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What became of the upsurge in civic action that saw millions of volunteers rally in support of migrants during the 2015/16 refugee reception crisis in Germany? Clara van den Berg examines the aftermath of that unprecedented mobilization, exploring how pro-refugee communities evolved in Germany. Drawing on interviews, observations, and document analysis, she finds that some pro-refugee communities managed to survive. The study provides fresh insights into how mobilization periods impact the local structure of civil society and its networks, and offers a new perspective on the role of solidarity with refugees and migrants today.

Der Band beschreibt, wie Erfahrungen der Fremdheit in der zeitgenössischen Literatur und Kunst umgesetzt werden. Das Thema der ethnischen bzw. kulturellen Identität / Fremdheit, dem sich der vorliegende Band widmet, gehört – neben anderen biologischen, sozialen und psychischen Elementarerfahrungen wie u.a. Individuations- und Reifungsprozessen, Sexualität und Geschlecht, Familie und Verwandtschaft, Krankheit, Alter und Tod, Devianz und Kriminalität, Religiosität und Frömmigkeit, Okkultismus / Aberglauben, Ernährung / Kulinarik etc. – zu jenen anthropologischen Konstanten, die in jeder Kultur und jeder Epoche auf je spezifische Weise normativ geregelt werden und somit ein Forschungsobjekt der Historischen Anthropologie bilden. ‚Identität‘ und ‚Fremdheit‘ sind ihrerseits ein zentrales Thema, das mit den Migrationswellen seit der Jahrtausendwende besondere Aktualität und Virulenz erlangt hat. Die vorliegende Publikation arbeitet an Hand von ausgewählten Beispielen einige Aspekte und Tendenzen heraus, die die diskursive und literarische Konstruktion von ‚Identität‘ und ‚Fremdheit‘ seit etwa der Jahrtausendwende kennzeichnen. Konkret geht es um Fragen wie: mit welchen (sozio)semiotischen, semantischen und narrativen Strategien werden ‚Identität‘ und ‚Fremdheit‘ jenseits des aktuellen und bekannten mediopolitischen Diskurses (in seinen verschiedenen Ausprägungen) gedacht, konzipiert – und dergestalt ‚konstruiert‘? Mit welchen thematischen und ideologischen Komplexen werden sie von der Literatur verknüpft und welche sekundäre Bedeutung wird ihnen dabei jeweils zugeschrieben? Welche überraschenden Deutungen nimmt die Literatur, um nur ein Beispiel zu nennen, von der (zumindest i

Migration und die zunehmende Vielfalt der Gesellschaft fordern Kulturinstitutionen und die Kulturpolitik heraus. Das betrifft nicht nur die Frage der »Kanonisierung« dessen, was als »Hochkultur« gilt, sondern auch die Kulturproduktion selbst: Wer spricht, wer darf worüber sprechen? Welche Geschichten werden erzählt und damit sichtbar gemacht? Wer ist »wir« und wer sind »die Anderen«? Die Beiträge des Bandes bringen die Ergebnisse des Forschungsprojekts »Kulturproduktion in der Migrationsgesellschaft« (KultMIX) in einen Dialog mit der kulturellen und kulturpolitischen Praxis. Ihre innovativen Perspektiven verschaffen neue Einsichten in die Möglichkeiten und Herausforderungen im Umgang mit Migration, Diversität und gesellschaftlichem Wandel.

Die direkte koloniale Machtausübung der europäischen Staaten endete zumeist während der drei Dekaden nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg – zunächst in Asien und dem Nahen Osten, danach in Afrika und der Karibik. Dieses Buch untersucht, wie in der 1948 gegründeten Organisation für europäische wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit (OEEC, ab 1961 Organisation für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung, OECD) der Prozess der Dekolonisierung gedeutet und beeinflusst wurde. Das Ende der imperialen Weltordnung verunsicherte das Reden über eine «europäische» beziehungsweise «westliche» Gemeinschaft nachhaltig. In diesem Kontext wirkte die OECD als Ort der westlichen Selbstvergewisserung und Sinnstiftung. Die Autorin analysiert die Entstehung mehrerer Studien der Organisation in den Jahren 1948–1975. Sie macht sichtbar, wie Relevanz und autoritative Geltung westlicher Expertise konstruiert wurden und wie sich dieses Wissen zu Erzählungen über den Süden verdichtete.

