Humanities & Social Sciences

This open access book provides an analysis of contemporary societies and schools shaped by cultural diversity, globalization and migration. This diversity is necessarily reflected in education systems and requires the promotion of intercultural approaches able to improve learning processes and the quality of education. From an international and comparative perspective, this book first presents theoretical and conceptual foundations for seriously considering cultural diversity. The book also compares intercultural approaches and debates generated in countries as diverse as the United States, Canada, Brazil, Switzerland and France. For each national context, the book addresses both the historical roots of intercultural approaches and the concrete initiatives driven by educational policies for their implementation in schools and classrooms. Finally, the book presents discussions surrounding the treatment of linguistic or religious diversity in schools, the emergence of global citizenship education and the key role of teachers in intercultural approaches. This is an open access book.

This volume is the first of its kind to discuss social welfare issues using case studies from a broad range of Southern European countries, both large and small, a decade after the financial crisis. It identifies similarities and differences in the ways in which Southern European countries engage with specific welfare issues and examines whether Southern European welfare is distinct from that of the rest of the continent. The book also engages with the impact of COVID-19 on the social welfare issues under investigation. The volume is divided into four sections, each examining in detail issues including employment, education, health, sexuality, globalization, social movements and migration. With its contributions from experts in the field, the volume is recommended for academics, researchers and students of sociology, social policy, economics, education, politics and social movements.

We focus on two great narratives: unlimited growth and green growth. The problem of the compatibility between the increase of human economic activities and the ecosystem seems to be solved by each of the two narratives. After recalling the thermodynamic unfoundedness of the first paradigm, we ask ourselves why it remains central in orienting political choices. Our answer explores the nature of "public religion" that economics has been taking on: by shaping our mental models and our actions, today's dominant economic theory is capable of converting us, contributing to the affirmation of even indefensible beliefs. With regard to the green growth paradigm, it is based on the idea of an absolute decoupling between the trend of growth and the negative impact on the environment, as well as on the related idea that forms of full circularity of economic processes are practicable. Against this conception theoretical arguments and empirical evidence have been advanced, none of which is in itself negatively conclusive, but whose complex makes it highly implausible.

The reality of a radically changing world is beyond dispute. The notion of the Fourth Industrial Revolution is a heuristic key for the world of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, quantum computing, big data, the internet of things, and biotechnology. The discussion of emerging technologies and the Fourth Industrial Revolution highlights urgent questions about issues like intention, function, risk, and responsibility. This publication stimulates further reflection, ongoing conversation, and eventually the production of more textured thinking. The conversation with technology and with thinkers on technology, holds the promise of a certain fecundity, the possibility to see deeper into human evolution, but also, may be, into the future of humankind.

This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book deals with an important conceptual question: how useful is the “implementation gap” as an approach to understanding Indigenous rights? It describes the active participation of Indigenous organisations in multilateral negotiations over the creation of international documents – particularly the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples – but their somewhat limited impact on the scope of participation, consultation, and consent in the texts finally adopted by States. The book shows that Environmental Impact Assessments – which should in theory help to protect Indigenous Peoples’ interests – in fact account for many deficiencies in consultations over the extraction of natural resources in Bolivia, given that they fail to identify all impacts and reflect the government’s pro-extraction bias.

Investigating the concepts of entity and identity in the cataloguing field constitutes the starting point of this work. Little explored in their most profound meaning and cataloguing application, the two concepts have never been analyzed in relation to the identification and modeling of objects in the GLAM domain. This activity is not simple, especially where the diversity of profiles makes the entity a multifaceted object, with boundaries that are only sometimes clear and defined, often fluid, and, therefore, difficult to fix. The need to identify the entities that make up the rich bibliographic universe leads us to hypothesize another way of looking at cataloguing: entity modeling presents itself as the third generational step in the management of bibliographic data, imposing or requiring a change of perspective in the processing of information but also in the language of formalization of the same.

The fourth volume contains 215 dialect maps which embrace dialectal terminologies from the seasons to the domestic animals.

The Huayuanzhuang East oracle bone inscriptions form a corpus of more than 2500 individual divination accounts, which were engraved on turtle shells and bovine scapulae in the late Shang dynasty (c. 1200 B.C.). The book offers the first complete English annotation of these fascinating epigraphic texts and introduces the reader to key aspects of daily life in early Chinese civilization.

