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First Nationalism Then Identity focuses on the case of Bosnian Muslims, a rare historic instance of a new nation emerging. Although for Bosnian Muslims the process of national emergence and the assertion of a new salient identity have been going on for over two decades, Mirsad Kriještorac is the first to explain the significance of the whole process and how the adoption of their new Bosniak identity occurred. He provides a historical overview of Yugoslav and Bosnian Slavic Muslims’ transformation into a full-fledged distinct and independent national group as well as addresses the important question in the field of nationalism studies about the relationship between and workings of nationalism and identity. While this book is noteworthy for ordinary readers interested in the case of Bosnian Muslims, it is an important contribution to the scholarly debate on the role of nationalism in the political life of a group and adds an interdisciplinary perspective to comparative politics scholarship by drawing from anthropology, history, geography, and sociology.

Este trabajo se centra en la traducción de los culturemas considerados como unidades lingüísticas marcadas culturalmente. Inicia con dar una definición extensa del término culturema, luego analiza la variación, tanto de sus clasificaciones como de las técnicas propuestas para traducir estas palabras culturales, y al final da unos ejemplos de culturemas sacados de la obra Pedro Páramo de Juan Rulfo y de sus tres traducciones árabes, haciendo hincapié en las dificultades encontradas.

In Hindu Pluralism, Elaine M. Fisher complicates the traditional scholarly narrative of the unification of Hinduism. By calling into question the colonial categories implicit in the term “sectarianism,” Fisher’s work excavates the pluralistic textures of precolonial Hinduism in the centuries prior to British intervention. Drawing on previously unpublished sources in Sanskrit, Tamil, and Telugu, Fisher argues that the performance of plural religious identities in public space in Indian early modernity paved the way for the emergence of a distinctively non-Western form of religious pluralism. This work provides a critical resource for understanding how Hinduism developed in the early modern period, a crucial era that set the tenor for religion’s role in public life in India through the present day. “A detailed, insightful, and original perspective on a significant and understudied period. It engages intelligently with current discussions of early modern Indian intellectual and religious history, while calling into question key elements of the existing picture of the period among specialists in the field.” -LAWRENCE McCREA, Cornell University “Fisher works at both a micro and macro level to read the intricacies of Smarta Saivism against the broader backdrop of evolving definitions of Hinduism. Her counterintuitive thesis is that sectarianism is not so much a breakup of a preexisting unity but rather an aggregation of discrete religions.” -GAURI VISWANATHAN, Columbia University “Fisher’s work is critical now more than ever in helping us to understand what Hinduism is and how it began to be that way, not in misty antiquity but in early modernity.” -ROBERT P. GOLDMAN, University of California at Berkeley ELAINE M. FISHER is Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Stanford University.

This multidisciplinary volume offers unique perspectives on the complexity of the work-life course nexus across the globe and throughout the centuries, reaching from the early modern period to the present day, and from Europe and Africa to India, China, and Japan. Historians, anthropologists, and sociologists reveal the crucial influence of age and gender as well as family and kin on work lives and discuss the impact of current societal change.

As the global demand for animal-derived food continues to rise, the feed industry is under increasing pressure to provide nutritional solutions that are high-performance, sustainable and safe. Animal Feeds and Additives brings together cutting-edge research and practical insights to address the complex challenges and emerging opportunities shaping modern animal nutrition. This comprehensive volume begins with an in-depth analysis of the current state of the global feed and feed additives industries, as well as their future objectives and strategies. It highlights the key drivers of innovation, ranging from climate change and resource constraints to shifts in consumer expectations and regulatory landscapes. The chapter on using food waste in animal nutrition focuses on sustainability, exploring novel approaches to resource recovery and circular feeding systems. This section demonstrates how rethinking waste can reduce environmental impact while maintaining feed quality and safety. The book also examines the controversial topic of antibiotics in animal feed, presenting a balanced view of their historical benefits and the growing concerns surrounding antimicrobial resistance. This discussion provides context for the industry's ongoing transition towards alternative, health-promoting strategies. Supporting precision nutrition and environmentally responsible livestock production, the chapter on feed additives for ruminants examines how targeted supplements can enhance productivity, reduce methane emissions, and improve overall animal health and welfare. Finally, a review of the effects of spray-dried plasma on broiler chickens sheds light on the role of this promising additive in boosting growth performance, gut health, and immune response. Designed for animal nutritionists, feed manufacturers, researchers and students, Animal Feeds and Additives is a valuable guide to the evolving science and strategies behind efficient, ethical and sustainable animal production.

