Humanities & Social Sciences

The Sudans tells the story of the African Union's efforts to make peace in the Sudans during the years 2009 to 2013 . It details the work of the AU High-Level Panel, led by former South African President Thabo Mbeki, to resolve the war in Darfur, promote democracy in Sudan, steer the independence of South Sudan, and make peace between Sudan and South Sudan. It was Africa's most ambitious peace-making effort. Meticulously documenting every step, Alex de Waal and Willow Berridge show how Mbeki's team handled disputes over borders, resources, and citizenship, and channeled fractious international actors into a consensus. They document the panel's consultative, people-focused strategy in Darfur and its patient, unflagging mediation between north and south. Ultimately, however, the leaders of Sudan and South Sudan squandered opportunities to establish two viable, mutually supporting states, setting both countries on the path toward calamity. Authoritative and clear-eyed, The Sudans pulls back the curtain on this pioneering effort, demonstrating the potential of African-led peacemaking.

Die Vorstellung der beiden Übersetzer wird der Gedichtanalyse vorangestellt. Sie soll als Hinführung zum inhaltlichen Schwerpunkt dienen. Besondere Berücksichtigung finden dabei die Stellung Žukovskijs und Tjutčevs innerhalb der russischen Literatur, ihre Bedeutung für die zunehmende Verbreitung von Goethes Schaffen im Rußland des 19. Jahrhunderts, sowie biographische Ereignisse, die speziell geeignet sind, die Beziehung der Dichter zu Deutschland und zu Goethe zu erhellen.

The domination of Filippo Maria Visconti in Lombardy (1412-1447) was the result of an attempt, only partially successful, to recompose the vast territories already dominated by the first duke, Giangaleazzo Visconti. For thirty-five years, the third duke of Milan governed a large, rich and prosperous state, strengthened its institutions, cultivated high monarchical ambitions and proclaimed ideas of peace, concord and justice. The use of force and diplomacy and the close confrontation with the political, social and economic actors of the domain were the tools adopted to strengthen and consolidate the ducal domination. The authors of this volume illustrate the political models underlying the exercise of the duke's authority, the ways of establishing relationships between authorities and subjects, the construction of the symbolic and ideological apparatus, the artistic commission of the prince, ecclesiastical politics and the religious events of the duchy against the background of the councils of Constance and Basel. Some specific moments of ducal politics are also analyzed: the deeds of dedication of 1412, the geopolitical set established in 1435 after the victory of Ponza, the crisis of the last years of the duchy characterized by the ruthless execution of the government practices. Ultimately, the book aims to offer a more in-depth and problematic view of the domination of the third duke of Milan, which in its chiaroscuro turns out to be an important moment in the stabilization of the structures of the Lombard regional state.

Ästhetisierung als das Streben, Schönes zu erleben, hat die Entwicklung der Menschheit vorangetrieben - heute bestimmt sie als Megatrend den Alltag. In Auseinandersetzung mit dem Ästhetisierungsmodell von Andreas Reckwitz zeichnet Kaspar Maase diese Entwicklung bis in die Gegenwart nach. Welche Rolle spielt dabei Kunst, welche Rolle sinnlich anregende Umwelt? Was macht die Alltäglichkeit ästhetischen Erlebens aus, bei der Zerstreuung als Praxis verteilter Aufmerksamkeit dominiert? Und wie verbinden sich Vergnügen und sinnliche Erkenntnis, Fühlen und Wissen, Empfinden und Darüber-Reden? Potenziale und Grenzen heutiger Ästhetisierung werden aus der Perspektive gewöhnlicher Alltagsakteur*innen erörtert.

The book presents the discoveries made by the Polish archaeological mission in Saqqara, the central part of the largest ancient Egyptian royal necropolis. The area adjacent to the Pyramid of King Djoser on the monument’s west side, so far neglected by archaeologists, turned out to be an important burial place of the Egyptian nobility from two periods of Pharaonic history: the Old Kingdom (the late third millennium BC) and the Ptolemaic Period (the late first millennium BC). The earlier, lower cemetery yielded rock-hewn tombs with splendid wall decoration in relief and painting. The book also describes methods of conservation applied to the discovered artefacts and episodes from the mission’s life.

