Humanities & Social Sciences

This open access book focuses on Switzerland-based medium-sized companies with a longstanding export tradition and a proven dominance in global niche markets. Based upon in-depth documentation and analysis of 36 Swiss companies over their entire history, an expert team of authors presents several parallels in the pathways and success factors which allowed these firms to become dominant and operate from a high-cost location such as Switzerland. The book enhances these insights by providing detailed company profiles documenting the company history, development, and how their relevant global niche positions were reached. Readers will benefit from these profiles as they compile a diverse selection of industries, mainly active within the B2B sector, with mostly mature companies (60 years to older than 100 years since founding) and different types of ownership structures including family firms. ‘Masterpieces of Swiss Entrepreneurship’ brings unique learning opportunities to owners and leaders of SMEs in Switzerland and elsewhere. Findings are based on detailed bottom-up research of 36 companies -- without any preconceived notions. The book is both conceptual and practical. It fosters understanding for different choices in development pathways and management practices. Matti Alahuhta, Chairman DevCo Partners, ex-CEO Kone, Board member of several global listed companies, Helsinki, Finland Start-up entrepreneurs need proven models from industry which demonstrate the various paths to success. “Masterpieces of Swiss Entrepreneurship” provides deep insights highlighting these models and the important trade-offs entrepreneurial teams must consider when choosing the path of high growth or of maximum control, as they are often mutually exclusive. Gina Domanig, Managing Partner, Emerald Technology Ventures, Zurich ;

This book examines Félix Guattari, the French psychoanalyst, philosopher, and radical activist, renowned for an energetic style of thought that cuts across conceptual, political, and institutional spheres. Increasingly recognised as a key figure in his own right, Guattari’s influence in contemporary social theory and the modern social sciences continues to grow. From the ecosophy of hurricanes to the micropolitics of cinema, the book draws together a series of Guattarian motifs which animate the complexity of one of the twentieth century’s greatest and most enigmatic thinkers. The book examines techniques and modes of thought that contribute to a liberation of thinking and subjectivity. Divided thematically into three parts – ‘cartographies’, ‘ecologies’, and ‘micropolitics’ – each chapter showcases the singular and pragmatic grounds by which Guattari’s signature concepts can be found to be both disruptive to traditional modes of thinking, and generative toward novel forms of ethics, politics and sociality. This interdisciplinary compendium on Guattari’s exciting, experimental, and enigmatic thought will appeal to academics and postgraduates within Social Theory, Human Geography, and Continental Philosophy.

Wie lassen sich romanistische und politische Themen zusammendenken? Die Beiträger*innen suchen nach möglichen Verschränkungen beider Bereiche und vereinen dazu Zugänge der Literatur-, Sprach-, Kultur- und Übersetzungswissenschaft aus Frankreich, Spanien sowie Italien. Mit Blick auf Theorie, Literatur, politische Reden, Filme und Ausstellungen machen sie damit von Agamben, Amenábar und Ernaux über Le Pen, Pasolini und Postkolonialismus bis zur Fachgeschichte der Queer Studies das Potenzial der Romanistik zur Analyse der Gegenwart sichtbar.

Das Buch untersucht die Praxis von Public Health in der Verwaltung des russischen Imperiums um 1900 am Beispiel der ländlichen Selbstverwaltung (Zemstvo) und der Eisenbahnbetriebe. Nach der Revolution von 1905 wurde das Konzept Hygiene in eine staatliche Präventionspraxis (sanitarija) übersetzt: Es entstanden mobile Hygieneausstellungen, Gesundheitsfürsorgen in den Dörfern, Gesundheitsstatistik und der Sanitätsarzt als neue Amtsperson. Die Autorin analysiert die Auswirkungen dieser gesundheitspräventiven Maßnahmen auf die Verwaltungsapparate und auf die verwaltete Bevölkerung. Sie leistet damit einen Beitrag zur Geschichte von Verwaltungspraktiken und Staatlichkeit in der europäischen Moderne.

This publication was created to commemorate the inauguration of the Parsifal catalogue, which took place on 11th May 2023 in the Aula Magna Giovanni Paolo II of the Pontificia Università Urbaniana. With Parsifal, the Roman Union of Ecclesiastical Libraries (URBE), an association that brings together the libraries of universities, faculties and pontifical institutes, achieves the ambitious objective of an integrated catalogue, uniformly compiled, in compliance with international standards. Many have participated in the realization of this project: the Rectors of the various academic institutions, the directors of the libraries, and the cataloguers, whose expertise has collectively grown from year to year thanks to the valuable investment in training. Parsifal is an initiative built upon the library know-how and assistance of @Cult and Casalini Libri and is linked both to Italian and international realities; these include the SHARE-Catalogue collaboration, an acronym for Scholarly Heritage and Access to Research, in turn part of the broader Share Family initiative which involves major North American and Northern European libraries.

