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Ante la evidencia de los amplios y profundos efectos que la pandemia por el COVID-19 está provocando en cualquier esfera de la sociedad global, Jalisco a futuro se planteó el desafío de analizar la situación que se ha generado en el estado tanto por la epidemia como por las acciones emprendidas para su control. Con amplitud de miras, se abarcó una gran diversidad de temas, afín de producir una visión a la vez detallada y extensa del impacto de la contingencia sanitaria en Jalisco y lo que serán sus efectos en los distintos ámbitos de la vida. Tanto en Jalisco como en todo México, la construcción del futuro pospandemia debe ser un trabajo plural y participativo, que convoque a un esfuerzo integrado de los diferentes niveles de gobierno, el sector empresarial, las instituciones de la sociedad civil, la academia y la ciudadanía en general. A todos ellos ponemos a su disposición esta información como un insumo útil y relevante en aras de contribuir a la construcción de una sociedad más justa, equitativa y sustentable.

How has the process of globalization shaped artistic practices on the one hand, and art history and theory on the other? The contributions in this volume approach this question from a range of perspectives, taking into account the role of travel, for example, or practitioners'increasing knowledge of other cultures, art's increasing awareness of itself as existing on a global level, literary translation, the advance of technology, and the ever-changing grand narratives of art history. As well as reflections on European avant-gardes and neo-avant-gardes, the collection features discussions of Japan, Latin America, Africa, Asia and the Pacific. As a whole, the volume engages with broader current discourses about cultural globalization, and features input from leading scholars around the world as well as some important novel interventions by early-career researchers. The authors not only make a major contribution to the evolution of avant-garde studies, but also offer valuable, original points of view to art history and to the cultural theory of globalization more broadly.

The Kisan Andolan or the Indian farmers'protest of 2020–2021 is one of the longest and biggest (and victorious) social movements in the history of independent India. This book adopts a multidisciplinary approach to contextualise the movement in the long run. It engages with the historical, social and religious roots of the Andolan, examining what makes it so unique and transformative for Indian polity. It explores the (dis)continuities with previous resistance and contestation movements in India and globally, and debates the role so far of regional, religious and class-caste-gender identities. Through interviews, the volume also gives a specific voice and platform to grassroots activists and farmers from the movement.Part of the Social Movements and Transformative Dissent series, the book will appeal to scholars, activists and a wider audience interested in social movements and dissent politics in India and the Global South. It will also be of interest to students of economics, political science, anthropology, sociology, government, agrarian studies, Sikh and Punjab studies, politics, international relations and diaspora studies.

O Empresograma é um ins-tru mento de avaliação que permite refletir sobre as práticas empreendedoras a partir da perspectiva do paradigma cons-ciencial1, ou seja, considerando variáveis holossomáticas, mul-ti dimensionais e multiexistencias, e o processo evolutivo no qual nos tornamos cada vez mais autoconscientes, policármi-cos e cosmoéticos.

This book shows readers how the arts of improvisational theater and acting can help scientists and other experts speak about technical research to lay audiences.Focused on public speaking, this book translates the principles and processes used by actors and other theater professionals into a method for communicating science to the general public. The book is structured as a step-by-step examination of how to write an effective speech and then a guide to carefully analyzing that speech as an actor does in rehearsal before finally sharing it with an audience as a performance. In other words, the book helps science communicators identify what to say and how to say it. This book also includes prompts and exercises that the author has used in classes and workshops with scientists.

This book investigates how a study of Shakespeare's plays may enhance empathy in doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals. Addressing the widely perceived empathy gap in teaching and medical practice that emerged after the Covid-19 pandemic, the book presents a new study into the psychosocial elements of human interactions. It offers invaluable insights into how students and practitioners may be supported in dealing appropriately with their emotions as well as with those of their patients, thereby facilitating more humane medical care. Fostering an empathic patient-doctor relationship, the author explores the emotional, cognitive and moral dimensions of care and describes how Shakespeare studies can be realistically incorporated into the medical curriculum through group reflections, workshops and special study modules.

Technologies and tech companies are routinely accused of creating many societal problems. This book exposes these charges as mostly myths, falsehoods, and exaggerations. Technology Fears and Scapegoats debunks 40 widespread myths about Big Tech, Big Data, AI, privacy, trust, polarization, automation, and similar fears, while exposing the scapegoating behind these complaints. The result is a balanced and positive view of the societal impact of technology thus far. The book takes readers through the steps and mindset necessary to restore the West's belief in technological progress. Each individual chapter provides a cogent and often controversial rebuttal to a common tech accusation. The resulting text will inspire conversations among tech insiders, policymakers, and the general public alike.

