Humanities & Social Sciences

The annulment and reimposition of the “crime of sodomy” and the creation of the first homosexual liberation movement. Magnus Hirschfeld's collaboration with the Social Democratic Party of Germany for the decriminalization of homosexuality. Homosexual liberation and women's liberation in the Social Democratic Party and the Communist Party of Germany. The decriminalization of homosexuality in Soviet Russia and the laws against minor prostitution in Transcaucasia and Central Asia. The persecution of Magnus Hirschfeld by the Nazis and the recriminalization of homosexuality in the Soviet Union by Stalin.

Inwiefern spiegeln Videospiele und ihre Kultur gesellschaftliche Machtverhältnisse? Vor welchen Herausforderungen steht die Spieleindustrie und welche strukturellen Mechanismen prägen sie? Wie können virtuelle Welten utopische Möglichkeitsräume eröffnen? Erstmalig im deutschsprachigen Raum versammeln die Beiträger*innen kritische Perspektiven auf herrschende Ideologien sowie die Produktion und die Nutzung eines Mediums, dessen gesellschaftliche Relevanz stetig wächst. Dabei finden sie Zugänge über Kunst, Wissenschaft sowie Journalismus, um Videospiele im Spannungsfeld von Kapitalismus, Patriarchat und Kolonialismus unter die Lupe zu nehmen.

This volume develops empirical and theoretical perspectives on the experiences and risks of exclusion, based on the assumption of the intersectionality of categories of difference such as race, class, gender and disability. What is the relationship between exclusion and inclusion? How do exclusion and inclusion take place in the context of school practices? The contributions delve into topics from the 6th GERA Inclusion Research Workshop.

In the present work, the Austrian story is the first time explicitly examined from a French perspective. The author first outlines the relevant directions of the French historical scholarship and subsequently describes important people (Maria Theresa and Joseph II) and events (the creation of the Empire of Austria / abolition of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation, Revolution of 1848 and compensation Austria-Hungary).

Viele Unternehmen nutzen bestehende Umsatz- und Gewinnmöglichkeiten im Kundendienst bislang nicht konsequent genug aus. Voraussetzung für eine umfassende Ausschöpfung dieser Potentiale ist eine differenzierte und zielgruppengerechte Servicepolitik. Bisher existierten jedoch kaum geeignete Vorschläge zur Segmentierung von Servicemärkten. Die vorliegende Arbeit zeigt praktikable Lösungsmöglichkeiten für dieses kundendienstpolitische Defizit auf. Ausgehend von der servicespezifischen Bedürfnissituation von Unternehmen wird ein zweistufiges Segmentierungsmodell für investive Kundendienstmärkte entwickelt. Auf Grundlage einer empirischen Studie im Markt für kommerzielle Personal Computer werden u.a. praxisrelevante Normstrategien für eine zielgruppengerechte Bearbeitung von Kundendienstmärkten abgeleitet.

This book explores the upright gait in the school context and the collective gait of adolescents as a political choreography in Germany and Japan that contributed to the consolidation of the nation-state. In shedding light on the transnational character of the marching ceremony, this book reveals how the nationalization of school-attending youths deeply relied on emotionally-charged, collective bodily experiences.

This book analyses the motivations and experiences of Haitian parents who have given up a child for international adoption. The parents' accounts describe the decision to abandon as a rescue project rather than a refusal or denial of parenthood.

Revolutionary Connections: Russia and Ireland, 1905–1923 examines political, social and cultural relations between Russia and Ireland from the 1905 Russian Revolution to the end of the Irish Civil War in 1923. Drawing on extensive Russian and Irish archival accounts, newspapers, diaries, letters, memoirs, literary and visual sources, it looks in both directions at Irish responses to Russian revolutionary change and at representations of Ireland in Russian-language texts. It offers a unique account of international engagement in revolutionary Russia and Ireland and of how Ireland was imagined beyond the Anglophone world. From at least the late nineteenth century, Ireland featured in Russian liberal, conservative and radical debates about land politics, self-determination and empire. Equally, Irish commentators from across the political spectrum used Russia as a lens onto questions of imperialism, anti-imperialism and socialism. This mutual, if selective and conditional, engagement reflected wider technological changes in news communication and the expansion of international news agencies. Revolutionary Connections also shows how diasporic networks, including in Britain and the US, helped to shape Russo-Irish relations and reflects on Irish interest in different parts of the Russian empire, including Ukraine, Finland and Poland. Through five thematic chapters, it considers Russo-Irish relations from contrasting and often overlooked angles, including Irish eyewitness experiences on the Eastern front during World War One and religious perspectives. Using a transnational methodology and expansive source base, it offers a fresh angle on the entangled history of revolutions in the early twentieth century and the translation of news and ideas across borders.

