights and a benchmark against which to assess the impact of government action. This is an open access book.

Der Band stellt ein Modell für einen differenzierenden Literaturunterricht vor, der individuelle Förderung für unterschiedliche Bereiche von Heterogenität ermöglicht. Eine ergiebige Differenzierung nutzt die Aspekte Ziele, Themen und Methoden des Unterrichts sowie Lenkung und Aufgabenformat. Diese Aspekte werden mit Blick auf die einzelnen Phasen des Unterrichts präzisiert. Dabei werden Leistungsunterschiede, sprachliche, kulturelle und soziale sowie individuelle Voraussetzungen der einzelnen Schüler:innen deutlicher adressiert. Einzelne exemplarische Aufgabensets mit ausführlicher Erläuterung dienen der Veranschaulichung des Modells. Zudem werden Unterrichtseinheiten vorgestellt, die systematisch Möglichkeiten der Differenzierung nutzen.

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.

Institutionalizing Violence offers a detailed focus on the two most influential Egyptian jihadi groups—al-Jama‘a al-Islamiyya and Islamic Jihad. From the killing of Egyptian president Anwar Sadat in 1981 to their partial association with al-Qaeda in the 1990s, the two groups illustrate the range of choices that jihadis make overtime including creating political parties. Jerome Drevon argues that these groups’ comparative trajectories show that jihadis embracing the same ideology can make very different strategic decisions in similar environments. Drevon’s analysis of these groups’ histories over the past four decades illustrates the evolution of jihadism in Egypt and beyond. Institutionalizing Violence develops an institutional approach to radicalization to compare the two Egyptian groups’ trajectories based on ethnographic field research and hundreds of interviews with jihadi leaders and militants in Egypt. Drevon provides a unique perspective on how jihadi groups make and implement new strategic decisions in changing environments, as well as the evolution of their approaches to violence and non-violence.

This collection offers the first book-length engagement with Werner G. Jeanrond’s theological thinking, spanning from hermeneutics through systematic theology to politics . More than twenty renowned scholars with a global reach offer interpretations, interventions, and inspirations sparked by Jeanrond’s theology. Together, they take Jeanrond’s lecture on “The Problem of the Theological Starting Point” as a starting point to tackle one of Jeanrond’s key questions: ‘How can theological thought begin today, in the midst of a confusing plurality of methods?’ The wager of this collection is that this question can only be asked and answered in a dialogue that engages scholars critically and self-critically with each other. Tackling the problem of the starting point, then, implies a vision for the vocation of theology that cannot hide behind clear-cut answers. In Jeanrond’s words: ‘Because God has begun a relationship with this world, theology must do the same without fear of compromising itself in this process’. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Lund University.

If you work with digital photos of manuscripts or archival materials, Among Digitized Manuscripts provides the conceptual and practical toolbox for you to create a state-of-the-art methodology and workflow. No previous computer knowledge is required. Readership: People working with digital photos of texts, especially handwritten documents such as manuscripts and archive materials.

Based on an extensive range of primary sources - whether they be archival, journalistic or documentary - some of which are exposed here for the first time, the present volume reviews the efforts made by the State of Israel to obtain reparations from Germany after the Holocaust, as well as the unprecedented storm which this issue caused among Israeli Jews. It is the most comprehensive research work undertaken in any language on this subject.

Although the fundamental meaning of basic terminology is well established for every scholarly discipline, many concepts are often questioned and redefined. In the case of ethnomusicology, this process is all too familiar, as researchers within the discipline focus on the most diverse of music cultures. The manifold worldviews of the resource persons, as holders and presenters (in both meanings of the word) of a tradition make the matter more complex. Such a situation has particular significance in the context of multipart singing because of the specific musical aesthetics and vocabularies established among singing groups. Additionally, it is accentuated by processes of change within every musical culture and those of ethnomusicology. Examining this question from the viewpoint of folk terminology means primarily considering specific and individual concepts of cultural listening, in the sense of 'paying attention', 'con-centrating' and 'focusing on'. These concepts are established on the one hand through the processes of music listening and music making and on the other hand through the local dis-course, in which singers and musicians as well as local communities are very much involved. The discourse as a communication category with which people communicate about the claim to validity of rules also plays an important role in processes of legitimating and power within the community. An essential part of the discourse is singing itself. The music therefore becomes the object and subject of research. Of particular relevance in this framework are questions of gender, applying to communities in which women practice multipart singing and others where they are mostly listeners, although contributing decisively in the discourse processes. A specific role become issues of brain research. In this context the functionality of an exact motor control system within the body for precise timing, sequencing and the spatial organisation of movements during musical performance become particularly important. Performing and listening to music are culturally conditioned, but they are at the same time natural human abilities. Therefore the study of underlying processes is crucial and promises to uncover fun-damental properties of the human brain. The different theoretical viewpoints in the first three chapters of the book are followed by ap-proaches of a "Lexicon of Local Terminology on Multipart Singing in Europe". These reflect the situation of a few but different communities and areas in Europe, helping to obtain additional insights into the topics in question.