Humanities & Social Sciences

The health sector is known to be one of the major contributors towards the greenhouse gas emissions causing the climate crisis, the greatest health threat of the 21st century. This volume positions the health sector as a leader in the fight against climate change and explores the role of the health system in climate policy action. It delivers an overview of the linkages between climate change and the health sector, with chapters on the impact of climate change on health, its connection to pandemics, and its effects on food, nutrition and air quality, while examining gendered and other vulnerabilities. It delves into the different operational aspects of the health sector in India and details how each one can become climate-smart to reduce the health sector’s overall carbon footprint, by looking at sustainable procurement, green and resilient healthcare infrastructure, and the management of transportation, energy, water, waste, chemicals, pharmaceuticals and plastics in healthcare. Well supplemented with rigorous case studies, the book will be indispensable for students, teachers, and researchers of environmental studies, health sciences, and climate change. It will be useful for healthcare workers, public health officials, healthcare leaders, policy planners, and those interested in climate resilience and preparedness in the healthcare sector.

In this highly original and critically informed book, Renata R. Mautner Wasserman looks at how, during the first decades following political independence, writers in the United States and Brazil assimilated and subverted European images of an "exotic" New World to create new literatures that asserted cultural independence and defined national identity. Exotic Nations demonstrates that the language of exoticism thus became part of the New World’s interpretation of its own history and natural environment.

Angloscene examines Afro-Chinese interactions within Beijing’s aspirationally cosmopolitan student class. Jay Ke-Schutte explores the ways in which many contemporary interactions between Chinese and African university students are mediated through complex intersectional relationships with whiteness, the English language, and cosmopolitan aspiration. At the heart of these tensions, a question persistently emerges: How does English become more than a language—and whiteness more than a race? Engaging in this inquiry, Ke-Schutte explores twenty-first century Afro-Chinese encounters as translational events that diagram the discursive contours of a changing transnational political order—one that will certainly be shaped by African and Chinese relations. A tremendously nuanced book that moves beyond the verities of postcolonial theory as much as liberal illusions of postracialism in the academy. The ethnographic richness of Angloscene in its expositions of tropes and situated encounters is remarkable and pointed—even poignant.” — DILIP M. MENON, editor of Changing Theory: Concepts from the Global South “Reflecting a critical sensibility from the Global South, Jay Ke-Schutte’s book defies Euro-American-centric perspectives on language, race, and colonialism. The innovative concept of the Angloscene offers an imaginative way to unpack the transnational power matrix that conditions Afro-Chinese encounters.” — FAN YANG, author of Faked in China: Nation Branding, Counterfeit Culture, and Globalization This book reveals the manner in which talk about signs of race and the racialization of those engaged in talk readily emerge hand in hand within social encounters, so that to isolate them from each other is to lose sight of the processes through which inequity persists in social life even when it is abjured.” — ASIF AGHA, Francis E. Johnston Term Professor of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, and Editor-in-Chief, Signs and Society

This lavishly illustrated book is the first systematic exploration of cartographic cartouches, the decorated frames that surround the title, or other text or imagery, on historic maps. It addresses the history of their development, the sources cartographers used in creating them, and the political, economic, historical, and philosophical messages their symbols convey. Cartouches are the most visually appealing parts of maps, and also spaces where the cartographer uses decoration to express his or her interests—so they are key to interpreting maps. The book discusses thirty-three cartouches in detail, which range from 1569 to 1821, and were chosen for the richness of their imagery. The book will open your eyes to a new way of looking at maps.

During the perioad of the revolutionary movement in Europe in March 1848, the German-Danish nationalities conflict led to the Schleswig-Holstein census (1848-1851). At the beginning, new civil and military administrative structures were created in the duchies to replace the old national authorities. This find book documents the tradition of the activities of the Schleswig-Holstein and Danish authorities established between 1848 and 1851/52 in the Schleswig-Holstein State Archives. It comprises a total of around 94 meters and provides insights into the administrative processes and events of those turbulent, eventful years. Personnel matters are an important focus of military tradition. In this context, it should be noted in particular that there is an almost complete inventory of documents of military justice (auditoria) on offences committed by individual soldiers.

