Humanities & Social Sciences

In search of a path An analysis of the foreign policy of Suriname from 1975 to 1991 Roger Janssen The foreign policy of small states is an often neglected topic, which is particularly the case when it comes to Suriname. How did the young Republic deal with its dependency on the Netherlands for development aid after 1975? Was Paramaribo following a certain foreign policy strategy or did it merely react towards internal and external events? What were the decision making processes in defining the foreign policy course and who was involved in these processes? And why was a proposal discussed to hand back the right of an independent foreign and defence policy to a Dutch Commonwealth government in the early 1990s? These questions are examined here in depth, in the first comprehensive analysis of Suriname’s foreign policy from 1975 to 1991. The book provides readers interested in Caribbean and Latin American affairs with a detailed account of Suriname’s external relations. Moreover, the young Republic may stand as a case study, as it confronted the difficulties and challenges that small developing states often face. Roger Janssen (1967), born in the Dutch-German border region of Cleve, migrated to Australia in 1989. He received his education as a historian at the University of Western Australia where he obtained a Ph.D. in 1999. During his graduate and post-graduate studies, the main focus of his research was directed towards the social-economic and political developments of the Dutch Caribbean after the Second World War. Currently he lives and works in the Netherlands.

Cross-border partnerships are increasingly important for higher education in the twenty-first century. While virtually all universities in the world, in their pursuit of internationalisation, strive to enter into partnerships with universities abroad, there is no synthesis of literature on the many case studies on such partnerships or the various models of international partnership to guide such activities. The purpose of this book is to fill this lacuna and to serve as a frame for the chapters and discussions in the rest of the volume.

Das Buch vergleicht drei multiethnische Gesellschaften Süd- und Südostasiens - die Philippinen, Sri Lanka und Malaysia - in Bezug auf deren Fähigkeit, interethnische Konflikte gewaltarm zu bearbeiten. Gezeigt wird, dass weder Multiethnizität Gewalt befördert, noch dass eine demokratische Regierungsform als Allheilmittel zur Zivilisierung des interethnischen Konfliktaustrags gelten kann. Vielmehr kommt dem Faktor Kultur eine zentrale Rolle sowohl für die Wege in die Gewalt als auch für deren Vermeidung zu. Ethnizität und politische Institutionen können in Abhängigkeit von kulturellen Mustern sowohl konfliktverschärfend als auch -zivilisierend wirken.

This open access book presents the proceedings of the International Federation for IT and Travel & Tourism (IFITT)’s 29th Annual International eTourism Conference, which assembles the latest research presented at the ENTER2022 conference, which will be held on January 11–14, 2022. The book provides an extensive overview of how information and communication technologies can be used to develop tourism and hospitality. It covers the latest research on various topics within the field, including augmented and virtual reality, website development, social media use, e-learning, big data, analytics, and recommendation systems. The readers will gain insights and ideas on how information and communication technologies can be used in tourism and hospitality. Academics working in the eTourism field, as well as students and practitioners, will find up-to-date information on the status of research.

Rasantes Wachstum, provokante kulturelle Avantgarden, die Infragestellung von Geschlechterrollen oder neue Industrien und Vergnügungen prägten bereits das wilhelminische Berlin. Ermöglicht wurden diese Entwicklungen auch durch Konsummöglichkeiten und technische Innovationen, die auf der Verfügbarkeit von Kolonialwaren beruhten. Dafür schuf sich das Kaiserreich seit den 1880er Jahren »eigene« koloniale Räume. Weniger bekannt dagegen sind die früheren materiellen und immateriellen Verflechtungen mit Kolonien anderer europäischer Mächte. Die Beiträger*innen zeigen, wie von dort aus immer mehr Rohstoffe, Heilpflanzen und Genussmittel nach Berlin gelangten – und seitdem koloniale Fantasien und Sehnsüchte viele Dimensionen der Stadt durchdringen.

