Humanities & Social Sciences

Aktuelle Ansätze der Kinder- und Jugendarbeit in der Digitalität stehen im Fokus dieses Sammelbandes. Nach Jahren der Arbeit von Pionier*innen finden sich in den verschiedenen Handlungsfeldern zwischenzeitlich differenzierte Konzepte, wie eine (post-)digitale Kinder- und Jugendarbeit begründet und umgesetzt werden kann und sollte. Im Sammelband werden diese Entwicklungsstränge zu einem Gesamtbild zusammengetragen. Ausgehend von konzeptionellen Betrachtungen wird praxisorientiert dargelegt, was Digitalität in den einzelnen Handlungsfeldern bedeutet, wie die Praxis professionell ausgestaltet werden kann und wie dabei Schlüsselthemen wie etwa Kinderrechte berücksichtigt werden können. Der Band bietet dabei Impulse für die Weiterentwicklung sowohl auf individueller wie auch auf struktureller Ebene.

Are pandemics the end of cities? Or, do they present an opportunity for us to reshape cities in ways making us even more innovative, successful and sustainable? Pandemics such as COVID-19 (and comparable disruptions) have caused intense debates over the future of cities. Through a series of investigative studies, Designing Smart and Resilient Cities for a Post-Pandemic World: Metropandemic Revolution seeks to critically discuss and compare different cases, innovations and approaches as to how cities can utilise nascent and future digital technology and/or new strategies in order to build stronger resilience to better tackle comparable large-scale pandemics and/or disruptions in the future. The authors identify ten separate societal areas where future digital technology can impact resilience. These are discussed in individual chapters. Each chapter concludes with a set of proposed "action points" based on the conclusions of each respective study. These serve as solid policy recommendations of what courses of action to take, to help increase the resilience in smart cities for each designated area. Securing resilience and cohesion between each area will bring about the metropandemic revolution. This book features a foreword by Nobel laureate Peter C. Doherty and an afterword by Professor of Urban Technologies, Carlo Ratti. It provides fresh and unique insights on smart cities and futures studies in a pandemic context, offers profound reflections on contemporary societal functions and the needs to build resilience and combines lessons learned from historical pandemics with possibilities offered by future technology.

This chapter is devoted to the interplay between spaces, with the relationship between visible and non-visible spaces becoming central to the construction of complex scenic sequences. The dynamic dialogue between spaces, reinforced by off-stage sounds and the physical movement of actors, gives materiality to hidden areas and adds variety to the dramatic action.

A must-read for scholars across a broad sweep of disciplines. Laurel Weldon weaves together skillfully the theoretical strands of gender equality policy, intersectionality, social movements, and representation in a multimethod/level comparative study that unequivocally places women's movements at the center of our understanding of democracy and social change."" ---Amy G. Mazur, Washington State University "Laurel Weldon's When Protest Makes Policy expands and enriches our understanding of representation by stressing social movements as a primary avenue for the representation of marginalized groups. With powerful theory backed by persuasive analysis, it is a must-read for anyone interested in democracy and the representation of marginalized groups." ---Pamela Paxton, University of Texas at Austin ""This is a bold and exciting book. There are many fine scholars who look at women's movements, political theorists who make claims about democracy, and policy analysts who do longitudinal treatments or cross-sectional evaluations of various policies. I know of no one, aside from Weldon, who is comfortable with all three of these roles."" ---David Meyer, University of California, Irvine What role do social movements play in a democracy? Political theorist S. Laurel Weldon demonstrates that social movements provide a hitherto unrecognized form of democratic representation, and thus offer a significant potential for deepening democracy and overcoming social conflict. Through a series of case studies of movements conducted by women, women of color, and workers in the United States and other member nations of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Weldon examines processes of representation at the local, state, and national levels. She concludes that, for systematically disadvantaged groups, social movements can be as important---sometimes more important---for the effective articulation of a group perspective as political parties, interest groups, or the physical presence of group members in legislatures. When Protest Makes Policy contributes to the emerging scholarship on civil society as well as the traditional scholarship on representation. It will be of interest to anyone concerned with advancing social cohesion and deepening democracy and inclusion as well as those concerned with advancing equality for women, ethnic and racial minorities, the working class, and poor people. S. Laurel Weldon is Professor of Political Science at Purdue University.

A new step in the process of legal recognition of same-sex unions, "gay marriage" is now being debated in many countries. This pioneering book examines the emergence of this demand in Belgium, Spain and France, three states where gay and lesbian activists demanded the right to marry early on.

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"This volume gathers the contributions related to the call for papers presented on the occasion of the 59th National Conference of AIIG (Faculty of Literature and Philosophy, Sapienza University of Rome, 29 September - 3 October 2016). It aims to provide a lively and faceted testimony of the inclusive values that geography is able to offer to all operators of education and territory. The theoretical contributions of the first part highlight the irreplaceable role of geography to educate to the realization of a really inclusive human community and also touch other issues with a strong social impact, such as the right to health. In the second part the inclusive theories are translated into teaching practice, so that teachers can get practical and effective ideas for the realization of similar projects in other schools and universities."

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Firmly anchored in contemporary political issues, Freedom and Borders: A Theory of Citizenship for the Age of Globalization delves into the history and theory of citizenship to illustrate its meaning and function, and how its transformative powers have the capacity to overcome contemporary challenges. Showcasing the dynamics between citizenship, rights, and the state, Dario Mazzola addresses several crucial issues in political theory, including the integration between national and global citizenship, as well as peace, equality, and freedom. Combining perspectives from mainstream Anglo-Analytic philosophy with other viewpoints, chapters connect sources from a variety of disciplines and philosophical schools to weigh in on the ongoing debate over the positive and negative aspects of globalization, as well as their implications for the newly emergent global citizen. Offering the benefits of a systematic, philosophical encounter between cultures and scholarships which have yet to converge on this topic,Freedom and Borders: A Theory of Citizenship for the Age of Globalization presents a unique and original theory of citizenship, producing a provocative read for the expert and an impassioned introduction for the student with an interest in citizenship studies.

