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Este libro busca dar cuenta de la situación de la diversidad sociocultural en la Argentina del siglo XXI, con algunas referencias históricas ineludibles. El análisis que proponemos se basa en los estudios de las ciencias sociales y humanas sobre cuestiones de género, étnicas, de clase social, territoriales y religiosas. Buscaremos mostrar, en primer lugar, que la sociedad argentina es profundamente heterogénea en sus creencias, prácticas, rituales e identificaciones. Al mismo tiempo, lejos de una heterogeneidad que fluye libremente, mostraremos que a través del tiempo se ha vuelto hegemónico un imaginario que la niega y que vemos materializado en todo tipo de prácticas. En el plano de las relaciones de género, étnicas, de clase, religiosas y territoriales, se ha ido conformando una hegemonía que instituye no solo la idea de una sociedad homogénea, sino también una prescripción de homogeneidad.

In Life Is Elsewhere , Anne Lounsbery shows how nineteenth-century Russian literature created an imaginary place called "the provinces"—a place at once homogeneous, static, anonymous, and symbolically opposed to Petersburg and Moscow. Lounsbery looks at a wide range of texts, both canonical and lesser-known, in order to explain why the trope has exercised such enduring power, and what role it plays in the larger symbolic geography that structures Russian literature's representation of the nation's space. Using a comparative approach, she brings to light fundamental questions that have long gone unasked: how to understand, for instance, the weakness of literary regionalism in a country as large as Russia? Why the insistence, from Herzen through Chekhov and beyond, that all Russian towns look the same? In a literary tradition that constantly compared itself to a western European standard, Lounsbery argues, the problem of provinciality always implied difficult questions about the symbolic geography of the nation as a whole. This constant awareness of a far-off European model helps explain why the provinces, in all their supposed drabness and predictability, are a topic of such fascination for Russian writers—why these anonymous places are in effect so important and meaningful, notwithstanding the culture's nearly unremitting emphasis on their nullity and meaninglessness. Open Access edition funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities

The Special Issue Modeling and Simulation in Engineering, belonging to the section Engineering Mathematics of the Journal Mathematics, publishes original research papers dealing with advanced simulation and modeling techniques. The present book, “Modeling and Simulation in Engineering I, 2022”, contains 14 papers accepted after peer review by recognized specialists in the field. The papers address different topics occurring in engineering, such as ferrofluid transport in magnetic fields, non-fractal signal analysis, fractional derivatives, applications of swarm algorithms and evolutionary algorithms (genetic algorithms), inverse methods for inverse problems, numerical analysis of heat and mass transfer, numerical solutions for fractional differential equations, Kriging modelling, theory of the modelling methodology, and artificial neural networks for fault diagnosis in electric circuits. It is hoped that the papers selected for this issue will attract a significant audience in the scientific community and will further stimulate research involving modelling and simulation in mathematical physics and in engineering.

This book brings together early career researchers, non-governmental organisations and industry practitioners, indigenous and local communities, and government agency workers to interrogate the concept of water security. By collating multicultural perspectives, diverse contributions, and illustrative media, we challenge the current anthropocentric, technocratic narrative of water security, according to which: water security is solely for humans; development initiatives and interventions are driven by neocolonial and neoliberal ideologies; the socio-cultural approach to water security is secondary to a technical, engineering-based approach; and interdisciplinarity is not practical in its application. Presented here is an amalgamation of our personal and professional efforts to address these challenges. The nuance of this book is in our methodology: transnational cooperation, collaboration across disciplines, and diagnostic problem-solving. While we do not promise a single solution (there is no such thing as ‘one size fits all’), we believe this timely contribution broadens the discussion around water security through its firm rejection of reductionist approaches to this most complex of ‘wicked problems’. Most notably, we push for the radical acceptance of the indivisibility of environmental conservation, social stability, and economic vitality. We resist the temptation of ‘green growth’, recognising it as little more than neoliberalism in disguise. The brilliance, innovation, and recall to tradition that emerge through this book demonstrate the importance of solutions that are informed by a plurality of knowledge types (from scientific and technical to indigenous and local) and generated through collaboration and partnerships to support the attainment of socio-ecological justice. Essential reading for water practitioners, policy makers, and multilateral organisations in the development sector, it is also a must-read for doctoral and master's students working at intersections of water, and undergraduates who want to challenge their subject-specific perspectives on water and push disciplinary boundaries.

