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En Roussillon, entre 1810 et 1830, les milieux artistiques et culturels participent aux différentes politiques de mémoire. De ce mouvement naît la conscience d'une singularité roussillonnaise identifiée à travers le patrimoine, l'histoire et la culture. Ce livre présente dans un premier temps les conditions de réflexion et de mise en place d'actions naissantes sur le patrimoine. Elles ont pour cadre les années 1810-1860, une France politique qui tente d'effacer les particularismes et éviter son éclatement après le traumatisme de la Révolution tout en se projetant devant un horizon culturel méditerranéen. La seconde partie a pour cadre les années 1880-1930, l'évolution de la politique de mémoire non plus dictée seulement par les institutions nationales mais par le mouvement régionaliste et les diverses représentations que les Roussillonnais se font de leur région héritée ou à construire. Il s'agit de montrer les influences du régionalisme français qui associe le fédéralisme à l'idée que le Roussillon est partie intégrante de l'espace culturel français, l'influence des séparatismes catalans dans la constitution d'une nouvelle culture matérielle et d'une identité artistique fortement marquée par un lien historique jamais rompu avec la Méditerranée et qu'incarne l'œuvre de Gustave Violet.

Du roman au théâtre : avec le temps, les écrits de Jean Genet deviennent de plus en plus théâtraux, les dialogues, presque totalement absents dans son premier roman, prennent de la vigueur au point de réduire la narration aux didascalies. Il réécrit sans cesse ses textes. Mais Genet devient un « poète de la scène » plus qu’un simple dramaturge, il fait voler en éclats la scène traditionnelle et, à travers une utilisation particulière du langage, son théâtre devient une machine de guerre contre le théâtre institutionnel. Ce poète est également un engagé éthique, prenant parti pour la cause palestinienne. Toujours sous le contrôle de son créateur, cette œuvre en perpétuel remaniement, tout à la fois autobiographique et politique, interpelle au plus intime d’eux-mêmes lecteurs et spectateurs par la force subversive que, dans ses éclats lyriques, elle met en jeu.

Die Autor*innen dieses Bands verstehen Europa als ein offenes Projekt und skizzieren Jugendarbeit und Jugendpolitik im Spannungsfeld zwischen Idee und politischer Realität. Sie zeigen, wie vielfältig, widersprüchlich und dynamisch das „europäische Projekt“ tatsächlich ist. Zwischen politischer Ordnung und gesellschaftlicher Aushandlung eröffnet sich ein Raum, in dem junge Menschen, Fachkräfte und Institutionen Europa aktiv mitgestalten. Ein inspirierendes Werk für alle, die Jugend, Politik und Europa (neu) denken wollen – kritisch, differenziert und zukunftsorientiert.

After its independence in 1822, Brazil became a constitutional empire with the Portuguese heir to the throne as its head of state. The Constituent Assembly's constitutional project failed, and instead a constitutional octroi was enacted. The author examines the discussions of the Constituent Assembly and the public discourse surrounding the constitution-making process. She also examines the influence of European constitutions on the constitutional project and the constitutional octroi.

Vor zehn Jahren wurde mit der Bologna-Erklärung der Bildungsminister aus 29 Staaten der Grundstein für einen Europäischen Hochschulraum gelegt, der bis 2010 vollendet werden sollte. Der Bildungsstreik 2009 hat deutlich auf die Missstände bei der Umsetzung von Bologna in Deutschland hingewiesen. Auf der 3. Wissenschaftskonferenz der Gewerkschaft Erziehung und Wissenschaft (GEW) wurde die Umsetzung des Bologna-Prozesses in Deutschland von Expertinnen und Experten aus Hochschulen, Ministerien und Verbänden kritisch reflektiert. Diese Tagungsdokumentation fasst die unterschiedlichen Erwartungen an den Bologna-Prozess und die Diskussion der bestehenden Probleme zusammen. Nach einer Bestandsaufnahme ziehen die Experten eine erste Bilanz und befassen sich mit den sich daraus ergebenden Perspektiven. Die nationalen Probleme der Umsetzung in Deutschland werden ebenso behandelt wie neue Handlungsfelder und Eingriffsoptionen auf internationaler Ebene. Am Ende des Bandes stehen konkrete Erwartungen an den Bologna-Prozess 2010 bis 2020 und ein Ausblick der GEW an Bologna nach 2010.

