Humanities & Social Sciences

This volume gives an overview of what is known from an academic perspective about the end of life in Switzerland. The authors, who represent different academic disciplines, deal with crucial questions, such as experiences of individuals, personal decisions concerning their own end of life, care situations, costs, legal regulations, and ideals of dying.

Edward M. Curr (1820-89) was a pastoralist, horse trader, stock inspector, Aboriginal administrator, author and ethnologist. A prominent figure in the history of the Colony of Victoria, he rose to a senior position in the public service and authored several influential books and essays. He is best remembered for his nostalgic memoir, Recollections of Squatting in Victoria (1883), which has become a standard historical source. This book is the first comprehensive biography of Curr and explores both his life and legacy. In particular, it considers his posthumous influence on the Yorta Yorta native title case (1994-2001), when his written account of the Yorta Yorta ancestors played a key role in the failure of the claim. By exploring Curr’s interactions with Aboriginal people—as a pastoralist and Aboriginal administrator—this book advocates a more nuanced, critical, and historically informed interpretation of Curr’s ethnological writings than was evident in the Yorta Yorta case.

Because borders alone cannot stop irregular migration, the European Union is turning more and more to internal control measures. Through surveillance, member states aim to exclude irregular migrants from societal institutions, thereby discouraging their stay or deporting those who are apprehended. And yet, states cannot expel immigrants who remain anonymous. Identification has thus become key. Breaking Down Anonymity shows how digital surveillance is becoming a prime instrument of identification and exclusion policies towards irregular migrants. To support this claim, the study charts policy developments in Germany and the Netherlands. It analyses both countries' labour market controls as well as their detention and expulsion practices. Also examined is the development of several new EU migration databases. Spanning the Continent, these information systems create a new European Union frontier - one that is digital, biometric and ever-strengthening.

This book presents gender and diversity in smart transport as a cutting-edge issue in urban contexts around the globe. It addresses new challenges and possibilities related to the smart transport sector. It demonstrates how gender and diversity are entangled in concepts and various forms of current smart mobility practices in policy, planning, and innovation. Gender Smart Mobility is presented as a game changer for future transport planning and mobility practices and how smart mobility technologies and practices might be created as a common good for all. The readers are presented with fresh approaches ranging from intersectional and visual analysis of smart mobility, gender scripts and language, to gendered innovation of design and planning. Moreover, the readers will encounter engaging boxed features which present historical, cross-cultural, and methodological examples and pose questions for critical thinking. This book meets a need for a systematic, accessible, and practical introduction and is of interest to city planners, transport providers, and politicians as well as the general public. It will also be a valuable reference for graduate and postgraduate students at technical universities, schools of architecture and planning, and for students and faculties in the social sciences, humanities, and IT and design studies. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license. Funded by the University of Copenhagen and the Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute.

This book provides an overview of the diverse multidisciplinary field of more-than-human design, offering a philosophical grounding of more-than-human design in posthumanism while putting practical design examples and methods to the forefront. There is an urgent need to radically re-imagine design, as its current processes are contributing to global warming, pollution, deforestation, ocean acidification, ozone layer depletion, loss of biodiversity and species extinction. Given this need, ‘more-than-human design’ has emerged as a perspective that widens our thinking beyond solely human-oriented considerations and needs, such as animals, plants and microbes. The book explores the relationship between sustainability and design, touching on topics such as AI, systems thinking, futures studies and pedagogy, and discusses a range of case study projects that are grounded in more-than-human thinking, demonstrating how this can be incorporated into practice. This easily accessible and theoretically grounded book will provide design researchers and educators an excellent introduction to more-than-human thinking. It will also be of interest to students and scholars studying design more broadly, sustainability, environmental studies and service design, as well as to practicing designers interested in sustainability.

Transport: general interest

À bien des égards, l’enseignement littéraire s’intéresse aux émotions qui s’expriment dans une œuvre, puis qui sont partagées grâce à la lecture et au commentaire. Dans la mesure où elles sont supposées relever de l’intériorité, elles seraient propres à caractériser la subjectivité d’un auteur et d’un lecteur. Pourtant, dès que l’on cherche à préciser le sens de cette dernière phrase, l’embarras devient vite manifeste : que signifie par exemple penser, se comporter, ressentir des émotions en tant que sujet ? Et dans un cadre scolaire, comment élèves et enseignants apprennent-ils et savent-ils qu’ils font une expérience de la subjectivité et plus particulièrement dans un type d’enseignement qualifié de littéraire ? Après avoir contextualisé ces questions dans des débats d’idées, ceux de l’histoire de l’esthétique, du champ littéraire et de l’histoire de l’enseignement, l’ouvrage complète cette analyse par une étude de l’enseignement contemporain à partir d’une enquête de terrain opérée dans des classes de collège et d’ECG (Canton de Genève. Son objectif principal consiste à réfléchir au phénomène de l’appropriation affective du texte littéraire, en se référant plus particulièrement à l’œuvre du psychologue L. S. Vygotskij.

Political Science; Crime

In the first book of its kind, Bassel and Emejulu explore minority women’s experiences of and resistances to austerity measures in France and Britain. Minority women are often portrayed as passive victims. However, Minority women and austerity demonstrates how they use their race, class, gender and legal status as a resource for collective action in the face of the neoliberal colonisation of non-governmental organisations, the failures of left-wing politics and the patronising initiatives of policy-makers. Using in-depth case studies, this book explores the changing relations between the state, the market and civil society which create opportunities and dilemmas for minority women activists. Through an intersectional ‘politics of survival’ these women seek to subvert the dominant narratives of ‘crisis’ and ‘activism’.

