Humanities & Social Sciences

Die Südosteuropa-Studien werden von der in München ansässigen Südosteuropa-Gesellschaft, der wichtigsten Wissenschaftsorganisation der Südosteuropa-Forschung im deutschsprachigen Raum, herausgegeben. Sie dienen der vertieften und interdisziplinären wissenschaftlichen Darstellung wichtiger Themen aus der Südosteuropa-Forschung. Auch Fragen zur aktuellen politischen und sozio-ökonomischen Entwicklung in der Region Südosteuropa werden aufgegriffen. Herausgeber der Einzelbände sind renommierte Repräsentanten der deutschen und internationalen Südosteuropa-Forschung.

Le lecteur trouvera dans cet ouvrage le récit d’expériences de travail avec des académiques et académiciens au XXIe siècle : enseignement en présence ou à distance, ingénierie de formation et évaluation des étudiants – ainsi que l’administration des institutions par les conseils à huis clos. En somme : une anthropologie éthique, réflexive, qui s’ouvre vers les humanités éducatives. Elle relate des pratiques d’enseignement normées en explorant les arts et métiers d’un univers professionnel fascinant._x000D_ _x000D_ Ce livre est le fruit d’observations participantes, de terrains, dans l’enseignement supérieur français de la décennie 2010. Le style se veut descriptif et accessible à un large public au-delà des anthropologues de l’éducation. Le familier et l’étranger se retrouvent dans un document qui illustre notre société de la connaissance.

The section and educational sub-discipline of adult education looks back on 50 years of history. The authors supplement the already drawn interim balance on the 40th anniversary of the founding in 2011/2012 with new studies with additional perspectives. One thematic focus is on memory histories of collective self-assurance and analyses of discipline- and section-historical signposts. The volume contributes to the promotion of a discplinary memory and opens it up to questions related to the present.

In the event of large crises (earthquakes, typhoons, floods, ...), a primordial task of the fire and rescue services is the search for human survivors on the incident site. This is a complex and dangerous task, which - too often - leads to loss of lives among the human crisis managers themselves. This book explains how unmanned search can be added to the toolkit of the search and rescue workers, offering a valuable tool to save human lives and to speed up the search and rescue process. The introduction of robotic tools in the world of search and rescue is not straightforward, due to the fact that the search and rescue context is extremely technology-unfriendly, meaning that very robust solutions, which can be deployed extremely quickly, are required. Multiple research projects across the world are tackling this problem and in this book, a special focus is placed on showcasing the results of the European Union ICARUS project on this subject. The ICARUS project proposes to equip first responders with a comprehensive and integrated set of unmanned search and rescue tools, to increase the situational awareness of human crisis managers, so that more work can be done in a shorter amount of time. The ICARUS tools consist of assistive unmanned air, ground, and sea vehicles, equipped with victim-detection sensors. The unmanned vehicles collaborate as a coordinated team, communicating via ad hoc cognitive radio networking. To ensure optimal human-robot collaboration, these tools are seamlessly integrated into the command and control equipment of the human crisis managers and a set of training and support tools is provided to them in order to learn to use the ICARUS system. The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement number 285417. The publishing of this book was funded by the EC FP7 Post-Grant Open Access Pilot programme.

The Routledge International Handbook of Feminist Disability Studies captures how discussions about disability have progressed since the 1990s, as well as grappling with the new debates over bodies and autonomy that are dominating various media today. Providing newly written chapters by scholars from both the global north and the global south, this book offers a mix of experiential, creative, and progressive content, combined with theoretical and political commentaries, to provide an eclectic and holistic immersion in feminist disability scholarship. It covers topics as diverse as societal barriers; access to public spaces; neurodiversity, activism; hate crime, bullying and ridicule; media and cultural analyses and representations of disabled women; structural issues such as poverty, policy and their relation to care/autonomy; mothering, both in terms of access to reproductive care and the re-emergence of eugenics, and care ethics of mothering disabled people; and madness, personality disorder and the provocations of the medical model, in terms of the imperative for ‘cure’ or ‘recovery’. This collection will be of interest to all scholars and students of Disability Studies, feminism, social work, cultural studies, human geography media, media studies and sociology. Chapter 15 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 licence.

