Open Access Books

Sia all'interno del dibattito accademico che della retorica politica si discute molto di sicurezza urbana. Ciononostante, resta ancora da esplorare in che modo la “sicurezza urbana” possa differen­ziarsi da altre forme di sicurezza. Questo volume serve a porre le basi per analisi e studi futuri che abbiano l'obiettivo specifico di comprendere se, e quando, i contesti cittadini influenzino il fenomeno della sicurezza, al punto tale da doverla declinare nella sua accezione “urbana”. Gli autori dei saggi hanno cercato di rispondere ad una o più delle seguenti domande: in che modo il contesto urbano determina le espressioni più visibili e quelle meno facilmente individuabili di fenomeni quali criminalità, violenza, disordine e conflitto? Quali sono gli attori sociali che, all'interno delle città, influenzano maggiormente le pratiche di controllo per contrastare o diminuire tali fenomeni? Quali conflitti sociali emergono come conseguenza diretta delle pratiche di controllo dispiegate dentro le città? Nel fare ciò, ogni saggio prende in considerazione le specificità delle città in analisi per spiegare come queste determinano ed influenzano tali pratiche di controllo.

In March 1961, Custódio Abel Fernandes Ramos - administrator of the municipality of Carmona (Uíge) - witnessed the start of the armed struggle for Angolan independence on the ground. Tasked with narrating the events by the then Minister of Overseas Territories, Adriano Moreira, Custódio Ramos produced a detailed report consisting of more than a thousand pages of information on the first months of the nationalist insurrection promoted by the Union of the Peoples of Angola (UPA) in northwest Angola. In this report, Custódio Ramos not only diligently documented the facts surrounding the outbreak of the armed struggle, but also tried to interpret them in political and ideological terms, in the context of the Cold War, using the analytical and discursive methods typical of the Estado Novo. In this sense, the report, now published in a facsimile edition, is a precious and extremely relevant documentary source not only for reconstructing the historical facts themselves but also for understanding the thinking and reaction of the Portuguese colonial administration in the first year of the war in Angola.

A collective biography of four leading figures of German left-wing communism, who challenged the political systems of their time with their revolutionary-democratic stance. Caught between social utopia and political practice, Karl Schröder, Alexander Schwab, Bernhard Reichenbach and Adam Scharrer had a decisive influence on the left-communist movement of the early Weimar Republic. They distanced themselves from the other currents of the political left of their time, particularly the Soviet model, and defended the principle of workers’ councils as the ideal for a democratically constituted communist economy and society. Following the failure of the Communist Workers’ Party of Germany, which they had founded, they continually found new forms of political action and radical social critique beyond party politics – for instance in literature, education or journalism. This collective biographical study examines the development of their worldview from the German Empire through to the 1970s and illustrates the interplay between individual life stories and the major political and social upheavals of the 20th century in Germany, the Soviet Union and Britain. The book offers an actor-centred insight into the transformation of the labour movement beyond the major parties and contributes to the history of political ideas in the 20th century.

Published

Die Publikationsberatung ist ein stetig wichtiger werdendes Feld für Universitäten und ihre Bibliotheken. Sie stellt eine erfolgreiche Verbreitung von Forschungsergebnissen sicher und unterstützt vor allem junge Forschende. Die Autor*innen des Bandes liefern sowohl für Mitarbeiter*innen aus der Verwaltung als auch aus der Wissenschaft grundlegende Informationen zu zahlreichen Aspekten des wissenschaftlichen Publikationsprozesses sowie zu relevanten Themen der Publikationsberatung. Dabei vermitteln sie praktische Erfahrungen aus unterschiedlichen Einrichtungen und bieten Anregungen und Empfehlungen für Angebote zur Publikationsunterstützung: grundlegendes Know-how für den Auf- und Ausbau eines bedarfsgerechten Publikationsservices.