This book charts John W. Burton's transition from practitioner in diplomacy to pioneer in the theory of peace research, thinking on world society and conflict resolution. Born in 1915, given his father's name, it was assumed that he would follow his father and become a Christian missionary. He did not: he joined the Australian Public Service. From a junior position he rose rapidly. He was forthright and some found him irritating, or worse. He progressed to the highest levels of policy-making. Amidst some controversy, he resigned abruptly in 1951. He then worked on his farm outside Canberra, writing avidly. He did not intend to become an academic, but in 1963 he was offered a position in International Relations at University College in London and he accepted. He was key to the foundation of the International Peace Research Association (IPRA) in 1964 and of the Conflict Research Society in the UK, because he thought that words and ideas were not enough: there needed to be instrumentsof change. Looking back, he was, in fact, a secular missionary. His aim? Simple: to change the world.· This book is an exploration of how conflict should be reinterpreted.· The ideas of his work are a product not of any metaphysical approach, but of experience. · Burton knew the field: Cold War diplomacy, civil strife, reforming organisations, resistance to change. He had'been there'and he found much to criticise. · This book illustrates what he had to offer and explains why. These readings reveal shifts in his ideas, cohering incrementally, integrated into a new framework. · This book presents his pioneering and relevant work. Transcending disciplinary boundaries it will be of interest to students, as well as professionals who address conflict at all levels of society, from family to state.

Le parcours des personnes judiciarisées de 16 à 35 ans vers le désistement du crime et la (ré)intégration sociocommunautaire est généralement complexe et parsemé d'embuches. En plus de faire face à l'impact cumulatif de plusieurs adversités vécues tout au long de leur vie, beaucoup de ces jeunes sont confrontés à de multiples transitions : de l'adolescence à l'âge adulte, de la « délinquance » à l'« ex-délinquance », de la « dépendance » au « rétablissement », etc. Cet ouvrage se base sur la recherche en partenariat (RÉ)SO 16-35 réalisée auprès de 140 personnes judiciarisées de 16 à 35 ans qui racontent leur cheminement vers une (ré)intégration sociocommunautaire. Il leur donne la parole en partageant leurs points de vue sur leur processus de désistement du crime et de (ré)intégration sociocommunautaire et fournit des pistes pour l'intervention et l'organisation des services qui en découlent. Désistement et (ré)intégration sociocommunautaire s'adresse principalement aux personnes en recherche, à la communauté universitaire et aux spécialistes de l'intervention qui exercent auprès des adolescents et adolescentes et des jeunes adultes judiciarisés.

What's the brightest light on Earth? The coldest corner of the universe? The blackest material ever made? The most poisonous substance in nature? ‘You will learn something new in every chapter, on every page and probably in every paragraph. Hugely entertaining.'Kit Yates, author of The Maths of Life and Death Ka-boom! probes extremes of size and speed, depth and density, and reveals the stickiest, sweetest, smelliest and nastiest substances known to science. In an unabashed celebration of the exceptional, David Darling takes an enlightening journey through the universe's weirdest and most wonderful extremes. Travel to far-flung galaxies in pursuit of habitable planets and extra-terrestrial life. Journey to the rainforests of South America and discover the top-speed of the notoriously sluggish sloth. Find out how Earth's hardiest creatures – tardigrades or ‘water bears'– ended up living on the moon. And meet the scientists and engineers using these quirks of nature to design faster computers, produce greener energy and revolutionise space travel.

This book explores the service economy and challenges that all organizations face as goods and services make way for a world where customers (B2C) and businesses (B2B) seek seamless, thoughtful, and exceptional experiences. This book introduces readers to a range of interrelated topics and the application of service management and marketing theories which are fundamentally critical to the success of all enterprises seeking competitive advantage through enhanced customer experience.This book analyses management and marketing challenges in the service and experience economy and provides insights into how marketers and managers can strike a balance between supply, demand, price, and quality and leverage technology for operational efficiency and to better manage customer service and expectations. Through the coverage of critical foundational topics, from how value is created; the evolution of global economies from goods, services to experiences; foundations of customer-centric management; managing service workers; integrating human touch with high-tech service; and many others, the authors provide a holistic understanding of management in a complex, globally interconnected world. This book will be useful for students, researchers, and instructors of business management, marketing, commerce, and economics. It will also be of interest to professionals working in healthcare, retail, financial services, government hospitality, leisure, tourism, and other services.

