Humanities & Social Sciences

Der Klimawandel und das Erstarken der äußersten Rechten fordern die Zukunft der Demokratie heraus. Welche Strategien der äußersten Rechten lassen sich in Bezug auf den Klimawandel beobachten? Und wie blicken diejenigen darauf, um deren es Zukunft hier geht? Die Autor*innen haben junge Menschen in einer deutschlandweiten Studie befragt. Deutlich wurde: Viele junge Menschen lehnen rechte Narrative zu Klimathemen ab, doch einige rechte Positionen stoßen auch auf Zustimmung.; The climate change and the rise of the far right challenge the future of democracy. What strategies of the far right can be observed in relation to the climate change? And how do those whose future is at stake here view it? The authors interviewed young people in a Germany-wide study. A central insight: Many young people reject right-wing narratives on climate issues, but there are some positions that find some agreement.

Mothering Performance is a combination of scholarly essays and creative responses which focus on maternal performance and its applications from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives. This collection extends the concept and action of ‘performance’ and connects it to the idea of ‘mothering’ as activity. Mothering, as a form of doing, is a site of never-ending political and personal production; it is situated in a specific place, and it is undertaken by specific bodies, marked by experience and context. The authors explore the potential of a maternal sensibility to move us towards maternal action that is explicitly political, ethical, and in relation to our others. Presented in three sections, Exchange, Practice, and Solidarity, the book includes international contributions from scholars and artists covering topics including ecology, migration, race, class, history, incarceration, mental health, domestic violence, intergenerational exchange, childcare, and peacebuilding. The collection gathers diverse maternal performance practices and methodologies which address aesthetics, dramaturgy, activism, pregnancy, everyday mothering, and menopause. The book is a great read for artists, maternal health and care professionals, and scholars. Researchers with an interest in feminist performance and motherhood, within the disciplines of performance studies, maternal studies, and women’s studies, and all those who wish to gain a deeper understanding of maternal experience, will find much of interest. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. Funded by University of South Wales

Since the beginning of the 19th century, orally transmitted songs in the Alpine region have been increasingly transcribed into music notation. The translation of sound into writing poses an essential problem of ethnomusicology; here we can study this process in a field that is clearly defined and delimited and has experienced many different forms of music transcription over a period of more than two centuries. The present research results provide insight into the processes by which wordless singing in the German-speaking Alpine region was transcribed and how the results affected musical traditions. Characteristics of alpine yodeling and related singing styles came under the influence of norms of notation-based music, in particular diatonic scales and the formal characteristics of written songs. Music notation functions as a transformative technology, which helps to shape the content and form of music and leads to new possibilities as well as to limitations in the presentation and storage of musical content. - Seit dem Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts wurden mündlich tradierte Gesangs­gattungen im Alpenraum zunehmend musikalisch transkribiert. Die Übersetzung des Klangs in Schrift, eine wesentliche Thematik der Musikethnologie, kann hier in einem Feld beobachtet werden, das klar definiert und abgegrenzt wird und diesen Prozess der Verschriftlichung über rund zwei Jahrhunderte in vielfältigen Aus­prägungen erlebte. Die vorliegenden Forschungsresultate geben Einsicht in die Prozesse, durch welche der wortlose Gesang im deutschsprachigen Alpenraum verschriftlicht wurde, und die daraus erfolgten Rückwirkungen auf die musikalische Tradierung. Merkmale des alpenländischen Jodlers und verwandter Gesangsstile wurden von den Normen der schriftbasierten Musik, im Speziellen von diatonischen Tonskalen und den formalen Eigenschaften von Liedern, überlagert. Musiknotation funk­tioniert hierbei als transformative Technologie, welche den Inhalt und die Form der Musik mitgestaltet und sowohl zu neuen Möglichkeiten als auch zu Einschränkungen in der Darstellung und Speicherung musikalischer Inhalte führt.

In the current socio-cultural scenario, the implementation of the university reform aimed at boosting third-level education calls for meditation within the discipline of Architectural Technology (ICAR 12). This review must address the research topics and academic profiles of PhD courses in the Technological Area, also in terms of fostering actions consistent with European strategic lines for the promotion of a knowledge society. Research, innovation, creativity and design are the keywords of this scenario that PhD students and lecturers must bear in mind when considering three fields of study: environmental design and landscape, building production and construction and works and services strategic for the community. This book "Research among innovation, creativity and design" develops the topics addressed during the VII OSDOTTA workshop (the network of PhD courses in the field of Architectural Technology) held at the Mantua campus of Milan Polytechnic on 15th-16th-17th September 2011.

The Ethiopian textile industry is particularly affected by high labor turnover. In a compelling social study, Michaela Fink investigates the causes of this issue, focusing primarily on the voices of the (female) workforce. She illustrates the tension between rural, community-based orientations of women workers and the industrial working environment in which they find themselves. For the women, it is often a balancing act between the rural world they come from and the urban consumerist world they live and work in. They are attracted to modern values of career, consumption and urbanity. At the same time, it is hardly possible for them to achieve modest prosperity.

In 2011, Amy T Matthews published End of the Night Girl, a novel which engages creatively with questions of identity politics and the ethics of fictionalising the Holocaust. Navigating the Kingdom of Night is a critical exegesis in which the author contextualises End of the Night Girl in terms of the critical debate surrounding Holocaust fiction.

Just as human attention is subject to considerable fluctuations, vigilance is also temporally unstable. Cultural instructions to be vigilant therefore generally work with temporal structures and natural temporal sequences (such as day and night, light and dark), which they form culturally and make useful. This volume examines this temporal shaping of vigilance by looking at specific historical constellations.

