Humanities & Social Sciences

This chapter is concerned with the growing influence of non-material explanations for inequalities and a corresponding emphasis on psychological interventions, which aim to modify cognitive function or emotional disposition/affect (Friedli 2013, 2014). These developments intersect with and are reinforced by the parallel rise in brain science, which correlates a range of outcomes (crime, addiction, health behaviour, educational attainment) with brain structure (Katz 2013; Rose 2013).

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. This book outlines what theory for a global age might look like, positing an agenda for consideration, contestation and discussion, and a framework for the research-led volumes that follow in the series. Gurminder K. Bhambra takes up the classical concerns of sociology and social theory and shows how they can be rethought through an engagement with postcolonial studies and decoloniality, two of the most distinctive critical approaches of the past decades.

Smart Cities are fascinating, but they also have a dark side that little is said or written about. One issue is the possibility of generating various types of exclusion. For this reason, this book will develop principles for assessing the inclusiveness of Smart Cities and outline strategies for strengthening urban resistance to exclusion. The book will consider the essence, scale and types of exclusion and include analysis of inclusiveness in practice in the assessment and activities of Smart Cities. The research assesses Smart City literature, with particular emphasis on criticism of the Smart City concept and exclusion generated in smart urban structures, critically analyses the principles and indicators used in international inclusive Smart City rankings, highlights case studies on best practices for preventing exclusions in Smart Cities, and uses trend analysis to assess the scale and intensity of exclusion threats. This book can be used as a compendium of knowledge about exclusions in Smart Cities by both researchers and students, as well as all urban stakeholders, in particular city decision-makers.

Considered as one of the main factors in erosion of the biodiversity, land take describes the global reduction in the proportion of land allocated to farming and forestry or to natural spaces. This work identifies the decisive economic and social factors in land take and its impact on the environment and agriculture. It suggests levers of action likely to limit its development and its negative effects.

Motivation ist essentiell für den Lernerfolg an Hochschulen. Die Beitragenden befassen sich mit dem Wissen aus Spielen als Bindeglied zwischen Lernen und Motivation. Die »Empirische Analyse motivierender Spielelemente« (EMPAMOS) steht dabei als Gamification-Methode sowie Analyse- und Gestaltungswerkzeug für motivierendes Lernen im Fokus. Lehrende, Lernende, Didaktiker*innen und Bildungsforscher*innen erhalten so aufschlussreiche Einblicke darin, wie eine spielbasierte Sichtweise sowohl die Lehre als auch das Studierendenengagement auf verschiedenen Ebenen der Hochschulbildung bereichern kann.

The first book-length study on the relationship between African literature and new media. The digital space provides a new avenue to move literature beyond the restrictions of book publishing on the continent. Arguing that writers are putting their work on cyberspace because communities are emerging from this space, and because increasing numbers of Africans use the internet as part of their day-to-day engagement with their societies and the world, Shola Adenekan explores this transformative development in Nigeria and Kenya, both significant countries in African literature and two of the continents largest digital technology hubs. Queer Kenyans and Nigerians find new avenues for their work online where print publishers are refusing to publish short stories and poems on same-sex desire. Binyavanga Wainainas rise to critical acclaim arguably started on the literary blog Generator 21. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichies literary celebrity partly relies on her prolific use of social media to tell thestory of powerful Nigerian women. With further examples from the development of literature across the continent, this innovative book sheds new light on narratives about digital Africa. It will also be the first major work to provide a trajectory of class consciousness in Kenyan and Nigerian writing. Through this analysis, the book articulates the difference in attitudes towards queerness, sexuality, and hetero-normativity among successive generations of writers.

Aktuelle fachwissenschaftliche und -didaktische Ansätze sowie Ideen für die Neugestaltung des Schul- und Studienfachs Arbeitslehre stehen im Mittelpunkt des Sammelbandes. Wissenschaft, Technik und Arbeitswelt haben sich ebenso verändert wie das Berufswahlverhalten von Jugendlichen. Mit Blick auf diesen Wandel erörtern die Autor:innen Neuausrichtungen von Curricula und Didaktik der Fächer Arbeitslehre und Berufsorientierung. Die Beträge machen deutlich, dass die Förderung von Berufswahlkompetenz und Berufsorientierung höchste Priorität in einem Schulfach haben, das junge Menschen auf den Übergang von der Schule in die Ausbildung vorbereiten soll. Die Beiträge des Sammelbandes decken daher ein breites Themenspektrum ab, von der gendersensiblen Berufsorientierung über die Einführung von Arbeitslehre in die gymnasiale Oberstufe bis zur Vorbereitung Lehramtsstudierender auf die Gestaltung des Übergangs Schule-Beruf. Der Sammelband entstand im Kontext der Fachtagung Arbeitslehre auf den Hochschultagen Berufliche Bildung.

The second volume of a double editorial project: while the first is dedicated to the relationship between the methodological-didactic, technological and organizational dimensions in the process of school innovation, the latter is dedicated to the inclusive education teachers and the role of technology in the services of skills assessment and career guidance. Its aim is to interpret and support the relationship between school and work.

In Collaborative Practical Theology, Henk de Roest documents and analyses research on Christian practices as it can be conducted by academic practical theologians in collaboration with practitioners of different kinds in Christian practices all around the world.; Readership: Theological institutes worldwide, academic libraries, researchers in Practical Theology, practitioners, students, consultants, everyday believers, all interested in Christian practices.