The here collected contributions relating to the 46th International Conference of the Representation Disciplines Teachers, organized jointly by Sapienza University of Rome, Roma Tre University, and San Raffaele Roma University, aim to offer the scientific community a reflection on the theoretical and methodological aspects related to the concept of èkphrasis, a term that, in the field of representation, concerns descriptive, analogical, and digital activities that generate new knowledge in several areas of application. The Conference aims to place at the center of the discussion an interpretation of the concept of research that, without neglecting an idea of study, protection, and enhancement of environmental and cultural heritage, focuses on the needs of contemporary society and its possible developments, making use of innovative theoretical, methodological, and operational activities, including those characterized by an interdisciplinary approach. According to this interpretation, research can also be seen as a foreshadowing of the definition and testing of experimental proposals aimed at exploring new areas of investigation: this opens up imaginative and utopian perspectives in the relationship between the sciences, the arts, and the disciplines that contribute to common goals, through the experimentation of methods, techniques, and languages for conceiving, prefiguring, designing, and representing.

This open access book develops a deeper understanding of an increasingly applied term across policy cycles and academic discourses, ‘energy citizenship’. It provides the reader with five distinct chapters, with each in turn examining a specific aspect of the concept and how it has manifested in public discourses.

It is a well-known fact that Kant used the lament of the Trojan queen, Hecuba, from Ovid’s Metamorphoses to describe the fate of metaphysics. But these words could equally be used to describe the peculiar fate of the Alcibiades Major. There was a time when this small dialogue was held in high regard and enjoyed much authority.2 The Alcibiades Major was unreservedly attributed to Plato. It was much read, quoted and alluded to. And it is no exaggeration to say that it was one of the key works of the corpus platonicum. The contrast with the present could hardly be more striking.

The Special Issue looks at East Asian Buddhism from a regional perspective, centering Hangzhou as capital of the Jiangnan region. It is in an effort to formulate a history of East Asian Buddhism as a transregional phenomenon from a thoroughly East Asian perspective. Buddhist Studies incorporates East Asia in meaningful ways but has tended toward Indo-centrism for much of its history. The Hangzhou and Jiangnan region became prominent and noteworthy for its promotion of Buddhism, especially during the Wuyue kingdom (907–978) in the Five Dynasties period (907–959). As the capital of China during the Southern Song dynasty (1127–1279), Hangzhou was the focal point for developments that transformed the East Asian Buddhist landscape. From the Hangzhou/Jiangnan region, new forms of Buddhism, as well as re-energized versions of old forms, spread throughout East Asia, especially to Japan and Korea, creating unique forms of East Asian Buddhism which remain viable in the present day. Hangzhou and the Jiangnan region became a new homeland for East Asian Buddhism, serving as the impetus for Buddhist cultural creativity and imagination. One of the features of this Special Issue is its regional and inter-regional approach to Chinese and East Asian Buddhism, focusing on prominent local developments and figures as being instrumental for the development of Buddhist cultural artifacts, both material and religious. While the focus is on Buddhism, the Special Issue also features others developments, such as literature, architecture, economics, and international trade.

Multi-ethnic societies have the potential to enrich societies culturally (Mok et al. 2007), but they can also foster intolerance and anti-immigrant movements, where minorities may be more likely to be discriminated (Baysu et al. 2014; Rutland and Killen 2015) and bullied if this behaviour is repeated over time. A socio-ecological perspective becomes fundamental because the context, together with specific individual characteristics, contributes to maintaining negative attitudes towards those who belong to a different ethnic group. In this regard, the general objective of this study is to further investigate the phenomenon of ethnic bullying in adolescence and to shed light on the role played by the context and specific individual factors that are associated with it.

