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Queer cultures are vibrant components of the constantly transforming societies of the 21st century. This is both socially and anthropologically recognizable, as well as individually readable. Categories such as wealth, success, amusement, but also sexuality and beauty have undergone major changes within queer subcultures and have influenced the reality of life for the general public. The entanglements in heteronormative systems and capitalist orders are increasingly putting a queer point of view under pressure, so that the question seems justified: What makes someone or something queer?

As chancelarias régias portuguesas do período medieval — entendendo-as aqui, em sentido restrito, como todas as cartas emanadas da corte com as disposições de um rei sobre os assuntos que a ela chegavam ou se integravam no seu projeto de governação — constituem a fonte mais importante de que o historiador dispõe para o estudo do Portugal medieval e, em particular, do reinado a que dizem respeito. A Chancelaria de D. Afonso III ocupa, no entanto, um lugar

This open access book surveys the dynamic landscape of professional arts and design education research, examining salient concepts and issues through the lens of signature pedagogies as an analytical framework. The arts and design professions covered in this book are: music, dance, theatre, fashion design, design and media, and fine art. Chapters in the book present a combination of reflective accounts, in-depth analyses, and empirical research findings, shedding light on the education of students for productive and meaningful careers in the arts and design. They examine how concepts, issues, methods, and practices relate to habits of the mind, hand, and heart. Pedagogical insights on creative uncertainty, designerly formations, evocative ambiguity, generative apprenticeship, reflexivity, transition, truth, and artistic tradition and heritage are explored with nuance and depth. The book constitutes a collective effort of artist-educators at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts Singapore, in documenting a shared institutional heritage, which is continually rejuvenated through critical engagement with contemporary challenges. They examine the tensions embedded in the signature pedagogies and possible solutions to address them at the micro- (e.g. classroom or practicum), meso- (e.g. program), and macro- (e.g. institution) levels. In the process, the book highlights research issues and directions for arts education researchers, while also offering ideas that artist-educators can explore and incorporate into their teaching.

Ten years after the Arab Spring, many parts of the Middle East and North Africa are struggling with the consequences of armed conflict, a balance of power tilted in favour of the executive and challenges to the rule of law. However, institutions charged with conducting constitutional review have been reformed substantially in most of the countries in those regions. A pioneer effort, this book offers first-hand insights by renowned practitioners and scholars into constitutional review in the Middle East and North Africa, discerning commonalities and differences from a comparative perspective. Structured along selected topics of interdisciplinary relevance—judicial independence, protection of fundamental rights, control of electoral law, and religious law in the constitutional order—the publication highlights the current state of constitutional review in the region: reference models, major develop-ments, challenges and trends. Anja Schoeller-Schletter is a lawyer and historian focusing on comparative constitutional law in North Africa and the Middle East. She designed the project behind this publication in her capacity as the Head of the Rule of Law Programme Middle East/North Africa in Beirut, Lebanon, a programme funded by the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung. Schlagworte

Diese Studie hat durch eine gründliche Analyse des Inhalts, der Form, der Sprache und der Komik von Carl Sternheims Komödien von 1910 bis 1920 eine genuin expressionistische Komödie festgestellt. Anhand der Darstellung ihrer antiklassischen Form und antiethischen Konzeption wird diese Komödie als ein fester Bestandteil der avantgardistischen Moderne erwiesen. Durch einen Vergleich mit anderen deutschen Komödien wird ihre Affinität zum Typ der ernsten Komödie und zur Tragikomödie aufgezeigt.

The book focuses on International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and their relevance in the financial, accounting and tax fields. These standards seek to ensure that the financial information presented in financial statements is comparable, transparent and of high quality, helping investors and other users to make informed economic decisions. The book addresses various topics related to IFRS and IAS, such as the conceptual framework for financial reporting, presentation of financial statements, financial instruments, leases, inventories, cash flow statement, deferred taxes, property, plant and equipment, among others. It is an essential tool for professionals and students in the field of accounting and finance who seek to understand and apply them in their daily work.