Populist movements, parties and leaders have gained influence in many countries, disrupting long-established patterns of party competition, impugning the legitimacy of representative institutions and sometimes actively weakening or coarsening government capabilities. By positing an acute contrast between the will of the people and established elites, and advocating simplistic policy solutions careless of minority rights, populists have challenged the development and even the maintenance of liberal democracy on many fronts. Social scientists’ attention to populism has grown rapidly, although it remains somewhat fragmented across disciplines. Many questions remain. Are populism’s causes economic or cultural? National or local? Is populism a threat to liberal democracy? If so, what kind of threat? And what can be done about it? Employing a range of conceptual toolkits and methods, this interdisciplinary book addresses in a critical and evidence-based way the most common diagnoses of populism’s causes, consequences and policy antidotes.

This book explores the acoustic agency of brass as a vital medium through which histories of extraction, resistance, and collective creativity resonate. Blending metalwork, experimental instrument-building, and philosophical inquiry, the book listens closely to brass not just as material, but as storyteller—what the author calls hylo narrans, echoing Sylvia Wynter’s invocation of homo narrans. Grounded in their practice spanning artisanal craftsmanship and industrial labor, the author examines how materials respond, resist, and reshape meaning within the workshop, the concert hall, and the broader social fabric. By introducing chimeracords—hybrid sound objects forged from factory detritus—and their affordance for sonic experimentation, 'Hylo Narrans' challenges Western narratives of purity, utility, and control, inviting readers to consider alternative storylines posed by materials-in-flight. Weaving theories of marronage through situated acoustic knowledge, this book is essential reading for those working at the intersection of sound, matter, and community. It speaks to experimental musicians, sound artists, artistic researchers, and theorists interested in how sonic materiality relates to social space, cultural memory, and communal wellbeing. With a deep commitment to sonic collectivity and intermaterial dialogue, this volume reimagines the workshop as a site of resistance, resonance, and relational creativity.

Der Band versammelt Beiträge aus verschiedenen wissenschaftlichen Disziplinen, die sich mentalen Konzepten, d.h. Vorstellungen oder Imaginationen der westeuropäischen mittelalterlichen Stadt widmen, die epochenübergreifend in unterschiedlichsten narrativen, diskursiven und visuellen Repräsentationen in Erscheinung treten. Stadt wird in den Beiträgen nicht nur als Teil der historischen Realität der Vormoderne betrachtet, sondern auch als fester Bestandteil des kulturellen Wissens und der kulturellen Erinnerung in den Blick genommen. In einer interdisziplinären Zusammenschau von Beiträgen aus den Bereichen Germanistik, Theologie, Archäologie, Geschichtswissenschaft und Kunstgeschichte werden mentale Konzepte der Stadt in unterschiedlichen medialen Formaten untersucht, darunter Stadtchroniken, säkulare Malerei, biblische Texte, mittelalterliche Stadtpläne und höfische Romane. Durch die Vielfalt der untersuchten medialen Formate sowie der divergenten hermeneutischen Auseinandersetzungen wird deutlich, dass die kulturellen Vorstellungen von Stadt und Urbanität durch historische Spezifika, aber auch durch überzeitliche Muster, Topoi und Bedeutungskonzepte geprägt sind, die vielfach in der Antike und in christlichen Traditionen wurzeln.

This book explores the evolving role of international law in directing and controlling the conduct of business enterprises, in particular multinational corporations, with respect to the protection of the environment, the sustainable use of natural resources, and the respect of inter-related human rights. It assesses the progress and continuing limitations in the identification of international standards of corporate environmental accountability and responsibility, and their implementation by international organizations. This assessment indicates the extent to which the international community has conceptually and operationally clarified its expectations about acceptable corporate conduct. This second edition relates the intensified convergence of international standard-setting efforts on corporate environmental accountability, with parallel international developments on business and human rights and on the inter-relationship between human rights and the environment. It also explores the more recent emergence of substantive international standards of corporate environmental responsibility, which have arisen from a growing number of sectoral guidelines. In addition, this edition points to remaining divergences in the content of international standards of corporate environmental accountability and responsibility, which reflect differing views between States of their international obligations to ensure the protection of the environment and the respect of human rights.

Die Existenz freier Variation, insbesondere im Bereich der Morphologie, wird weithin angezweifelt. Neuere Forschung hat jedoch gezeigt, dass flektierte Wortformen in verschiedenen Varianten vorkommen und sich diese Varianten sogar innerhalb ein und derselben Varietät finden können. Nun wird erstmals eine Monografie zur sogenannten ‚Overabundance‘ vorgelegt, die das Nebeneinander verschiedener Flexionsformen in Synchronie und Diachronie sowohl quantitativ als auch qualitativ untersucht und gleichermaßen intra- wie interpersonelle Variation berücksichtigt. Im Fokus dieser Arbeit stehen die Dativformen des unbestimmten Artikels im Zürichdeutschen. Dabei wird deutlich, dass morphologische Variation über Generationen hinweg stabil bleiben und zugleich komplex strukturiert sein kann. Im Zürichdeutschen verhält sich diese je nach Genus unterschiedlich, obwohl alle Formen variabel sind. Die Variation der Flexionsmorphologie stellt damit eher die Linguistik als die Sprachgemeinschaft vor Herausforderungen.

• Lingua (revised edition)