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During the 19th century, the intellectual and material construction of the archaeology of prehistoric times was a complex process involving many factors, and even today only a few of its aspects are visible. However, over the last twenty years or so, a growing number of works and individual and/or collective research projects have highlighted a renewed interest on the part of the European scientific community in the history and epistemology of this discipline. These works have addressed or examined the birth and development of prehistoric archaeology, but without having been able to contextualise its approaches, methods and reflexive system. It is now possible to go beyond the implicit gaps of a simple historical narrative by looking at the complexity and richness of the scholarly exchanges that preceded the actual birth of the discipline and then guided its development. Taking this into account, this book aims to revisit this disciplinary aspect by providing an intellectual, political and social context for the factors, protagonists and practices that contributed to the birth and emergence of a European pre-protohistoric archaeology firmly rooted in its century. Dedicated to an eminent figure, Gabriel de Mortillet, whose 200th birthday was celebrated in 2021, this book sets out to study the players (people, institutions, collections, sites), ideas and interactions involved in the prehistory of the second nineteenth century, in order to better assess its scientific output and thus appreciate the true value of its intellectual and heritage legacy.

Esta obra apresenta uma pesquisa qualitativa em fontes bibliográficas e fílmica para traçar as singularidades políticas e subjetivas dos psicofármacos. O autor apresenta um jogo de contrastes, uma comparação entre as relações de poder-saber-sujeição que atravessam a psiquiatria em dois intervalos históricos distintos: a constituição e a consolidação da psiquiatria na França do século XIX e a medicalização das práticas e saberes psiquiátricos e, em especial, o uso asilar de substâncias químicas com algum efeito psicoativo (denominadas de de “protopsicofármacos”) na atualidade, sobretudo o Prozac, o antidepressivo mais receitado no planeta.

Si l’histoire de l’art s’est depuis longtemps intéressée à ceux qui la pensent et l’écrivent, donnant matière à maints études et ouvrages de fonds (dictionnaires, essais, anthologie...), ce n’est que relativement récemment, depuis la toute fin des années 1980, qu’elle prend en compte les femmes à l’œuvre dans la pratique et l’écriture de l’histoire des arts visuels. Issu d’un colloque consacré aux historiennes de l’art à l’époque de Juliette Récamier, cet ouvrage explore et donne à voir les carrières, les postures et les points de vue de femmes sur l’art durant une petite centaine d’années – de 1760 à 1840, période d’intenses bouleversements dans toute l’Europe –, faisant se confronter des regards français, anglais et allemands de praticiennes comme Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, de salonnière et romancière comme Marie d’Agoult ou Germaine de Staël, ou encore de restauratrice de tableaux, de journalistes ou de critiques d’art. Ces essais mettent en évidence la variété des écrits et des stratégies mises en place par les femmes pour s’octroyer une place – elle-même variable selon les cas – dans un univers essentiellement masculin. Ce volume d’essais entend ainsi contribuer à l’histoire de l’art sous un angle qu’il n’est désormais plus permis d’ignorer. Le second volume de cet ouvrage – également intégralement accessible en ligne – permet d’approfondir cette plongée dans une histoire méconnue en donnant à lire ou relire une partie des textes de ces femmes, documents souvent oubliés ou omis, parfois même encore à l’état de manuscrits inédits.

Egyptian firms face significant access to finance constraints. Using panel data, this paper examines the reasons why many Egyptian firms do not use formal banking services. Using data on the location of firms and bank branches, it also investigates whether access to finance constraints are linked to the crowding-out effect of bank investments in government debt.

Im Jahr 1952 fragte der Publizist Erich Stückrath in der FAZ mit Blick auf die Instrumentalisierung von deutscher Geschichte durch die Nationalsozialisten: 'Werden wir Überlieferung und Erinnerung behalten? Werden wir wieder eine Geschichte haben?' Stückrath fügte hinzu: 'Heuss hat ein leises Ja gesagt.' Das sechste Ernst-Reuter-Heft beschäftigt sich mit den Beobachtungen des Journalisten und Politikers Theodor Heuss zum Umgang der Deutschen mit 'ihrer' Vergangenheit. Tatsächlich war es der erste Bundespräsident, der der Erinnerungskultur in der frühen Bundesrepublik wesentliche Impulse verlieh. Seit dem Kaiserreich kritisierte Heuss immer wieder, wie sehr Geschichte von unterschiedlichen Kreisen ausgenutzt wurde, um politische Ziele zu legitimeren. Mit großer Beunruhigung musste er feststellen, dass das deutsche Volk gegen seine Vergangenheit stand. Umso mehr war es nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg dem Bundespräsidenten ein Anliegen, die Deutschen mit ihrer Geschichte in Einklang zu bringen.Bundespräsidenten ein Anliegen, die Deutschen mit ihrer Geschichte in Einklang zu bringen.

