Humanities & Social Sciences

In ihrem Werk konzipiert Denise Klinge digitale Technologien als eigenständige pädagogische Akteure und erforscht, wie diese die Interaktion gestalten. Dazu wird deren Vermittlungstätigkeit vor dem Hintergrund historischer Entwicklungen, Technik- und Artefakttheorien sowie medienpädagogischer und dingtheoretischer Betrachtungen formuliert. Anhand von App-Analysen und Interviews mit Entwickler*innen wird eine ihnen eingeschriebene spezifische Pädagogik rekonstruiert. Damit leistet die Arbeit einen Beitrag zur Reflexion von Lern-, Bildungs- und Sozialisationsprozessen im Digitalen.

Monographic study of the gold ground in Italian panel painting. Analyzes the art historiographical use of the term in the 20th century. "Gold ground" and "perspective" are not thought of as oppositional. For example, Fra Angelico is shown to develop strategies for perspective representation from within the gold ground. Notes theological, philosophical, and historico-scientific sources.

The study examines the conception of space in the literary works of Richard Weiner (1884- 1937), Věra Linhartová (*1938), and Daniela Hodrová (*1946). What unites them is the departure from concrete topographical, experiential space towards an abstract, topologically structured, and poetically transformed space. The work perceives topological space transformation as the exploration of new spatial qualities or as a possibility for a new spatial perception. The first analysis situates Richard Weiner‘s poetics of space within the modernist tradition and initially discusses self-techniques of spatial transformation. It then examines the transformation of nature description in Weiner‘s work, which arises from transformative experiences such as war and revolution. The second investigation focuses on Věra Linhartová, whose poetics of space was heavily influenced by Weiner. Her neo-avant-garde and simultaneously archaic poetics of space revolve around the possibility of adopting a new positionality, through which transcendent spatial qualities can be made visible. The third analysis examines Daniela Hodrová‘s trilogy as an example of her poetics of superimposition, manifested in the three novels through a complex topographical, organic, and geological motif of transformation. The starting point for the transformation and unfolding of historically superimposed layers of space are magical practices and physical actions. Finally, the study identifies developmental dynamic relationships of this constellation and proposes, based on the topological poetics of Weiner, Linhartová, and Hodrová, an interpretive framework with which topological poetics can be examined in further works, taking into account the categories of subjectivity, language, time, narrative form, and materiality.

Analyse du processus d'urbanisation massive des territoires ruraux chinois et de ses dérives Ce livre apporte des informations inédites et précieuses sur le processus actuel d'urbanisation massive des territoires ruraux chinois, 10 ans après le lancement du programme national d'Edification des campagnes socialistes. En Chine, un modèle urbain expansif réussit en effet sa généralisation dans l'ensemble du pays, appliquant brutalement et quasi systématiquement, malgré de grands écarts climatiques et culturels, les mêmes préceptes urbains jusqu'au coeur des campagnes. Plus généralement, l'ouvrage traite de l'urbanisation des campagnes comme enjeu territorial, environnemental et culturel majeur. Il place le monde rural comme objet d'études à part entière, plutôt que de le considérer comme simple contrepartie de la ville. Afin de mener une réflexion en profondeur, l'ouvrage aborde l'histoire du monde rural chinois qui oscille entre permanences et ruptures. Il se focalise également sur les modus operandi de cette invasion urbaine à travers l'établissement d'un diagnostic territorial précis. Il tend à exposer le système de chaînes d'intérêts qui implique l'ensemble des composants du territoire tout en se focalisant intentionnellement sur l'aménagement intégré des territoires ruraux. L'ouvrage est augmenté dans la version numérique d'un atlas d'échantillons multi-scalaires qui rendent compte du territoire - de l'échelle d'une région à celle d'une parcelle.

Available open access digitally under a CC-BY-NC-ND license. This book examines the significance of both historical and contemporary inequality in shaping diplomatic disagreements in international relations. The author demonstrates that the North-South divide has endured into the 21st century by drawing on three decades of data measuring the foreign policy positions of states on divisive global issues, including new text-based measures of international priorities within the United Nations General Assembly. This divide reflects the dissatisfaction of many states of the Global South with the post-Cold War international order, owing to historical legacies of unequal development. Wide-ranging and rigorous, this new empirical investigation demonstrates the ongoing relevance of material inequality for international politics and the multilateral system.

Eine Heirat ist meist ein besonderer Grund zum Feiern. Doch wie wird dieser emotional und rechtlich bedeutungsvolle Schritt heute zelebriert? Was wird durch die Praxis des Heiratens für das Paar und die Gesellschaft hergestellt? Und wie ist dabei das eigentümliche Verhältnis zwischen den romantisierten Hochzeiten und der vielfach konstatierten Bedeutungsreduktion der Institution Ehe zu verstehen? Fleur Weibel begegnet durch die Differenzierung von Eheschließung und Hochzeit sowie der Berücksichtigung hetero- und homosexueller Brautpaare mehreren Forschungsdesideraten und zeigt aus mikrosoziologisch-geschlechtertheoretischer Perspektive auf, wie Liebesbeziehungen heute durch Versprechen von Glück und Freiheit regiert werden.

This is the first book on captive animal behaviour, applied to welfare. It enables all aspects of zoo husbandry and management (nutrition, enclosure design, handling & training, enrichment, population management) to be based on a sound knowledge of the species, its evolutionary and natural history.

