Humanities & Social Sciences

Violence against women is characterised by its universality, the multiplicity of its forms, and the intersectionality of diverse kinds of discrimination against women. Great emphasis in legal analysis has been placed on sex-based discrimination; however, in investigations of violence, one aspect has been overlooked: violence may severely affect women's health and access to reproductive health, and State health policies might be a cause of violence against women. Exploring the relationship between violence against women and women's rights to health and reproductive health, Sara De Vido theorises the new concept of violence against women's health in international law using the Hippocratic paradigm, enriching human rights-based approaches to women's autonomy and reflecting on the pervasiveness of patterns of discrimination. At the core of the book are two dimensions of violence: horizontal 'inter-personal', and vertical 'state policies'. Investigating these dimensions through decisions made by domestic, regional and international judicial or quasi-judicial bodies, De Vido reconceptualises States' obligations and eventually asks whether international law itself is the ultimate cause of violence against women's health.

This work evaluates different approaches for observing human states. The considered human conditions comprise the current position, the actual performance, and the emotional facial expression. This work relies on tracking and static classification methods to observe the humans‘ conditions.

Vor zweihundert Jahren fand im indischen Kalkutta eine religiöse Debatte statt, die von der christlichen Welt mit Aufmerksamkeit beobachtet wurde. Ein Brahmane, der aus hinduistischer Tradition stammte und sich als Wahrheitssucher verstand, geriet in einen fünfjährigen Streit mit den baptistischen Missionaren in Serampore. Die Kontrahenten Rammohan Roy und Joshua Marshman produzierten im Verlauf dieser Jahre über 800 Seiten Streitschriften über die richtige Auslegung der Bibel. Auslöser war das Buch The Precepts of Jesus, eine Evangelienauslese, in der Rammohan eine ethische Lehre Jesu rekonstruieren wollte. Die Kernthemen der weiteren Debatte waren das richtige Verständnis Jesu und seiner Botschaft, das Wesen Gottes und der wahre Weg zur Glückseligkeit. Grund des gegenseitigen Unverständnisses war eine divergierende Vorstellung, wie eine heilige Schrift grundsätzlich auszulegen sei. Bisher fehlte eine grundlegende chronologische Darstellung der Debatte und Aufarbeitung der exegetischen und dogmatischen Argumente. Es wird hier erstmals umfassend dargestellt, wie sich die Themen und Standpunkte im Laufe der Diskussion wandelten, wie sich der Baptist und der Brahmane gegenseitig beeinflussten, und es wird aufgezeigt, dass es auch unter den Baptisten durchaus divergierende Meinungen zu Rammohan gab. Armin Pöhlmann, geboren 1975, ist Pfarrer in Eisenach. In mehreren Studienaufenthalten in Indien, vor allem am Henry-Martyn-Institut in Hyderabad, hat er sich auf das Thema spezialisiert, wie Menschen aus anderen Religionen auf die Bibel blicken und sie auslegen.

In the field of higher education research, one of the most fascinating observations is the consistent and permanent expansion of higher education systems worldwide since the end of the Second World War. Undoubtedly, the predominant approach to address these developments has been through quantitative analysis, as well as international comparisons. The following work examines the particularities of the Venezuelan context with the aim of identifying specific features of this worldwide phenomenon in this South American case. Through a combination of qualitative methods, the author proposes a biographical approach for the study of higher education inclusion processes, which takes into account the perspectives and experiences of those who have been targeted by an ambitious higher education expansion process. The most distinctive feature of this work would be its methodological contribution to the field of higher education research. One could also argue that the ethnographic account of the Bolivarian Missions of education in Chavez’s Venezuela is both original and unprecedented. Furthermore, the writing approach bridges the interests of both academics, practitioners of the field and members of the general public.

