Humanities & Social Sciences

El proyecto político-pedagógico del neofascismo parte de una constatación brutal: la escena que creíamos improbable ya ocurrió. La llegada de Javier Milei al poder no es una anomalía, sino la expresión de un proyecto político-pedagógico neofascista que viene trabajando hace años para moldear subjetividades, sentidos y deseos compatibles con una restauración capitalista autoritaria.Desde una concepción ampliada de educación, Cinthia Wanschelbaum analiza cómo estas fuerzas producen legitimidad, obediencia, fascinación y consenso; cómo convierten la precarización en mérito, el despojo en libertad y el odio en programa.Lejos de explicaciones simplistas -ni solo económicas ni solo electorales-, Wanschelbaum propone leer el avance neofascista como una batalla cultural deliberada: un dispositivo de reescritura del sentido común. Comprender su entramado no es un gesto académico, sino una necesidad estratégica: lo que no se entiende, se naturaliza; lo que se nombra, se disputa.Este libro ofrece herramientas conceptuales para intervenir en el presente: desmontar el modo en que el neofascismo educa para gobernar es el primer paso para dejar de ser gobernados por él.

Durch aktuelle gesellschaftspolitische und rechtliche Debatten um geschlechtliche und sexuelle Vielfalt ist einiges in Bewegung geraten: Tradierte (Zu-)Ordnungen von Geschlecht sind durchlässiger geworden, strikte Regulierungen von Sexualität(en) sind aufgebrochen. Soziale Wirklichkeiten scheinen nun pluralisiert und neue Chancen für selbstbestimmte Lebens¬weisen eröffnet. Zugleich haben institutionalisierte Vorstellungen von binären Ge-schlech¬terdifferenzen und von Heterosexualität Spuren hinterlassen, die als ‚Einschreibungen’ der sozialen Verhältnisse weiter existieren. Der vorliegende Band ist das Ergebnis interdisziplinärer Reflexionen in den Sozial- und Geisteswissenschaften. Die Beiträge geben einen Einblick in unterschiedliche disziplinäre Perspektiven auf Gender- und Sexualitäts(zu)ordnungen. Sie spannen die Breite der For-schungsfelder mit ihrem jeweiligen Bezug zu Alltagspraktiken auf; vor dem Hintergrund der Fachkulturen und wissenschaftlichen Entwicklungen beleuchten sie begriffliche Konzepte, Fragestellungen sowie Arbeitsweisen und reflektieren vor allem auch die Gleichzeitigkeit von Kontinuität, Wandel und neuen Normierungsprozessen.

Examining the intersection of disability and genre in popular works of horror, crime, science fiction, fantasy, and romance published since the late 1960s, Disability, Literature, Genre is a major contribution to both cultural disability studies and genre fiction studies. Drawing on recent work on affect and emotion, the book explores how disability makes us feel, and how those feelings shape interpersonal and fictional encounters. Written in a clear and accessible style, Disability, Literature, Genre offers a timely reflection on the rapidly growing body of scholarship on disability representation, as well as an innovative new theorisation of genre. By reconceptualising genre reading as an affective process, Ria Cheyne establishes genre fiction as a key site of investigation for disability studies. She argues that genre fiction’s unique combination of affectivity and reflexivity makes it ideally suited to the production of reflexive representations of disability: representations which encourage the reader to reflect upon what they understand about disability, and potentially to rethink it. Examining the affective—and effective—power of disability representations in a wide range of popular genre fiction, this book will be essential reading for academics in disability studies, literary studies, popular culture studies, and the medical humanities.

The Thai—Yunnan Project is proud to present this English-language version of Professor Yos Santasombat’s fascinating ethnography of the Tai in Daikong, southwestern China. It represents a significant contribution to the ethnographic record of the Tai peoples. The village of Lak Chang is located close to the edge of the Tai world and is increasingly embraced by Chinese influence. Professor Yos skilfully weaves ethnographic and historical writing to chart the course of Lak Chang’s incorporation into the modern Chinese state. This has been a painful history but what emerges in this account is a sense of Tai cultural identity that is vigorous and adaptive. “The Tai ethnic category is thus a complex and dynamic construct which takes place within the context of changing power relations and socio-economic conditions where the past is reconstructed to give meaning to the present and hope for the future.” In his account of the labours, rituals and beliefs of the Tai villagers of Daikong, Professor Yos brings contemporary ethnic identity to their life. Among the patchwork paddyfields and haphazard laneways of Lak Chang we come to a greater understanding of how global and regional processes of modernisation are managed and selectively incorporated by one local community.