Lightweight alloys have become of great importance in engineering for construction of transportation equipment. At present, the metals that serve as the base of the principal light alloys are aluminum and magnesium. One of the most important lightweight alloys are the aluminum alloys in use for several applications (structural components wrought aluminum alloys, parts and plates). However, some casting parts that have low cost of production play important role in aircraft parts. Magnesium and its alloys are among the lightest of all metals and the sixth most abundant metal on earth. Magnesium is ductile and the most machinable of all metals. Many of these light weight alloys have appropriately high strength to warrant their use for structural purposes, and as a result of their use, the total weight of transportation equipment has been considerably decreased.

The aim of this text is to show the mutual entanglement of the concept of miracle and the concept of irreducible complexity. The text contains a comparative analysis of both concepts in a historical and contemporary context. Intelligent design theory implies a idea of miracle. The concept of miracle is problematic from the point of view of philosophy of religion and philosophy of science. In this way ID theory on one hand bring into science a completely unfamiliar category, a category of miracle which is totally ineffective in explanation. On the other hand it assumes the God of the gaps concept, which is troublesome from the theological point of view, because it offend God’s omnipotence.

Il xxi secolo è destinato a diventare il “secolo di Grotowski” perché, come dimostrano i saggi raccolti in questo volume, in diversi paesi del mondo stanno nascendo nuove riflessioni e nuove pratiche del teatro all’insegna dell’incontro più che della rappresentazione e dello spettacolo e ciò soprattutto per merito del Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards.

This edited volume presents new perspectives on transnational narratives, through readings and analyses of films, novels, performance art, visual art and archival objects. In recent years, issues of migration and exile have increasingly come to public attention. Experiences of exile and migration are also increasingly being documented and represented in the form of literary and aesthetic expressions, such as texts, films, and visual art projects like installations and photographs. Such representations are interesting aesthetic documents in their own right, and they also offer an important intake to the understanding of the transnational experience of migration and exile. These stories, or transnational narratives, favor a more nuanced perspective as well as new imaginaries of migration and exile that allow for the interrogation of contemporary discourses on these topics. The contributions to this volume examine the complexity of transnational narratives through analyses of language, aesthetics and subjectivity, as well as of the critical potential and ethical dimension of these narratives. The volume is interdisciplinary, featuring contributions from literary studies, linguistics, art history, semiotics and film studies.

The work of Pierre Rosanvallon has increasingly found itself at the center of debates in democratic and political theory – although only few of his numerous monographs have thus far been translated from French. This interdisciplinary volume, the first comprehensive collection on his political thought in English, seeks to lay the groundwork for the study of this eminent political thinker and historian. Following a hitherto untranslated opening essay by Rosanvallon, the chapters – written from a variety of disciplinary perspectives including political theory, political science, philosophy, and history – cover a wide range of topics from the history of democracy to sovereignty, populism, and the function of the press in liberal democratic regimes.

This handbook provides a state-of-the-art, comprehensive overview of the expanding field of urban biodiversity. The field of urban biodiversity has emerged from within the broad discipline of urban ecology in the past two decades and is now a significant field in its own right. In view of this, the Routledge Handbook of Urban Biodiversity presents a thorough treatment of this field detailing the history of urban biodiversity, theoretical foundations, current state of knowledge, and application of that knowledge. The handbook is split into four parts: Part I: Setting the Stage for Urban Biodiversity Research and Practice Part II: Foundational Concepts and Theory in Urban Biodiversity Research Part III: Population and Community Ecology of Key Urban Taxa Part IV: Urban Biodiversity Practice: Management, Planning, and Design for Healthy Communities This volume contains interdisciplinary and global contributions from established and early career academics as well as professionals and practitioners, addressing two key fields in urban biodiversity: fundamental research focused on answering questions about the mechanisms explaining the distribution of species among and within cities; and applied research and work by practitioners to address concerns about urban biodiversity conservation, restoration, planning, design, and public involvement. This handbook is essential reading for students, academics, and professionals interested and working in the fields of urban biodiversity, ecology, nature conservation, urban planning, and landscape architecture