Bioinspired systems, technologies and techniques known as 'biomimetics” or the 'mimicry of nature,” represent a ground-breaking method of scientific research based on innovation and a creative design approach of the ‘nature’ laboratory to be applied to any scientific discipline. This approach and the associated way of thinking facilitates the cross-fertilization of scientific fields, integrating biology and the interdisciplinary knowledge featuring the evolution of models that have refined in nature within any scientific discipline.

Cultural Heritage; Achaeology

Der Band präsentiert die Druckfassungen der Vorträge zum Thema ‚D@tenflut‘, die anlässlich der Erlanger Universitätstage vom 16. Februar bis zum 15. März 2016 in Amberg und vom 20. Oktober bis zum 24. November 2016 in Ansbach gehalten wurden. Die fünf Erlanger Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler, Professor Dr. Svenja Hagenhoff, Professor Dr. Georg Glasze, Professor Dr. Klaus Meyer‐Wegener, Professor Dr. Hans‐Ulrich Prokosch und Dr. Sebastian Büttner - aus den Disziplinen der Buchwissenschaft, der Geographie, der Informatik, der Medizinischen Informatik und der Soziologie - führen in beeindruckender Weise die Chancen und Gefahren vor Augen, die das sich immer klarer abzeichnende ‚Zeitalter der großen Datenmengen‘ mit sich bringt.

Tutankhamun Knew the Names of the Two Great Gods offers a new interpretation of the terms Dt and nHH as fundamental concepts of Pharaonic ideology. The terms Dt and nHH have often been treated as synonyms reflecting notions related to the vastness of time. However, from the study of original source material – the texts and iconography compiled over some three millennia and authored by those who surely had complete understanding of their subject matter – it becomes clear that those modern interpretations are somewhat questionable. Clues to the connotations which may be ascribed to Dt and nHH are perhaps most clearly apparent in texts and imagery from the reign of Tutankhamun – a time of political upheaval during which it was more than usually important to express traditional mores with clarity to demonstrate a return to the well-established ideology underpinning pharaonic culture prior to the Amarna interlude. Testing those indications against the wider range of extant literary material confirms that Dt and nHH were neither synonyms, nor were they entirely temporal in nature, but rather referenced a duality of ontological conditions which together were fundamental to the fabric of pharaonic ideology. The reappraisal of this duality of conditions allows the many texts and iconographic depictions surviving from dynastic Egypt to be considered from a new perspective – one providing deeper insight into the character of pharaonic culture. Moreover, it becomes apparent that the influences of an ideology which evolved during times pre-dating the pyramid builders permeated the philosophical and theological treaties of the scholars of ancient Greece and Rome, and thence into more recent times. At least two great gods may live on.

New technologies and forms of mobility are gradually becoming part of today’s transportation supply. These new forms of mobility include, for example, car- or bikesharing and ridepooling, as well as new technologies such as electric mobility or automation. To take these new forms of mobility into account in transport planning tools, it is advisable to adapt both surveys and models.

Luxemburg ist ein multikultureller und mehrsprachiger Kleinstaat. Dort wirksame Werbung zu entwickeln, ist ein komplexer Vorgang. Zum ersten Mal werden in diesem Buch Rahmenbedingungen und Gestaltungselemente des Luxemburger Werbediskurses umfassend diskutiert und analysiert. Ausgehend von Jürgen Links Interdiskurs- und Normalismustheorie gibt die Untersuchung wichtige Hinweise auf die grundsätzliche Beziehung zwischen Werbung, Multikulturalität und kollektiven Identitäten und bietet so eine innovative Form der Anwendung literaturwissenschaftlicher Theorien auf kommunikationswissenschaftliche Kontexte.