For more than a century, historians and writers on Africa have almost invariably associated the name Mlozi with all the cruellest excesses of the central and east African slave trade during the nineteenth century. That Mlozi bin Kazbadema was a significant slaver who conducted his trade according to all the brutal conventions of his period is beyond dispute. His subsequent botched hanging at the end of a British-sponsored rope, following a drum-head trial of questionable legality, has been generally regarded as well-deserved and a fitting, if muscular, exemplar of Pax Britannica in action.In The End of the Slaver, a title taken from recollections of Mlozi's hanging by the medical missionary Dr. Kerr Cross, author David Stuart-Mogg examines Mlozi's life and milieu and carefully weighs the often conflicting evidence apparent between official military and government reports and the largely unpublished private letters and diaries written at the time by those who participated in Mlozi's downfall and elimination. Stuart-Mogg's carefully evaluated findings call into serious question the altruism and philanthropy that the ultimate, and inevitable, victors of the struggle accorded their actions and their undoubtedly laudable ultimate objective - the eradication of slavery in British Central Africa.Referring to this book as'an unusually stimulating study, Professor Shepperson recommends that The End of the Slaver deserves to be widely-read, not only by those whose primary interest is in the history of Malawi but also by students of slavery and the anti-slavery movements in the nineteenth century - and, indeed by all who are concerned with man's inhumanity to man.

Corona, the Lockdown, and the Media investigates media influence on policies to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. Bernhagen and Kybelka propose that news reporting on the pandemic pitches human impact against economic consequences of the virus and of restrictive policy measures designed to contain it. They argue that the use of these frames influences governments'decisions to enact or lift lockdown measures. Using time series data from England, France, and Germany, the authors show that news reporting on COVID-19 was indeed characterized by these media frames. However, there is no evidence of media influence on government policy. Instead, the authors find that anti-pandemic policy decisions were responsive to public opinion in these countries.

Many federal agencies provide data and statistics on inequality and related aspects of household income, consumption, and wealth (ICW). However, because the information provided by these agencies is often produced using different concepts, underlying data, and methods, the resulting estimates of poverty, inequality, mean and median household income, consumption, and wealth, as well as other statistics, do not always tell a consistent or easily interpretable story. Measures also differ in their accuracy, timeliness, and relevance so that it is difficult to address such questions as the effects of the Great Recession on household finances or of the Covid-19 pandemic and the ensuing relief efforts on household income and consumption. The presence of multiple, sometimes conflicting statistics at best muddies the waters of policy debates and, at worst, enable advocates with different policy perspectives to cherry-pick their preferred set of estimates. Achieving an integrated system of relevant, high-quality, and transparent household ICW data and statistics should go far to reduce disagreement about who has how much, and from what sources. Further, such data are essential to advance research on economic wellbeing and to ensure that policies are well targeted to achieve societal goals. Creating an Integrated System of Data and Statistics on Household Income, Consumption, and Wealth reviews the major household ICW statistics currently produced by U.S. statistical agencies and provides guidance for modernizing the information to better inform policy and research, such as understanding trends in inequality and mobility. This report provides recommendations for developing an improved 21st century data system for measuring the extent to which economic prosperity is shared by households throughout the population and for understanding how the distribution of resources is affected by government policy and economic events.

David G. Kristinsson legt eine Geschichte der Grenze zwischen Soziologie und Philosophie vor. Darin befasst er sich mit deutschsprachigen Soziologen der ersten Stunde. Er betrachtet die entstehende Disziplin Soziologie in ihrer Absetzungsbewegung zur Philosophie. Mittels intensiver Lektüre bestimmter Werke (u.a. Tönnies? und Simmels) untersucht er, welche Aufgaben die Soziologen ihrer neuen Disziplin in Abgrenzung zu denen einer künftigen Philosophie zuwiesen. Da Soziologen zu dieser Zeit noch kaum auf statistischer, sondern vor allem auf Grundlage historischer Kenntnisse und Alltagsbeobachtungen arbeiteten, analysiert der Autor die Abweichungen von der Gesellschaftsanalyse der herrschenden Universitätsphilosophie. Denn ihre induktive Metaphysik der Gesellschaft unterschied sie zwar klar von der spekulativen, kaum aber von der wissenschaftlichen Philosophie.

