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David A. McDonald rethinks the conventional history of the Palestinian crisis through an ethnographic analysis of music and musicians, protest songs, and popular culture. Charting a historical narrative that stretches from the late-Ottoman period through the end of the second Palestinian intifada, McDonald examines the shifting politics of music in its capacity to both reflect and shape fundamental aspects of national identity. Drawing case studies from Palestinian communities in Israel, in exile, and under occupation, McDonald grapples with the theoretical and methodological challenges of tracing "resistance" in the popular imagination, attempting to reveal the nuanced ways in which Palestinians have confronted and opposed the traumas of foreign occupation.

Examining the interdependent nature of substance, space, and subjectivity, this book constitutes an interdisciplinary analysis of the intoxication indigenous to what has been termed "our narcotic modernity." The first section – Drug/Culture – demonstrates how the body of the addict and the social body of the city are both inscribed by "controlled" substance. Positing addiction as a "pathology (out) of place" that is specific to the (late-)capitalist urban landscape, the second section – Dope/Sick – conducts a critique of the prevailing pathology paradigm of addiction, proposing in its place a theoretical reconceptualization of drug dependence in the terms of "p/re/in-scription." Remapping the successive stages or phases of our narcotic modernity, the third section –Narco/State – delineates three primary eras of narcotic modernity, including the contemporary city of "safe"/"supervised" consumption. Employing an experimental, "intra-textual" format, the fourth section –Brain/Disease – mimics the sense, state or scape of intoxication accompanying each permutation of narcotic modernity in the interchangeable terms of drug, dream and/or disease. Tracing the parallel evolution of "addiction," the (late-)capitalist cityscape, and the pathological project of modernity, the four parts of this book thus together constitute a users’ guide to urban space.

Les propos de cet ouvrage tentent d’éclairer et de révéler, sous un angle émotionnel, esthétique et scientifique, un minuscule pan de ce fascinant continent africain, riche d’arts, de savoirs, de traditions et de croyances plusieurs fois millénaires.Il est d’abord le fruit d’une longue amitié entre quatre hommes unis par cette même passion qui ont appris à se connaître, à s’apprécier puis à échanger leurs connaissances et leurs expériences.Mais comment réunir un antiquaire, un anthropologue de terrain, un historien de Kart et un archéologue ? Pour cela, il faut un lien puissant. Et quoi de plus motivant qu’un lieu particulier : un endroit convivial, surchargé d’objets puissants aptes à procurer à ces spécialistes des chocs émotionnels forts et susceptibles de les replonger dans leurs expériences et leurs centres d’intérêts.Une telle galerie existe bien au cœur de Turin. Répondant ou nom évocateur de « Ganesh », celle-ci possède une annexe dans laquelle, dès l’entrée, vous êtes subitement au contact de ces œuvres africaines attirantes qui vous immergent aux sources même des croyances et des rituels de cette vaste contrée.Les regards croisés qu’offrent ces quatre contributions élargissent et amplifient le corpus des formes connues et inlassablement reproduites. En effet, réalisées en bols et en bronze par des artistes souvent inconnus, les pièces analysées n’ont, pour la plupart, jamais été présentées. Anciennes ou contemporaines, elles sont une invitation à un voyage initiatique en relation directe avec l’énergie des forces de la Nature.

The complexities of consumer behavior call for comprehensive and detailed analytical studies. The need for both businesses and academics across the world to understand the behavior of consumers in crisis situations has been clearly illustrated by the Covid pandemic. A New Era of Consumer Behavior - In and Beyond the Pandemic presents research on both theoretical and practical aspects of this topic in three sections: “Digital Shifts in Consumer Behavior”, “Digitalization of Consumer Behavior in the Tourism Sector” and “Consumer Protection and Sustainability”.

This volume is an original contribution to the understanding of the various forms of communication with the dead. Terming them "necrodialogues", it examines these forms of communication in relation to cultural and ritual practices of necromancy and mediumism on the one hand, and to the development of technologies for establishing contact with the beyond on the other. While recent scholarship in media and cultural studies rejects the narrative that technological progress in modernity eclipsed religious experiences and occult practices, twentieth- and twenty-first-century literary studies, holding on to the secularization paradigm, still largely dismiss practices of communication with the dead as anti-modern. By bringing together perspectives from different disciplines, this volume emphasizes the interconnectedness of literary necrodialogues and other cultural and media practices of communicating with the dead. The main aim of the collection is to explore the cultural, historical, anthropological, and media contexts in which modern necrodialogues are produced and invested with different meanings.

The United Nations, Indo-Pacific and Korean Peninsula focuses on the United Nations (UN) and its frameworks to examine the power politics on the two of the world’s more politically sensitive and geo-strategically crucial regions of the Korean Peninsula and the Indo-Pacific. This book provides answers to broader questions that are relevant to the global emerging peace architecture. The book is divided into three parts: global, Indo-Pacific and the Korean Peninsula. The first part analyses the competing world views of the U.S, China, Japan, and Korea and the evolvement of UN debates on global and regional security, with special emphasis on the Indo-Pacific and the Korean Peninsula. The second part concerns major bilateral or multilateral security issues facing Indo-Pacific countries and their UN debates in this regard. In particular, with new developments in the Indo-Pacific, such as the Quad process involving the Australia-India-Japan-United States and an anticipation expansion of the Group of Seven (G-7), chapters analyse how these mechanisms expand their focus within the scope of Indo-Pacific power politics. Part three focuses on the UN centered debates on two Koreas and their strategic fallouts at regional and global levels. Examining the security order evolving around the politics of the Indo-Pacific regions and Korean Peninsula and analysing the relevance of the UN and its mechanisms, this book will be of interest to researchers studying International Relations, Security Studies, Asian Studies, in particular Korean Studies and the Indo-Pacific.

