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Decolonizing Diasporas proposes a new way to read the literary and cultural productions of the Afro-Atlantic. Mapping literature from Spanish-speaking Sub-Saharan African and Afro-Latinx Caribbean diasporas, Figueroa-Vásquez argues that the works of diasporic writers and artists offer ways of imagining new worldviews which dismantle the logics of colonial modernity. Utilizing women of color feminisms and decolonial theory as frameworks, Figueroa-Vásquez analyzes artists from the peripheries of their respective diasporas to reveal the thematic, conceptual, and liberatory tools that they offer when read in relation to one another. Decolonizing Diasporas examines how themes of intimacy, witnessing, dispossession, reparations, and futurities are remapped in these works by tracing interlocking structures of oppression. This study serves as a primer for approaching questions of home, diaspora, belonging, and justice, by centering the cultural productions of peoples of African descent.

Since the end of the Cold War almost all European countries have reformed their armed forces, focusing on downsizing, internationalization and professionalization. This paper examines how these changes in security sector governance have affected the normative model underlying the militaryâ s relationship to democracy, using the image of the â democratic soldierâ . Drawing on a comparative analysis of 12 post-socialist, traditional and consolidated democracies in Europe, the different dimensions of the national conception of soldiering are analysed based on the official norms that define a countryâ s military and the ways in which individual members of the armed forces see their role. Cases converge around the new idea of professional soldiering as a merging of civilian skills with military virtues in the context of the militaryâ s new post-Cold War missions. Yet despite this convergence, research also shows that specific aspects of national traditions and context continue to influence the actual practice of soldiering in each case. The contradictions that result between these old and new visions of the role of the military and the soldier illustrate the tensions that exist between political goals and defence reform dynamics.

Current Maxillofacial and Orthopedic Fracture Management - Techniques and Challenges provides a comprehensive review of fracture treatment in contemporary orthopedic practice. The volume explores fundamental methods of fracture fixation, emerging technologies, and complex clinical scenarios encountered by surgeons worldwide. The book addresses topics including biological fixation, personalized orthopedics, computer-assisted surgical planning, and the management of fractures in anatomically and clinically complex cases. It presents a balanced perspective between foundational principles and recent innovations. Particular emphasis is given to fractures in vulnerable populations, such as the elderly, and to challenging conditions, including nonunion and complex fractures. Designed for orthopedic surgeons, trainees, and allied healthcare professionals, this book presents practical solutions, current protocols, and emerging concepts in trauma care. It emphasizes clinical decision-making, surgical planning, and the optimization of outcomes within complex healthcare environments. By integrating technological advances with clinical expertise, the book aims to enhance readers’ knowledge and support improved patient outcomes.

Aujourd’hui, l’accessibilité est devenue un terme banal, quotidien, utilisée parfois de manière abusive, maladroite ou inappropriée. Sorte de concept attrape-tout ou valise, elle semble pourtant si familière alors qu’en fait, elle a perdu de son sens, vidée de sa signification. À force d’être empruntée par les différentes disciplines, domaines et activités au sein desquels elle s’inscrit, l’accessibilité s’est déformée et dilatée : elle se retrouve diluée dans l’accès à l’école, à l’emploi et à la formation, à la culture, au sport et au tourisme, sans oublier l’accessibilité numérique et plus récemment l’accès à la santé et à la sexualité. Au vu de ce flou et de cette segmentation, il importe de se concentrer sur l’essence de l’accessibilité, son contenu épistémologique, ses orientations politiques, ses enjeux économiques, culturelles et sociaux, en la considérant comme un fait social total. En ce sens, l’accessibilité constitue un révélateur qui dévoile le rapport au corps des individus (déficience et incapacité), le rapport à soi (identité), le rapport aux autres (cohésion sociale et vivre ensemble), le rapport à l’espace et à la mobilité (aménagement du territoire), mais aussi le rapport à la justice et l’égalité (citoyenneté).

Die zunehmende Dynamik von Betriebsformen im Einzelhandel stellt das Top-Management im Hinblick auf die langfristige Absicherung des Unternehmenserfolgs vor neue Herausforderungen. Diese Arbeit entwickelt auf Basis neuer dynamischer Strategieansätze einen Bezugsrahmen, der die Betriebsformendynamik durch ein simultanes Management bestehender und neuer Erfolgspotenziale «handhabbar» macht. Hierdurch können Wettbewerbsvorteile erzielt und der Shareholder Value gesteigert werden. Die Untersuchung umfasst zahlreiche Fallbeispiele und wurde mit dem Goethe-Preis der Universität Düsseldorf ausgezeichnet.

Après la mort de sa fondatrice en 1865, la Société du Sacré-Cœur a connu une expansion et un recrutement exceptionnels, accrus par le départ de France de plus de 2 500 religieuses au début du xxe siècle. Son histoire est celle des milliers de femmes qui l’ont rejointe pour vivre de son charisme. Dans la quarantaine de pays où elles ont été envoyées, elles ont eu à traverser le libéralisme et l’anticléricalisme, des révolutions, les effets du nazisme et du marxisme, les guerres mondiales qui ont détruit des maisons et dispersé les personnes. Après le concile de Vatican ii, grâce à la levée de la clôture, la Société du Sacré-Cœur a ouvert le champ de ses œuvres. Ce livre montre comment a évolué une congrégation, à travers des crises internes qui ne se séparent pas de celles qu’ont enregistrées l’Église et les sociétés civiles et comment a émergé peu à peu une nouvelle manière d’être Religieuse du Sacré-Cœur.