An exploration of social media–imposed pressure on new mothers: How the supposed safe havens of online mommy groups have become rife with aggression and groupthink. Many mothers today turn to social media for parenting advice, joining online mothers' groups on Facebook and elsewhere. But the communities they find in these supposed safe havens can be rife with aggression, peer pressure, and groupthink—insisting that only certain practices are “best,” “healthiest,” “safest” (and mandatory). In this book, Jessica Clements and Kari Nixon debunk the myth of “optimal motherhood”—the idea that there is only one right answer to parenting dilemmas, and that optimal mothers must pursue perfection. In fact, Clements and Nixon write, parenting choices are not binaries, and the scientific findings touted by mommy groups are neither clear-cut nor prescriptive. Clements and Nixon trace contemporary ideas of optimal motherhood to the nineteenth-century “Cult of True Womanhood,” which viewed women in terms of purity and dignity. Both mothers themselves, they joined a variety of Facebook mothers' groups to explore what goes on in online mommy wars. They examine debates within these groups over CDC recommendations about alcohol during pregnancy, birth plans that don't go according to plan, breastfeeding vs. formula, co-sleeping and “crying it out,” and “tweaking” pregnancy test kits to discern pregnancy as early as possible. Clements and Nixon argue for an empowered motherhood, freed from the impossible standards of the optimal.

El volumen que el lector posee en sus manos (o en su pantalla) constituye una selección de los estudios presentados en el congreso internacional “1820. La Ilusión de la Libertad. El liberalismo revolucionario en España y América en los años veinte”, realizado en Las Cabezas de San Juan y Sevilla en marzo de 2020, como forma de reflexionar (y celebrar, por supuesto) el bicentenario del Trienio Liberal español, atendiendo no sólo a sus implicancias en la Península Ibérica, sino especialmente a su impacto en América. La efeméride funcionó, entonces, como una excusa para analizar problemas relevantes del pasado y el presente. En este caso, los vínculos entre una sociedad estancada, y que ya nada más tenía para ofrecer, y una de las revoluciones más importantes que se desenvolvió a lo largo y ancho de Iberoamérica. Esto se hizo por medio de la presentación de un conjunto de investigaciones que atendieron a los aspectos económicos, políticos, sociales y culturales de la revolución de 1820. Se trató de un esfuerzo colectivo, que esperamos haber plasmado en esta compilación.

Published

Anschliessend an Bildtheorien von Nietzsche, Wittgenstein und Barthes untersucht der Autor die Poetik des Visuellen in Robert Walsers Werk. Die improvisatorische Dynamik in Walsers Schreibszene entfaltet sich in Korrespondenz zu den ästhetischen Signaturen der avancierten bildenden Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts im Ringen um Verbindlichkeit, Genauigkeit und Wahrhaftigkeit in der künstlerischen Darstellung. Im Fokus der Untersuchung steht die Dialektik der spontanen Schreibgeste, welche gleichzeitig den Prozess der Fokussierung und der Zerstreuung, der Neuorientierung in und der Neukonstitution der erzählten und visualisierten Welt in Gang setzt. Sie ermöglicht die schreibende Suche nach dem in seiner Flüchtigkeit Bestechenden, der «einzigartigen Evidenz» und der Authentizität des Augen-Blicks.

È una nuova epoca per il movimento psicoanalitico lacaniano, da quando Jacques-Alain Miller ha lanciato con la movida Zadig una nuova scommessa del Campo freudiano. Essa ha preso avvio con diversi forum in Francia, poi con la conferenza di Madrid del 13 maggio 2017 e il 27 maggio 2017, con la conferenza tenuta a Torino nell’ambito del convegno nazionale della Scuola Lacaniana di Psicoanalisi, è stata coinvolta nel vortice anche l’Italia. Dopo la conferenza di maggio, è seguito a luglio, sempre a Torino, un seminario di politica lacaniana, iniziato con una conferenza di Jacques-Alain Miller sul tema “Eresia e ortodossia”, che insieme a tutti gli altri interventi di quella giornata di seminario, è raccolta in questo volume. La scommessa che ha dato il via a una nuova dimensione del Campo freudiano, è stata enunciata da Jacques-Alain Miller con le seguenti parole: “Ho un progetto: farci presenti, non soltanto nella clinica, nella psicologia individuale, come dice Freud, ma anche nella psicologia individuale in quanto collettiva, cioè nel campo politico. Non come un partito politico, ma in quanto psicoanalisti che possono portare qualcosa all’umanità in questo momento della o delle civiltà. Questo apporto, Lacan l’ha detto e ridetto, lo sperava, ma non è giunto a renderlo concreto. Non ha raggiunto l’apertura che è la nostra oggi. Non ha fatto questo passo, nonostante tutto il suo discorso converga su questo punto”.