Berufsausstiege von Lehrpersonen sind in den Blickpunkt des öffentlichen Interesses gerückt. Das Phänomen zeigt: Aufgrund teils widersprüchlicher Handlungsanforderungen entscheiden sich Lehrpersonen immer häufiger gegen die Aufnahme oder Fortführung ihrer Lehrtätigkeit. Hinter dieser Entscheidung können unterschiedliche (Krisen-)Erfahrungen und Motive stehen. Die Beiträge im Sonderheft analysieren aus professions- und schultheoretischer sowie berufskultureller Perspektive, wie Lehrpersonen mit Krisen in ihrem Beruf umgehen und welche berufsbiographischen (Dis-)Kontinuitäten und Facetten von Ausstiegen sich im Lehrer:innenberuf zeigen.

This collection of short essays from leading media scholars reflects on critical issues of media history, power, ownership, influence and impact. The book uses the acclaimed media title Power Without Responsibility (PWR) as a calling card, a cue to reflect on the limitations of the media in different countries and to advocate solutions aimed at stimulating more democratic forms of communications. Organised in five sections, contributions in this book identify the relevance of PWR and then pick out and develop its core themes. The first section provides both a reminder of PWR’s significance to media history and analysis and then explores its conclusions in relation to media systems in places including Europe, South and East Asia, Africa and Latin America. The second section takes up the argument that ‘market censorship’ impoverishes the media while the third explores the book’s lessons for contemporary media reform. The fourth section explores the contribution of public service broadcasting and its relevance for future communications systems. The fifth section considers PWR’s analysis of radical journalism in relation to both historical and contemporary initiatives while the concluding section features two original essays by the authors of PWR, James Curran and Jean Seaton, reflecting on their book 43 years and nine editions after it was first published.

This volume explores, from a variety of perspectives, the political theory of the man who is arguably the greatest English political thinker. It is the first substantial collection of new, critical essays on Thomas Hobbes by leading scholars in over a decade.Hobbes’s writings stirred debate in his own lifetime, for two centuries thereafter, and continue to do so in ours. They emerged in a period of intense political turmoil—a time of civil war and regicide, of puritanical rule and royal restoration. “They were motivated,” Dietz argues, “by concrete political problems and a practical concern, namely, to secure political order, absolute sovereignty, and civil peace.” The contributors emphasize and answer a series of expressly political questions that, to date, have not been fully addressed in the Hobbes literature. They contend that Hobbes’s writings are not mere static artifacts of a particular historical milieu, but rather rich sources of a variety of interpretations and criticisms that spur discussion and debate in their turn.

L’ironie et l’humour, ces frères ennemis si familiers mais si insaisissables, sont depuis trop longtemps associés à des clichés consacrés par la littérature et par la critique littéraire. Afin de dépasser la taxinomie et le confort intellectuel des étiquettes, il est nécessaire de délier les deux notions de leur immédiateté référentielle ainsi que de leurs implications morales. Partant de l’intuition qu’il existe entre elles une dynamique esthétique, le présent ouvrage analyse leur fonctionnement stylistique. Il étudie la question des relations esthétiques entre l’ironie et l’humour en les envisageant à partir du regard du créateur sur l’œuvre d’art et sur le langage comme manifestation de sa subjectivité - et en considérant le rôle actif du lecteur.

In the field of magnetic sensing, a wide variety of different magnetometer and gradiometer sensor types, as well as the corresponding read-out concepts, are available. Well-established sensor concepts such as Hall sensors and magnetoresistive sensors based on giant magnetoresistances (and many more) have been researched for decades. The development of these types of sensors has reached maturity in many aspects (e.g., performance metrics, reliability, and physical understanding), and these types of sensors are established in a large variety of industrial applications. Magnetic sensors based on the magnetoelectric effect are a relatively new type of magnetic sensor. The potential of magnetoelectric sensors has not yet been fully investigated. Especially in biomedical applications, magnetoelectric sensors show several advantages compared to other concepts for their ability, for example, to operate in magnetically unshielded environments and the absence of required cooling or heating systems. In recent years, research has focused on understanding the different aspects influencing the performance of magnetoelectric sensors. At Kiel University, Germany, the Collaborative Research Center 1261 “Magnetoelectric Sensors: From Composite Materials to Biomagnetic Diagnostics”, funded by the German Research Foundation, has dedicated its work to establishing a fundamental understanding of magnetoelectric sensors and their performance parameters, pushing the performance of magnetoelectric sensors to the limits and establishing full magnetoelectric sensor systems in biological and clinical practice.