In a pathbreaking analysis, Sara Singleton explores the development of schemes for the management of fisheries in the northwestern United States in which native American tribes, and state, federal, and local governments cooperate to manage limited fishing resources. In the policy dispute over the apportionment of scarce resources, some argue that only government control or private ownership will prevent the destruction of limited common resources. The author shows how cooperation among interested parties can produce a workable system for self-management of common resources. Through the detailed study of the management of fisheries in the Northwest the author tests theories explaining the basis of collective action and social cooperation, an area of rich theoretical speculation in political science, law, economics and sociology. At the same time, her findings have important implications for policy makers who are interested in efficient and effective schemes of resource control that avoid the problems caused by regulation by remote government officials or private control. This book will appeal to policy makers concerned with the management of natural resources as well as to economists, political scientists, and sociologists concerned with collective action problems. Sara Singleton is Assistant Professor of Political Science, Tulane University.

This volume brings together scholars from intellectual history, social sciences, philosophy and theology to evaluate central questions concerning political violence and aggression. This multidisciplinary collection of essays critically investigates forms and modes of justification of political violence, especially within the context of the development of the idea of Europe and modern European identity.

Craft is resurgent. More people are buying craft; more money is being spent on craft products than ever before. This book centres craft as a creative industry, illuminating the experiences of those working in and around craft, particularly people from marginalised groups. Shining a light on inequalities around craft work, the author examines the lived experiences of women makers of colour in the professional craft sector. Experiences of racism and microaggressions at all stages of their craft career are analysed. The author draws on innovative empirical research carried out in the UK and Australia, two countries where the resurgence in craft is apparent, yet professional craft practice is dominated by the white and relatively privileged. In interrogating hierarchies of expertise and cultural value in craft, the author employs case studies from community crafts and social enterprises. The result is a book of interest to scholars at the intersections of the creative and cultural industries, the creative economy and inequalities at work.

In den Jahren 2013 bis 2020 haben wissenschaftliche Begleitprojekte in BiSS innovative Fördermaßnahmen, -tools und Diagnostikinstrumente in Kitas und Grundschulen implementiert und evaluiert sowie Fortbildungsmaßnahmen auf ihre Wirksamkeit überprüft. In Kitas stand insbesondere die Alltagsintegrierte Sprachbildung im Fokus, an Grundschulen die Leseförderung. Im Projektatlas werden die Ziele, Vorgehen und Ergebnisse von elf Projekten sowie die Nutzbarkeit der Angebote für die Praxis vorgestellt. Die Beiträge dieser Publikation sind unter verschiedenen Creative-Commons-Lizenzen veröffentlicht.

"Träumerisch haftet der Blik auf den schlanken Minarets der alten Dome der Christenheit, nur ungern nimmt man von ihnen Abschied, wenn nicht der heimliche Gedanke des Wiedersehens aufkäme, denn das Sprichwort sagt: Wer einmal Taksim Wasser getrunken hat, der kommt wieder!" Diese wehmütigen Gedanken notiert der Botaniker Carl Haussknecht am 13. Februar 1869 im damaligen Konstantinopel in sein – hier erstmals in Buchform veröffentlichtes – Tagebuch. Er befindet sich auf dem Rückweg nach Weimar, nachdem ihn zwei Reisen, oft abseits bekannter Wege, drei Jahre lang durch das Osmanische Reich bis nach Persien geführt haben. Ende 1868 nimmt er in Teheran sogar an einer Audienz beim Schah teil, der großes Interesse an Stationen seiner Reise und seinen kartografischen Aufnahmen zeigt. Neben der hauptsächlichen Aufgabe des Sammelns von Pflanzen hält Haussknecht aber nicht nur botanische und topografische Informationen fest. Ganz frei heraus notiert und kommentiert er seine vielseitigen Beobachtungen und berichtet über Begebenheiten und Begegnungen. Sein Urteil über die bereisten Regionen mit ihren Bräuchen und Bewohnern steht unter dem Eindruck seiner unmittelbaren Reiseerlebnisse. Und immer wieder wecken Landschaften und Feiertage Erinnerungen an die Heimat und Heimweh nach den Seinen.

This book centres on the transformation of landscapes, focusing on the Western Mediterranean during the end of the Roman Republic and the Early Roman Empire. This volume brings together diverse contributions that utilise both theoretical and practical approaches from landscape studies and archaeology to examine the transitions to the Empire in the provincial landscapes of the western Roman Empire. Focusing on wider processes of change and continuity, identified through diverse approaches (e.g., settlement patterns, mobility and communication, and military expansion) and methods (e.g., spatial analysis, remote sensing, and GIS), the contributions highlight the profound socio-economic, political, and environmental factors whose interplay shaped the region. In doing so, the book underscores the agency of local communities in shaping their landscapes and their varied responses to Imperial policies, thus generating new insights into the processes of social and political change brought about by Augustan reforms and how these were implemented and experienced at the local level. This book will be of interest to students and researchers of archaeology and ancient history, particularly those focused on Roman and landscape archaeology.