This Special Issue aims to examine high-density solid-state memory devices and technologies from various standpoints in an attempt to foster their continuous success in the future. Considering that broadening of the range of applications will likely offer different types of solid-state memories their chance in the spotlight, the Special Issue is not focused on a specific storage solution but rather embraces all the most relevant solid-state memory devices and technologies currently on stage. Even the subjects dealt with in this Special Issue are widespread, ranging from process and design issues/innovations to the experimental and theoretical analysis of the operation and from the performance and reliability of memory devices and arrays to the exploitation of solid-state memories to pursue new computing paradigms.

This book examines how different agents and institutions within the Danish nation state have situated themselves within this complex landscape of competing appropriations of classical antiquity from the eighteenth century to the present day. In particular, it focuses on the use of classical heritages to construct both European and national identities (in the plural) and especially on how Danes in this period have engaged with a sense of European commonality through their engagements with the classical past

“Este libro es producto de la investigación de diversas inquietudes, de veintidós investigadores de diez países iberoamericanos, en torno a los desarrollos jurisprudenciales y los debates contemporáneos del derecho internacional en materia derecho internacional penal, derecho internacional humanitario, justicia transicional y las necesidades cambiantes de su protección y desarrollo en el contexto de la globalización. Esta investigación se instala en el contexto de una comunidad epistémica que se ha ido consolidando alrededor de las mesas temáticas que anualmente se reúnen en el Congreso Nacional de Derecho Internacional de la Facultad de Jurisprudencia de la Universidad del Rosario que, con el apoyo del Anuario Colombiano de Derecho Internacional, el Anuario Iberoamericano de Derecho Internacional Penal, el Instituto Iberoamericano de La Haya, la Red Latinoamericana de Revistas de Derecho Internacional, la Red de Investigación Perspectivas Ibero-Americanas sobre la Justicia y el Colegio de Abogados Rosaristas, se ha consolidado como el epicentro de grandes debates y promotor de investigaciones en favor del desarrollo hemisférico del derecho internacional.”

El ruido y la furia recoge una serie de conversaciones con Manuel Vázquez Montalbán mantenidas a lo largo de varios años por José Colmeiro, reconocido experto en la obra del autor y periodista catalán. La temática gira en torno a la obra literaria y ensayística del autor, la discusión del contexto histórico y cultural contemporáneo, la recuperación de la memoria y la búsqueda de respuestas por parte del intelectual a los retos del presente. El libro ofrece un amplio panorama del pensamiento crítico del autor que permite dilucidar importantes claves de enorme interés sobre su vasta producción intelectual. Las conversaciones revelan una radiografía inusual de la evolución de sus preocupaciones y reflexiones sobre la realidad española contemporánea, así como el contexto internacional de la globalización neoliberal, desde una posición de resistencia crítica que ilumina las sombras de la cueva en el planeta de simios globalizados.