If Pacha Mama or Nature was already recognised as a subject of rights in Ecuador’s Constitution, why did the Kichwa People of Sarayaku declare their territory the Living Forest ( Kawsak Sacha ) in 2018 – ›a living and conscious being with rights of its own‹? Drawing on accompanied legal ethnography in the Ecuadorian Amazon, Jenny García Ruales traces this question through Indigenous jurisprudence and the more-than-human normativities of the Living Forest. She develops Living Forest Constitutionalism, a constitutional theory that reimagines the foundations of constitutionalism from the jurisprudence of the Living Forest. An essential resource for scholars and readers seeking to rethink where constitutions come from, who makes law, and what it means to defend life.

The article offers an overview of the scholarly publications by Italian Slavists that appeared during the period 1991-2021 on to the subject of Russian 20th-century literature

The presence of expatriate humanitarian workers in African cities is not neutral. Country capitals receive large and sudden influx of expatriates during humanitarian crises responses. This book examines the influence of this presence on the local urban ecosystem, from the building of a security discourse to the self-segregation of aid agencies in expatriate enclaves. The examples of Abidjan, Bamako, Juba and Nairobi illustrate different variants of urban change induced by the normative power of aid organisations.

Zum ersten Mal wird hier eine wesentlich aus Primärquellen erarbeitete, ausführliche Studie zu Leben, Denken und Wirken des italienischstämmigen Luxemburgers Victor Tedesco (in seiner ersten Lebenshälfte von 1821-1854) vorgelegt - eine Pionierarbeit über einen europäischen Demokraten des 19.Jahrhunderts. Die Darstellung enthält nicht nur eine vollständige Biographie und Schriftendokumentation Tedescos, sie umfasst auch zahlreiche Kurzporträts seiner Schicksalsgefährten und präsentiert zugleich ein beträchtliches Stück belgischer und luxemburgischer Gesellschaftspolitik und Revolutionsgeschichte im 19.Jahrhundert. Durch sein entschlossenes politisches Engagement als Student, Liberaler, Freimaurer und Freund von Karl Marx in Brüssel versuchte der in Lüttich ansässige Tedesco mit Gleichgesinnten der Demokratie im Königreich Belgien den Boden zu bereiten. Mit behutsamer politischer Werbung für Reformen hoben ihre Bemühungen an. Als die demokratische und soziale Agitation heftiger wurde, nahm das gesamte politische Geschehen an Schärfe erheblich zu. Betrug und Leidenschaft, echte und scheinbare Verstöße gegen die Rechtsordnung prägten das Bild der gesellschaftlichen und politischen Realität. Die revolutionären Demokraten und Republikaner gerieten in die Fänge von Polizei und Justiz. Über Schuldige und Unschuldige wurden Höchststrafen verhängt. Unter ihnen auch Tedesco, der seinem Verhängnis nicht entgehen konnte. Die Welt der Helden und Gesellschaftsveränderer von 1848 lag danach endgültig in Trümmern. Wenn auch Tedescos Ziel der Errichtung einer „demokratisch-sozialen Republik“ in Belgien damals scheiterte, bleiben seine Verdienste um die frühe Weckung der Demokratie in diesem Lande bis heute bestehen. Ebenso dauerhaft gebührt ihm nach unermüdlichem Einsatz für die Arbeiter und Armen und besonders aufgrund seiner weit über die Grenzen Belgiens hinaus verbreiteten Hauptschrift, des „Katechismus des Proletariers“, ein vorderer Platz unter den Vorkämpfern der europäischen Arbeiterbewegung. Der Verfasser, Prof. Dr. Rudolf Kern (geb. 1938), war bis 1998 Professor für germanistische Linguistik an der französischsprachigen „Katholischen Universität Löwen“ (Université Catholique de Louvain) und zeitweise auch an der flämischen Universitätsfakultät St.Aloysius, jetzt „Katholische Universität Brüssel“ (Katholieke Universiteit Brussel) in Belgien. Seit seiner Emeritierung wendet er sich vornehmlich historischen Themen zu. Er lebt seit 2012 in Rülzheim, nahe der elsässisch-deutschen Grenze, und arbeitet zurzeit an Viten aus der Merowingerzeit.