Globalization and Capitalist Geopolitics is concerned with the nature of corporate power against the backdrop of the decline of the West and the struggle by non-western states to challenge and overcome domination of the rest of the world by the West. This book argues that although the US continues to preside over a quasi-imperial system of power based on global military preponderance and financial statecraft, and remains reluctant to recognize the realities global economic convergence, the age of imperial state hegemony is giving way to a new international order characterized by capitalist sovereignty and competition between regional and transnational concentrations of economic power. This title seeks to interrogate the structure of world order by examining leading approaches to globalization and political economy in international relations and international political economy. Breaking with the classical school, Woodley argues that geopolitics should be understood as a transnational strategic practice employed by powerful state actors, which mirrors predatory corporate rivalry for control over global resources and markets, reproducing the structural conditions for corporate power through the transnational state form of capital. In a period of increasing geopolitical insecurity and economic instability this title provides an authoritative yet accessible commentary on debates on capitalism and globalization in the wake of the financial crisis. It is valuable resource for students and scholars seeking to develop a deeper understanding of the historical determinants of the changing dynamics of neoliberal capitalism and their implications for world order.

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"This book is a joint effort of researchers who have been involved in research-projects and programmes that have been trying to chart and reflect upon the implications of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for Public Administration. Since the 1950s, computers had largely facilitated and the transformation of the minimal 'Night-Watch-state' into the modern 'Welfare-state', through their contribution to their effectivity, productivity and efficiency. In most Handbooks of Public Administration, computers are seen as neutral instruments and, most of the time, the role of computer technologies in the transformation of public administration is completely neglected. This 'deafening silence' is a great contrast with the way ICT's are actually changing public administration. The faster the developments in a field of study are, the more difficult it is to let the theories, related to that field of study, mature. In such circumstances, most statements will remain provisional and context-dependent. 25 years of research in Irvine (California) and Kassel (Germany) and more than 10 years of research in Tilburg/Rotterdam (The Netherlands) and about seven years of research in Glasgow/Nottingham (the United Kingdom) nonetheless enables the presentation of a modest image of public administration as it is entering the information age. Researchers in each of these groups have, nevertheless, not stopped trying to phrase theories about the implications of informatization for public administration with a more or less larges scope, that are robust in different contexts and over longer periods of time. These results and theories, covering a broad set of elements of the body of knowledge of public administration, are presented in this volume. As the authors try to demonstrate in this book, informatization developments in public administration do not only challenge the existing body of knowledge of the public administration discipline, but they are also opening up new perspectives and paradigms for the study of public administration."

Corporate Governance als Sicherstellung einer verantwortungsvollen und zielorientierten Unternehmensführung ist ein interdisziplinär intensiv diskutiertes Forschungsfeld. Dabei wird regelmäßig ein positiver Wirkungszusammenhang zwischen Corporate Governance und Unternehmenserfolg unterstellt. Diese Arbeit verfolgt das Ziel, auf Basis eines empirischen Forschungsansatzes die Wirkung zwischen «guter» Corporate Governance und dem Unternehmenserfolg zu analysieren und die erfolgsfördernde Gestaltung und Umsetzung der Corporate Governance zu untersuchen. Insbesondere dem Controlling als Mitgestalter und Begleiter des Managementprozesses kommt in diesem Zusammenhang eine zentrale Bedeutung zu, die in bisherigen Forschungsarbeiten kaum untersucht wurde.