This open access book examines the conversations around gendered mental health in contemporary Western media culture. While early 21st century-media was marked by a distinct focus on happiness, productivity and success, during the 2010s negative feelings and discussions around mental health have become increasingly common in that same media landscape. This book traces this turn to sadness in women’s media culture and shows that it emerged indirectly as a result of a culture overtly focused on happiness. By tracing the coverage of mental health issues in magazines, among female celebrities, and on social media this book shows how an increasingly intimate media environment has made way for a profitable vulnerability, that takes the shape of marketable and brand-friendly mental illness awareness that strengthens the authenticity of those who embrace it. But at the same time sad girl cultures are proliferating on social media platforms, creating radically honest spaces where those who suffer get support, and more capacious ways of feeling bad are formed. Using discourse analysis and digital ethnography to study contemporary representations of mental illness and sadness in Western popular media and social media, this book takes a feminist media studies approach to popular discourse, understanding the conversations happening around mental health in these sites to function as scripts for how to think about and experience mental illness and sadness

This first volume in the proposed series will address some preliminary issues that are typical of a 'prolegomena' in any systematic theology. It will focus on the following question: 'How does the story of who the Triune God is and what this God does relate to the story of life on Earth?' Or: 'Is the Christian story part of the earth’s story or is the earth’s story part of God’s story, from creation to consummation?' This raises many issues on the relatedness of religion and theology, the place of theology in multi-disciplinary collaboration, the notion of revelation, the possibility of knowledge of God, the interplay between convictions and narrative accounts, hermeneutics, the difference between natural theology and a theology of nature, and the role of science vis-à-vis indigenous worldviews.

The Ningaloo coast of north-western Australia (eastern Indian Ocean) hosts one of the world’s longest and most extensive fringing coral reef systems, along with globally-significant abundances of large marine fauna such as whale sharks. These characteristics — which have contributed to its inscription on the World Heritage list — exist because of the unique climatic, geomorphologic and oceanographic conditions. The region is hot and arid, so runoff of water from land is low, facilitating clear water that allows corals to grow close to the shore. The poleward-flowing Leeuwin Current is an important influence, bringing warm water and generally suppressing coastal upwelling. During the austral summer, strong southerly winds generate the equatorward-flowing Ningaloo Current on the inner shelf — this current facilitates sporadic upwelling events that enhance concentrations of nutrients, which in turn enhances pelagic primary productivity that supports the reef’s biota. The coast has experienced several marine heatwaves since 2011 that have caused mortality of corals, and probably seagrass, albeit relatively less than elsewhere along the coast. Wind-generated surface waves break over the fringing reef crest, causing cooling currents that tend to dampen warming — although this mechanism seems not to have prevented some areas from experiencing damaging heat, and corals in places that do not experience the wave-generated currents have experienced substantial mortality. Herbivores, from fish to green turtles, are abundant, and in the lagoon extensive stands of large brown algae provide an important habitat for newly-recruited fish. There has been a decline in abundance of some fish. Predictions of future pressures include a weaker but more variable Leeuwin Current, and increased human use. The ability of Ningaloo’s ecosystems to withstand growing pressures will depend partly on the rate and magnitude of global warming, but also on actions that manage local pressures from increasing human use. These actions will rely on continued science to provide the evidence needed to identify the pressures, the changes they create and the ways that we can mitigate them.

Political Science

This study is an attempt to reorient the field of Chinese linguistics from the perspective of the new field of cultural interaction studies. The author, approaching Chinese linguistics from the periphery, examines such topics as the spread of Western learning and linguistic contact and Westerners’ study of Chinese: He studies materials produced by Western missionaries and Ryukyuan materials to show the validity and usefulness of Chinese linguistics in the field of cultural interaction studies. In addition, he looks at cultural interaction through illustrations.

The issues of structural abuse and discrimination, particularly in relation to religion and power, have been ignored for far too long. Exposing and preventing religiously motivated abuse, including the abuse of spiritual authority, is of fundamental importance and requires urgent action on various levels: spiritual, legal, educational, gender theory, and religious. In this book, renowned contributors such as Simone Paganini, Josef M. Oesch, Mira Stare, Martin Hasitschka, Erika Kegyes, Angelika Ritter-Grepl, Ursula Schattner-Rieser, Konrad Breitsching, Nicole Maria Bauer, Wilhelm Rees, Doris Reisinger, Martin Pusch, and Johannes Brunner comment on the following topics: Power and abuse in the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, gender justice and ministry, the definition of power and positions of power in the Church, as well as abuse awareness and the prevention of sexual violence. Die Themen Strukturenmissbrauch und Diskriminierung, insbesondere im Zusammenhang mit Religion und Macht, wurden viel zu lange ignoriert. Die Enthüllung und Vorbeugung gegen religiös motivierte Missbräuche, einschließlich des Missbrauchs geistlicher Autorität, sind von grundlegender Bedeutung und erfordern dringende Maßnahmen auf verschiedenen Ebenen: spirituell, rechtlich, pädagogisch, gendertheoretisch und religiös. In diesem Buch nehmen namhafte Beitragende wie Simone Paganini, Josef M. Oesch, Mira Stare, Martin Hasitschka, Erika Kegyes, Angelika Ritter-Grepl, Ursula ­Schattner-Rieser, Konrad Breitsching, Nicole Maria Bauer, Wilhelm Rees, Doris ­Reisinger, Martin Pusch und Johannes Brunner Stellung zu folgenden Themen: Macht und Missbrauch in den Heiligen Schriften des Alten und Neuen Testaments, Gendergerechtigkeit und Amt, Definition von Macht und Machtposition in der Kirche sowie Missbrauchs­aufklärung und Prävention sexueller Gewalt.

The first volume contains almost 90 documented interviews with Arthur Schnitzler. The second volume includes his public expressions of opinion and letters to the editor. Together, they create a 'public biography' of Schnitzler by collecting what the public could know about him. Volume 1: https://e-book.fwf.ac.at/o:1882 Volume 2: https://e-book.fwf.ac.at/o:1881