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During the turbulent period following the First World War, the Dutch and queer Jewish poet, writer and journalist Jacob Israel de Haan (Smilde 1881-Jerusalem 1924) worked in Mandate Palestine as a correspondent for the Algemeen Handelsblad and later British media like the Times and Daily Mail. However, his stay in Jerusalem and his broader views on politics, culture and religion, including on Zionism and Arab Palestinian nationalism, remain largely unknown. In 1919, De Haan went to Palestine, where exactly one hundred years ago, in June 1924, he was murdered because of his sharp criticism on political Zionism. This book contextualizes the Palestine years within the biography of a man who durably impacted the links between the Netherlands and Palestine and who is said to be, for some, a Dutch Lawrence of Arabia.

A obra reúne 33 textos, organizados em sete capítulos: I- Comércio internacional e relações de fronteira; II- Integração regional; III- Desenvolvimento regional; IV- Desenvolvimento e meio ambiente; V- Desenvolvimento e novas tecnologias produtivas e sociais; VI- Desenvolvimento e participação social; VII- Desenvolvimento e políticas públicas. A obra resulta de seleção dos trabalhos melhor avaliados pelo Comitê Internacional da Rede CIDIR no “VIII Simpósio Iberoamericano de Cooperação para o Desenvolvimento e a Integração Regional”. Trata-se de evento internacional itinerante realizado pelas instituições da Rede, alternando edições no Brasil, na Argentina e no Paraguai. Os sete capítulos traduzem os temas prioritários de discussão, reflexão e produção do conhecimento que perpassam as atividades desenvolvidas pela Rede CIDIR que, em 2017, comemorou seus dez anos de funcionamento. Como Rede de pesquisa, ela reúne 22 Instituições de Ensino Superior (IES) do Brasil, Paraguai, Uruguai, México, da Argentina, Venezuela e Espanha, com foco prioritário de integração e socialização do conhecimento nas áreas de Ciências Humanas, Sociais e Sociais Aplicadas.

Chapter 1: New memories emerge in relation to old ones. This means that undermining the power of hegemonic narratives is as crucial a part of memory activism as is the bringing of hitherto occluded histories into visibility. This point is made by reference to the many ways in which public monuments have long become the target of protestors and the destruction of monuments a key feature of regime change. The very material presence of monuments explains why they can cause offense, but also why they provide a platform and a location for practicing dissent. The article ends by surveying the different strategies that can be deployed in order to change the meaning of existing monuments so as to bring about mnemonic change.

La escuela, plataforma de la patria es un libro que ante todo rezuma la fuerte impronta de su autora, por su estilo ensayístico, por la forma en que plantea desde su vasta experiencia y conocimiento cuestiones cruciales en torno al desarrollo de la Argentina y de la región con base en el desarrollo educativo de las nuevas generaciones. Si bien se ocupa de las urgencias, Adriana Puiggrós subraya en el prólogo que pretende situar la escritura -en un registro de plazos más prolongados, soportando la sombra del pasado, recuperando sus creaciones valiosas y conviviendo con el carácter inescrutable del futuro-. Con una pluma ágil e incisiva, y con su solidez característica, la autora invita a la lectura de las condiciones de una educación que se debate entre la competencia y la desigualdad, la profunda crisis económica, las nuevas tecnologías y formas de comunicación, entre otros problemas que recorre quien se sumerge en esta obra original y necesaria.

Das Denken des Humanen wird in besonderer Weise von den medientechnologischen Verschiebungen des 20. Jahrhunderts berührt. Affekt wird hier zu einem neuen Schwellenbegriff, der den Körper medientechnisch und politisch auf neue Weise anschlussfähig macht. In einer relationalen Neu-Organisation verdichtet sich das organische und technische Leben auf neue, intensive Weise zu einer Ökologie des Affektiven.

Die Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise 2008/2009: ein finanzökonomisches Jahrhundertereignis mit gravierenden wirtschaftlichen und gesellschaftspolitischen Folgen, das in der Literatur facettenreich verarbeitet wird. Bemerkenswert ist, dass hier der globale Systemcrash erzählerisch genutzt wird, um die Möglichkeiten und Bedingungen subjektiver Identitätsbildung in einer ökonomisch geprägten Gesellschaft auszuloten. Karin Terborg untersucht erstmals in der Forschung umfassend die deutschsprachige Finanz- und Wirtschaftskriseliteratur – mit besonderem Fokus auf die erzählerische Verflechtung von »Wirtschaft« und »Identität« im narrativen Modus »Krise«.