Computational Science and Engineering; Biomedicine general; Computer Imaging, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Graphics

Im Zentrum dieser Studie steht mit Henri Hinrichsen (1868-1942) ein jüdischer Musikverleger, der zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts Inhaber eines der bedeutendsten deutschen Musikverlage war, des Verlags C. F. Peters, der im Dezember 2000 sein 200jähriges Jubiläum feiern konnte. Am Beispiel eines herausragenden Verlegers und Repräsentanten des gehobenen Leipziger Bürgertums rückt Erika Bucholtz die aktive Rolle des jüdischen Bürgertums bei der Mitgestaltung der deutschen und internationalen Musikkultur ins Blickfeld. Darüber hinaus illustriert sie die weitreichende Teilhabe des jüdischen Bürgertums an der Ausbildung einer modernen städtisch-bürgerlichen Kultur. Die Autorin analysiert anhand umfassenden Quellenmaterials aus nationalen und internationalen Archiven und Bibliotheken die Verlagspolitik des Unternehmers, das Verlagsprogramm der Edition Peters sowie die Beziehungen zu einzelnen Komponisten, wie beispielsweise Edvard Grieg und Max Reger. Henri Hinrichsen wird in dieser Untersuchung nicht nur als Verleger, sondern auch als Bürger vorgestellt, der vielfältige Ehrenämter wahrnahm und zahlreiche nichtjüdische wie jüdische Vereine förderte. Sein ausgeprägtes mäzenatisches Engagement galt vor allem dem Bereich der Musikwissenschaft, aber auch der Mädchen- und Frauenbildung: Zu den bedeutenden Stiftungen des Verlags zählen die in Leipzig 1894 gegründete Musikbibliothek Peters und die 1911 eröffnete Hochschule für Frauen. Die Schilderung des lebensweltlichen Bereichs macht deutlich, daß für Henri Hinrichsen die konfessionelle und sozio-kulturelle Zugehörigkeit zum Judentum selbstverständlich war. Er war Jude, Bürger und Deutscher.

This book investigates the relationship between the process of Europeanization – the expected rise of a common culture – and the role played by the media in the different regions. Drawing on a comparative model, the analysis is structured around frameworks related to the action of the media in shaping national identities; to the world-system theory, based on the hierarchization of geographical spaces; and to the regional patterns identified in scientific literature. The analysis draws on data collected from numerous markets and across a variety of media formats, to detect the geographical pattern that results from the diffusion of different technologies and cultural contents: the national, the regional, the European, and the global. This nuanced and insightful volume will interest students and scholars in the field of communication studies, European studies, and comparative media studies. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 license.

Das Jahrbuch der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf versteht sich als Forum für den wissenschaftlichen Dialog der Universität zu Zeitfragen, zu aktuellen Problemlagen und Herausforderungen von Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft, als Brücke der Vermittlung zwischen Forschung und Öffentlichkeit sowie als Gedächtnisort der Innovationen und des Fortschritts in Forschung und Lehre der Universität und als Speicher der wissenschafts- und hochschulpolitischen Entscheidungen für strukturelle Weichenstellungen mit Langzeitwirkung. Zielgruppe ist die an den Arbeitsergebnissen in Forschung und Lehre sowie an wissenschaftlichen Entscheidungen der Heinrich-Heine-Universität interessierte Öffentlichkeit. Diese soll über die Dynamik und das sich wandelnde Profil der Fakultäten kontinuierlich informiert und in die Lage versetzt werden, sich intensiver mit neuen Forschungsfragen und -ergebnissen auseinander zu setzen. Es geht vor allem darum, die Be-deutung der Forschung für die verschiedenen Lebensbereiche und damit auch für unsere gesellschaftliche Entwicklung bewusst zu machen. Die Beiträge vermitteln gleichsam als Momentaufnahme einen Ausschnitt aus dem permanenten Prozess des sich verändernden Profils der Fakultäten. Erst eine Folge von Jahrbüchern eröffnet die Chance, die Tiefe des Gesamtprofils auszuloten und dessen Nachhaltigkeit zu erkennen.

In this short introduction, I will cover two topics. The first is a presentation of the research project on Lothar’s rule in Italy, which is behind the conference. The second is a brief discussion of the way in which the problem of the early medieval frontier has been dealt with in Italian historiography, accompanied by an equally brief focus on the concept of frontier, which has been further developed by historians over the last thirty years, starting with the work of Charles Whittaker.

Delivering a Climate Neutral Europe summarises the achievements of 25 years of EU Climate Policy, with the emphasis on what has been achieved under the Green Deal. It also highlights climate issues on the table of policy makers in the next European policy cycle 2024–2029. Curated by Jos Delbeke, one of the foremost experts in this field, the chapters are all written by responsible officials of the EU Commission services, who were deeply involved in the negotiations related to the legislation they prepared. They explain how ambitious targets were prepared for 2030 and 2050 in view of implementing the commitments taken in 2015 under the Paris Agreement and present the overall architecture of the policy to counter the idea that an avalanche of legislative action is being developed without much structure. In particular, this book examines the carbon pricing tool that Europe implemented under the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS), the differentiated targets Member States have to deliver and climate-relevant EU legislation in the fields of energy, transport, industry, finance and agriculture and forestry. The authors also discuss the upcoming headwinds in the form of a growing scepticism in public opinion, and the impact of the wars in the close neighbourhood of the European continent. Written as a follow-up to previous publications EU Climate Policy Explained and Towards a Climate-Neutral Europe, this new volume will be a vital resource for students, scholars and policy makers alike who are researching and working in the areas of climate change, environmental governance and EU policy more broadly.