The King’s Dinner is about what it meant to be British at the end of the eighteenth century. Drawing on the vast kitchen ledgers of two royal households made newly available to research through digitisation, the authors study the role and influence of food in understanding British identity. Analysing trade routes, migration, agricultural changes, recipes, and flavours they argue that Britishness was more complex and more multicultural than previously recognised. Starting at George III’s Kew Palace and the Prince Regent’s Carlton House, then moving in ever wider circles, the book considers the significance of food for understanding the royal family, the wider British population, their European neighbours, and the British and colonised people in the Atlantic world and the Indian subcontinent. With a growing overseas empire, Britain was an increasingly powerful nation, and the ability to choose was one of the ways this power was exercised. The cuisine that emerged was complex, with wealthy Britons adopting, adapting, or rejecting the foods of European enemies and allies or colonised peoples and places. ‘Britishness’ was an ever-shifting balance of European multiculturalism, imperial ambition, tradition and experimentation, a messy mix that reveals the entanglement of cultures and cuisines, continually changed by the people who cook and eat the food.

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Kurt Möser visits new fields of our technological cultural past. Cameras, airports, racing boats or ironclads become significant. His essays stimulate methods and new themes. Crime end technology, magic and aeronautics, the birth of the computer from battleship calculators, excentric usters – these are some of the subjects, organized in things, spaces, persons, unpleasances, old and new, individual themes.

In recent times, research and technological advancements have opened an unprecedented window of opportunity for sports science to play a pivotal role in the holistic well-being of children. By harnessing the power of sports science, we can not only design, implement, and evaluate sports programs for young athletes but also address broader aspects of their health; therefore, the contemporary role of sports scientists in nurturing young talent cannot be understated, as they promote the most effective and efficient methods to support long-term sport and personal development. By integrating sports science principles into children’s health initiatives, we not only contribute to long-term sustained athletic performance but also foster comprehensive health outcomes . With appropriate immediate, short-term, and long-term interventions, we can enhance athletes’ adaptability to navigate the complex and ever-changing competitive landscape.

The booklet presents phase zero of the innovation roadmap for companies, proposed by the University of Boyacá. This first phase is related to an approach to the culture of innovation in the business context, in which it is important to consider that before carrying out a process oriented toward innovation, a starting point related to the current state of the organization must be established. Since talking about culture means talking about people, this phase is especially related to the individuals who are part of the organization, with how they feel, their perception of the company, teamwork, and their own performance. The tools offered in the booklet help determine the extent to which an innovation culture exists, make it possible to make more effective decisions in the following phases, and establish communication actions related to the nature of the company and the human talent that constitutes it.

Les événements de Mai 68 provoquent un véritable bouleversement dans la vie politique française. D’abord dépassés, les gaullistes finissent par se ressaisir. En réaction aux événements, une nouvelle organisation voit le jour : les Comités pour la défense de la République (CDR).Symbole du sursaut gaulliste de mai-juin 1968, ils représentent une tentative originale de modernisation militante de la famille gaulliste. Officiellement apartisans, les CDR recrutent au-delà de leur famille politique : libéraux, nationalistes et centristes forment une puissante minorité en leur sein. Implantés sur l’ensemble du territoire, les CDR se donnent pour mission de mobiliser la « majorité silencieuse » et de prévenir la Ve République de toute menace « marxiste » : les mouvements de gauche et d’extrême gauche sont à leurs yeux un danger pour les institutions.Convaincu d’être le « bras armé » du régime, ce satellite du parti gaulliste assure plusieurs fonctions : propagande, « gros bras », lobbying, etc. En pleine ascension sous Georges Pompidou, ce discret mouvement s’effondre rapidement au début de la présidence de Valéry Giscard d’Estaing.

The volume contains 13 contributions dealing with ancient and medieval economy from an archaeological perspective based on the standardization of material evidences. Standardization has always been a problematic subject for archaeologist dealing with economic studies in pre-industrian periods. In this volume we deal with this subject from the study of the pottery containers that brought liquid commodities from the different Mediterranean regions during the 1st millenium BC until the late Middle Ages.

Das Deutsche Institut für Erwachsenenbildung erhebt jedes Jahr die Daten zu öffentlich finanzierten Weiterbildungsangeboten in Deutschland. Die Statistiken enthalten aktuelle Informationen zu institutionellen Merkmalen, zu Personal und Finanzen, zum Leistungsspektrum durchgeführter Veranstaltungen und umfangreiche Daten zu den Teilnehmenden. Kooperationspartner:innen der Statistik sind der Bundesarbeitskreis Arbeit und Leben (BAK AL), die Deutsche Evangelische Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Erwachsenenbildung (DEAE), die Katholische Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft Erwachsenenbildung (KEB) sowie der Deutsche Volkshochschul-Verband e.V. (DVV).

Diet, physical activity, and body weight status (including body composition) are increasingly recognized as key factors that influence cancer across its continuum. Observational studies as well as basic research in cell culture and animal models provide evidence that several mononutrients and phytochemicals play a protective role either in hindering normal cells from transforming to precancerous lesions or in slowing the dysregulated cell growth that occurs in the later stages of disease. Similar evidence exists for physical activity and body habitus. As findings from these studies emerge, interventions are designed to ultimately test the impact of various dietary and exercise regimens directly on populations at risk – whether that be in individuals who are cancer-free but who may have increased risk due to family history, or in cancer survivors who are at risk for cancer progression or the occurrence of a new second malignancy. This book includes manuscripts that focus on diet, physical activity, and/or weight status in relation to cancer prevention and control, as well as symptom management. The order of articles follows the cancer continuum. The book begins with the role of diet and exercise in the primary prevention of cancer in both normal and high-risk individuals, and then focuses on preventing neoplastic progression in those who are newly diagnosed with the disease. Later chapters center on dietary and physical activity as key factors in cancer survivorship, and finally concluding with works attributing dietary and physical activity factors on cancer survival.