This analytic study surveys the transformations of elderly care policies and practices since the early 1990s, by comparing the trajectories of two extremely different care systems: Italy, a familialistic model with no relevant changes in social policies; and the Netherlands, a formal care model under restructuring. The author demonstrates that, in spite of strong policy pressures, the Dutch system remains a formal care model and represents a case of institutional and social resistance to welfare restructuring By contrast, the Italian system has shifted from family-based to a mix of family- and market-based model, despite the absence of substantial policy intervention. She argues that the ongoing changes need to be seen from a micro-to-macro perspective, considering the choices and strategies of the actors that are limited and conditioned by the institutional framework, but also represent possible forces of social change.

In diesem Buch wird erstmals das Konzept einer diskriminierungskritischen Schule skizziert, das die Handlungsfelder Antidiskriminierung, Rechtsextremismus-Prävention und Inklusion bzw. Interkulturelle Öffnung zusammen in den Blick nimmt und als gemeinsame Aufgabe von Schule und Partnern aus Jugendsozialarbeit und politischer Bildung begreift. Im Zentrum stehen dabei grundlegende Überlegungen zu einer demokratischen Schulkultur sowie daraus entwickelte Qualitätsstandards, die für schulische Handlungsfelder praxisnahe Orientierung bieten. Sie sollen helfen, die eigene Praxis weiterzuentwickeln und in der Wechselwirkung von pädagogischer Haltung, Methoden und notwendigen Strukturen zu reflektieren. Damit liegt ein Vorschlag für ein umfassendes Schulentwicklungsprogramm vor, das vielfältige Ansatzmöglichkeiten in kleinen Schritten und eine Reflexionshilfe für pädagogisches Handeln in konkreten herausfordernden Situationen bietet.

This book is an original study of youth organizations in London, Toronto, and Vancouver that represent a burgeoning global sector of creative and cultural learning for socially marginalized young people. The book is also about a sector that is not recognized as such—organizations that do not like being institutionalized, forms of education that exist outside the mainstream, types of aesthetic expression that often go unrecognized, and opportunities for socially marginalized young people who are frequently denied them. Rooted in the history of community arts movements from the 1970s, YouthSites or the non-formal youth arts learning sector is now part of cities throughout the world. Technological change, shifts in educational discourses, changes in policy rhetorics, including a turn away from traditional public institutions, and a corresponding decline in confidence and funding of formal public schooling have all impacted the growth of youth arts organizations. Yet, there are currently no systematic studies of the history, structure, and development of this sector. This book fills this gap and is the first book to develop an internationally comparative, evidence-based, structural analysis of the development of the youth arts sector. Based on an original 4-year study examining the history, priorities, and tensions within this sector between 1995 and 2015, this book explores the new creative transition routes, organizations, and people who help young people become creators, citizens, or just themselves at a time when support for young people seems to be perilously fragile or at risk.

"A film that will let you see the music and listen to drawings; in a word, a film full of Fantasia!" Bruno Bozzetto's Allegro non Troppo tips its hand right away: it is an unabashed, yet full of admiration, retake on Walt Disney's 1940 "concert feature". The obvious nod to that model fuels many tongue-in-cheek jokes in the film; however, Allegro non Troppo soon departs from mere parody, and becomes a showcase for the multifaceted aesthetics of Italian animation in 1976, as well as a witty social satire and a powerful rethinking of the music-image relationship in cinema. Marco Bellano's open access book reconstructs the history of the production of Allegro non Troppo, on the basis of an original research developed with the contribution of Bozzetto himself; it also presents an audiovisual analysis of the work, as to reassess the international relevance of Bozzetto's achievements by giving insight into the director's creative process. The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.

Meritocracy today involves the idea that whatever your social position at birth, society ought to offer enough opportunity and mobility for ‘talent’ to combine with ‘effort’ in order to ‘rise to the top’. This idea is one of the most prevalent social and cultural tropes of our time, as palpable in the speeches of politicians as in popular culture. In this book Jo Littler argues that meritocracy is the key cultural means of legitimation for contemporary neoliberal culture – and that whilst it promises opportunity, it in fact creates new forms of social division. Against Meritocracy is split into two parts. Part I explores the genealogies of meritocracy within social theory, political discourse and working cultures. It traces the dramatic U-turn in meritocracy’s meaning, from socialist slur to a contemporary ideal of how a society should be organised. Part II uses a series of case studies to analyse the cultural pull of popular ‘parables of progress’, from reality TV to the super-rich and celebrity CEOs, from social media controversies to the rise of the ‘mumpreneur’. Paying special attention to the role of gender, ‘race’ and class, this book provides new conceptualisations of the meaning of meritocracy in contemporary culture and society.