Queer men’s cultures of intimacy have long been sites of fierce contestation. Indeed, debates have raged for decades over issues such as monogamy, safer sex, sexual racism and gay marriage. This open access book explores these debates, intensified by the introduction of the smartphone in 2008, whilst exploring further questions. Through interviews with a diverse group of 43 queer men about their smartphone mediated intimacies, Digital Intimacies reveals that queer men use their smartphones, not simply to arrange intimate encounters, but more specifically to gain a sense of control over the parts of their intimate lives that make them feel most vulnerable. For instance, some use messaging apps to gain a sense of control over intimate conversations that they feel too vulnerable to have in person. Others use the ‘block’ function on dating apps to feel in control of the racism and transphobia they are vulnerable to on these apps. Digital Intimacies therefore illuminates not only hitherto underexplored aspects of queer men’s cultures of intimacy but crucially also brings into view previously obscured cultural dynamics, gaining insight into the historical moments in which they occur. 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 UKRI.

Der vorliegende Band präsentiert die Druckfassungen der Vorträge zum Thema ‚Sprachwelten‘, die anlässlich der Erlanger Universitätstage vom 07. März bis zum 04. April 2017 in Amberg und vom 26. Oktober bis zum 30. November 2017 in Ansbach gehalten wurden. Die sechs Erlanger Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler, Professor Dr. Andrea Büttner, Prof. Dr. Jessica Freiherr, Professor Dr. Andreas Grüner, Prof. Dr. Thomas Herbst, Prof. Dr. Norbert Oettinger und Prof. Dr. André Reis – aus den fünf Disziplinen Lebensmittelchemie, Archäologie, Englische Sprachwissenschaft, Indogermanistik und Humangenetik – verstanden es auf ebenso anregende wie informative Weise, das Thema ‚Sprachwelten‘ aus ihrer jeweiligen Fachperspektive heraus zu interpretieren.

"Traditionally associated with craftmanship and manual work, knitwear seems a quite unusual subject of investigation for scientific research. This book places it as an integrative part of the industrial design culture where the dialogue between a productive system of excellence and the design discipline taught in universities becomes a topic of central concern. From an industrial standpoint, knitwear is a fertile ground of technological experimentation while being at the same time one of the most traditional sectors of Made in Italy. The complexity of a long and fragmented production chain is an interesting challenge for designers but affects the training and the knowledge transfer inside companies. On the academic side, the presence of such an industry creates the urgency for higher education to understand how to train knit designers as new professionals, and thus the opportunity for knitwear to be recognized as a discipline deserving specific teaching strategies and a focused scientific research. The present book reports an experimentation conducted in the unique conditions of the Italian industrial design culture, that defined tools and methods to train knit designers not as artists, but with the technical and cultural knowledge and the project-oriented mindset that is typical of industrial design disciplines. These contents are of interest for the academy, as they constitute a tool to design teaching experiences oriented to such a specific industrial sector; for those approaching knitwear design, as it is a pool of information on the complexity of knitwear, a map of the background knowledge, collected and rearranged, and a compass to be guided in building one's own skills; for professionals, who will find here their history, the opinions of colleagues, the opportunity to integrate their knowledge and to learn more about the in-depth experimental, technical and design work that takes place at Politecnico di Milano."

Borderland Cities in New India explores contemporary urban life in two cities in India’s Northeast borderland at a time of dramatic change. Social and economic transformation from India’s embrace of neoliberalism and globalisation, often referred to as ‘new’ India, has become a popular subject for academic analysis in the last decade. This is epitomised by focus on so-called ‘mega-cities’, reflecting a general trend in scholarship on other parts of Asia. However, far less attention has been afforded to borderland regions and to the provincial cities of ‘new’ India. Using ethnographic material, this book focuses on two cities in India’s Northeast borderland: Aizawl and Imphal. Both cities have been profoundly affected by armed conflict, militarism, displacement, and inter-ethnic tensions. Yet, both are also experiencing intensified flows of goods and people, rapid urban development, and expansion of Indian and foreign capital associated with the opening of the borderland west to the rest of India and east to the rest of Asia. This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched.

Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography presents an interdisciplinary examination of trans and genderqueer subjects in medieval hagiography. Scholarship has productively combined analysis of medieval literary texts with modern queer theory – yet, too often, questions of gender are explored almost exclusively through a prism of sexuality, rather than gender identity. This volume moves beyond such limitations, foregrounding the richness of hagiography as a genre integrally resistant to limiting binaristic categories, including rigid gender binaries. The collection showcases scholarship by emerging trans and genderqueer authors, as well as the work of established researchers. Working at the vanguard of historical trans studies, these scholars demonstrate the vital and vitally political nature of their work as medievalists. Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography enables the re-creation of a lineage linking modern trans and genderqueer individuals to their medieval ancestors, providing models of queer identity where much scholarship has insisted there were none, and re-establishing the place of non-normative gender in history.

The open access book invites readers to critically address the new model of a Sustainable Circular Economy also from the legal point of view, tracing new perspectives in order to fairly orient the law in this systemic paradigm transition. The paradigm shift towards a Sustainable Circular Economy is at the core of the EU policy agenda, aiming at revolutionizing the whole economic productive model that characterizes our contemporary society. However, the legal dimension is often underestimated in this framework. Actually, the legal system cannot resort to old schemes if it wants to respond properly to new challenges. In order to achieve effectively the indicated objectives of social progress, it is decisive that also the legal dimension of a Sustainable Circular Economy, and so the regulation of the market and the society on which it impacts, is designed consistently with an innovative approach. That is why this research intends to promote a general reconceptualization of existing legal configurations, exploring new perspectives to strengthen the role of individuals in the socio-economic system, as aware ‘human’ beings that, as such, take care of the world they live in.

Im April 2009 erhielt die Universitätsbibliothek eine einzigartige bibliophile Sammlung von circa. 1400 Büchern, die Dr. Ulfert Ricklefs, akademischer Direktor i.R. der Universität Erlangen über Jahrzehnte zusammengetragen hatte. Am 16. April 2009 überließ er diese Sammlung dauerhaft der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität für interdisziplinäre Forschungen und brachte sie in eine Stiftung ein. Die Sammlung umspannt das 16. bis 20. Jahrhundert, wobei der Schwerpunkt zeitlich auf der Frühen Neuzeit, d.h. dem 16. bis 18. Jahrhundert liegt und nahezu alle Teilgebiete der Geisteswissenschaften umfasst. Bei einem Großteil der Werke handelt es sich um überaus seltene, illustrierte Bücher, deren Kupfer oder Holzschnitte von den ersten Künstlern ihrer Zeit stammen. So finden sich in der Sammlung Ricklefs die berühmtesten Bilderbibeln des 16. bis 18. Jahrhunderts, die bedeutendsten Illustrationszyklen zu Ovids Metamorphosen und die wichtigsten Werke der europäischen Fabeldichtung von Aesop und Phädrus über Jean de LaFontaine bis zu John Gay. Weitere Schwerpunkte seiner Sammlung bilden Werke zum europäischen Totentanz, zur Emblematik und bedingt durch Dr. Ricklefs mehrjährigen Aufenthalt in Edinburgh, auch zur englischen Karikatur des 19. Jahrhunderts. Trotz ihrer geisteswissenschaftlichen Ausrichtung weist die Sammlung aber auch einige herausragende Beispiele aus Botanik, Zoologie und Geographie auf. Die Sammlung Ricklefs ist vollständig im elektronischen Online-Katalog der Universitätsbibliothek sowie regionalen und internationalen Katalogen nachgewiesen und steht jedem fachlich Interessierten im Lesesaal der Handschriftenabteilung zur Verfügung. Aufgrund der Kostbarkeit der Bestände ist eine Ausleihe nach Hause nicht möglich.

Psychometrics; Psychological tests; Human being; Case study; Classification; Reliability

The Historical Dictionary of French Adjective-Adverbs (Dictionnaire historique de l’adjectif-adverbe) documents groups such as couper court, which combine a verb and an adjective with adverbial function. The 2.600 The expressions are classified by alphabetical order, from abaisser bas to voyager propre. The articles contain some 12.000 citations covering the whole history of French.

The text supports the introduction, alongside ecosystems services, of eco-territorial services, which unlike the former depend for their very existence on human care actions. To assess them (under a monetary or other perspective) it is necessary to distinguish between the use value and the existence value of each element of the territorial heritage: such a measure can drop to zero or rise to infinity, and is strongly dependent on the culture of the subjects who use it; this also requires the degree of self-determination of their communities to be included in the assessment.