This book is a grammar of Kalamang, a Papuan language of western New Guinea in the east of Indonesia. It is spoken by around 130 people in the villages Mas and Antalisa on the biggest of the Karas Islands, which lie just off the coast of Bomberai Peninsula. This work is the first comprehensive grammar of a Papuan language in the Bomberai area. It is based on eleven months of fieldwork. The primary source of data is a corpus of more than 15 hours of spoken Kalamang recorded and transcribed between 2015 and 2019. This grammar covers a wide range of topics beyond a phonological and morphosyntactic description, including prosody, narrative styles, and information structure. More than 1000 examples illustrate the analyses, and are where possible taken from naturalistic spoken Kalamang. The descriptive approach in this grammar is informed by current linguistic theory, but is not driven by any specific school of thought. Comparison to other West Bomberai or eastern Indonesian languages is taken into account whenever it is deemed helpful. Kalamang has several typologically interesting features, such as unpredictable stress, minimalistic give-constructions consisting of just two pronouns, aspectual markers that follow the subject, and the NP and predicate – rather than the noun and verb – as important domains of attachment. This grammar is accompanied by an openly accessible archive of linguistic and cultural material and a dictionary with 2700 lemmas. It serves as a document of one of the world's many endangered languages.

This agenda-setting edited volume, published open access, makes a forceful case for the contribution that art – its practices and its histories – can make to debates and developments in critical medical humanities today. Whilst medical humanities previously emphasised an instrumental attitude towards art and art-making, recent work has opened up a dynamic space in which art can critically and imaginatively operate. With urgent attention paid to constructions of race, gender, class, sexuality and disability, the artists, art historians, and scholars in related fields represented within this volume address new and pressing questions about structures and experiences of health, medical knowledge, care, therapy, and clinical research and education. With more than 40 contributors from a range of countries including the UK, Canada, the United States, Australia, Norway, Spain, and Germany, this landmark and multi-format collection addresses artworks from the sixteenth century to the present day, serving as a key reference point for researchers, practitioners, and educators working in medical humanities and art-aligned fields alike. 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 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Wellcome Trust.

Configuring Masculinity in Theory and Literary Practice combines a critical survey of the most current developments in the emergent field of Masculinity Studies with both a historical overview of how masculinity has been constructed within British Literature from the Middle Ages to the present and a special focus on developments in the 20th and 21st centuries. The volume combines seminal articles on the most important concepts in Masculinity Studies by acknowledged experts such as Raewyn Connell, Todd Reeser, and Richard Collier with new and innovative analyses of key British literary texts combining Literary and Cultural Studies approaches with those currently deployed in Masculinity Studies, Gender Studies, Legal Studies, Postcolonial Studies as well as methodologies derived from sociology.

This study examines the action-guiding orientations of teacher educators in the second period of teacher education with regard to their understanding of teaching, in particular the understanding of quality teaching and the role of teacher educators in the professionalisation process of the prospective teachers. The methodology of this study based on the qualitative-reconstructive research paradigm. The data were collected by narrative-based expert interviews and analysed by using the documentary method. Based on the findings it was possible to reconstruct different orientations towards the understanding of teaching on the one hand and different modes of action in teacher professionalisation on the other. Thereby teacher educators oscillate between good and effective teaching to evaluate lessons and consult teaching. In addition, different learning and educational understandings of the mentors could be reconstructed. This study remarks the complex actions of teacher educators characterised by different and multidimensional challenges. Based on the empirical results of this study a theory of the actions of teacher educators was developed. This study is part of teacher education research, empirical education research and general science of education. With this investigation the little explored second period of teacher education was examined focusing on practical experience of teacher educators thus making a markable contribution in teacher education in the second period of teacher education. (DIPF/Orig.)

Ziel der vorliegenden Studie ist es, den Zusammenhang zwischen Person sein, moralisch sein und der Frage nach dem guten Leben aufzuzeigen. So verweist die Frage der alten Griechen auf einen zentralen Aspekt unseres Personseins: Wir verfügen über Bewusstsein von uns selbst und unserem Leben. Daher haben wir auch unvermeidlich ein Interesse daran, zu wissen, wie wir möglichst gut leben können -- wir reflektieren und bewerten unser Handeln, Fühlen und Urteilen. Anhand der Theorie Harry G. Frankfurts wird dieses evaluative Selbstverhältnis als zentrales Merkmal des Personseins herausgestellt. Seine Konzeption der Sorge sowie der Begriff der volitionalen Notwendigkeit nimmt die Frage nach dem guten Leben in ihrer existentiellen Bedeutung auf. Die praktische Relevanz des Moralischen ist durch die Formulierung von moralischen Gesetzen, Rechten oder Pflichten nicht einfach gegeben, sondern hängt maßgeblich von der authentischen Aneignung moralischer Inhalte ab. Gute Gründe für moralische Ansprüche ergeben sich selten durch die Betrachtung moralischer Normen oder allgemeiner Prinzipien, sondern aus exemplarischen Narrativen des "echten" Lebens und den darin antizipierten Vorstellungen des Guten.