"“Facciamo bella figura! 8 task fraseodidattici per studenti di italiano L2/LS” offers: • eight learning sequences designed to prepare students for communicative real-life tasks. • a narrative throughout all units inviting learners to accompany Lena, the textbook's protagonist, during her stay in Bologna; • a wide variety of authentic input (audio, video, written texts) to be used as an inspiration for the tasks; • a focus on phraseological expressions integrated in every task and accompanied by a multilingual glossary; • an introductory chapter and a learning diary to strengthen learner autonomy and provide guidance for the process of Italian language acquisition; • various (inter)cultural contents on life in Bologna experienced by different individuals. consists of: • a student’s book, including audio and video files; • a teacher’s guide. “Facciamo bella figura! 8 task fraseodidattici per studenti di italiano L2/LS” propone • otto sequenze didattiche concepite per preparare gli studenti a svolgere compiti comunicativi che si ispirano alla loro vita reale; • un filo conduttore tematico presente in tutte le unità che permette agli studenti di accompagnare Lena, la protagonista del libro, durante il suo soggiorno a Bologna; • una grande varietà di input autentici (audio, video, testi scritti) da usare come ispirazione per i task; • un focus sulle espressioni fraseologiche integrato in ogni unità e accompagnato da un glossario multilingue; • un capitolo introduttivo e un diario di apprendimento per stimolare l’autonomia degli studenti e accompagnarli nel loro processo di acquisizione della lingua italiana; • svariati contenuti (inter)culturali sulla vita a Bologna e la convivenza tra individui diversi. è composto da: • un libro dello studente, inclusi file audio e video; • una guida pedagogica per l’insegnante."

Geschichte boomt! Ob Audio- und Fernsehbeiträge, Comics, Science Slams oder Ausstellungen – historische Themen werden auf vielfältige Weise vermittelt. Die zum Teil forschungsnahen Präsentationsformen ergänzen und bereichern nicht nur den wissenschafts- und bildungspolitisch fest verankerten Umgang mit Geschichte an Schulen und Universitäten. In diesem Sammelband stehen die Praktiken der Geschichtsschreibung im Zentrum, etwa des Recherchierens, Auswählens oder Zusammenstellens. Das Ziel ist, den vermeintlichen Antagonismus ›klassischer‹ Geschichtsforschung und Public History aufzulösen und neu über wissenschaftliche Forschung, ihre Ergebnisse, ihre Kommunikation und Präsentation nachzudenken. Die Beiträger*innen liefern einen aufschlussreichen Blick hinter die Kulissen des Doing in Forschung und Vermittlung.

Participation for everyone? Co-creation as a Response to the Challenges of the Welfare State presents a variety of discussions, approaches, and practices related to co-creation in public welfare services. A central element of co-creation applied to this field is that the welfare state addresses actors outside the public sector to create not only better but also less resource-intensive welfare services. The approach of co-creation has, however, been criticized for having an unambiguously normative and positive perspective that can overshadow the fact that it also involves the distribution and exercise of power. This book explores these critical perspectives. The contributing authors discuss the opportunities and challenges that co-creation offers for solving future welfare challenges. Overall, the book contributes to the discussion of whether everyone should – or can – participate, and if so, in what ways. One of the book’s objectives is to give insight into what co-creation is and could be while also contributing critical perspectives. This book will be of interest to students and staff in the higher-education sector, researchers, professionals in welfare services, politicians, and other stakeholders.

Nederlands in het perspectief van uitspraakverwerving en contrastieve taalkunde (“Dutch from the point of view of pronunciation acquisition and contrastive linguistics”) gives an overview of linguistic research carried out on Dutch by specialists from different parts of Europe. As the title suggests, the book covers two topics: (1) recent developments in the research into the pronunciation of Dutch as a second or foreign language, including research into pronunciation norms and the teaching of pronunciation; (2) recent theoretical and methodological developments in contrastive linguistics providing new insights about various cross-linguistic issues, including translation.

The comparative analysis of the Ady poem "Sírni, sírni, sírni" and the Krleža poem "Tužaljka nad crkvom" convincingly proves the paraphrasic character of the latter and thus the creative reception of the poem of Ady. With the comparative investigation of the motif world and the linguistic archaisms of Ady and Krleža, the facts of the Ady reception, which are everywhere present in the Kerempuh ballads, are made visible.

This book investigates recent policies introduced into Turkey which are designed to reduce state activities and open up the country to international investment and trade. This is done in the context of the UNs Millennium Development Goals continuing to stretch into the distant future amid the ongoing instability of the global financial system and economic pressures on the West. The focus is on agriculture and the major effects of a deliberate restructuring of an agrarian economy as seen through the lens of the peasant, the village and poverty. This unique socioeconomic review of Turkey, which is generally thought to be a contemporary success story of the neo-liberal paradigm, argues for a new understanding of the destructive effects of global capitalism. Some issues addressed are the effects on Turkey's countryside as its agricultural sector has been catapulted onto the world market, how farming has changed and what this has meant for small-scale enterprises. Also discussed is how rural communities have fared, capital relations have been transformed in the process and the impact this has had on the nation's poor. Finally, the ways in which neo-liberalism has guided government's response to the new social needs is discussed along with how Turkey's experience parallels similar developments worldwide. This serves as a window to the reality of development at a time when the philosophy for growth underpinning development is facing an increasingly profound crisis of confidence worldwide.