"A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via www.tandfebooks.com as well as the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license and is part of the OAPEN-UK research project. This book considers the relationship between Hayek and Mill, taking issues with Hayek’s criticism of Mill and providing a broader perspective of the liberal tradition. Featuring contributions from the likes of Ross Emmett, Leon Montes and Robert Garnett, these chapters ask whether Hayek had an accurate reading of the ideas of Mill and Smith, as well as considering themes such as sympathy and analytical egalitarianism that play a large part in the liberal tradition, but less in work of Hayek These chapters argue that addition of these key ideas to the Hayekian corpus leads to a far broader understanding of the liberal tradition than that provided by Hayek "

Artificial intelligence is transforming technical and vocational education and training (TVET) and opening new perspectives for learning, teaching and skills development. This edited volume explores current developments at the intersection of AI, higher education, industry and policymaking, highlighting both the opportunities and challenges of integrating AI into TVET through a human-centred approach. The contributions combine international perspectives from research, educational practice and policy. They address frameworks for AI integration in higher education and vocational training, teacher preparation, AI-enhanced learning environments and practical applications in continuing education and knowledge transfer. Case studies further illustrate institutional transformation processes and international cooperation initiatives. The publication is aimed at researchers, educators, policymakers and stakeholders in vocational education, training and international education cooperation.

Digital devices are prone to failure. An increasing range of cloud backup solutions aim to ensure that no matter what should happen to a user’s device, their files and data can be quickly re-downloaded and re-installed on a new device with ease. If the failure or breakdown of a digital device may once have resulted in a potentially devastating data loss event, cloud backup and recovery tools work to reduce the disruptive impact of device failure. This has implications for theories of failure that are based on the premise that breakdown or failure are disruptive events. Drawing on Apple’s cloud-based data backup and restore service, this chapter conceptualises the cloud as an infrastructure designed to anticipate and absorb digital failure. In doing so, it explores how cloud services bolster cultures of routine device upgrading and e-waste production.

Taymāʾ II is a Catalogue which contains all the inscriptions discovered during the 24 seasons of the Saudi- German excavations at Taymāʾ from 2004–15 which were funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The 113 objects carry inscriptions in different languages and scripts, illustrating the linguistic diversity of the oasis through time. Although the majority are fragmentary, they provide an important source for the history of the oasis in ancient and mediaeval times.The Babylonian cuneiform inscriptions in this volume confirm for the first time the ten-year sojourn at Taymāʾ of the last Babylonian king Nabû-na’id (556–539 BC). In addition, Imperial Aramaic inscriptions dated by the reigns of Lihyanite kings, based at Dadan (modern al-ʿUlā), reveal for the first time that they ruled Taymāʾ at a period in the second half of the first millennium BC.As well as editing the volume, Michael C. A. Macdonald edited the Imperial Aramaic inscriptions found from 2010–15, plus those in the form of the Aramaic script which developed in Taymāʾ, and the Nabataean, Dadanitic, and Taymanitic texts. In addition, Hanspeter Schaudig edited the cuneiform inscriptions; Peter Stein, the Imperial Aramaic texts found from 2004–09; and Frédéric Imbert, the Arabic inscriptions. Arnulf Hausleiter and Francelin Tourtet provided archaeological contributions, while Martina Trognitz curated the virtual edition of many of the texts recorded by RTI. The indexes contain the words and names from all known texts from the oasis, including those in the Taymāʾ Museum and other collections which will be published as Taymāʾ III.

This work proposes a probabilistic extension to Bézier curves as a basis for effectively modeling stochastic processes with a bounded index set. The proposed stochastic process model is based on Mixture Density Networks and Bézier curves with Gaussian random variables as control points. A key advantage of this model is given by the ability to generate multi-mode predictions in a single inference step, thus avoiding the need for Monte Carlo simulation.

In this open access volume, Jerome C. Regier provides a comprehensive exploration of Heidegger’s animal philosophy throughout the Gesamtausgabe , challenging its key ontological claims, whilst also updating the discussion to incorporate new insights from evolutionary biology and ethology. Heidegger and Animals offers a new way of thinking about the relationship between humans and our fellow animals. It does this by exploring Heidegger’s philosophical writings and oft-cited claim that there is an ontological abyss separating humans and human Dasein (whose way of being Heidegger calls "existence") and animals (whose way of being he calls "captivation"). Scrutinizing Heidegger’s emphasis on human Dasein ’s distinctive way of being and his approach to ethology, experimental biologist Regier challenges Heidegger’s ontological interpretation of animal behavior. In particular he does this by drawing on and reinterpreting numerous studies of bees and other arthropods, octopuses and other cephalopods, fish, birds, and mammals. Questioning Heidegger whilst continuing to work within his conceptual framework, this book aims to expand Heidegger’s understanding of existence (as Dasein ) to include our fellow animals without denying an ontological abyss between existence and captivation. Through a more informed and sensitive understanding of biology, Regier reveals how humans and many animals are, after all, in both existence (as Dasein) and captivation. This innovative study will be of great value to debates around animal rights and environmental protection, in defending the dignity of animals within a tradition of continental philosophy. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license on bloomsburycollections.com.