Government bailouts; negative interest rates and markets that do not behave as economic models tell us they should; new populist and nationalist movements that target central banks and central bankers as a source of popular malaise; new regional organizations and geopolitical alignments laying claim to authority over the global economy; households, consumers, and workers facing increasingly intolerable levels of inequality: These dramatic conditions seem to cry out for new ways of understanding the purposes, roles, and challenges of central banks and financial governance more generally. Financial Citizenship reveals that the conflicts about who gets to decide how central banks do all these things, and about whether central banks are acting in everyone’s interest when they do them, are in large part the product of a culture clash between experts and the various global publics that have a stake in what central banks do. Experts—central bankers, regulators, market insiders, and their academic supporters—are a special community, a cultural group apart from many of the communities that make up the public at large. When the gulf between the culture of those who govern and the cultures of the governed becomes unmanageable, the result is a legitimacy crisis. This book is a call to action for all of us—experts and publics alike—to address this legitimacy crisis head on, for our economies and our democracies.

Yue’s book explores the nature of translation using traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and the TCM classic Huangdi Neijing and its various translations. Yue examines in great detail and depth the important factors that cause the differences in the translators’ treatment of language indeterminacies. Apart from having multi-faceted and fine-grained linguistic analysis, this book also serves as a good model of methodology, in terms of corpus building, contrastive analysis, exemplification, and glossing following systemic functional linguistics (SFL) convention. This book is an argument for greater emphasis on the linguistic notion of register in translator’s expertise, specifically in the way that professional experience and training – with their registerial demands – may be the key to semantic decisions forced on a translator by the inevitable vagaries and indeterminacies of establishing a working “equivalence” across languages and cultures and deep time. It probes the issue in an extreme case: the debate over who is the “ideal” translator in Chinese medicine translation through various case studies. The result suggests it is possible to demonstrate, empirically, that clinical experience in translators is likely to have consistent, or even measurable, consequences. This book will be of interest to three different fields: translators in training, applicable systemic functional linguistics, and traditional Chinese medicine communication.

Intelligenztests werden häufig im Rahmen sonderpädagogischer Begutachtungen durchgeführt. Die empirische Studie untersucht, unter welchen Arbeitsbedingungen Intelligenztests angewendet werden und welche Problematiken daraus resultieren. Ergänzt wird die Studie durch die Analyse von 248 Intelligenztests auf Auswertungsfehler. Zusammengefasst belegen die Ergebnisse vielfältige Schwierigkeiten im Umgang mit den Tests, aber auch einen unterschiedlichen Umgang in den Bundesländern. Aus den Studienergebnissen resultierende Verbesserungsvorschläge für die Praxis werden abschließend vorgestellt.

Auch ein knappes Vierteljahrhundert nach seinem Ende beschäftigen die Folgen des Jugoslawienkrieges jene, die ihn direkt oder indirekt erlebt haben, sowie deren Folgegeneration. Dies verdeutlichen die postjugoslawischen Literaturen, in denen Narrative der Traumatisierung nach wie vor äußerst präsent sind. Ingeborg Jandl-Konrad entwirft zwei theoretische Ebenen, anhand derer subjektive Sichtweisen auf Krieg und Trauma untersucht werden. Als "Foto-Text" bezeichnet sie Diskurse, die durch Abbildung, Erwähnung oder Beschreibung von Fotografien in literarischen Werken entstehen. Unter "Sprechen" versteht sie Formungen des sprachlichen Ausdrucks, die den emotionalen Gehalt des Gesagten sowie suggestive Eigenschaften der Darstellung vermitteln oder metapoetisch reflektieren. Der Schwerpunkt liegt dabei auf Bild- und Text-Strategien, die Narrative der Traumatisierung verstärken oder aber zu deren Aufarbeitung beitragen. Dabei stehen vor allem Momente der Transformation im Zentrum, die im diachronen Blick auf autor:innenspezifische Poetiken deutlich werden. Die Kategorien "Foto-Text" und "Sprechen" sind so allgemein konzipiert, dass man mit ihrer Hilfe auch andere gesellschaftspolitische Diskurse untersuchen kann.

This reappraisal of archaeology conducted at the Saige-McFarland site presents for the first time a substantial body of comparative data from a Mimbres period site in the Gila drainage. Lekson offers a new and controversial interpretation of the Mimbres sequence, reintroducing the concept of the Mangas phase first proposed by the Gila Pueblo investigations of the 1930s and demonstrating a more gradual shift from pithouse to pueblo occupance than has been suggested previously.

