Humanities & Social Sciences

This study investigates museum exhibitions as multimodal communication offerings, of which texts and exhibits are just as much a part as exhibition architecture and design. It reconstructs the communicative potential of exhibitions from a text-linguistic and semiotic perspective before using conversation analysis to examine how visitors use exhibitions to construct knowledge about the exhibition topic.

This open access book offers an interdisciplinary examination of Green Human Resource Management (GHRM), presenting a psychologically informed framework for aligning people management with environmental, economic, and social sustainability. Bringing together insights from work and organizational psychology, corporate social responsibility (CSR), and environmental management (EM), it explains how organizations can embed sustainability into everyday work practices by leveraging employee motivation, leadership, culture, and social dynamics.Psychosocial mechanisms make GHRM effective, shaping employees’ pro environmental attitudes, voluntary green behaviours, and long-term commitment to organizational sustainability goals. Drawing on meta-analytic evidence from 57 studies, the book shows the strong impact of GHRM on sustainable performance and financial outcomes and addresses persistent implementation challenges, such as the generalizability gap across sectors, lack of standardized metrics, post-pandemic work transformations, and the risk of greenwashing when cultural alignment is weak. Featuring theoretical insights, empirical evidence, case studies, and a practical diagnostic toolkit, the book provides actionable guidance on green recruitment, training, performance management, and employee engagement. An essential read for scholars and practitioners in HRM, organizational psychology, sustainability, environmental management, and leaders, this book positions GHRM as a critical lever for integrating people, planet, and performance.

This collected volume explores Foucault's literary thought, in light of the recent publication of unpublished works from his first period (1960s–1970s). It aims at establishing an archeology of the texts that Foucault devotes to literary theory and to clearly literary concepts such as fiction, outside (Blanchot) or transgression (Bataille), in order to relate them to key concepts of the second Foucault (parresia, self-care, veridiction).

Empirical approaches based on qualitative or quantitative methods of corpus linguistics have become a central paradigm within linguistics. The series takes account of this fact and provides a platform for approaches within synchronous linguistics as well as interdisciplinary works with a linguistic focus which devise new ways of working empirically and develop new data-based methods and theoretical models for empirical linguistic analyses.

This open access two-volume set constitutes the proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, TACAS 2021, which was held during March 27 – April 1, 2021, as part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2021. The conference was planned to take place in Luxembourg and changed to an online format due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The total of 41 full papers presented in the proceedings was carefully reviewed and selected from 141 submissions. The volume also contains 7 tool papers; 6 Tool Demo papers, 9 SV-Comp Competition Papers. The papers are organized in topical sections as follows: Part I: Game Theory; SMT Verification; Probabilities; Timed Systems; Neural Networks; Analysis of Network Communication. Part II: Verification Techniques (not SMT); Case Studies; Proof Generation/Validation; Tool Papers; Tool Demo Papers; SV-Comp Tool Competition Papers.

Photovoltaics is essential for the conversion of energy production towards renewable energies. One solution for simple processing in thin-film technology is provided by solar cells made from organic metal halide perovskite methylammonium lead iodide. Since stability and environmental issues with this material system have not yet been solved this work deals with stable, lead-free metal oxides for thin film solar cells.

