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The volume collects 7 essays focused on the use and eisappearance of the double document in Egypt after Roman conquest, on the graphic features and the use of symbols in final subscriptions in contracts written in the province of Thebaid, on the witness subscriptions in the late antique documentary papyri originating from the Hermopolite nome, on the value of autograph intervention by issuer and witnesses in the subscriptions of Latin contracts and wills during Late Antiquity, on the shortening practices in use in the context of Greek documentary scripts of the early Byzantine period, on the papyrological attestations of the monograms chi-iota and chi-rho as abbreviations of the term χειρόγραφον, on the mise en texte of prose inscriptions from Late Antique Egypt, offering a survey of the main features of the layout and use of signs in Greek inscriptions

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This book offers an innovative rethinking of policy approaches to ‘gender equality’ and of the process of social change. It brings several new chapters together with a series of previously published articles to reflect on these topics. A particular focus is gender mainstreaming, a relatively recent development in equality policy in many industrialised and some industrialising countries, as well as in large international organisations such as the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the International Labour Organization. The book draws upon poststructuralist organisation and policy theory to argue that it is impossible to ‘script’ reform initiatives such as gender mainstreaming. As an alternative it recommends thinking about such policy developments as fields of contestation, shaped by on-the-ground political deliberations and practices, including the discursive practices that produce specific ways of understanding the ‘problem’ of ‘gender inequality’. In addition to the new chapters Bacchi and Eveline produce brief introductions for each chapter, tracing the development of their ideas over four years. Through these commentaries the book provides exciting insights into the complex processes of collaboration and theory generation. Mainstreaming Politics is a rich resource for both practitioners in the field and for theorists. In particular it will appeal to those interested in public policy, public administration, organisation studies, sociology, comparative politics and international studies.

Au cœur du Poitou, le site de Vouneuil-sous-Biard (Vienne) s’inscrit dans un contexte riche en vestiges archéologiques depuis la haute Antiquité. Situé dans un méandre de la rivière Boivre, aux abords sud-ouest de la cité épiscopale de Poitiers, il fait partie d’un dense réseau de sanctuaires chrétiens établi entre le ive et le viie siècles. Avec près de 2 500 fragments de stucs mis au jour entre 1984 et 1986, l’ensemble de Vouneuil-sous-Biard se place – par la quantité recueillie – bien au-delà des lots découverts jusqu’à présent à Bordeaux ou Saint-Denis, qui ne dépassaient pas deux ou trois cents unités. Les comparaisons opérées avec les rares stucs déjà découverts en France et à l’étranger, conduisent vers les sources italiennes de l’Antiquité tardive et notamment Ravenne. Afin de cerner la spécificité du corpus de Vouneuil, chaque élément de stuc a été étudié comme un objet archéologique susceptible de livrer des informations sur sa réalisation et sa place dans un décor complet. Grâce aux relevés dessinés, ont été pris en compte les différents états de réalisation non seulement du matériau stuc lui-même mais aussi des couches picturales et des badigeons. De même que l’étude des traces d’accrochage au dos des stucs, des éléments de fixation, des bordures des pièces, ont été autant d’indices pour comprendre les techniques et les modes de mise en œuvre dans l’espace. C’est à partir de ces indications et du travail en relation avec l’iconographie qu’ont pu être compris progressivement la position des pièces essentielles afin de restituer ce puzzle monumental dispersé. Il est apparu ainsi des jeux d’arcatures monumentales avec personnages et plusieurs registres de décor. Situé entre Loire et Gironde, Vouneuil-sous-Biard n’a pas dû échapper, au ve siècle, à un contexte politique marqué, entre autres, par l’opposition de familles sénatoriales et d’évêques face à l’arianisme wisigoth. Après la victoire des Francs à Vouillé en 507, il apparaissait peut-être utile de réaffirmer l’orthodoxie de la foi, à travers des représentations monumentales (prophètes ou apôtres accompagnés des signes de l’agneau et de la croix). Avec une transformation de son sens au viiie siècle, peu de temps avant sa disparition, par l’adjonction d’inscriptions mentionnant divers martyrs anciens, le décor de stucs de Vouneuil demeure par son nombre, sa qualité, sa datation et l’iconographie représentée un ensemble unique et majeur pour saisir le passage de l’Antiquité au haut Moyen Âge en Europe. Il démontre la permanence des traditions et devient un relais nouveau pour l’histoire des formes et celle des sociétés pré-médiévales.