Until currently there have been no specific publications, particularly in English, on women in traditional Islamic educational institutions in Indonesia, known as pesantren, which played a significant role in shaping the gender issues in the Indonesian Muslim community. This informative and insightful book contributes to two booming fields in Indonesian studies: the study of Islam and the study of Muslim women. It also adds a new perspective to the English-language literature on Muslim women outside the Middle-Eastern or Sub-Indian continent communities context, which used to dominate the scholarly discussion or publication in this field.

This open access book offers an original exploration of how the notion of pluriversalism, an anti-colonial concept that resounds throughout many decolonial methodologies and pedagogies, underlies many current attempts to develop more just and equitable approaches to social work teaching and research. Despite its prominence in other fields, pluriversalism has never been foregrounded in any full-length study of social work. This co-edited volume does just that, and in so doing, it codifies a thriving, but otherwise diffuse, subcurrent of alternative, othered ways of researching and teaching social work. It foregrounds local knowledges while maintaining a global scope and empirically grounded perspective, and in so doing it shows how pluriversal approaches open new spaces around the world for teaching and talking about social work in a manner that is more just, culturally sensitive, and attuned to structural power relations. In that same self-critical spirit, the chapters gathered here also engage critically with the risks of cultural appropriation endemic to pluriversal approaches, themselves, appropriations that would ultimately reproduce the exploitation mechanisms they aim to resist. This is a must-read for social work students, researchers, and practitioners interested in development studies, decolonial studies, and Indigenous studies. 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 the Bloomsbury Open Collections Library Collective.

People everyday live and use open spaces, so these actually are indispensable. The scientific literature is full of evidence about the role open spaces play for human psycho-physical well-being and health. This book deals with the regeneration of hospital open spaces through the case of the Careggi University Hospital in Florence. The studies carried out refer to a necessary change in the accessibility and mobility model investigating the qualities that open spaces can express for the conversion of the polyclinic into an university hospital campus. Several scientific argumentations and daily experiences indicate the One Health paradigm as the horizon towards which to turn. To do this it is also necessary to protect and regenerate open spaces.

Oor die eeue het die Boesmans eers in aanraking gekom met die Khoi-khoi-groepe of -stamme, daarna met die Bantoestamme, en toe met Europeërs en ander aankomelinge. In die proses van taalbeïnvloeding en –vermenging is bestaande plekname in sommige gevalle oorgeneem, met die aanpassings om dit binne die taalsisteme van die ontvangers te laat inpas. Om die komponente van plekname in die verskillende tale met mekaar te kan vergelyk, is dit nodig om kennis te neem van die taalstelsels van die betrokke tale. Prof Peter E Raper, een van Suid-Afrika se vooraanstaande kenners van die Boesman (San) substrukture van plekname, is buitengewone professor in Linguistiek en navorsingsgenoot by die Universiteit van die Vrystaat.

While many scholars, policymakers, and development practitioners view decentralization as a way to increase participation, strengthen political representation, and improve social welfare, little is known about the experiences of communities in the context of decentralization – particularly in the Middle East and North Africa. This volume directs our attention toward the ways in which decentralization is “lived locally” by citizens of the MENA region, underscoring the simultaneous influences of individual-level factors (e.g., gender, education) and local context (e.g., development levels, electoral institutions) on governance processes and outcomes. A group of international scholars brings together methodologically diverse, original research in Lebanon, Morocco, Syria, and Tunisia to expand the literature on decentralization. Following a preface by Hicham Alaoui, the empirical chapters are arranged into three thematic sections. These focus on subnational variations in the relationships between central and local actors, citizen engagement with state and non-state institutions, and the extent to which representatives reflect their local communities. Together, these chapters provide important insights into governance, participation, and representation in the MENA and open new questions for furthering the study of governance and local development. Only by unpacking perspectives and governance experiences at the micro-level can we understand how decentralization policies affect citizens’ everyday lives.

Im derzeitigen Katalog der Menschenrechte fehlt ein zentrales Recht, das Hannah Arendt das »Recht auf Rechte« nennt. Dadurch bleibt vielen Menschen, wenn sie nicht Staatsbürger_innen eines Landes sind, in der nationalstaatlichen Praxis das Recht auf politische Mitgestaltung vorenthalten. 70 Jahre nach der Verabschiedung der Allgemeinen Erklärung der Menschenrechte ist daher eine kritische Revision des Menschenrechtsverständnisses dringend erforderlich. Franziska Martinsen erläutert aus radikaldemokratietheoretischer Perspektive, dass Menschenrechte erst dann, wenn sie weniger als humanitäre denn als originär politische Rechte verstanden werden, ihr ermächtigendes Potenzial weltweit entfalten können.