This dissertation contains an analysis of the legal gambling "rulebook" in Italy, starting from the origins to the latest regulatory and fiscal updates. The dissertation then proceeds to quickly examine the history of the different national gambling markets, highlighting the evolutions that have developed over the last fifteen years or so, also thanks to IT and technological innovations. In conclusion, this overview will show different types of control in the gambling sector, aimed to the common goals of protecting the citizens, the economic operators and tax revenues.

This book engages the field of practice theory in order to consider law as a social practice. Taking up the theoretical concept of practices, the contributors to this volume maintain that law can be fruitfully understood as one among other social practices. Including perspectives from philosophers of language, experts in practice theory, linguists and legal philosophers, the book examines the twin questions of what it means for law to be considered a practice, and what law’s place is among other social practices. The book is comprised of three parts. The first provides a broad methodological framework for discussing how the concept of practice is used in the social sciences, and in law. The second deals with specific problems arising from the use of the concept of practice in the legal context, and from the intersection of different social practices. The third part identifies and addresses the consequences of applying insights from practice theory to law. Together, they offer a comprehensive consideration of what is at stake in understanding law as a social practice. This book will appeal to sociolegal scholars, sociologists of law, philosophers of language and action, as well as philosophers of law and legal theorists.

"How do we know what we know? In this stimulating and rigorous book, Mark McBride explores two sets of issues in contemporary epistemology: the problems that warrant transmission poses for the category of basic knowledge; and the status of conclusive reasons, sensitivity, and safety as conditions that are necessary for knowledge. To have basic knowledge is to know (have justification for) some proposition immediately, i.e., knowledge (justification) that doesn’t depend on justification for any other proposition. This book considers several puzzles that arise when you take seriously the possibility that we can have basic knowledge. McBride’s analysis draws together two vital strands in contemporary epistemology that are usually treated in isolation from each other. Additionally, its innovative arguments include a new application of the safety condition to the law. This book will be of interest to epistemologists―both professionals and students. "

This book shines a light on the value and effectiveness of football clubs’ community engagement work, the cultural value of sport and the position sport plays within people’s daily lives. The book considers the deep historical roots that many football clubs have as charitable institutions within their civic locales. Including original research carried out during the COVID-19 pandemic, the book presents an in-depth case study of Everton FC and their associated charitable trust. It takes a close look at the outreach work that they undertook during the pandemic to support vulnerable people in the local community and considers the value of that work more generally for local residents, football fans, club staff and other stakeholders. The book also places the Everton case study in the context of wider debates around the use of sport in the service of humanity, and corporate social responsibility in the sport industry. This is fascinating reading for any student, researcher, policy maker, practitioner or football fan with an interest in sport (for) development, community work, the relationship between sport consumption and wider society, ethical business or the English Premier League.

Bislang trotzt der deutsche Arbeitsmarkt dem wirtschaftlichen Einbruch im Gefolge der globalen Finanzkrise ebenso wie den ökonomischen Verwerfungen durch die Eurokrise. Im Unterschied zu anderen europäischen Ländern sinkt hierzulande die Arbeitslosigkeit im Trend und die Beschäftigung wächst. Was sind die Ursachen? Welche Rolle spielten die Arbeitsmarktreformen und das Krisenmanagement nach dem Lehman-Crash? Inwieweit ist der Job-Boom einer Expansion atypischer Beschäftigungsverhältnisse geschuldet? Das "Handbuch Arbeitsmarkt 2013" bietet eine umfassende Bestandsaufnahme des deutschen Arbeitsmarktes. Es skizziert die Entwicklung seit 2006, analysiert die kurz- und langfristigen Perspektiven und fasst arbeitsmarktrelevante Entscheidungen der Politik in einer detaillierten Chronik zusammen. Umfassend widmet sich der Band zwei aktuellen und zentralen Themen: * den Übergängen in Beschäftigung und deren Bedeutung für die Qualität der Arbeit sowie * den Folgen des jüngsten wirtschaftlichen Aufschwungs und des künftigen Rückgangs des Arbeitskräfteangebots für den Fachkräftebedarf Ein ausführliches Register erlaubt die Suche nach wichtigen Stichworten. Der Datenanhang auf CD-ROM enthält umfangreiche und zum Teil international vergleichende Daten zu zentralen Indikatoren des deutschen Arbeitsmarktes, einschließlich aktueller Kennziffern zur sozialen Grundsicherung. Er ist auch im Internet zum kostenlosen Download verfügbar. Mehr zum "Handbuch Arbeitsmarkt 2013" finden Sie unter www.iab.de/hb2013.