Humanities & Social Sciences

The book examines sustainable food procurement policy and practice in the European Union and beyond, exploring the extent to which sustainability objectives have been achieved and evaluating the new developments taking place at both EU and national levels. While there is a growing recognition that public authorities can use public procurement as a policy tool to pursue multiple environmental, health and socio-economic objectives, contracting authorities still face many challenges. This volume investigates the scope for pursuing sustainable objectives in public procurement of food and catering services, examining different regulatory contexts and organisational models to answer the overall question of how to integrate sustainability concerns into the various phases of public food procurement processes. Contributions in the book examine the policy and legal procurement framework and practices for sustainable public catering in three EU Member States: Italy, France and Spain. There is a comparative survey of the Baltic Region, including Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Poland and Russia, and moving beyond the EU, there is examination of the UK and Brazil, as well as a cross country comparison of the UK with Denmark and Sweden. Drawing on the expertise of an interdisciplinary and intersectoral team of contributors allows the book to benefit from the insights of different disciplines, including business sciences, anthropology and law. Tapping into the global discussion on public food procurement as a means to achieve multiple social and environmental goals, this work will stimulate readers looking for new creative ways to create value through public food purchasing. This book will be of great interest to students, researchers, policymakers and public- and private-sector representatives interested in public procurement, food policy and law, sustainable food sourcing and supply chain management.

Rousseau’s Politics of Taste challenges the popular but partial pictures we have of Rousseau as an inconsistent ‘ancient’ utopian or a ‘modern’ abstract philosopher with a systematising spirit. Combining intellectual history and political theory, it reinterprets his understandings of pleasure and happiness, judgment and amour-propre, inequality, the general will and, above all, taste. Rousseau’s readers have long recognised the complex tensions in his thought. By reconstructing his theory of taste as a kind of modern Epicureanism, this book provides a way of articulating neglected patterns in those tensions and, a new understanding of what he was attempting to achieve with his political thought.

The yearbook 2006 deals with gender images and gender-typical expectations with which children, adolescents and young adults are confronted in the process of growing up. In addition, new perspectives on gender relations in the family are discussed.

Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) erfreuen sich in Deutschland wachsender Beliebtheit. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird unter Berücksichtigung kameralistischer und doppischer Haushaltsführung betrachtet, ob die aus ihnen resultierenden Verbindlichkeiten in den öffentlichen Haushalten ausreichend transparent dargestellt werden und ob PPPs in Widerspruch zu den Verschuldungsregeln nach Art. 115 GG, Maastricht und der neuen Schuldenbremse stehen. Als Ergebnis bleibt festzuhalten, dass die transparente Darstellung der Verbindlichkeiten zwar leidet, aus schuldenrechtlicher Sicht allerdings nichts gegen die Durchführung von PPPs einzuwenden ist. Denn schließlich ergeben sich Anlässe zur Kritik aus aufgezeigten Schwächen des Haushalts- und Verschuldungsrechts, welche allerdings nicht zur Argumentation gegen die Durchführung von PPPs herangezogen werden sollten, wenn diese dazu dienen, öffentliche Leistungen wirtschaftlicher zu erbringen.

Decentring the growing field of ecolinguistics from its historically Western orientation, this open access book offers a comprehensive exploration of the intricate relationship between language and the environment in the Global South. It brings forward new perspectives and voices to broaden our understanding of the role of language in addressing ecological challenges. Through a series of thought-provoking chapters, the book navigates through various dimensions of ecolinguistics, shedding light on critical issues and innovative approaches across diverse contexts. Case studies include the representation of ecotourism in Morocco, the implementation of ecological ideology in Oman, colonial legacies in Argentina’s food production discourse, ecological identity in Kenya, the role of civets in Indonesian coffee production and life stories about Senegalese ecologies. Through a blend of theoretical insights and practical applications, the book advocates for a holistic understanding of ecolinguistics that transcends geographical boundaries and cultural nuances. 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.

This doctoral thesis treats the membership law of churches and religious communities. It discusses the questions of which framework is given by national law, in which cases the rights of religious communities diverges from that law and if membership must strictly be voluntary. Following a historical as well as legal classification, this thesis considers the legal relationship of members with Christian, Jewish and Islamic communities in Germany.

This study examines the crime of femicide in the Latin American context in the novels of D. Zúñiga (Chile), L. Restrepo (Colombia), and F. Melchor (Mexico). It reveals how these literary texts shed light on the systematic and intersectional dimensions of femicide and its impunity. Analyses of the novels draw out the ambivalences of legal frameworks and practice.

Drawing on a range of canonical and non-canonical literary, cinematic and social scientific texts produced in post-Unification Italy, Vital Subjects: Race and Biopolitics in Italy is an interdisciplinary study of how racial and colonial discourses shaped the “making” of Italians as modern political subjects in the years between its administrative unification (1861-1870) and the end of the First World War (1919). The book includes readings of texts by Italian thinkers such as Leopoldo Franchetti and Paolo Mantegazza and it offers new readings of well- and lesser-known texts by a writer who has become Italy’s most infamous precursor to Mussolini: poet, novelist, and political provocateur Gabriele D’Annunzio. Vital Subjects concludes with an original analysis of an early film that figures prominently in the history of cinema: Giovanni Pastrone’s 1914 silent film Cabiria--produced in the wake of the Italian invasion of Libya (1911-12) and celebrating ancient Roman imperialism.