Soil sealing, a phenomenon altering soil permeability, significantly impacts the environment, particularly in urban areas and local climates, affecting heat exchange and soil permeability. Monitoring soil sealing is crucial for the Mediterranean coastal regions, where it contributes to desertification alongside soil degradation, drought, and fires.Permanent soil sealing includes features like buildings and paved roads, while reversible sealing involves features like solar panels and early-stage construction sites. The Mediterranean Soil Sealing project, led by Planetek Italia with partners ISPRA and CLS, aims to provide high-resolution maps of soil sealing and reversible sealing from 2018 to 2022, with a spatial resolution of 10 m. The project emphasizes stakeholder involvement, with users ranging from municipalities to international organizations like the UN. Efforts have been made to engage diverse stakeholders from the project's outset, and stakeholders are actively involved in shaping project outcomes. Instead of simply delivering maps, the project will provide users with an interactive dashboard containing indicators and analytics for easy access to information.

The soybean is far more than just a versatile crop whose derivates serve the protein needs of a meatless diet. One of the world’s most important commodities, soy represents the embodiment of mechanised industrial agriculture and is one of the main actors behind the socioeconomic, political and ecological transformations of industrial farming in several world regions. Despite the crop’s potential as a cheap source of vegetal protein for human consumers, most industrial soybean production has fuelled the global meat industrial complex, as animal feed. Soybean is thus, paradoxically, still a relatively ‘invisible’ crop to the public at large, although its global yields continue to increase at stupendous rates, lining the pockets of agribusiness and to the detriment of traditional agriculture. The transnational socio-ecological and economic entanglements characterising this versatile legume’s global expansion have prompted scholarly attention as researchers around the world have begun to unveil the main historical drivers behind the rise of the soybean in the global food chain. This book aims to expand the analysis, offering the most significant effort so far at an environmental history of soybeans. Interrogating the socioeconomic and ecological transformations determined by (and determining) the rise of soy in international food chains during the Great Acceleration, the volume gathers contributions from an international cast of researchers, working in numerous geographical contexts, from Japan and China, to India, African nations, the Southern Cone of Latin America, Northern Europe and the United States. Soybean farming, breeding, processing and marketing have bound together the histories of these diverse regions and altered beyond recognition their ecological and socio-economic contexts.

Bossy broads, lustful virgins, and pseudo-scholarly ladies can be found everywhere in early modern satiric writings. By taking up misogynist traditions/tropes, they prove to have been a significant transgeneric phenomenon of German literature and cultural history during the European querelle des sexes. By looking at how discursive structures function, this volume is the first to systematically address literary constructions of "deviant women."

The diffusion of Kantian philosophy in the Russian culture was a singularly early event: even the Orthodox ecclesiastical Academies were involved in this process, despite the control exercised by the censorship in defense of the metaphysical and theological tradition. The history and sources of the "philosophy of ecclesiastical academies" are also examined through the analysis of the works of two authors (I.Ja. Vetrinskij and P.D. Jurkevic), who, with their reaction to the Kantian "revolution", attested to the deep awareness of the necessity of a real confrontation with criticism. This investigation is completed by an appendix dedicated to the complex events of Kantian studies in the Russian language during the decades marked by the Soviet regime.

Gennifer Weisenfeld examines the evolution of Japanese advertising graphic design from the early 1900s through the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, a pivotal design event that rebranded Japan on the world stage.

Tales of the Bald Eagle Mountains in Central Pennsylvania , originally published in 1912 by the Bright Printing Company, was the fourth of Henry Shoemaker’s many published volumes of fantastical tales about Pennsylvania’s folklore and wildlife. Focusing on what Shoemaker calls the “dark and sombre” Bald Eagle Mountains of Centre, Clinton, Lycoming, Juniata, and Union counties, the book provides a tale or legend centered on each mountain in the range. Stories of hunters and wolves, giant bears, quirky innkeepers and mysterious travelers, nefarious magic, brave Native American warriors, tragic murders, and anguished lovers are spun with the author’s usual flair for blurring the lines between myth and reality. Like Shoemaker’s other books, Tales of the Bald Eagle Mountains preserves a rich oral history, capturing what the author calls “a passing phase, a time and mode of life that will come no more,” and provides a window onto the cultural life and folklore of early central Pennsylvania.

The first level of the present work is methodologically concerned with the planned Prague corpus of spoken Czech. Spoken texts are recorded, fixed in writing and arranged according to linguistic and sociological criteria and evaluated. The goal is to sketch the current situation in spoken Czech from the recordings and thus to contribute to the above-mentioned discussion about the relationship between ST vs. ST. GT. The second level of this study complements the evaluation of the linguistic material. Sociological data collected by questionnaires and data provided by the same speakers in the field of ST: 1) knowledge (cognition); 2) degree of positive evaluation; 3) but above all the readiness (Konation) of the speaker for use of the ST examined. The attitude of the Czechs to their standard language, secondary to their Koine, is here in the foreground. This publication makes an important contribution to the intensified discussions about Standard Czech and Common Czech (Bohemian Koiné) since the political change in the Czech Republic.

This volume engages with antisemitic stereotypes as religious symbols that express and transmit a belief system of Jew-hatred. These religious symbols are stored in Christian, Muslim and even today’s secular cultural and religious memories. This volume explores how antisemitic religious symbol systems can play a key role in the construction of group identities.