Dossier : Ce numéro comprend un dossier consacré aux significations du terme phantasia chez les Grecs. Il est constitué de cinq contributions qui mettent l’accent sur : la notion de « venir à la lumière, apparaître » ; l’invisible et le « double » dans la culture classique ; la vérité des images (selon Épicure) ; le sens de l’enargeia ; la phantasia dans les écrits intertestamentaires. Varia : Le volume comporte également huit autres contributions qui explorent : la figure de Pénélope ; les ...

The increasing complexity of our world makes the occurrence of disruptive events with unforeseeable consequences more likely. The future is characterised by uncertainty; therefore, societies and their critical infrastructures need resilience, understood as generic adaptability thanks to flexibility and loose resources. In this book, the author argues that resilience can be normatively desirable if it is used to combine individual freedom and security. Using this as his premise, he develops a new concept of resilience for civil security research and shows how the engineering sciences can implement it through system principles such as diversity, modularity, decentralisation and redundancy.

The edition includes the diaries of Count Egbert Belcredi from 1850 until his death in 1894. Belcredi – who was the brother of Austrian Prime Minister Richard Belcredi (1865-67) – was an outspoken Conservative, with links both to the Bohemian States Rights Party and the early Christian Social movement in Vienna.

Mario Störkle untersucht in diesem Open-Access-Buch das freiwillige Engagement von Expatriates in der Schweiz. Sein Untersuchungsraum ist dabei der Kanton Zug. Ein Kanton, dessen gesellschaftliches Leben in den letzten Jahren stark von Expatriates geprägt wurde. Der Autor betrachtet im Rahmen einer qualitativ-rekonstruktiven Studie die unterschiedlichen Perspektiven auf das Engagement von Expatriates. Der Blick der Studie richtet sich zum einen darauf, wo und in welcher Form sich Expatriates engagieren und unter welchen Rahmenbedingungen dies geschieht. Zum anderen werden die Sichtweisen von lokalen schweizerischen Vereinen miteinbezogen. So gibt die Studie Aufschluss darüber, ob in den Vereinen bereits Erfahrungen mit Expatriates bestehen und welche kollektiven Umgangsweisen sich in den Vereinen erkennen lassen.

This volume, the first collection to examine critically the relationship between Jewish education and Jewish identity, makes two important interventions. First, it offers a critical assessment of the relationship between education and identity, arguing that the reification of identity has hampered much educational creativity in the pursuit of this goal, and that the nearly ubiquitous employment of the term obscures significant questions about what Jewish education is and ought to be. Second, this volume offers thoughtful responses that are not merely synonymous replacements for “identity,” suggesting new possibilities for how to think about the purposes and desired outcomes of Jewish education, potentially contributing to any number of new conversations about the relationship between Jewish education and Jewish life.

"EPUB and EPDF available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Today, production processes have become fragmented with a range of activities divided among firms and workers across borders. These global value chains are being strongly promoted by international organizations, such as the World Bank and the World Trade Organization, but social and political backlash is mounting in a growing variety of forms. This original volume brings together academics and activists from Europe to think creatively about the social and environmental imbalances of global production and how to reform the current economic system. "

Developing countries interested in REDD+ under the UNFCCC have been requested to prepare a national forest monitoring system (NFMS) and a system to monitor, report and verify implementation (MRV). They have also been requested to engage local communities and indigenous groups as critical stakeholders in this process. The NFMS should be consistent with national inventories of emissions and removals of greenhouse gases. These inventories are, however, usually prepared using national level information with low geographical resolution and without the participation of local communities or other forest owners/managers. However, it has been shown that members of rural forest communities can develop the skills to monitor and measure levels of carbon stock in their forests and changes in these levels over time. If this information could be included and tracked from the local to regional and national levels, this might help to design transparent mechanisms for the assessment of REDD+ implementation, and possibly even for benefit sharing. The objective of this Special Issue is to discuss and explore the social, technical and political implications and potential of including community-based monitoring in MRV systems and benefit-sharing schemes in REDD+.

Zur Reduktion des Einsatzes fossiler Energieträger bietet sich die Verwendung regenerativer Kraftstoffe als eine mögliche Lösung an. Hierfür sind passende Brennverfahren zur Maximierung der Effizienz bei der Nutzung dieser knappen Ressource von zentraler Bedeutung. Gleichzeitig müssen die bei der Verbrennung entstehenden Schadstoffemissionen möglichst niedrig gehalten werden. Zur Erfüllung dieser Anforderungen bieten sich Dual-Fuel-Brennverfahren an, welche hohe thermodynamische Wirkungsgrade bei zugleich geringen Rohemissionen ermöglichen. Das Ziel dieser Arbeit ist es, verschiedene Dual-Fuel-Brennverfahren unter Verwendung von Biomethan, Biopropan und Bioethanol als Hauptkraftstoff und Kleinstmengen an Diesel als Zündkraftstoff zu untersuchen und zu optimieren. Hierbei werden die externe und die interne Abgasrückführung als Maßnahmen zur Effizienzsteigerung und Emissionsreduktion betrachtet. Die Ergebnisse zeigen eine deutliche Verminderung fossiler Kohlenstoffdioxidemissionen durch die Verwendung der untersuchten Dual-Fuel-Brennverfahren. Die Abgasrückführung erlaubt eine zusätzliche Steigerung des Wirkungsgrads, während die Schadstoffbildung gleichzeitig weiter abgesenkt wird.

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