Les valeurs les plus consacrées ont leur histoire. Ce « Tombeau de Léonard de Vinci » rassemble et analyse les textes qui à l’époque des Décadents et des Symbolistes ont contribué à faire de Léonard et de la Joconde les modèles de référence de la culture picturale occidentale. À un moment où les sciences et les techniques occupent une place dans la civilisation moderne qui interroge nécessairement la capacité des pratiques culturelles traditionnelles, Léonard de Vinci, esprit universel et peintre, apparaît comme une figure mythique de conciliation des antagonismes. À un moment où la peinture « moderne » et la photographie mettent en crise la fonction « réaliste » du tableau, la Joconde, un portrait, devient le plus beau tableau du monde. Deux absolus d’autant plus mythiques que le réel est plus irrépressiblement éclaté et la prétention interprétative totalisante des élites plus désespérément vaine. Le culte que le xixe siècle inaugure, apparaît ainsi comme la plus haute dénégation de l’impuissance de la culture telle que nous la vivons encore. Le propos n’est pas technique, il ne vise pas la « vérité », par quelque voie qu’on prétende la constituer, de Léonard et de son œuvre. Il ne s’agit que de décrire un processus complexe d’élaboration des représentations culturelles françaises en matière de peinture. Cela implique que les textes occupent le devant de la scène et que la critique d’art soit prise pour ce qu’elle est : l’organisation d’une croyance et un exercice d’écriture. La critique communique donc davantage avec la littérature qu’avec la connaissance, d’où la coexistence ici de textes qui appartiennent aussi bien à l’essai qu’au roman et qui sont produits par Taine, Michelet, Barrés, Valéry, Laforgue, Péladan... mais aussi, le vincisme français convoquant l’Europe, par Walter Pater, D’Annunzio ou Merejkovsky.

Il cosiddetto ‘epistolario’ manoscritto di Girolamo Borsieri è la fonte privilegiata per accostarci dall’interno a uno dei momenti più entusiasmanti dell’arte lombarda di età moderna, il primo Seicento dominato da pittori del calibro di Cerano, Procaccini e Morazzone. Da queste lettere l’erudito comasco Borsieri emerge come uno dei protagonisti della scena artistica milanese nei decenni che precedono la terribile peste ‘manzoniana’ del 1630: alla sua competenza di conoscitore si affidano amatori d’arte e collezionisti, a partire dal fondatore dell’Ambrosiana, il cardinale Federico Borromeo, mentre il più celebre poeta di quegli anni, Giovan Battista Marino, si rivolge a lui per procurarsi i disegni dei pittori lombardi da celebrare nei versi della Galeria. Altrettanto vasta è la fama dell’erudizione antiquaria di Borsieri, una componente fondante della sua attività e del suo modo di giudicare le opere d’arte, antiche e moderne, come testimoniano decine di lettere finora trascurate, tra le quali alcune indirizzate a Mark Welser, una delle massime autorità dell’epigrafia europea di primo Seicento. Obiettivo del volume è fornire una lettura aggiornata della figura di Borsieri e un approccio più consapevole ai manoscritti dell’ ‘epistolario’, fino ad oggi utilizzati negli studi storico-artistici come una fonte neutra, di prima mano, senza porsi fino in fondo il problema del loro statuto e delle intenzioni che presiedono alla loro compilazione: quelle di un ‘libro di lettere’ destinato alla pubblicazione e concepito anche come un’autobiografia intellettuale. Accanto all’analisi dell’ ‘epistolario’ e al commento di un centinaio di lettere di argomento letterario, artistico e antiquario, il libro dà conto anche della produzione poetica di Borsieri legata alle arti e ricostruisce il suo profilo di conoscitore, mettendone in rilievo i rapporti con il mondo dei collezionisti, degli antiquari e dei letterati lombardi.

