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The 17 essays in this volume investigate potentials for democratizing democracies. From finding faith to reclaiming the commons, each essay aims to plant a seed, which carries the promise of democratic potentials. Dealing with topics like planetary change, AI, and plural knowledge systems, the book acts as an inspiration, calling for unorthodox, compassionate, and experimental approaches. It is an invitation to cultivate democratic futures that are as diverse, resilient, and vibrant as the societies they aim to serve.

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El objetivo de este capítulo es rastrear, en el marco de una historia de las ideas, el proceso de apropiación de la idea de libertad construido por Antonio Nariño como ascendiente ideológico del proceso de independencia de la Nueva Granada. Para esto asumiremos la apropiación como un proceso en el cual converge la recepción, la interpretación y las prácticas de las ideas. Proceso del cual la trayectoria de Nariño es un caso particular e importante, debido a que en su trasegar se pueden evidenciar todos los aspectos de dicha apropiación.

Ce livre « libre d’accès » représente le résultat de trois années de discussions, de partages et de réflexions autour de l’éducation autochtone. Plusieurs voix pancanadiennes se sont jointes pour apporter un message qui nous invite à prendre connaissance d’une pédagogie porteuse d’espoir. Ce collectif contient dix chapitres qui sont tous issus d’une collaboration entre autochtones et allochtones. Celle-ci s’est exprimée soit en traduisant les propos ou en citant les échanges et les discours, ou en se questionnant et en travaillant ensemble sur des mêmes enjeux sans renier ni les référents culturels de chacun ni les histoires coloniales. Nous sommes fières de souligner que ce présent ouvrage a été rédigé par des chercheurs et des éducateurs autochtones et allochtones par le biais de collaborations réalisées à partir et avec les épistémologies autochtones d’éducation et les méthodes autochtones de recherche dans un contexte de maillage entre savoirs autochtones et eurocentriques. Ces collaborations constituent en soi un puissant exercice de réconciliation, mais aussi et surtout de décolonisation. Inscrites non pas dans une dualité, mais dans une complémentarité dans ce regard de la double perspective – que l’on peut également qualifier de transsystémique ou même d’hybride –, les expériences partagées ont arrimé deux visions du monde pour comprendre, interpréter et relater une expérience qui s’inscrit dans une pédagogie pour le XXIe siècle.

Investment strategies relate to an extensive range of aspects and have attracted the attention of investors and students, academics, researchers, financial executives, portfolio managers, security analysts, financial engineers, practitioners, including at the level of Nobel prizes (Tobin, 1981, for the analysis of financial markets; Markowitz, Sharpe, 1990, for modern portfolio models; Black, Scholes, Merton, 1997, for option pricing; Akerlof, Stiglitz, Spence, 2001, for markets with asymmetric information). Even common people talk daily about investments, investment tactics and strategies, and how to obtain success. In the absence of an investment philosophy, they try to copy celebrities or professional advisors without understanding the mechanics of markets, their core beliefs, strengths, or weaknesses. Beyond the traditional stocks and bonds, there are many other types of assets and alternative investments, and investors are overwhelmed by the huge number of portfolio architecture and management options. Regardless of the types of investors, portfolios are no longer a simple list of assets, and their management requires impressive skills. Decision models have significantly evolved from the Markowitz portfolio model toward capital market paradigms in the context of managing unrealistic assumptions or adding the treatment of market imperfections, multiperiod objectives, and transaction costs. The index of portfolio risk provides an intuitive image of diversification. There is an interest in the integration of new visions in investment strategies: determinism, complexity, nonlinearity, self-organization and chaos, trading rules, evolutionary games, real-options games and artificial markets, bounded rationality, heterogeneous agents, and behavioral investments. From the evolutionary perspective, investors interpret information by encoding and categorization, trying to simplify the strategies by using rules of thumb and heuristics. The present work contributes to the understanding of current investment processes by offering the tactical and strategic elements specific to global markets as well as emerging ones in a multilayer approach useful to decision-makers, investors, students, and researchers in the field.

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.

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True to the spirit of ubuntu – an individual is only a person through other people (their communities) – this publication is a reflection of the essence of an overarching sub-Saharan philosophy; the contents represents a conference where papers were not presented, but where conference participants engaged to discuss solutions for the musical arts on the African continent. While the individual voice has been given its rightful place, the collective voice represents an emergent song composed by the scholarly community in oral fashion. This publication provides insight into the problems of musical arts education in Africa; and solutions for musical arts education.

Die Biographie zeigt ein bewegtes Kaufmannsdasein und zugleich ein Panorama deutsch-jüdischen Lebens von der Emanzipation bis zum Nationalsozialismus. Der Bankier Max Warburg sagte einmal, wenn er den Wert von etwas wissen wolle, ginge er zu Rudolph Brach. Brach war um die Wende zum 20. Jahrhundert ein bekannter Hamburger Kaufmann und Reeder mit einem stattlichen Wohnsitz am Alsterufer. Heute jedoch sind er und seine Familie in Vergessenheit geraten. Dabei war ihr Leben eng verknüpft mit wichtigen Meilensteinen des an historischen Höhepunkten so reichen 19. Jahrhunderts: Als mittelloser Auswanderer machte Brach unter abenteuerlichen Bedingungen ein Vermögen am Rio Grande, gründete dann zwei bedeutende Dampfschifffahrtsgesellschaften in Hamburg ebenso wie ein Handelshaus in Alexandria kurz nach dem Bau des Suez-Kanals. Er gab Abraham Lincoln die Hand, stritt mit Victor Hugo, reiste im Kugelhagel der Carlistenkriege durch Spanien, wirkte am Bau der berühmten Hamburger Colonnaden mit und pflegte über Jahrzehnte geschäftliche Kontakte zu den bedeutendsten Wirtschaftsgrößen der Hansestadt. Mehr noch als seines war das Leben seiner Frau Friederike geprägt vom Streben einer wohlhabenden jüdischen Familie nach Integration in die bürgerliche Gesellschaft, die ihr bei allem wirtschaftlichen Erfolg jedoch immer wieder erschwert wurde.

