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Un autor crea sus personajes, pero sólo puede ejercer su poder sobre ellos dentro de los límites de su obra. Más allá, en la imaginación de otros escritores, algunos personajes continúan viviendo aventuras. ¿Cómo los reconocemos? ¿Qué equipaje semiótico llevan consigo? ¿Hay unos especialmente proclives a emigrar de una ficción a otra? ¿Dónde radica, en definitiva, su identidad?Los estudios reunidos en este volumen plantean estas y otras preguntas a golems y vampiros; a Lázaro de Tormes y a Celestina; al diablo cojuelo, a Gregor Samsa y al comisario Maigret. Unos proceden del patrimonio literario hispánico; otros se aclimatan en él. El conjunto se cierra con una coda sobre la construcción del personaje en el cine biográfico.

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The book by Dorota Siwicka is terrific for several reasons. Firstly, it combines cartography (geography) with historical and literary thought and a Humanist imagination, which is not common in our times. Secondly, the metaphor of ‘cartographical pact’ as an equivalent of Lejeune’s ‘autobiographical pact’ seems particularly accurate. Cartography always becomes an image of the soul, which Benjamin knew very well when he attempted to write Parisian Passages and when he quoted eighteenth-century French authors. In her exquisite book, Dorota Siwicka demonstrates the way in which maps became the landscape of the soul of Polish Romantics. Thirdly, a fantastic culinary metaphor reigns in Maps of the Romantics, which cements the ‘interdisciplinarity’ of the whole project: gâteau des rois. For sharing. A theme analysed by Dorota Siwicka with rigour and consistency. In contemporary French, it is referred to as galettes des rois. Inside the galette there is feve: a grain. The analyses of Dorota Siwicka have reached the feve, that is the hearth of Romantic cartography. (Prof. Krzysztof Rutkowski)

The Bulgarians of Bessarabia and Tauria constitute a large yet little-known historical diaspora in what is today Ukraine and the Republic of Moldova. Drawing on international scholarship and their own field studies, the authors of this book reconstruct the migratory movements from the eighteenth century onward: from colonization within the Tsarist Empire and the state formations of the twentieth century (Greater Romania, the Soviet Union) to contemporary nationality and language policies. Alongside these historical developments, particular attention is given to language change and the region’s diverse literary production. After all, Alexander Pushkin had already turned a Bulgarian village in Bessarabia into a literary setting, and despite difficult circumstances, the Bulgarians of this region have made a significant contribution to Bulgarian literary history. This volume serves as a reference work for anyone engaged with East European history, Slavic studies, Bulgarian studies, as well as diaspora and memory studies—whether in academia, research, or teaching.

This reprint focuses on electroencephalography (EEG) signal processing in biomedical engineering applications. EEG signals are used widely in clinical and research settings to provide cognitive and emotional state information. In addition to capturing complex neural patterns at high speeds, EEG signals are a reliable and non-invasive way of measuring the electrical activity in the brain. By examining various novel analysis and signal processing methods, this collection of papers provides a better understanding of cognitive states and brain activity.

This book argues that Mary Wollstonecraft and John Stuart Mill are the two primary architects of the modern theory of women’s rights as human rights. It only through addressing women’s rights, Botting argues, that the idea of human rights was given universal scope and application. Botting describes the development of the idea of women’s human rights beginning with the work of Wollstonecraft and Mill, and gives an account of their reception in both western and nonwestern contexts. Her goal is to strip liberal feminism of its Eurocentric bias and offer the theory that remains as a resource for thinking about women’s human rights globally.

The decades-long fear of South Korean national destruction has routinized national security and the sense of threat. In present day South Korea, national security includes not only war and the military, but national unity, public health, and the family. As a result, queer Koreans have become a target as their bodies are thought to harbor deadly viruses and are thus seen as carriers of diseases. The prevailing narrative already sees being queer as a threat to traditional family and marriage. By claiming that queer Koreans disrupt military readiness and unit cohesion, that threat is extended to the entire population. Queer Koreans are enveloped by the banality of security, treated as threats, while also being overlooked as part of the nation. What does it mean to be perceived as a national threat simply based on who you would like to sleep with? In their desire to be seen as citizens who support the safety and security of the nation, queer Koreans placate a patriarchal and national authority that is responsible for their continued marginalization. At the same time, they are also creating spaces to protect themselves from the security measures and technologies directed against them. Taking readers from police stations and the galleries of the Constitutional Court to queer activist offices and pride festivals, Banal Security explores how queer Koreans participate in their own securitization, demonstrates how security weaves through daily life in ways that oppress queer Koreans, and highlights the work of queer activists to address that oppression. In doing so, queer Koreans challenge not only the contours of national security in South Korea, but global entanglements of security.

Ebola epidemics have had immediate and lasting impact in Africa and beyond, with its high case fatality and societal disruption. Its rapid spread, coupled with the limited knowledge, serves as a recipe for disaster and panic in the community. Health workers are particularly at risk, paying heavily with their lives. Sharing knowledge from various experts in basic sciences that support vaccine and drug development, as well as improving community surveillance and case management, enriches our understanding of this highly fatal and contagious disease. In a world that is fast becoming a global village, communicable diseases from low-resource setting are gradually becoming a global health threat. This book seeks to discuss emerging advances in the Ebola control.