En la semana constituye una reflexión sobre la pequeña burguesía frente a la crisis: o abandona sus ilusiones de ascenso social, o gira dramáticamente a la derecha. Es también una reflexión sobre los regímenes políticos de extracción pequeño burguesa que asumen como progresistas y van endureciendo sus posiciones hasta exhibirse abiertamente antiobreros, como el de Yrigoyen o el de Frondizi. Metáfora polisémica, la novela habla simultáneamente de su protagonista y de su autor, de aquella apuesta y de ésta, que enhebra en una sola línea dos momentos históricos de un actor esencial de la historia argentina, la pequeña burguesía o, como gusta al lenguaje popular, la clase media.

A wealth of political literature has survived from Greek antiquity, from political theory by Plato and Aristotle to the variety of prose and verse texts that more broadly demonstrate political thinking. However, despite the extent of this legacy, it can be surprisingly hard to say how ancient Greek political thought makes its influence felt, or whether this influence has been sustained across the centuries. This volume includes a range of disciplinary responses to issues surrounding the legacy of Greek political thought, exploring the ways in which political thinking has evolved from antiquity to the present day.

Although not considered a formal area of study, scholarship on the uses, content, and effects of entertaining media has been central to communication studies and related fields for more than a century. The serious study of entertainment seems paradoxical, as we presume entertainment to be the “lighter side” of our daily lives. Yet as revealed in this volume, entertainment media serve as cultural artifacts that shape our understandings of various peoples and publics in ways that invite deeper, immersive, and increasingly interactive engagement. On this backdrop, Entertainment Media and Communication serves as a reference guide for canonical and foundational research into media entertainment and a collection of emerging and updated theories and models core to the study of media entertainment in the 21st century. Across more than forty chapters and with a diverse and inclusive list of authors, this volume provides a broad-yet-nuanced view into entertainment media and communication scholarship. The contributors explore its foundations, define and extend key concepts and theories through myriad lenses, discuss unique considerations of digital media, and divine future paths for scholarly inquiry.

First published in 1975, The Rise of the Mediocracy is exhaustive, disturbing, devastating, yet often very funny. It explodes the myth of meritocracy and the pretence of improved living standards. While the doom- boomers blame all our ills on trigger happy politicians, Arab oil sheikhs or polluting multinational corporations, the intractable problems of the world have come about through a multiplication of individual attitudes and actions whose end result is industrial anarchy, civil disorders, population explosion and declining standards.Many of the ‘good things'of life- democracy, education, sociology, communications, growth, the welfare state- have contributed to the overall neurosis, trivialization and greed. As these good things will not likely be abandoned, the problems of contemporary society may well be insoluble. But if there are solutions they are unlikely to be implemented because everywhere there is an elitism not of meritocracy but of mediocracy, whose rise can be traced from the 18th century and has accelerated in recent years. No other book relates the discrediting of religion and politics, business and professions so plausibly to chaos in the arts, diminishing returns in education and curbless crime in society. This interdisciplinary book is an interesting read for students of humanities and social sciences.

This book is an inquiry into whether what Blake called his ‘visions'can be attributed to recognizable perceptual phenomena. The conditions identified include visual hallucinations (some derived from migraine aura), and auditory and visual hallucinations derived from several types of synaesthesia. Over a long period of time, Blake has been celebrated as a ‘visionary,'yet his ‘visions'have not been discussed. Worrall draws on an understanding of neuroscience to examine both Blake's visual art and writings, and discusses the lack of evidence pointing towards psychosis or pathological ill-health, thus questioning the rumours pertaining to Blake's insanity.

Segundo Célia, os médicos disseram que a entendiam, mas que ela ainda era muito nova e poderia ter outros filhos mais tarde. Eles ainda a alertaram na época de que a criança poderia vir com alguma deficiência ou talvez nem chegasse a nascer. Eu sou nova, sim, mas já sei o que é melhor para mim. Posso ter outros filhos depois, mas nunca serão esta mesma que está dentro de mim, disse ela na ocasião. Assim como muitos familiares e amigos, os médicos acabaram respeitando a decisão de Célia. Então, em abril, nasceu Maria Amélia Regiane Amaral, a Méinha. No início, o apoio da família foi muito importante para os cuidados com o bebê, mas depois Célia já conseguia fazer praticamente tudo sozinha. Quando nasce um filho, nasce uma mãe, então quando minha filha nasceu, a roda gigante não dá tempo para lamentações, ela simplesmente gira. O cume é temporário, assim como a depressão, psicossomática. A dor e a alegria, nada é definitivo. Sendo assim, aprenda a valorizar os bons momentos e seja solidário com a dor alheia. Lembre-se, a roda está sempre a girar, a lágrima de hoje é o sorriso de amanhã, e vice-versa. Que assim seja. Uma coisa que reparei agora em meus devaneios é que você sempre foi de me fazer sentir como o infinito, como se eu fosse a pessoa mais importante do universo. Com esse teu jeitinho pra cima de mim, teu sorriso meia-lua, e eu acabei por deixar que você virasse meu satélite natural.