Prostitution und Menschenhandel sind Gegenstand vielfältiger staatlicher und zivilgesellschaftlicher Aktivitäten. Die individuellen Wahrnehmungs- und Handlungsmuster der Polizisten, Sozialarbeiter, Gesundheits- und Ordnungsbeamten sind dabei von entscheidender Bedeutung. In einer bisher einzigartigen Perspektivenverschränkung zeigt Claudia Vorheyer die Dynamik der Verwaltungsarbeit auf und fragt, wie die beteiligten Akteure ihre Handlungsspielräume für unterschiedliche Prostitutionspolitiken nutzen: Wie deuten sie das Problem? Welche Aufgaben und Strategien leiten sie daraus ab? Und wie gestalten sie die Zusammenarbeit mit Dritten?

The shared history of the World Heritage site Patan and the Institute of Conservation, University of Applied Arts Vienna, goes back 15 years now. Annual on-site campaigns under the leadership of Gabriela Krist facilitated the conservation, documentation and research of several stone monuments, metal, ivory and textile objects, wall paintings, collection care projects at the Patan Museum and disaster response measures in Nepal’s vibrant cultural hub. Devastating earthquakes, severe climate conditions and environmental pollution in the Kathmandu Valley are complex challenges for heritage preservation. Collaboration with various stakeholders, particularly the Kathmandu Valley Preservation Trust, and the inclusion of local traditions and crafts contributed to the modification of the usual conservation method. Contributions of several academic disciplines in this book offer a multi-facetted perspective on the preservation of the cultural heritage in Patan.

Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295804088 China's exploitation by Western imperialism is well known, but the imperialist treatment within China of ethnic minorities has been little explored. Around the geographic periphery of China, as well as some of the less accessible parts of the interior, and even in its cities, live a variety of peoples of different origins, languages, ecological adaptations, and cultures. These people have interacted for centuries with the Han Chinese majority, with other minority ethnic groups (minzu), and with non-Chinese, but identification of distinct groups and analysis of their history and relationship to others still are problematic. Cultural Encounters on China's Ethnic Frontiers provides rich material for the comparative study of colonialism and imperialism and for the study of Chinese nation-building. It represents some of the first scholarship on ethnic minorities in China based on direct research since before World War II. This, combined with increasing awareness in the West of the importance of ethnic relations, makes it an especially timely book. It will be of interest to anthopologists, historians, and political scientists, as well as to sinologists.

This book analyses torture, inhuman and degrading treatment towards migrants worldwide, integrating overviews from several contexts and disciplines. It highlights that today migrants’ mistreatment is a global phenomenon, a frequent element of the migratory experience (in countries of departure, of transit, of arrival), an intrinsic component of state policies, and an extreme form of that structural violence which is inherent to the contemporary war on migrants at the global level.

Based on the data collected from participants and through analyzing scholarship and perspectives from popular culture, Chapter VII offers recommendations for institutional and organizational change that would be supportive of mothers in dance. The chapter first summarizes major issues as emergent in the data. Then, participant perspectives reveal possibilities for improved working conditions through revised policy and law; ideas to create equitable and fair workplaces, including new models of dance organizations to encompass the needs of all; and best practices for creating opportunities for pregnant people and mothers to coexist with and thrive in dance organizations among supervisors and colleagues with and without children.

On 21 March 1933, the National Socialists celebrated their alliance with the old Wilhelmine elites on the "Day of Potsdam." Eighty years following 1933, the great year of upheaval, this volume more closely reexamines the historical context of the "Day of Potsdam" as a critical moment on the road to dictatorship. Nine scholarly articles reconstruct the events on the "Day of Potsdam" and analyze its importance in the culture of commemoration.

This is the definitive history of the Fort McKay Métis Nation. It traces the evolution of the community from the mid-nineteenth to the early twenty-first century, paying special attention to genealogy, land-use, land-tenure, and responses to mass oil sands development. The Fort McKay Métis Nation carefully considers the community’s unique historical context, drawing on a broad range of sources including archival research, oral histories, grey literature, and community literature. It examines the complex interrelations between the Fort McKay Metis Nation and their neighbors, the Fort McKay First Nation, and their ways they have connected with each other. Completed in partnership with the community, The Fort McKay Métis Nation provides perspectives which have never before been shared. It is an important, unique history of a community in the heart of the oil sands.

In 1977, a curious and short-lived social security benefit came into being. Housewife’s Non-Contributory Invalidity Pension (HNCIP) was assessed through a ‘household duties test’ which sought to determine whether a woman was capable of performing everyday activities. HNCIP’s very existence shows that assumptions were made about women’s lives, domestic labour, and the position of women within a nuclear family headed by a male breadwinner. It exposed fundamental tensions within the social security administration in the late 1970s. Authorities accepted the moral claims from disabled people’s organisations for welfare support but were mindful of the cost implications. A patchwork of benefits for various disability categories had emerged over the previous decade. HNCIP, however, did not fit existing models of ‘income replacement’ or ‘extra costs’ benefits. It provided for the household’s costs from a wife being unable to perform domestic labour based on a medical diagnosis. Yet it was also a ‘pension’, a category for people unable to secure paid work. Was domestic labour ‘work’? If so, why did it have financial value only when ill health took it away? This chapter considers the implications of the Department of Health and Social Security’s attempts to quantify the everyday life of domestic labour. Internal policy files from the National Archives about the ‘household duties test’ give us a window onto the interaction between the Beveridgean welfare state, gender, and disability. Further, tribunal documents give us a unique – if historiographically problematic – perspective on disabled women’s needs and expectations of the welfare state.