Hannah Arendts leidenschaftliches Denken offenbart sich in ihrem Werk u.a. durch die häufige Nennung emotionaler Phänomene wie Wut, Liebe, Mut oder Mitleid. Bislang wurde diese affektive Argumentationsebene jedoch nicht systematisch untersucht. Héla Hecker argumentiert dafür, dass Arendt Gefühle und Affekte nicht als per se apolitisch, sondern als welteröffnende bzw. -verschließende Artikulationen einer grundsätzlich menschlichen Berührbarkeit bewertet. Das Politische ist der Bereich, in dem diese Berührbarkeit als conditio humana frei und geschützt gelebt werden kann. Gleichzeitig bürgt die Fähigkeit, sich vom Anderen und von der Welt berühren zu lassen, für die Möglichkeit von Freiheit und Neubeginn.

Pour tous ceux qui veulent comprendre, au-delà des débats et des discours, les grands défis que doit relever le Québec dans les années à venir, 49 spécialistes ont reconstitué le casse-tête minutieux des transformations subies depuis 1960. Qu’ils soient socio-économiques, culturels ou politiques, ces tableaux réalistes mettent en lumière les caractéristiques structurelles du Québec et tous les aspects de leur évolution.

A visionary new approach to the Americas during the age of colonization, made by engaging with the aural aspects of supposedly “silent” images Colonial depictions of the North and South American landscape and its indigenous inhabitants fundamentally transformed the European imagination—but how did those images reach Europe, and how did they make their impact? In Sound, Image, Silence, noted art historian Michael Gaudio provides a groundbreaking examination of the colonial Americas by exploring the special role that aural imagination played in visible representations of the New World.Considering a diverse body of images that cover four hundred years of Atlantic history, Sound, Image, Silence addresses an important need within art history: to give hearing its due as a sense that can inform our understanding of images. Gaudio locates the noise of the pagan dance, the discord of battle, the din of revivalist religion, and the sublime sounds of nature in the Americas, such as lightning, thunder, and the waterfall. He invites readers to listen to visual media that seem deceptively couched in silence, offering bold new ideas on how art historians can engage with sound in inherently “mute” media.Sound, Image, Silence includes readings of Brazilian landscapes by the Dutch painter Frans Post, a London portrait of Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Edison’s early Kinetoscope film Sioux Ghost Dance, and the work of Thomas Cole, founder of the Hudson River School of American landscape painting. It masterfully fuses a diversity of work across vast social, cultural, and spatial distances, giving us both a new way of understanding sound in art and a powerful new vision of the New World.

Lockdown Cultures is both a cultural response to our extraordinary times and a manifesto for the arts and humanities and their role in our post-pandemic society. This book offers a unique response to the question of how the humanities commented on and were impacted by one of the dominant crises of our times: the Covid-19 pandemic. While the role of engineers, epidemiologists and, of course, medics is assumed, Lockdown Cultures illustrates some of the ways in which the humanities understood and analysed 2020–21, the year of lockdown and plague. Though the impulse behind the book was topical, underpinning the richly varied and individual essays is a lasting concern with the value of the humanities in the twenty-first century. Each contributor approaches this differently but there are two dominant strands: how art and culture can help us understand the Covid crisis; and how the value of the humanities can be demonstrated by engaging with cultural products from the past. The result is a book that serves as testament to the humanities’ reinvigorated and reforged sense of identity, from the perspective of UCL and one of the leading arts and humanities faculties in the world. It bears witness to a globally impactful event while showcasing interdisciplinary thinking and examining how the pandemic has changed how we read, watch, write and educate. More than thirty individual contributions collectively reassert the importance of the arts and humanities for contemporary society.