Der Band setzt es sich zum Ziel, zentrale Ergebnisse des Graduiertenkollegs Innovationsgesellschft heute zu sammeln und in Hinblick auf dessen übergreifende theoretische Ansätze, empirische Gegenstände und gesellschaftlich relevante Fragestellungen zu reflektieren. Was haben wir über die Strukturen und Dynamiken der Innovationsgesellschaft gelernt und wie haben sich diese über den Forschungszeitraum weiterentwickelt? Wie konstituieren sich Innovationsfelder und andere innovationsbezogene Mesoordnungen und welche Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede lassen sich zwischen ihnen feststellen? Welche neuen Praktiken reflexiver Innovation bilden sich heraus und welche Steuerungsprobleme, unintendierte Nebenfolgen und Gegenbewegungen sind mit ihnen verbunden? In welchem Verhältnis steht Innovation zu etablierten Strukturen, feldspezifischen Materialitäten und gesellschaftsweiten Entwicklungen wie etwa der Digitalisierung? Welche Rolle spielen gesellschaftliche Krisen bei der Hervorbringung und Durchsetzung von Innovationen?

Le recul peut-il nous sauver? C'est peut-être un brin exagéré, mais il peut certainement contribuer à élever une sorte de rempart face à tout ce que nous entendons, voyons et lisons. Depuis quelques années, avec la pandémie de COVID-19 en toile de fond, des thèmes ont surgi et ressurgi sans qu'on s'y attarde vraiment : liberté d'expression, colère, désobéissance, résignation, manipulation, dépendance et vulnérabilité aux technologies en sont quelques exemples. Comment pouvons-nous mieux exercer notre pensée critique? L'époque actuelle met à mal notre jugement et notre optimisme : il vaut mieux y travailler dès maintenant. À l'aide de cas tirés de l'actualité récente, David Crête nous propose d'apprendre à avoir plus de recul. Un exercice crucial — à faire avant tout pour soi.

Thsi book focuses on entrepreneurial development and the development of small businesses in Africa. The central idea of this book is that entrepreneurial development and small business development are connected. Entrepreneurship is lauded as an engine of growth (economic development and job creation), with small businesses often contributing to new job creation. Also, entrepreneurship and small business development are the heart of many countries'economies. The decision to focus on entrepreneurial development and small business development is that first, there is a consensus that most entrepreneurial activities are aimed at creating small new ventures. Second, countries that give special attention to entrepreneurship stand a chance of industrialization. Third, Africa has been reported as having a rich entrepreneurial landscape as the continent's wealthiest individuals generated their wealth as trailblazing entrepreneurs. Fourth, small-scale entrepreneurs and businesses form the backbone of economic activities across the continent. A motivation to focus on entrepreneurial and small business development is the generally accepted view that start-ups in Africa are growing calling for understanding into how to enhance productivity, efficiencies, and application of new technologies. The book aims to enhance the understanding of stakeholders (business owners, governments, practitioners) to overturn challenges such as inadequate start-up capital, competition, lack of employees with the right skills, and low use of technology. The ability to develop entrepreneurship in Africa, and the role of small-medium enterprises cannot be underestimated. The promotion of entrepreneurship in Africa is crucial as it creates jobs, provides decent livelihoods, and contributes to GDP. Most entrepreneurial initiatives in developing economies entail identifying opportunities and new venture creation. It is worth recognizing that most new ventures created take the form of small businesses and the entrepreneurial processes involve entrepreneurs'knowledge and skills, identifying opportunities, involvement in setting up a business and managing the business.The various aspects of this book focus on many entrepreneurial activities that are undertaken on the African continent. This book is focused on African countries since there is a reason to be optimistic about the prospects for growth and entrepreneurship. To achieve entrepreneurial success in African countries, the African Development Bank (2021) proposes that there must be a link between macro and firm-level characteristics that will serve as the mix of entrepreneurship in societies. This book, therefore, considers some macro-level factors such as education, training, and skills development, technological developments, government programs, and entrepreneurial challenges and opportunities. At the firm-level, this book focuses on entrepreneurial initiatives such as branding and marketing.