In der Auseinandersetzung um die Lösung stabilitätspolitischer Probleme wird seit den 70er Jahren in den Vereinigten Staaten der Vorschlag diskutiert, die Globalsteuerung durch den Einsatz der Steuerpolitik mikroökonomisch zu ergänzen. Allen Vorschlägen einer «tax-based incomes policy» ist der Zweck gemeinsam, dafür zu sorgen, dass die Kosten stabilitätswidrigen Verhaltens bei mikroökonomischen Lohn- und Preisentscheidungen einbezogen werden sollen. In der vorliegenden Untersuchung werden die Voraussetzungen dieser Ansätze herausgearbeitet und die Wirkungen auf Allokation, Distribution und Stabilität untersucht.

Ludwig Senfl – Schlüsselfigur der Komponistengeneration zwischen Heinrich Isaac und Orlando di Lasso – begann 1498 seine Karriere am Hof Kaiser Maximilians I., bevor er ab 1523 am Hof von Herzog Wilhelm IV. in München wirkte. Von seinen Zeitgenossen hoch geschätzt, wurde seine zentrale Position in der frühen Musikhistoriographie durch J. N. Forkel und A. W. Ambros verankert. Trotz der herausragenden Qualität von Senfls Werk war ein Großteil seines OEuvres bislang noch nicht in einer modernen Edition zugänglich. Die New Senfl Edition (NSE) schließt diese Lücke und bietet einen umfassenden Überblick über das Schaffen des Komponisten auf Basis der neuesten Forschung. Die ersten beiden Bände der NSE präsentieren erstmals das gesamte erhaltene Korpus der vierstimmigen Motetten, deren große textliche wie kompositorische Bandbreite demonstriert, wie der Komponist die internationalen musikalischen Trends verinnerlichte und auf innovative Weise weiterentwickelte. Ludwig Senfl — a key figure in the generation of composers between Heinrich Isaac and Orlando di Lasso — began his career in 1498 at the court of Emperor Maximilian I, before working at the court of Duke Wilhelm IV in Munich from 1523 onwards. Highly esteemed by his contemporaries, his central role in early music historiography was later cemented through the writings of J. N. Forkel and A. W. Ambros. Despite the outstanding quality of Senfl’s work, the majority of his oeuvre has never been made available in a modern edition. The New Senfl Edition (NSE) aims to close this gap by offering a comprehensive overview of this composer’s oeuvre based on the latest findings in research. The first two volumes of the NSE present for the first time his complete extant body of four-voice motets, which demonstrate how Senfl internalised international trends in music composition and developed them in innovative ways.

This book focuses on «Convertibilidad», the latest Argentine experience of exchange rate based stabilisation, and aims at isolating the main causes for its tragic collapse in 2001-2002. The characteristics of Argentina’s high and hyperinflation during the 1980s are analysed, and the theory of currency boards is expounded. The stabilisation tool, an institutionally highly credible currency board arrangement (CBA), though highly effective, could not be an optimal long-term solution, given the country’s structural and trade characteristics. The analysis of the causes of the CBA’s collapse yields a complex picture of interacting factors, among them invaliding ones that had created multiple vulnerabilities over years, and triggering ones that unfolded their worst potential in meeting such vulnerable conditions.

This volume brings together eleven intellectual and expert voices from Afghanistan working across different fields and contexts. The contributors examine the collapse of the Republic of Afghanistan in August 2021 from political, social, economic, and historical perspectives and treat it as a decisive rupture in the country’s recent history. The chapters offer perspectives shaped by exile and diaspora, combining analytically grounded reflection with lived experience and professional engagement, and revisiting established interpretations within broader structural contexts. The book challenges dominant external narratives and contributes to more nuanced debates on state collapse, intervention, and social change. It was developed in cooperation with the Afghanistan Forum in Deutschland e.V. and the Research Center Communication for Social Change at Leipzig University and was funded by the Volkswagen Foundation.

Language plays an essential role both in creating law and in governing its implementation. Providing an accessible and comprehensive introduction to this subject, Language and Law:describes the different registers and genres that make up spoken and written legal language and how they develop over time; analyses real-life examples drawn from court cases from different parts of the world, illustrating the varieties of English used in the courtroom by speakers occupying different roles; addresses the challenges presented to our notions of law and regulation by online communication; discusses the complex role of translation in bilingual and multilingual jurisdictions, including Hong Kong and Canada; and provides readings from key scholars in the discipline, including Lawrence Solan, Peter Goodrich, Marianne Constable, David Mellinkoff, and Chris Heffer. With a wide range of activities throughout, this accessible textbook is essential reading for anyone studying language and law or forensic linguistics.