St John of Nepomuk probably needs no introduction to the readers: he is one of the best-known ecclesiastical figures, whose local veneration, which originated in the Middle Ages, spread across Europe with unprecedented intensity long before the cult was officially approved by the Holy See. But this veneration, which grew from the 17th century throughout Europe, was much more substantial and exciting than we might suppose from the many similar public statues of him. The volume explores the possible reasons for the speed, success, and timelessness of the cult's spread, with particular attention to the changes in the martyr's biographies, which show with marked sensitivity the constantly evolving and enriching changes in the social perception and role of the saint.

Large parts of our culture are characterised by a blurring of corporeal and virtual realities. Computer industry has opened up all sorts of hybrid spaces and has itself, in turn, become a space for uncountable fantasies and expectations. Which are the principles of cultural order depicted by this desire commonly termed cyberspace? In offering novel narratives of modern architecture the author explains how the digital age couples notions of knowledge, life and future with long-known dimensions of architectonic space. Amongst the issues being discussed the reader will find Boullee's visionary designs, classical modern architecture, museums, shopping malls, science fiction, advertising, CAD, biotechnology and the construction of a utopian cyberspace at the turn of the millennium.

›Gastarbeit‹ ist keine abgeschlossene Episode der deutschen Migrationsgeschichte, sondern wirkt bis heute nach. In ihrer rassismustheoretischen Analyse entwickelt Veronika Kourabas die heuristischen Konzepte Ge-Brauch und Ver-Brauch, um Rassismus als paradoxes Ungleichheitsverhältnis zu erfassen. ›Gastarbeit‹ wird dadurch als Ge-Brauchsverhältnis greifbar, das Migrationsandere ökonomisch einbezieht, aber über rassistisch vermittelte Diskurse zugleich ausschließt. Mit diesen Ansätzen sowie der Rekonstruktion widerständiger Praktiken wird nicht nur die Analyse und Kritik vergangener, sondern auch gegenwärtig dominanter Diskurse über Flucht und Migration eröffnet.

Daniel Wildmann öffnet einen innovativen Blick auf deutsch-jüdische Geschichte der Moderne. Er zeigt, wie Alternativen jüdischer Selbstvergewisserung um die Jahrhundertwende gedacht wurden - Alternativen sowohl zu assimilatorischen wie auch zu zionistischen Lebensentwürfen - und wie diese Alternativen gleichzeitig Bruchlinien jüdischer Integration in Deutschland offen legten. Durch eine präzise Analyse der Geschichte und Programmatik jüdischer Turnvereine wird klar, in welchem explosiven Spannungsfeld sich jüdische Identität im Deutschen Kaiserreich wiederfand, wenn sie vorgegebene Pfade verliess. Diese Studie betritt Neuland, denn sie integriert neue Ansätze in der Geschichtswissenschaft, wie Körpergeschichte, Geschichte der Männlichkeit und Visual History, in die deutsch-jüdische Geschichte.

Critical feminist reflection has made a fundamental contribution in recent decades to rethinking the meaning and value of work. Within the framework of this discussion, Nancy Fraser's research has come to acquire a prominent role. The article reconstructs how this fact must be connected to the specificity of her way of practicing social critique. On the one hand Fraser reworked the insights of Marxist feminism; on the other hand, she integrated them with the demands of cultural feminism of difference. Proceeding along this path she has come to outline a two-dimensional approach to the problem of gender injustice, based on the integration of the paradigm of redistribution with that of recognition. The article then turns to her latest research, centered on her critical theory of capitalism.

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Based on a series of case studies of globally distributed media and their reception in different parts of the world, Imagining the Global reflects on what contemporary global culture can teach us about transnational cultural dynamics in the 21st century. A focused multisited cultural analysis that reflects on the symbiotic relationship between the local, the national, and the global, it also explores how individuals’ consumption of global media shapes their imagination of both faraway places and their own local lives. Chosen for their continuing influence, historical relationships, and different geopolitical positions, the case sites of France, Japan, and the United States provide opportunities to move beyond common dichotomies between East and West, or United States and “the rest.” From a theoretical point of view, Imagining the Global endeavors to answer the question of how one locale can help us understand another locale. Drawing from a wealth of primary sources—several years of fieldwork; extensive participant observation; more than 80 formal interviews with some 160 media consumers (and occasionally producers) in France, Japan, and the United States; and analyses of media in different languages—author Fabienne Darling-Wolf considers how global culture intersects with other significant identity factors, including gender, race, class, and geography. Imagining the Global investigates who gets to participate in and who gets excluded from global media representation, as well as how and why the distinction matters.