To produce the song sequences that are central to Indian popular cinema, singers’ voices are first recorded in the studio and then played back on the set to be lip-synced and danced to by actors and actresses as the visuals are filmed. Since the 1950s, playback singers have become revered celebrities in their own right. Brought to Life by the Voice explores the distinctive aesthetics and affective power generated by this division of labor between onscreen body and offscreen voice in South Indian Tamil cinema. In Amanda Weidman’s historical and ethnographic account, playback is not just a cinematic technique, but a powerful and ubiquitous element of aural public culture that has shaped the complex dynamics of postcolonial gendered subjectivity, politicized ethnolinguistic identity, and neoliberal transformation in South India. “This book is a major contribution to South Asian Studies, sound and music studies, anthropology, and film and media studies, offering original research and new theoretical insights to each of these disciplines. There is no other scholarly work that approaches voice and technology in a way that is both as theoretically wide-ranging and as locally specific.” NEEPA MAJUMDAR, author of Wanted Cultured Ladies Only! Female Stardom and Cinema in India, 1930s–1950s “Brought to Life by the Voice provides a detailed and highly convincing exploration of the varying links between the singing voice and the body in the Tamil film industry since the mid-twentieth century. The historical and ethnographic analysis the book presents is meticulous and excellent.” PATRICK EISENLOHR, author of Sounding Islam: Voice, Media, and Sonic Atmospheres in an Indian Ocean World

This Open Access book is an anthropological urban study of the Emirate of Dubai, its institutions, and their evolution. It provides a contemporary history of disability in city planning from a non-Western perspective and explores the cultural context for its positioning. Three insights inform the author’s approach. First, disability research, much like other urban or social issues, must be situated in a particular place. Second, access and inclusion forms a key part of both local and global planning issues. Third, a 21st century planning education should take access and inclusion into consideration by applying a disability lens to the empirical, methodological, and theoretical advances of the field. By bridging theory and practice, this book provides new insights on inclusive city planning and comparative urban theory. This book should be read as part of a larger struggle to define and assert access; it’s a story of how equity and justice are central themes in building the cities of the future and of today.

In diesem Open-Access-Buch werden anhand von ethnographischen Fallbeobachtungen mit 16 Ritualleiter*innen folgende Fragen beantwortet: Wie positionieren sich Leitende von Todesritualen, die ausserhalb einer religiösen Gemeinschaft in der Deutschschweiz stattfinden? Welches Selbstbild vertreten die Ritualleiter*innen? Welche Aufgaben verbinden sie mit ihrer Tätigkeit? Wem sprechen sie Handlungs- und Wirkmächtigkeit (Agency) zu? Welche Themen und Konzepte sind für ihr Handeln und Erleben zentral? An welche kollektiven Sinngehalte (Deutungsmuster) schließen sie dabei an? Methodisch verortet sich die Arbeit in der Rekonstruktiven Sozialforschung. Dabei orientiert sie sich an Narrationsanalyse, Grounded Theory und Qualitativer Agencyforschung. Theoretisch knüpft die Studie an Konzepte von 'Ritualisierungen' und 'Agency' an, um auf empirischer Grundlage das Konzept der 'Ritualisierenden Agency' zu entwickeln: Durch die gewählten Formen der Ritualisierung im Umgang mit der Bestattung und der Begleitung der Angehörigen erlangen die Akteur*innen eigenständige Handlungsmächtigkeit und Verantwortlichkeit. Die Analysen zeigen, wie die Akteur*innen selbst ihre Handlungsspielräume und ihre eigene Teilhabe in den Interviews und in den Bestattungsritualen zum Ausdruck bringen.

This comprehensive book provides in-depth knowledge and understanding of design rules according to Eurocode 5. It is based on the first edition of the STEP (Structural Timber Education Programme) series, which was prepared in 1995 by about 50 authors from 14 European countries. The present work updates and extends the STEP compilation and is aimed at students, structural engineers and other timber structure professionals.