Wie hängen Rollen und Tugenden zusammen? Obwohl es keine neue Erkenntnis ist, dass in der frühen chinesischen politisch-ethischen Literatur über Rollen diskutiert wird, sind diese in der praktischen Philosophie Platons und Aristoteles’ bislang nicht ausreichend gewürdigt worden. Diese Studie bietet eine detaillierte Untersuchung je zweier frühchinesischer und zweier antiker griechischer Texte und argumentiert, dass die spezifisch rollenbezogenen Tugenden sowohl in Platons »Politeia« als auch in Aristoteles’ »Nikomachischer Ethik« sowie bei Mencius und bei Xunzi strukturell grundlegend sind. Während Platon und Aristoteles vor allem den Begriff »ergon« verwenden, um Rollen zu erfassen und zu definieren, bedienen sich Mencius und Xunzi hierfür der Riten (li). Eine grundlegende Gemeinsamkeit aller untersuchten Texte besteht darin, dass Rollen und Tugenden im Zusammenhang mit Herrschaft, dem Haushalt und den Künsten diskutiert werden. Einleitend werden fünf Merkmale von Rollen und ihren Tugenden herausgearbeitet: Erstens sind Rollen notwendig für das gute Leben, zweitens haben sie stets einen Träger und sind, drittens, plural – niemand hat also je nur eine einzige Rolle inne. Dies führt viertens dazu, dass verschiedene Rollen sich gegenseitig bedingen und auch im Konflikt miteinander stehen können. Und fünftens sind Rollen davon abhängig, erworben worden zu sein und danach nicht wieder eingebüßt zu werden. Diese fünf Merkmale dienen der Studie als flexible Struktur, um die verschiedenen Auffassungen von Rollen und der ihnen zugehörigen Tugenden in den Texten von Platon, Aristoteles, Mencius und Xunxi zu analysieren und sich der Antwort auf die Frage, was in dem jeweiligen antiken oder frühchinesischen Text mit »Rolle« gemeint sein könnte, zu nähern. Denn freilich gibt es in diesen Texten keinen Begriff, der dem hier im philosophischen Sinne verwendeten und eng mit dem Guten verbundenen Begriff der »Rolle« entspricht. An verschiedenen Stellen findet sich sogar das, was King als »extreme These« bezeichnet: Dass der Träger der Rolle gleichsam die Rolle ist – und nichts anderes.

Als erste Universitätsbibliothek (UB) in Österreich begann die UB Wien 2004 mit der systematischen Durchsicht der Bestände und der wissenschaftlichen Aufarbeitung der eigenen Erwerbungspolitik in Bezug auf den Nationalsozialismus. Später rückten auch das Universitätsarchiv und die wissenschaftlichen Sammlungen in den Fokus. Zusätzlich etablierte sich die Provenienzforschung als eigene Forschungsdisziplin. Anlässlich des 20jährigen Jubiläums der NS-Provenienzforschung wird die Geschichte der materiellen Objekte an der Universität Wien durch kritische Geschichtsaufarbeitung einer Revision unterzogen. Repräsentative Falldossiers der NS-Provenienzforschung aus dem weiten Spektrum der Bibliotheken, Archive und Sammlungen sowie deren erinnerungskultureller Aufarbeitung zeigen den aktiven Beitrag der UB Wien zur Erinnerung an die Opfer des Nationalsozialismus und im internationalen Forschungsfeld. In 2004, the Vienna University Library (UB) was the first university library in Austria to begin systematically reviewing its holdings and scientifically analyzing its own acquisition policy with regard to National Socialism. Later, the university archives and academic collections also became the focus of research. Provenance research also established itself as a separate research discipline. On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of Nazi provenance research, the history of material objects at the University of Vienna is being revised through a critical historical review of Austrofascism and National Socialism and their processing. Representative case files of Nazi provenance research from the broad spectrum of libraries, archives, and collections, as well as their remembrance-cultural processing at the University of Vienna, demonstrate the active contribution of the Vienna University Library to the remembrance of the victims of National Socialism and to the international research field.

Politische Bildung und politisches Lernen in der Grundschule wird seit Jahrzehnten konzeptionell und fachdidaktisch der Wissenschaftsdisziplin Sachunterrichtsdidaktik zugeordnet. Trotz dieser fachdidaktischen Zuweisung ist ein Desiderat in Bezug auf die diskursive Auseinandersetzung über Politische Bildung in der Grundschule erkennbar. Der Band „Politische Bildung im Sachunterricht. Potenziale – Positionen – Perspektiven“ bietet daher umfassende Ein- und Überblicke zu konzeptionellen Sichtweisen, empirischen Forschungsprojekten sowie Lehr-Lernprojekten und -settings an unterschiedlichen Universitäts- und Ausbildungsstandorten. Eine übergreifende kritische Bestandsaufnahme des gegenwärtigen (Diskussions-) Standes zur Politischen Bildung im Sachunterricht in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz wird somit in diesem Band aufgezeigt.

The volume is a commentary on Don DeLillo’s hypertrophic novel Underworld (1997). Starting from the analysis of the text – which intertwines several plots, locations and point of view –, Nicola Turi retraces the entire production of the author to follow the evolution of themes (paranoia, nuclear threat, alienation, violence…) and textual strategies. At the same times he considers some widespread trends in the contemporary novel which Underworld, narrative tableau of the United States of the second twentieth century, embodies or anticipates: the resumption of the collective novel; the construction of characters drawn from reality; the continuous interaction between verbal representation and image (both static and moving).