In diesem Buch steht Wilhelm von Humboldt als Bildungsforscher im Mittelpunkt. Es werden die neuesten Entwicklungen der Forschung von renommierten Vertretern unterschiedlicher geisteswissenschaftlicher Disziplinen vorgestellt. Humboldt wird dabei als ein bildungstheoretisch und anthropologisch orientierter empirischer Forscher gewürdigt. Der Band nimmt die Vielfalt der Gegenstandsbereiche – Sprache, Bildung, Anthropologie, Kultur, Ethnie, Staat, Politik, Universität, Schule, Curriculum – Humboldt´scher Forschungen in den Blick und entwickelt methodologische, kulturwissenschaftliche und bildungstheoretische Perspektiven, die auch das herrschende Verständnis empirischer Bildungsforschung als messende und vermessende Disziplin zur Diskussion stellen.

This open access book explores the role of imagination in animal ethics and its constitutive links to empathy/sympathy and anthropomorphism. The book argues for the constitutive role of imagination in ethical deliberation, but acknowledges that there exist important limits to its use. However, “limit” is here understood not merely negatively as restriction and insufficiency, but rather positively as “condition of possibility,” so what the book explores and analyses are the conditions for a positive and fruitful use of the imagination in ethics. The book uses as a “frame” the questions and issues raised in J.M. Coetzee’s The Lives of Animals to explore some central and salient themes.

Medical research is increasingly using data from care. However, this 'secondary use' of treatment data brings with it numerous legal questions. Social and health data are among the most intimate information about a person. This legal opinion provides for the first time a detailed overview of the specific legal framework for the secondary use of medical data in the individual federal states, which also takes into account the different sponsorship and legal form of the treating institution. The analysis provides researchers and other stakeholders in the health sector with guidance in the legally compliant handling of medical treatment data. The book also contains a supplementary report, which represents the legal framework for the secondary use of the data managed via the electronic health card in accordance with Section 291a Social Code Book V.

The volume covers the field of digital humanities regarding the future of work. What digital skills will be needed in the nearby future? How digitization and digitalization change the very nature of science and the workplace? The authors represent higher education institutions which form the EU4Dual European University, as well as associated Ukrainian universities. Therefore the papers are often a result of applied and cooperative research, done together with the industry. As such they focus on practical usage of digital humanities and digital skills.

This chapter examines the apparent look of nonchalance evinced by boxers in the face of danger and harm—what is characterized as ‘boxer cool’. It is argued that boxer cool is a culturally derived repertoire of looks, stances and gestures acquired over time, and crucial to navigating lived structural and physical violence. In boxer cool, elements, lessons, and know-how from the world of ‘the hood’ are recalibrated and effectively redeployed in the context of training and competing in the sport of boxing. Boxer cool is derivative of a milieu where individuals must learn to self-manage the complex emotional states and potential conflicts continually emergent in the physical and structural violence endemic to their daily life. Boxer cool thus finds its immediate origins not primarily in the gym or ring but in the necessary cultivation of sophisticated orientations, coping mechanisms, and practices of self-management in persistently dangerous and harmful contexts.

The challenge of this interdisciplinary research on sustainable bioenergy production in rural areas is how to reconcile the chances and risks of bioenergy production within the context of climate stabilization, resource conservation, biodiversity, water, air, and soil preservation, the interests of society and of farmers. To answer this we developed and improved evaluation criteria and methods for a bioenergy implementation in rural areas. We show that the problems arising from energy plant production such as monoculture, changes of landscape and land use competition, loss of biodiversity, costs, social denial etc. may be eliminated during workshops with the main stakeholders (farmers, technicians, policymakers, administration, ecologists etc.) as well as with interested people. We created some tools to facilitate decision-making and consensus building. Especially the decision behaviour of farmers for or against bioenergy is investigated. Some results from our field research: Energy plants may increase the richness in species on farmland. Contaminated areas should be utilised to grow energy plants with low extraction efficiency for pollutants. Emissions from wood and straw burning can be strongly minimised.