Si les rapports entre jeu vidéo et cinéma suscitent depuis longtemps l’intérêt des milieux académiques, les relations, échanges et points de passage entre le livre et le jeu vidéo constituent pour leur part un domaine de recherche toujours en friche. Pourtant, les interactions entre ces deux médias sont loin d’être des exceptions et les disciplines qui les étudient (les game studies et l’histoire du livre) sont connectées par une certaine affinité méthodologique : tous deux ont un fondement profondément interdisciplinaire ; tous deux rassemblent, autour d’un objet commun, des chercheurs issus d’horizons très différents. Cette parenté disciplinaire, ajoutée à la richesse des constants échanges entre livre et jeu vidéo, a encouragé la conception de cet ouvrage collectif consacré à la rencontre entre le médium vidéoludique et son voisin livresque.

Indonesian Midwifery Research, that primarily focuses on midwives, midwifery practices and education, is trying to make a tremendous effort to reveal the consequences of industrial development which influences midwifery practice and midwifery educational. The 1st Annual Conference of Midwifery has proven its commitment to promote the spirit of the scientist which provides insight, innovation, and creativity to resolve the problems in the midwifery field which occurred in this industrial development era. Hundreds of scientists, professionals, and students have gathered to discuss, analyse, and express their opinions about the current issues today. We are proud because we can bridge their efforts in a prestigious scientific gathering in Indonesia at The 1st ACM 2019. Aims &amp Scope This event will bring together midwifery experts, midwifery researcher, midwifery lecturer, and students worldwide. We expect it to be a great opportunity and an inspiring occasion for research development learning, especially to the disseminating of new findings in midwifery and to bridge the networking of midwifery professional, midwifery researcher and midwifery educator. Scopes: • Pregnancy • Childbirth • Postpartum • New born care • Women's health • Reproductive health • Techniques of teaching and learning • Literacy and skill development • Digital technology on education • Creativity and entrepreneurship education • Innovation and value on education • Health Profession Education. • Educational Theory • Early Childhood Education • Parenting in the era of industrial revolution 4.0 Instructions for Authors https://drive.google.com/file/d/1N2uWrHr-EaH_5K6ol-kpHHpLCvsuM67

The 43rd UID conference, held in Genova, takes up the theme of ‘Dialogues’ as practice and debate on many fundamental topics in our social life, especially in these complex and not yet resolved times. The city of Genova offers the opportunity to ponder on the value of comparison and on the possibilities for the community, naturally focused on the aspects that concern us, as professors, researchers, disseminators of knowledge, or on all the possibile meanings of the discipline of representation and its dialogue with ‘others’, which we have broadly catalogued in three macro areas: History, Semiotics, Science / Technology. Therefore, “dialogue” as a profitable exchange based on a common language, without which it is impossible to comprehend and understand one another; and the graphic sign that connotes the conference is the precise transcription of this concept: the title ‘translated’ into signs, derived from the visual alphabet designed for the visual identity of the UID since 2017. There are many topics which refer to three macro sessions: - Witnessing (signs and history) - Communicating (signs and semiotics) - Experimenting (signs and sciences) Thanks to the different points of view, an exceptional resource of our disciplinary area, we want to try to outline the prevailing theoretical-operational synergies, the collaborative lines of an instrumental nature, the recent updates of the repertoires of images that attest and nourish the relations among representation, history, semiotics, sciences.

Beschleunigung, Zeitverdichtung und Effizienz sind oft genannte Schlagworte unserer Gegenwart, die sich aufs Engste mit der Stadt verbinden. Hektik und Geschäftigkeit im urbanen Raum scheinen Menschen zu Funktionsträgern zu verwandeln. Die Brüchigkeit dieser vorherrschenden Vorstellung zeigt sich aber bereits an Figuren wie der des Flaneurs, der sich gerade im Getriebe der Großstadt gelassen bewegt. Auch scheinbar gegenläufige Tendenzen lassen sich erkennen: Orte wie Stadtparks oder Museen suggerieren ebenso Refugien der Entschleunigung wie eine wachsende 'Erholungsindustrie'. Im selben Moment können aber solche Angebote wieder den Mechanismen der Zweckgebundenheit und der Selbstoptimierung unterliegen. Der Sammelband widmet sich diesen komplexen Fragen und ambivalenten Befunden und beleuchtet erstmals aus geistes-, kultur- und sozialwissenschaftlicher Perspektive mögliche Freiräume der Muße im urbanen Raum.

This book brings development theory and practice into dialogue with the religious tradition, in order to construct a new, trans-disciplinary vision of development, with integral ecology at its heart. It focuses on the Catholic social tradition and its conception of integral human development on the one hand, and on the works of economist and philosopher Amartya Sen which underpin the human development approach on the other. The book discusses how these two perspectives can mutually enrich other around three areas: their views on the concept and meaning of development and progress; their understanding of what it is to be human, that is, their anthropological vision; and their analysis of transformational pathways for addressing social and environmental degradation. The book examines how both human development and the Catholic social tradition can function as complementary analytical lenses and mobilizing frames for embarking on the journey of structural and personal transformation to bring all life systems, human and non-human, back into balance. This book is written for researchers and students in development studies, theology, and religious studies, as well as professional audiences in development organisations.