This volume examines how openness is designed, governed, contested and lived in contemporary digital knowledge infrastructures. From open source software and internet standards, to citizen science platforms, public sector data systems and alternative computing practices, the book shows that infrastructures are never neutral technical backbones. They are deeply political arrangements that embed values, distribute power and shape whose knowledge counts.Bringing together scholars from science and technology studies, critical data studies, media studies, organisation studies, arts-based research and political sociology, this edited volume explores openness as an ongoing socio-technical process rather than a fixed ideal. The book moves from the partial openness of early Internet standards and free and open source software, through contested practices of opening government data and public infrastructures, to struggles over inclusion and governance in scholarly and cultural knowledge infrastructures. This is followed by community-driven experiments in care, repair and alternative openness and concludes with forward-looking contributions on how to keep infrastructures open for research, how to fund infrastructures as digital commons and how to mobilise open infrastructures for democratic resilience and economic sovereignty.The contributions trace how principles such as accessibility, transparency, participation and collective stewardship are enacted in practice—and how they are challenged by commercial capture, asymmetries of expertise, cultural governance and geopolitical inequalities. Across theoretical chapters and rich empirical case studies, the book investigates the governance of open infrastructures, the politics of alternative technological arrangements and struggles for epistemic justice within knowledge systems.By foregrounding power relations, ethical tensions and questions of responsibility, this book rethinks openness as a site of political negotiation rather than a technical solution. The volume offers critical insights for researchers, policymakers, engineers and civil society actors concerned with digital commons, democratic governance and the future of open knowledge infrastructures in increasingly contested political and technical environments.A companion website, www.openinfrastructures.net , extends the volume through author interviews, supplementary materials and additional resources that document the making of the book and provide further insights into the debates on governing, sustaining, and contesting open digital knowledge infrastructures.

This book is unique in focusing on just one band from one city – but the story of Tat Ming Pair, in so many ways, is the story of Hong Kong's recent decades, from the Handover to the Umbrella Movement to 2019's standoff. A comprehensive, theoretically informed study of the sonic history and present of Hong Kong through the prism of Tat Ming Pair, this book will be of interest to cultural studies scholars, scholars of Hong Kong, and those who study the arts in East Asia. This is an open access book.

This open access book traces the evolution of the European media landscape in the last 30 years, from 1990 to 2020. It is based on the theoretical classical hypotheses of regional media systems provided by Hallin and Mancini and at the same time puts them to test. The book further defines the proportions between geocultural patterns – national, regional, European, and global – to outline evolutionary trends in media landscapes. It analyzes to which degree European media have become more European, in the historical course of administrative unification and breaks the results down into concrete indexes and indicators. The book discusses the media systems of the member states of the European Union through a regional perspective, identifying similarities, differences, as well as their convergence in the digital age. It sheds light on the evolution of media systems in Europe, introduces existing relevant theoretical perspectives, and offers an overview of the new developments in European media. The book will appeal to students, researchers, and scholars of political science, communication, media, cultural, and policy studies, as well as practitioners and professionals interested in a better understanding of the European media landscape's evolution.

Der Tagungsband ist das Ergebnis der 7. Berufsbildungsforschungskonferenz "Wie wollen wir arbeiten?". Im Zentrum steht die Frage, ob das gegenwärtige berufliche Lernenden Anforderungen des digitalisierten Arbeitsalltags gerecht wird. Bislang war die Weitergabe beruflichen Wissens und Könnens vor allem geprägt durch kulturelle Muster: Traditionen und soziale Aushandlungsprozesse besitzen eine besondere integrative Wirkung und begünstigen den sozialen Aufstieg. Berufliche Bildung soll sozialen Halt bieten und gleichzeitig erforderliche Kenntnisse und Fertigkeiten vermitteln. Diese Doppelrolle wird multiperspektivisch in vier Teilen betrachtet unter den Aspekten digitale Transformation, Akteur:innen der beruflichen Bildung, moderne Didaktik und faire soziale Transformation.

The ERiK-Methodological Report V is the fifth in a series of methodological reports related to the 'Entwicklung von Rahmenbedingungen in der Kindertagesbetreuung - indikatorengestützte Qualitätsbeobachtung (ERiK)' study. The report contains all background information on the methodology of the ERiK-Surveys 2024.