Each year, disasters such as storms, floods, fires, volcanoes, earthquakes, and epidemics cause thousands of casualties and tremendous damage to property around the world, displacing tens of thousands of people from their homes and destroying their livelihoods. The majority of these casualties and property loss could be prevented if better information were available regarding the onset and course of such disasters. Several remote sensing technologies, such as meteorological and Earth observation satellites, communication satellites, and satellite-based positioning, supported by geoinformation technologies, offer the potential to contribute to improved prediction and monitoring of potential hazards, risk mitigation, and disaster management which, in turn, would lead to sharp reductions in losses to life and property. This book explores most of the scientific issues related to spatially supported disaster management and its integration with geographical information system technologies in different disaster examples and scales. Dealing with disasters over space and time represents a long-lasting theme, now approached by means of innovative techniques and modelling approaches. Several priorities for actions are outlined toward preventing new and reduce existing disaster risks, including understanding disaster risk, strengthening disaster risk governance for management of disaster risk, investing in disaster reduction for resilience, and enhancing disaster preparedness for effective response. This book presents ideas to address the challenges facing different components of spatial patterns related to ecological processes, and the published articles extended versions of selected presentations from the Gi4DM Conference in 2019 in Prague.

O livro Correspondência (1935-1964): António Jorge Dias e Ernesto Veiga de Oliveira, organizado e apresentado por João Leal e Catarina Belo, reúne a correspondência trocada pelos dois antropólogos – e grandes amigos – ao longo de quase 30 anos. Esta inicia-se nos anos de juventude de Jorge Dias e Ernesto Veiga de Oliveira. A antropologia ainda estava distante e o estado de espírito dos dois era sombrio e desesperançado. O segundo período da correspondência estende-se de 1939 a 1944 e cobre os anos em que Jorge Dias foi leitor de português na Alemanha. Esses anos são marcados por encontros que transformarão profundamente a vida de Jorge Dias: com Margot Schmidt Dias, com quem casará em 1942, e com a etnologia, área onde fará o seu doutoramento em 1944, na Universidade de Munique. A partir do regresso de Jorge Dias a Portugal, em 1944, a correspondência com Ernesto Veiga de Oliveira torna-se mais espaçada e, embora não faltem referências constantes à enorme amizade que os liga, centra-se prioritariamente em temas relacionados com a sua comum paixão: a investigação etnográfica. Visto no seu conjunto, Correspondência (1935-1964): António Jorge Dias e Ernesto Veiga de Oliveira é um importante contributo para melhor conhecermos a vida e a obra de dois dos mais importantes antropólogos portugueses do século XX.

The attitude of Jews living in the medieval Christian world to Jews who converted to Christianity or to Christians seeking to join the Jewish faith reflects the central traits that make up Jewish self-identification. The Jews saw themselves as a unique group chosen by God, who expected them to play a specific and unique role in the world. This study researches fully for the first time the various aspects of the way European Jews regarded members of their own fold in the context of lapses into another religion. It attempts to understand whether they regarded the issue of conversion with self-confidence or with suspicion, and whether their attitude was based on a clear theological position, or on issues of socialisation. The book will primarily interest students and lecturers of Jewish/Christian relations, the Middle Ages, Jews in the Medieval period, and inter-religious research.

The position of man in the biosphere and the interaction of its activities with the different sectors of the earth's ecosphere are bringing the Earth system into a drastically different state from that in which the development of advanced civilizations was possible.

A persistent monolingual paradigm still pervades teaching and assessment practices in different educational contexts. How is this paradigm being responded to across regions and (sub)disciplines of language study? In answering this question, the volume draws on insights from the project MULTILA – Multilingual and multimodal assessment, jointly coordinated by the University of Education, Heidelberg, Germany, and the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. This volume is an opportunity to understand practices in both environments and to identify commonalities and differences. While European contributors to the dialogue come from a language education and assessment background, their South African interlocutors approach the subject from a largely applied linguistics perspective. The outcome is an account in ten chapters of multilingual assessment from perspectives that are both disciplinary and regional.

This book delves into the complex relationship between religious imaginaries and the perception of space among followers of Candomblé and Pentecostal churches in Belo Horizonte, Brazil's third-largest urban agglomeration. It adopts a dual perspective, examining the broader political, economic, and social dimensions of these religious communities' urbanisation and spatial distribution and their members' individual beliefs and behaviours. Through this approach, the book aims to provide a nuanced and insider's view of these religious positions, challenging our preconceived notions of urban spaces and contributing to the larger discussion of decolonial urban theory and spatialised post-secular thought. This transdisciplinary book will appeal to a broad range of researchers, particularly those interested in urban and religious studies. Its strong spatial perspective makes it attractive to architects and urban designers. It will be of interest to those in human geography, urban planning, design, architecture, political science, religious studies, and culture studies. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 license.

Businesses want to be sustainable but how can they promote sufficiency? Sufficiency-oriented business models focus on creating sustainable value, promoting reduced resource consumption and adjusting production volumes to planetary boundaries. The contributors to this volume present real-life examples of sufficiency-oriented companies across diverse industries. These experts share their insights on sufficiency strategies in business, barriers and opportunities discovered, and the impact on customer behavioural change. They address the far-reaching changes in business, society, and policy required for this paradigm shift and suggest future research directions.