This paper is dedicated to the analysis of film-related writing activities by Wojciech Kuczok, including To piekielne kino (Warszawa 2006); Moje projekcje. Lęki i niepokoje widza kinowego (Warszawa 2009). Critical practices – often identified as „game” or „strategy” – may lead to an order and balance. Most of all, however, it refers to judgement, resulting as a sort of rebellion against stiff structures and patterns. This raises a question: Can this kind of work include professions like a film critic, even if the critic is also a film industry creator? One of many possible answers can be found by seeking throughout Wojciech Kuczok's film-related writings. The author od Senność blends two sets of competences in his artistic approach: one of an artist, and one of an interpreter-critic. Methodology: analysis and interpretation of the selected source texts.

This open access book explores various issues concerning the net-zero emission achievement, ranging from carbon pricing, carbon trade schemes, energy transition, ecological conservation, and carbon sinks, as well as the economic and social impacts of introducing carbon neutral policies in the Asia-Pacific region. The extreme flooding and drought problems, crop yield problems, and habitat changes brought about by climate change have seriously threatened the ecosystem and human survival, forcing people to rethink environmental management policies and limits on economic development. In the post-COVID-19 era, it is indispensable to adopt a more proactive climate change adaptation policy and establish bilateral cooperation with international partners who value climate change. 2021 is a critical year, and the leaders of major industrial countries at the recently concluded G7 meeting jointly stated the common objective seeking the establishment of carbon-neutral international community by the mid of the century. Major carbon-emitting countries or entities such as the European Union, US, Japan, Korea, China, and India have proposed specific timetables for net-zero carbon emissions and carbon neutrality before or at the COP26. Policy-makers around the world would also work closely with scientists, experts, and enterprises seeking appropriate policy instruments such as the development of carbon tax, carbon pricing, carbon sinks, global or regional carbon emission trade schemes, energy transitions, and other carbon-neutral policies moving toward net-zero emission society by the mid of the century. At a time when carbon pricing policies are being formulated, climate change related laws and policies will reshape the global governance and industrial layout during the period of 2021–-2030, and it is critical to move toward energy and industrial transformation, ecological conservation, and sustainable agricultural development.

"This anthology concerns the many local elections held throughout Norway on 9 September 2019. Based on voter surveys carried out after every local election since 1995, the ten chapters in this book explore a variety of election-related topics such as voting behaviour and election campaigns, as well as political participation and political trust between elections. It is at the municipal level that most citizens can influence policy, and what occurs at the local level often plays a vital role in people’s daily lives. One of the objectives of this book is therefore to better understand how local democracy functions, both in and between elections. The 2019 local elections were marked by mobilization, protest, and high turnout, due to the focus on politically charged issues such as the toll roads, climate change, and municipal amalgamation. Amalgamation was not just a campaign issue, but a part of the institutional context; the 2019 elections took place in newly merged municipalities. This is therefore a dominant topic throughout this book. How citizens feel about municipal reform and its potential consequences, for example, is explored. Several chapters examine the significance of amalgamation on various aspects of local democracy: local party systems, turnout and voting behaviour, the parties’ candidate selection, and representation in municipal councils. Taken as a whole, this anthology represents a status report on local democracy in the first election held in the merged municipalities. This book will be of interest to anyone following developments in local democracy in Norway, especially students, researchers, journalists, and politically active citizens."

The story of sporting communities and individuals at the University of Westminster over 150 years is the second book to explore the institution's diverse history including its role as a pioneer of women's sports. Drawing upon the University's extensive archives this richly illustrated book celebrates its unique, ground-breaking sports heritage.

This book seeks to breathe new life into Friedrich Schlegel's idea of ‘poetic critique,’ but also asks about its limitations. What forms might critique take when practiced poetically? Can this practice be rigorous enough to maintain a right of citizenship in the academy? How can the notion of poetic critique intervene in current debates on critique and post-critique? These essays offer a variety of new perspectives on these and similar questions.

"Major statements by the celebrated Russian poet Boris Pasternak (1890-1960) about poetry, inspiration, the creative process, and the significance of artistic/literary creativity in his own life as well as in human life altogether are presented here in direct translation of his own words, and are discussed in the extensive commentaries and introduction. The texts range from 1910 to 1946 and are between two and ninety pages long. There are commentaries on all the texts, as well as a final essay on Pasternak’s famous novel, Doctor Zhivago, which is looked at here in the light of what it says on art and inspiration. Although universally acknowledged as one of the great writers of the twentieth century, Pasternak is not yet sufficiently ecognized as the highly original and important thinker that he also was. All his life he thought and wrote about the nature and significance of the experience of inspiration, though he avoided the word “inspiration” where possible, as his own views were not