This book is an integrated examination of Japanese politics in the first two decades of the 21st century, as viewed from the perspective of ""anxiety over governance."" By empirically highlighting the social-environmental, political environmental, and sociocultural changes that have underlined the long-term political participation and voting behavior of Japanese citizens, the book provides deep insight into how modern democracies function and are perceived in post-industrial societies and reveals the specific processes by which Japanese politics have changed. Additionally, the book provides an analysis of the decline in social capital, the shrinking variety of political parties, and the intermingling of Asian values with liberal democratic values. By examining anxiety over governance, the chapters explore the links between anxiety and Japanese political behavior, revealing that, despite the high regard for democratic politics, Japanese citizens generally experienced a high level of anxiety and negative evaluation of the government, including countermeasures against COVID-19. Featuring surveys of Japanese political behavior over a period of more than 40 years, this book will be valuable reading for students and scholars of Japanese Politics, Political Behavior, and Psychology. The introduction, chapter 4 and chapter 5 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDFs at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

Offering Southern feminist assessments of detailed case studies from 12 countries, this open access book provides crucial insights into the gendered repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic on macroeconomics, labour, migration and human mobilities, and care and social protection throughout the Global South. Using DAWN’s interlinkages approach, the chapters provide a comprehensive and intersectional perspective on how the pandemic affected, and continues to affect people, especially women and girls of different ages, gender identity and sexual orientation, class, race, ethnicity, citizenship and migration status. Written by Southern feminist academics, activists and thinkers across Asia, Africa, the Carribbean, Latin America, and the Pacific, the volume highlights how the pandemic was often used as an opportunity to create periods of exception that compromised democratic processes. Contributors pay special attention to the opportunities for transformative practices that emerged during the pandemic, highlighting the role of resistance and social mobilization. By bringing to light important new forms of resistance the chapters make important interventions into critical debates on the role of the state, the market, civil society, and grassroots organizing in addressing pandemics, other complex crises, and their aftermaths. This volume ultimately challenges dominant narratives that overlook the gendered implications of crises, and in doing so provides an original, feminist analytical framework for understanding policy trends shaping realities the world over — one that offers concrete policy and practice recommendations for fostering southern-based feminist and social justice. The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN).

En France, les débuts de la sociologie du sport sont associés habituellement aux années 1960 avec les noms de Joffre Dumazedier, Georges Magnane, Michel Bouet… Celui de Roger Caillois y tient également une place privilégiée, avec le livre Les jeux et les hommes (1958), pour qui s’intéresse aux types de jeux en relation avec telle ou telle civilisation. L’auteur se proposant, comme on le sait, d’élaborer « une sociologie à partir des jeux ». De fait, en prenant appui sur un recensement détaillé des formes de jeux auxquels s’adonnent les hommes, Roger Caillois formalise une théorie anthropologique de la civilisation qui lui permet d’interpréter les différentes cultures, des sociétés archaïques aux sociétés modernes.

In this book, Helena Kupari examines the lived religion of elderly Finnish Orthodox Christian women, displaced from Karelia in the aftermath of the Second World War, through an innovative reading and application of Pierre Bourdieu’s practice theory. Readership: Scholars and students interested in women’s religion, minority religion, religion and migration, Orthodox Christianity in Finland, and Pierre Bourdieu’s social theory as applied to lived religion.

"On Looking into Words is a wide-ranging volume spanning current research into word structure and morphology, with a focus on historical linguistics and linguistic theory. The papers are offered as a tribute to Stephen R. Anderson, the Dorothy R. Diebold Professor of Linguistics at Yale, who is retiring at the end of the 2016-2017 academic year. The contributors are friends, colleagues, and former students of Professor Anderson, all important contributors to linguistics in their own right. As is typical for such volumes, the contributions span a variety of topics relating to the interests of the honorand. In this case, the central contributions that Anderson has made to so many areas of linguistics and cognitive science, drawing on synchronic and diachronic phenomena in diverse linguistic systems, are represented through the papers in the volume. The 26 papers that constitute this volume are unified by their discussion of the interplay between synchrony and diachrony, theory and empirical results, and the role of diachronic evidence in understanding the nature of language. Central concerns of the volume include morphological gaps, learnability, increases and declines in productivity, and the interaction of different components of the grammar. The papers deal with a range of linked synchronic and diachronic topics in phonology, morphology, and syntax (in particular, cliticization), and their implications for linguistic theory."