This handbook brings together an international team of scholars from different disciplines to reflect on African popular cultural imaginaries. These imaginaries – in the sense of cultural productions, contexts, consumers, producers, platforms, and the material, affective and discursive resources they circulate – are influential in shaping African realities. Collectively, the chapters assembled in this handbook index the genres, methods, mediums, questions and encounters that preoccupy producers, consumers and scholars of African popular cultural forms across a range of geohistorical and temporal contexts. Drawing on forms such as newspaper columns, televised English Premier League football, speculative arts, romance fiction, comedy, cinema, music and digital genres, the contributors explore the possibilities and ambiguities unleashed by the production, circulation, consumption, remediation and critique of these forms. Among the questions explored across these essays are the freedoms and constraints of popular genres; the forms of self-making, pleasure and harm that these imaginaries enable; the negotiations of multiple moral regimes in everyday life; and, inevitably, the fecund terrain of contradictions definitive of many popular forms, which variously enable and undermine world-making. An authoritative scholarly resource on popular culture in Africa, this handbook is an essential read for students and scholars of African culture, society and media.

How can health promotion be implemented at universities? This volume examines the participatory design of health promotion measures at Leibniz University Hannover. The focus is on promoting mental health literacy. It highlights the different perspectives of the actors involved in order to illustrate commonalities in content, but also differences and areas of tension in the university development process. Through its theoretical framework, consideration of good practice examples with concrete recommendations for action, and ideas for networking, the book offers suggestions for establishing participatively developed measures and structures for sustainable health promotion at universities.

Cars, Conduits and Kampongs offers a wide panorama of the modernization of Indonesian cities between 1920 and 1960. In examining the multiple responses to innovations introduced by Western colonialism, the contributors demonstrate how modernization, urbanization, and decolonization were intrinsically linked. A full text Open Access version is also available.

Behind the Scenes examines planning in the City of Adelaide from 1972 until 1993 within the historical framework of City/State relations from 1836 when the Province of South Australia was founded. During this 21-year period, the City had its own planning and development control legislation separate from the rest of the State. Dr Llewellyn-Smith examines why this situation came about, why it continued for this particular period and why it ceased in 1993 when the separate legislation was repealed and the City became part of the State system under the new Development Act 1993. Behind the Scenes includes original interviews with many of the key individuals in the City and State who played influential roles during this period. Dr Llewellyn-Smith himself was the City Planner from 1974 until 1981 and then the Town Clerk/Chief Executive Officer of the Adelaide City Council from 1982 until 1993: this book, then, is both a work of scholarship and an insider’s account.

Physical activity is one of the most basic human functions, and it is an important foundation of health throughout life. Physical activity apports benefit on both physical and mental health, reducing the risk of several diseases and lowering stress reactions, anxiety and depression. More specifically, physical activity is defined as "any bodily movement produced by skeletal muscles that require energy expenditure" (World Health Organization), including in this definition several activities. Among them, walking has been shown to improve physical and mental well-being in every age group. Despite that, insufficient walking among university students has been increasingly reported, requiring walking promotion intervention. In order to do this, dividing students based on their intention to walk might be useful since the intention is considered as the best predictor of behaviour. In this work, we carried out a study on university students' intention to walk and some of its predictors by exploiting Item Response Theory (IRT) models. In particular, we inspected the predictors of intention by mean of Rating Scale Graded Response Model (RS-GRM). Then we used the Latent Class IRT model to divide students according to their intention to walk, including predictors' scores as covariates. We chose the intention's predictors according to an extension of the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB), with both classic and additional variables. The formers are attitude toward behaviour, subjective norms, and perceived behavioural control, whereas we used risk perception, self-efficacy, anticipation, self-identity and anticipated regret as additional variables. Data was collected administrating a self-report questionnaire to undergraduate students enrolled in the Psychology course at Federico II University of Naples.