The impact of training or experience is not the same at all points in development. Children who receive music lessons, or learn a second language before age 7-8 are more proficient as adults. Early exposure to drugs or trauma makes people more likely to become addicted or depressed later life. Rat pups exposed to specific frequencies from 9-13 days post-partum show expanded cortical representations of these frequencies. Young birds must hear and copy their native song within 1-2 months of birth or they may never learn it at all. These are examples of sensitive periods: developmental windows where maturation and specific experience interact to produce differential long-term effects on the brain and behavior. While still controversial, evidence for the existence of sensitive periods has grown, as has our understanding of the underlying mechanisms of brain plasticity. Behavioral evidence from studies of language, psychopathology or vision in humans has been complemented by evidence elucidating molecular, gene and hormonal mechanisms in animals. It has been proposed that sensitive periods can be both opened and closed by specific experience, and that there are multiple, overlapping sensitive periods that occur through-out development as functions come on line. It is also likely that experience-dependent behavioral or brain plasticity accrued during one sensitive period can serve as a scaffold on which later experience and plasticity can build. Based on current knowledge, there are a number of broad questions and challenges to be addressed in this domain, these include: generating new information about the neurobiological mediators of structural and functional changes; proposing models of brain development that will better predict when sensitive periods should occur and what functions are implicated; investigation of the interaction between experience during a sensitive period and pre-existing individual differences; and the relationship between experience during a sensitive period and on-going experience. The goal of this Research Topic is to bring together scientists in different fields whose work addresses these issues, including animal and human developmental neuroscience, language and cognitive development, education, developmental psychopathology and sensory neuroscience.

De filosofen willen de wereld niet alleen verschillend interpreteren, maar ook veranderen! Wat blijft er van dat project in het hedendaagse 'denken in Parijs': nu Sartre en Althusser verdwenen, de politiek en de cultuur sterk ge

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Elizabeth Anscombe (1919-2001) est l’une des grandes philosophes britanniques du XXe siècle. Influencée par Aristote et la scolastique médiévale, mais surtout par son maître Ludwig Wittgenstein, elle a renouvelé les débats en philosophie de l’action et en philosophie morale. L’action est un sujet de perplexité pour le philosophe car, irréductible à un mouvement sans agent, elle engage une volonté, des intentions et des valeurs morales. Elle se situe donc entre philosophie de l’esprit et philosophie morale : préciser le rôle de la volonté et des intentions dans l’action nous éclaire sur les degrés de responsabilité – en particulier morale – de l’agent. Dès lors, comprendre comment s’intriquent la spontanéité de l’action et sa dimension téléologique devient un enjeu majeur de la philosophie. L’esprit en pratique explique pourquoi la philosophie de l’esprit selon Anscombe doit opérer un détour par la philosophie de l’action et décrire le « mental » dans ce qu’il a de visible. Mais aussi pourquoi toute considération sur l’éthique impose de s’appuyer sur une vision claire des motifs de l’action et du type d’agent qui en est le moteur. En s’inscrivant pleinement dans les débats actuels sur la subjectivité, l’intentionalité, la responsabilité, la philosophie d’Anscombe renouvelle en profondeur la notion d’intention.

Né en Angleterre dans les années soixante, le courant de recherche des Cultural Studies invite à questionner la notion de culture dans toutes ses dimensions. Attentives aux cultures populaires, aux « subculturesé » et à la réception des médias de masse, résolument transdisciplinaires, les Cultural Studies ont ouvert de multiples champs d'étude : genre, génération, fans, queer, postcolonialisme… Quel que soit leur objet, elles s'attachent à mettre en évidence les enjeux de pouvoir dont la cul...