Loneliness - The Ultimate Suffering in Modern Society offers a deep understanding of one of the most unspoken curses of the modern era. This book explains how loneliness evolves into the most pervasive societal concern through the lens of individual differences and connectivity. Many of us are grappling with the emotional disconnections, yet the connectivity is paradoxically at our fingertips. This insightful journey does not stop at highlighting the consequences of loneliness, but also calls for and advocates actions and compassion that ensure societal harmony free from the desperate feeling of loneliness.

Modern agricultural engineering technologies and applications are directly linked with the 2030 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN-SDGs). Technological advancement is essential to next-generation agriculture in order to ensure food security, poverty alleviation, and sustainability. Worldwide, it is directly associated with farm mechanization; automation and robotics; intelligent agriculture; irrigation systems; indoor farming and agriculture 4.0; precision/conservation agriculture; farm energy systems; post-harvest storage/processing and value addition; tillage and cultivation; food science and processing; spraying and harvesting machinery; animals and poultry farming; clean energy; societal aspects in agriculture; and the associated bio-/soil environment. Consequently, this reprint aims to explore the interdisciplinary nature of research on such agricultural engineering sciences, technologies, and applications from the viewpoint of the agricultural water–energy–food security nexus. Carbon-neutral development and clean-energy utilization are also associated with the UN-SDGs. Thus, it is important to develop energy-efficient and environmentally friendly solutions to ensure the agriculture sector achieves the UN SDGs. Consequently, this reprint brings together a wide range of emerging concepts on the agricultural engineering technologies and applications by which sustainable agriculture and associated UN SDGs can be ensured

Eukaryotes have evolved a wide variety of RNA decay pathways to maintain cellular homeostasis, carry out programs of gene expression, and respond to changing environmental conditions. Individual RNA turnover mechanisms can operate constitutively or under only particular cellular conditions; similarly, some target many RNAs, while others act with great specificity. It has become increasingly clear that there are extensive interactions between viruses and the host RNA decay machinery. Often, the cellular RNA decay machinery poses a threat to viral gene expression, but viruses can also manipulate RNA decay pathways to promote viral replication. This special issue focuses on how cellular RNA decay factors recognize and degrade viral RNAs and viral strategies to subvert or evade these pathways.

The book investigates the world's first full legal press freedom. In 1770, king Christian 7's physician, the German enlightener J.F. Struensee, effectively became ruler of Denmark. His first decree, complete abandonment of censorship, led to 3 years of press freedom and an avalanche of pamphlets and debates. In early 1772, a coup led to his execution, giving rise to European outcry and fascination with the radical political experiment of Denmark.

The use of polymer thin films is currently implemented in almost every aspect of modern life due to their cost-efficiency, lightness, flexibility, and unique physical and chemical properties. The reason for focusing research into polymer thin films is to understand their thermodynamic and kinetic mechanisms, such as interfacial interactions, flow behavior, film formation, relationships between deposition process parameters and the film structure, and other advanced functional properties. Thin polymer film research focuses on a wide range of industrial applications, including energy technologies, optics, sensors, microelectronics, medicine, biotechnology, etc. This Special Issue highlights and discusses studies on the formation of polymer films, their morphological analysis, and their use in various applications, including sensors, antifouling coatings, and coatings for harnessing solar energy. In addition, this Special Issue also includes two review papers on the latest research on polymer-waveguide-based optical sensors and the integration of antifouling and anti-cavitation coatings on propellers.

'Advances in the Analysis of Spanish Exclamatives' is the first book entirely devoted to Spanish exclamatives, a special sentence type often overlooked by contemporary linguists and neglected in standard grammatical descriptions. The seven essays in this volume, each by a leading specialist on the topic, scrutinize the syntax, as well as the semantic and pragmatic aspects, of exclamations on theoretical grounds. The book begins by summarizing, commenting on, and evaluating previous descriptive and theoretical contributions on Spanish exclamatives. This introductory overview also contains a detailed classification of Spanish exclamative grammatical types, along with an analysis of their main properties.