A critical examination of efforts by social media companies—including Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, and Instagram—to rein in cyberbullying by young users. High-profile cyberbullying cases often trigger exaggerated public concern about children's use of social media. Large companies like Facebook respond by pointing to their existing anti-bullying mechanisms or coordinate with nongovernmental organizations to organize anti-cyberbullying efforts. Do these attempts at self-regulation work? In this book, Tijana Milosevic examines the effectiveness of efforts by social media companies—including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Snapchat, and Instagram—to rein in cyberbullying by young users. Milosevic analyzes the anti-bullying policies of fourteen major social media companies, as recorded in companies' corporate documents, draws on interviews with company representatives and e-safety experts, and details the roles of nongovernmental organizations examining their ability to provide critical independent advice. She draws attention to lack of transparency in how companies handle bullying cases, emphasizing the need for a continuous independent evaluation of effectiveness of companies' mechanisms, especially from children's perspective. Milosevic argues that cyberbullying should be viewed in the context of children's rights and as part of the larger social problem of the culture of humiliation. Milosevic looks into five digital bullying cases related to suicides, examining the pressures on the social media companies involved, the nature of the public discussion, and subsequent government regulation that did not necessarily address the problem in a way that benefits children. She emphasizes the need not only for protection but also for participation and empowerment—for finding a way to protect the vulnerable while ensuring the child's right to participate in digital spaces.

The book addresses the current challenges faced by financial consumers in the context of enormous technological developments. This edited collection covers safeguarding financial consumers, encompassing topics such as financial inclusion, data protection, and consumer over-indebtedness. Addressing specific issues related to vulnerable consumer groups and the increasing digitisation of financial services, it grapples with the emerging challenge demanding that consumers possess technological literacy. The book offers a distinct new perspective, going beyond the traditional understanding of financial inclusion, which typically only considers the possession of a bank account. Instead, it explores new dimensions, including the obstacles consumers face in obtaining credit, establishing a credit history, and coping with issues such as being blacklisted. The book explores diverse strategies for enhancing financial inclusion, such as leveraging data, and open banking. It also scrutinises the pursuit of credit fairness and examines methods to either mitigate or effectively address over-indebtedness, a persistent and formidable challenge for financial consumers. The book will be of interest to researchers, practitioners, and governmental organisations in the field of finance law and the law of emerging technologies.

Giorgio Caproni is certainly among the most loved Italian poets of the 20th century. Anna Dolfi used this widespread passion to involve not only well-known scholars of Caproni, but also young researchers, in new research activities. This results in a considerably rich book which, together with an overall vision, offers a series of hermeneutical insights on themes which were not as frequently investigated until then (memory, bestiaries and so on), by combining new readings of exemplary texts with unpublished documents, with reflections on language and poetry, on musical, pictorial and mythical suggestions, never forgetting Caproni’s activity for translation, self-commentary and civic commitment. The book is functionally divided into Percorsi e attraversamenti, Letture (e immediati dintorni), Risultanze tra/dalle carte d’archivio, which enhances the diversity of the critical commentaries and the close comparisons, of the surveys and experiments of comment, of explication de texte, and highlights the great technical skill and the extreme lyrical depth of an author who, between cantability and dissonances, arpeggios and apostrophes, cabalettas and cadences, flourishes and delays, vocalizations and little verses, recoveries and leave, talkativeness and aphasia, was able to interpret the contradictory research, the questions, the fears, the faults and the incurable wounds of our time.

To date, there has been no comprehensive analysis of the disperse research on the squatters’ movement in Europe. In Squatters in the Capitalist City, Miguel A. Martínez López presents a critical review of the current research on squatting and of the historical development of the movements in European cities according to their major social, political and spatial dimensions. Comparing cities, contexts, and the achievements of the squatters’ movements, this book presents the view that squatting is not simply a set of isolated, illegal and marginal practices, but is a long-lasting urban and transnational movement with significant and broad implications. While intersecting with different housing struggles, squatters face various aspects of urban politics and enhance the content of the movements claiming for a ‘right to the city.’ Squatters in the Capitalist City seeks to understand both the socio-spatial and political conditions favourable to the emergence and development of squatting, and the nature of the interactions between squatters, authorities and property owners by discussing the trajectory, features and limitations of squatting as a potential radicalisation of urban democracy.