The book focuses on the early period of Roma publishing (from the nineteenth century until the Second World War) when the first original texts, fiction and media publications authored by Roma appeared.Based on extensive archival and historical research, including the discovery of earlier, up to now unknown sources, the literary activities of Roma in Central, South-eastern and Eastern Europe are discussed in their historical context and interrelation with the birth of the Roma emancipatory movement. Romani literature and press are thus embedded in the history and literary studies of the European national literatures.The authors: Raluca Bianca Roman, Sofiya Zahova, Aleksandar G. Marinov, Elena Marushiakova and Vesselin Popov are affiliated with the University of St Andrews, UK. Other authors are Tamás Hajnáczky (Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary), Viktor Shapoval (Moscow City University, Russia), and Risto Blomster (Finnish Literature Society/ The Finnish Cultural Foundation).

This volume is rooted in a commitment to epistemic justice in times of rising precarity in academia. It seeks to question the hegemonic definitions of ‘doing research’. Commitment to gender studies, as the title suggests, is already an assurance to a form of research that is ‘otherwise’ – one that looks beyond neoliberal, competitive, and individual-driven agendas. Moreover, the anthology is an attempt to unfollow hierarchies, confront oppressive structures and question taken-for-grantedness in disciplinary knowledge production. The contributors are part of the Inter-university Doctoral Program Gender Studies CH at the universities of Basel, Bern and Zürich. They consist of professors, doctoral students, coordinators and further scholars, that belong to the wider network. They have all ‘done’ gender studies in various transnational and transdisciplinary contexts. Reflections on how knowledge is produced are thus nurtured by diverse networks of feminist solidarity, an ethics of care and a politics of situated research(ers). Authors engage with the politics of such an ‘otherwise’ in their respective contexts to illuminate intersubjective and collaborative ways of ‘doing gender studies’ and of ‘producing research otherwise’.

One of the most contentious theatres of the global conflict between capitalism and communism was Southeast Asia. From the 1920s until the end of the Cold War, the region was racked by international and internal wars that claimed the lives of millions and fundamentally altered societies in the region for generations. Most of the 11 countries that compose Southeast Asia were host to the development of sizable communist parties that actively (and sometimes violently) contested for political power. These parties were the object of fierce repression by European colonial powers, post-independence governments and the United States. Southeast Asia communist parties were also the object of a great deal of analysis both during and after these conflicts. This book brings together a host of expert scholars, many of whom are either Southeast Asia–based or from the countries under analysis, to present the most expansive and comprehensive study to date on ideological and practical experiments with Marxism-Leninism in Southeast Asia. The bulk of this edited volume presents the contents of these revolutionary ideologies on their own terms and their transformations in praxis by using primary source materials that are free of the preconceptions and distortions of counterinsurgent narratives. A unifying strength of this work is its focus on using primary sources in the original languages of the insurgents themselves.

Modernity is the era of the self-made person: the moderns create themselves by self-reflexivity and make their world – society – in their own image. That the social world is reflexive means that its dynamics become independent of its constructors. It is not made of individuals but of a non-subjective communication. The volume analyzes this double reflexivity from an interdisciplinary perspective, focusing both on individual and social narratives.

In our multilingual societies, communication and collaboration between people are more important than ever. One of the school’s most important missions is therefore to provide students with opportunities to develop their linguistic abilities, enhance intercultural and multilingual competence, and learn to navigate diverse cultural contexts. This anthology is intended to offer inspiration, valuable insights, and practical advice to teachers and other school professionals responsible for language teaching and education, as well as to serve as a resource for student teachers, teacher educators, and researchers working with language in an educational context. The anthology brings together texts that highlight language education from both theoretical and practical-didactic perspectives. With contributions from practicing teachers, teacher educators, and researchers, the anthology turns its focus toward contemporary language teaching and illustrates the breadth present in the Nordic school context. The authors’ contributions address a wide range of classroom practices, such as the teaching of language competencies, assessment practices, and factors influencing language teaching and learning. The idea for the anthology arose in connection with the 60th anniversary of the Centre for Professional Development and Internationalisation in Schools (Fortbildningsavdelningen för skolans internationalisering) at Uppsala University in 2024.