The relationship between law and diversity was difficult and dialectical throughout the centuries of the legal modernity. Yet to mark its routes it was not a concern for diversity since at the core of its developments there was the issue of individual before the social issue. As a matter of fact, diversity was considered extensively in modern law, but always in an instrumental way. At present this juridical approach shows some limitations, especially in the taking into account the link with the problem of protection of fundamental and human rights. Therefore, it seems appropriate to open a discussion on the issue, assuming diversity, despite its plurality of meanings, as a single topic area from which to start questioning the law. This volume is an attempt in this direction. Taking its cue from these statements and adopting a multidisciplinary perspective, it aims to explore aspects of the complex relationship between law and diversity, assuming as a framework of reference the problem of rights and justice.--------È in un continuo e sofferto rapporto dialettico che diritto e diversità si sono reciprocamente inseguiti lungo i secoli della modernità giuridica. Eppure non è stata una preoccupazione per la diversità a segnarne gli itinerari. Di essa il diritto moderno si è molto occupato ma in chiave sempre strumentale, avendo posto al centro dei suoi svolgimenti la questione dell’individuo prima che della società. Al contempo la fase attuale evidenzia una certa usura degli strumenti giuridici tradizionali e un limite complessivo di tale approccio al problema, soprattutto se si considerano i nessi della questione con la tutela dei diritti fondamentali e umani. Appare, dunque, opportuno avviare una riflessione complessiva sulla questione, assumendo la diversità, pur nella sua pluralità di valenze, come ambito tematico unitario e come categoria a partire dalla quale interrogare il diritto. Il presente volume, costituisce un tentativo in tale direzione. Esso - prendendo le mosse da tali constatazioni e avvalendosi di molteplici punti di vista disciplinari - si propone di esplorare aspetti del complesso rapporto tra diritto e diversità, assumendo come cornice di riferimento la questione dei diritti e della giustizia.

Unter Zugrundelegung eines kreislauftheoretischen Ansatzes sollen die Verteilungswirkungen interpersoneller, intertemporaler und intergenerativer Art untersucht werden, die von einer staatlichen Kreditnahme ausgehen. Parallel dazu verläuft eine Auseinandersetzung mit den Aussagen der klassischen Schuldtheorie und ihren Hauptvertretern wie Buchanan und - im deutschen Sprachraum - Gandenberger.

The book Recrystallization in Materials Processing shows selected results obtained during the last few years by researchers worked on recrystallization-related issues. These researchers offer their knowledge from a range of scientific disciplines, such as materials science, metallurgy and pharmacology. The authors emphasize that the progress in this particular field of scientific research is possible today due to coordinated efforts of many research groups that work in materials science, chemistry, physics, pharmacology, and other sciences. Thus, it is possible to perform a detailed analysis of the scientific problem. The analysis starts from the selection of appropriate techniques and methods of characterization. It is then combined with the development of new tools in diagnostics, and it finished with physical modeling of phenomena.

This volume documents the proceedings of the first "Family Law Forum which took place in Göttingen on June 28 2008. Just before the conclusion of the legislative process, reknowned experts from science, policy and practice discussed the new "Law on the Proceedings in Family Matters and in Matters of Voluntary Systems of Law," (FamFG) that came into effect in September 2009. This volume includes an extensive overview of the features of the new family law and analysis and opinions on various aspects of the law.

We invite you to read the Special Issue on business models in tourism, in the context of considering the principles of sustainable development. It is a collection of 14 articles published in a Special Issue of Sustainability MDPI in 2019–2021. The dynamic changes taking place in the world economy, social life, and the natural environment force entrepreneurs to change their business models. This also happens in the tourism business. The SARS-COV2 virus pandemic has increased the need for change. It is necessary to offer managers modern management tools that cover the broadest possible scope of integration of the elements of the conducted business activities, at the same time adjusted to the specificity of the market and needs of the natural environment in which the enterprises managed by them operate. This book, formulated in the light of the presented needs, aims to use the concept of business models and sustainability business models in the context of a tourism enterprise adapted to the existing conditions of tourist and spa activities.