On April 20, 1999, two Colorado teenagers went on a shooting rampage at Columbine High School. That day, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed twelve fellow students and a teacher, as well as wounding twenty-four other people, before they killed themselves. Although there have been other books written about the tragedy, this is the first serious, impartial investigation into the cultural, environmental, and psychological causes of the massacre. Based on first-hand interviews and a thorough reading of the relevant literature, Ralph Larkin examines the numerous factors that led the two young men to plan and carry out their deed. Rather than simply looking at Columbine as a crucible for all school violence, Larkin places the tragedy in its proper context, and in doing so, examines its causes and meaning.

Romani political mobilisation is now an established part of the civil society landscape across Europe. It has given rise to various forms of political participation, with Romani NGOs taking up consultative roles in a number of countries, as well as in inter-governmental organisations. Models of direct political representation of Roma through a kind of quota system exist at the level of local government in Hungary and in the national elections in Romania, and a number of parliamentarians of Romani background have held direct mandates in national legislatives and in the European Parliament

Der vorliegende Band geht der Frage nach, wie das Thema „DDRGeschichte“ im Sachunterricht der Grundschule kindgerecht und sachgerecht aufgegriffen werden kann. Anknüpfend an eine fachliche Auseinandersetzung mit der DDR werden didaktische Überlegungen zu den Lernausgangsbedingungen von Kindern sowie zum Umgang mit der DDR als Lerngegenstand des Sachunterrichts gegeben und konkrete Unterrichtsideen vorgestellt. Diese wurden von Lehrerinnen und Lehrern entwickelt, in der Praxis erprobt und systematisch ausgewertet. Im vorliegenden Band bieten sich den Leserinnen und Lesern auf diese Weise interessante Einblicke in eine Unterrichtsentwicklung und eine Unterrichtspraxis, die die DDR-Geschichte zum Gegenstand des Sachunterrichts macht. Dieser Titel erscheint in der Reihe „Von der DDR-Heimatkunde zum Sachunterricht. Die Grundschule vor und nach 1989“ (Herausgegeben von Sandra Tänzer und Christian Fischer)

The things sought after here are apparitional: they appear and disappear at will; they perfect the art of materialization and vanishing. Such is the nature of living dangerously, and with it the short duration of enchantment. This collection tracks provocative ideas, artifacts, and phenomena rising and fading across different territories of the contemporary world. Through a constellation of powerful thought-images, the authors uncover spaces of an ephemeral and fugitive nature in order to generate a fractal vision of our time and beyond. A former communist prison island in the Adriatic Sea, now abandoned and overgrown with wild plants; the stone garden of a deaf Iranian peasant who dances ecstatically among his geological formations; a Belgian sculptor who combines wax and flesh to depict human and animal forms in states of half-manifestation, incompletion (missing limbs), or branching (morphing into other organisms); a cultural movement in Brazil that takes the discarded debris of urban centers and transforms their splintered wood pieces into massive labyrinths and underground caverns; a blacksmith poet in Afghanistan who alternates between tasks of hammering metal and writing lyrical verses amidst the smoke-clouds of his forge; a Cuban writer whose delirious fixation with the sea compels him to invent a language of pure untimeliness. There are countless sites of disturbance within the postmodern landscape, and yet far too often these disruptive “scenes” remain untheorized and misaligned, treated as random deviations and thus afforded no surpassing consequence or philosophical complexity. Such micro-trajectories necessitate an archive and conceptual matrix that will steal them from their false obscurity and decipher them instead as the passcodes to an imminent global turn. For this, one must return to the amorphous outlook of “the marauder” or “the wanderer.” This book, then, aims to devise an ever-expanding configuration of radical outsides: elemental fronts that lead to unforeseen principles; alternative profiles of experience (intense becomings); incendiary, ominous, or vitalistic signs in circulation across the epochal horizon.

Danish civil procedure is based on a number of procedural law principles that affect the taking of evidence, including the principle of party presentation, the principle of disposition, and the principle of free assessment of evidence. The nature of Danish procedural law tends towards the adversarial model rather than the inquisitorial model. Evidence is taken during the hearing and the principle of directness applies to the procedure. Danish civil procedure is governed by the 1916 Administration of Justice Act, which was originally strongly influenced by German law. The role of the judge is to lead the process and also to intervene in proceedings when uncertainty exists, rather than just to facilitate the process by ensuring the parties abide by the laws of civil procedure.