For most of the twentieth century, the making of animated cartoons was mechanized and standardized to allow for high-volume production: thousands of drawings were inked and painted onto individual transparent celluloid sheets (called "cels") and then photographed in succession, a labor-intensive process that was divided across scores of artists and technicians, most of them anonymous. In order to understand how the industrial mode of production influenced the medium’s visual style, this book regards each frame of a given animated cartoon as a historical document in its own right. This new consideration of the materiality of the medium analyzes cartoons frame by frame to expose hitherto unseen qualities of the image. The book covers the different technologies of reproduction involved in this process, from photography to xerography, as well as the idiosyncrasies of the image—from abstract imagery to mistakes in reproduction—that can be seen only when the film is halted. What emerges is both a new methodology for thinking about animation, the idea of frame-by-frame analysis, and a highly original account of an art formed on the assembly line.

Deterrence remains a primary doctrine for dealing with the threat of nuclear weapons in the 21st century. The author reviews the history of nuclear deterrence and calls for a renewed intellectual effort to address the relevance of concepts such as first strike, escalation, extended deterrence, and other Cold War-era strategies in today's complex world of additional superpowers, smaller nuclear powers, and nonstate actors.

Combat stress casualties are not necessarily higher in city operations than operations on other types of terrain. Commanders and NCOs need to have the skills to treat and prevent stress casualties and understand their implications for urban operations. The authors review the known precipitants of combat stress reaction, its battlefield treatment, and the preventive steps commanders can take to limit its extent and severity.

Der medizinische Einsatz künstlicher Intelligenz (KI) schreitet rasant voran und droht die Fähigkeit von Patienten zu untergraben, personalisierte Entscheidungen zu treffen. Diese Arbeit hinterfragt, inwieweit zwei Rechtsordnungen des Common Law, die britische und die US-amerikanische, dieser Herausforderung für die Patientenautonomie begegnen können. Durch eine vorausschauende Analyse werden dabei die problematischen Eigenheiten klinischer KI herausgearbeitet und die Lösungen antizipiert, welche sich aus den Normen der informierten Einwilligung ergeben. Aufgrund dieser Beurteilung wird ein konkreter Regulierungsvorschlag für medizinische KI vorgestellt und die zentrale Rolle des Rechts in der Steuerung innovativer Technologien betont.

The continuous hydrothermal flow synthesis of functionalized and non-functionalized nanoparticle dispersions was pursued. Besides improving the understanding of the relationship between process variables and the resulting nanoparticle dispersions, the usability of this process was extended by introducing clickable organic modifiers, a step toward the development of a convenient and versatile process for the synthesis of metal oxide nanoparticles with universal anchors on their surface.

Recent confrontations between constitutional courts and parliamentary majorities in several European countries have attracted international interest in the relationship between the judiciary and the legislature.Some political actors have argued that courts have assumed too much power and politics has been extremely judicialized. Yet the extent to which this aggregation of power may have constrained the dominant political actors’ room for manoeuvre has never been examined accurately and systematically. This volume fills this gap in the literature. To explore the diversity and measure the strength of judicial decisions, the authors have elaborated a new methodology that is intended to give a more nuanced picture of the practice of constitutional adjudication in Europe. The work opens with an assessment of the existing literature on empirical analysis of judicial decisions with a special focus on Western Europe and a short summary of the methodology of the project. This is followed by 11 country studies and a concluding chapter providing a comprehensive comparative analysis of the results. A further ten countries are explored in the counterpart volume to this book: Constitutional Review in Central and Eastern Europe: Judicial-Legislative Relations in Comparative Perspective The collection will be an invaluable resource for those working in the areas of empirical legal research and comparative constitutional law, as well as political scientists interested in judicial politics.

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After decades of turbulence and acute crises in recent years, how can we build a better future for Higher Education? Thoughtfully edited by Laura Czerniewicz and Catherine Cronin, this rich and diverse collection by academics and professionals from across 17 countries and many disciplines offers a variety of answers to this question. It addresses the need to set new values for universities, trapped today in narratives dominated by financial incentives and performance indicators, and examines those “wicked” problems which need multiple solutions, resolutions, experiments, and imaginaries. This mix of new and well-established voices provides hopeful new ways of thinking about Higher Education across a range of contexts, and how to concretise initiatives to deal with local and global challenges. In an unusual and refreshing way, the contributors provide insights about resilience tactics and collective actions across different levels of higher education using an array of styles and formats including essays, poetry, and speculative fiction. With its interdisciplinary appeal, this book presents itself as a provocative and inspiring resource for universities, students, and scholars. Higher Education for Good courageously offers critique, hope, and purpose for the practice and the trajectory of Higher Education.