How does law conceptualize groups and collective identities like race, ethnicity or nationality? And how does it define who count as members? Identity, Belonging and the Law brings together legal scholars to address these questions through a series of case studies. The volume opens with a theoretical framework by András László Pap and proceeds to examine interpretations of Article 27 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. The book discusses questions pertaining to the accommodation of various claims, including political representation of minorities, examines legal constructions of indigeneity, and the complexities of ethnic data in law enforcement.

In the fight against the Coronavirus, digital technology is playing an unprecedented role in the maintenance of daily life and economic and social activities, as well as the recovery of industries and business activities. The Coronovirus-pandemic could become a tipping point for digitalisation - a dawn of a new era - by accelerating the maturity of digital technology: What was once a ‘nice to have’ could now become a ‘crucial to have’. This report analyses investment in and adoption of digital technologies by firms in the EU and the USA and provides evidence on better performance of digital firms compared to non-digital ones. The report draws from two unique sets of data, including the European Investment Bank Survey (EIBIS) 2019, and the EIBIS Start-up and Scale-up Survey 2019.

The present chapter, based on a first-hand examination of all of Egenolff’s music editions, including every known exemplar of ten of the fourteen extant editions, aims to remedy this, so that future work on Egenolff and the music in his editions can rest on a surer bibliographical foundation. The catalogue closes with a number of titles that either do not in fact contain printed music, or the printing of which is hypothesised

The title of this volume refers to a reality which is often dramatically experienced, in different historical phases, by all the territories where Slavic cultures lived in contact with other ethnic groups. Beyond the problems of coexistence, which is additionally complicated today by phenomena such as globalisation and multiculturalism that disguise identity conflicts, the history of the Slavs has always been intertwined with that of other peoples. Therefore, it seemed appropriate to propose the recurrent theme of “borders”, which offers ample space for reflection on a multiplicity of aspects of Slavic cultures. Today Italy still looks at the countries of Central and Eastern Europe with a certain skepticism. The languages and traditions of this area remain little or not at all known. The migratory flows of the peoples in the past twenty years have contributed to creating the image of a backward Europe of secondary importance, which wants to impose itself on the Europe of primary importance. This collective volume, on the other hand, wants to show how we can strive to understand our identity as Europeans only by widening our gaze to the east and learning the lesson of the territories of Central and Eastern Europe. Even if the western Slavs and part of the southern Slavs have participated in western history since the Middle Ages and were then divided by historical events, a new European identity can be forged only by reflecting on the events of the entire Slavic world, and experiencing the same difficulties of coexistence (as is now also the experience of western Europe) between residents and immigrants, majority and minority cultures, identity and otherness.

Onomastics and Paradox: Dostoevsky and the Collapse of the Ontological Integrity of Character. Onomastics plays a key role in Dostoevsky’s poetics: the names of most of his characters are essential to their portraits, even though these names rarely signify unambiguously. Moreover, a number of his characters are nameless and a semantic tension arises from this absence: the impossibility of “branding” the hero with a name prevents us from identifying his or her features through verbal onomastic symbolism. The portrait of such characters necessarily remains somewhat murky. It is no coincidence that the “nameless heroes” are the most paradoxical and enigmatic characters of Dostoevsky’s creative world. By denying them names, Dostoevsky seeks to destroy the inner integrity of these heroes, their identity, in order that a living, independent, and contradictory personality emerges in them.

Digital innovation is significantly reshaping the financial services landscape, pioneering new avenues for sustainable access, distribution, and management of financial resources. A myriad of real-world applications, such as enabling digital supply chain finance across agricultural and fashion value chains, and leveraging digital currencies to fuel smart meters in schools in developing nations, are continually emerging. Moreover, the advent of digital investment marketplaces, crowdfunding platforms, token-based financing, new payment infrastructures, digital wallets for waste management, and blockchain-based autonomous decentralized organizations, among others, underline the expansive and inclusive capabilities of digital finance. The potential of digital innovation extends far beyond our current imaginings. In this vein, this book seeks to present visionary, yet practical, perspectives that employ innovative technologies to address overarching sustainability challenges. This is an open access book.

Die Entschlüsselung der deutschen Chiffriermaschine »Enigma« durch die Briten gehört zu den bestgehüteten Geheimnissen des Zweiten Weltkrieges - erst 1974 wurde die Öffentlichkeit über die erfolgreichen Bemühungen informiert. Seither ist das Interesse an der »Enigma« bei Laien und Fachwelt ungebrochen. »Mythos Enigma« geht dieser Faszination in einer Feldstudie nach und nimmt die Spuren der Maschine nicht nur in Deutschland, England und in den USA, sondern auch in der Schweiz auf: Dass die geheimnisvolle Maschine aus Deutschland auch in diesem neutralen Land benutzt wurde, war bisher kaum bekannt. Die Motive von Wissenschaftlern, Sammlern und Zeitzeugen mögen unterschiedlich sein, ihre Bemühungen kommen aber auf eine geheimnisvolle Art am Schluss wieder zusammen. Ähnliches lässt sich von fiktionaler Literatur und Filmen sagen, die das Thema aufgreifen. Die Faszination von »Enigma« (lat. »Geheimnis«) ist eine Chiffre für unseren Umgang mit dem Geheimen.