Electronic Dance Music: From Deviant Subculture to Culture Industry explores the subculture's emergence as a deviant subculture. This text analyzes how industry professionals, fans, and public officials helped usher in a new age of EDM, arguing that while the defining features of the subculture made it attractive, they also laid the foundations for outsiders to commodify the movement as a culture industry. Conner and Dickens explore the concept of “commodified resistance” as the mechanism by which the movement's politically dissident features were removed and its place as a multi-billion-dollar industry made possible. Ultimately, this text advocates the continued utility of the culture industry thesis through an empirical analysis of the EDM subculture.Check out an interview with the author on the New Books Network podcast here: https://newbooksnetwork.com/electronic-dance-music

Riven by poor governance and outright corruption, the British Psychological Society (BPS) may now be in terminal decline. Individual members have left it in despair and some groups (for example clinical, educational and organisational psychologists) have already organised themselves outside of the Society, in protest against its mismanagement and distorted priorities. Onlookers are bemused by a simple fact: a psychological organisation has demonstrated total incompetence at understanding itself. Accordingly, today, the BPS is neither a learned nor a learning organisation. This book describes this organisational crisis. It offers a critical account of the Society's recent history, which has mostly been hidden from public view, due to a lack of suitable democratic structures to ensure proper public scrutiny. Though it has charitable status, its governance has lacked independent trustees. Instead, priorities in the organisation have been compromised repeatedly by conflicts of interest, with an oligarchy of recycled names losing sight of the Society's shortcomings. In more recent times, these problems have been amplified by a managerial culture with little respect for academic integrity. These weak governance arrangements have led to policy capture by some interest groups which have led to public safety being threatened by the production of poor psychological advice to those on the outside. Those ordinary members opposing this skewed and risky advice have been suppressed by those at the top of the organisation. This important book aims to provide a platform for ordinary members whose criticisms have thus far been suppressed. By promoting the voices of these objectors and exposing the cracks within the organisation, it attempts to bring truth to power.

Die Wissenschaftsforschung macht die Wissenschaft zum Gegenstand von Wissenschaft. Sie untersucht zum einen die Innenwelt der Wissenschaft, also die Produktion wissenschaftlichen Wissens, die Praxis der Forschung und ihre institutionellen Strukturen. Zum anderen interessiert sie sich für die Außenbeziehungen der Wissenschaft, ihre Prägung durch die gesellschaftliche Umwelt und ihre Effekte in verschiedenen Anwendungskontexten. Als interdisziplinäres Feld mit Wurzeln in der Wissenschaftsphilosophie, Wissenschaftsgeschichte und Wissenschaftssoziologie ist die Wissenschaftsforschung nicht leicht einzukreisen. Vor diesem Hintergrund versteht sich das vorliegende Lehrbuch als Wegweiser in einem manchmal unübersichtlichen interdisziplinären Gelände. Im ersten Teil werden Grundlagen und Grundbegriffe erläutert. Der zweite Teil sortiert zentrale Forschungsfelder; es geht um Expertise, um das Labor, um die Universität und um die Rolle der Wissenschaft für Innovationprozesse. Der dritte Teil bietet Orientierung in wissenschaftspolitischen Debatten; behandelt werden hier Fragen der Qualität von Forschung, ihre gesellschaftliche Relevanz und ihr Verhältnis zur Öffentlichkeit. Der vierte Teil führt in methodologische Debatten ein, bevor abschließend Erfahrungen aus der Lehrpraxis reflektiert werden.

Emperor Whisperers charts a comparative history of the two largest strains of ancient philosophy, from the first millennium BC to around AD 500. The book examines howphilosophy arose from atheism in both China and Greece but entered a cul de sac when atheism spread from the elites to the middle classes. China's philosophy evolved to oppose law with morals, which created a mandarin class of “emperor whisperers,” while Western philosophy was complicated by competing political systems that were only harmonized by the triumph of the Roman Empire. As antiquity came to an end, imported new religions – Buddhism and Christianity – reintroduced faith into elite thought and kickstarted the Middle Ages.

Drawing on social science and communications theory, Gonzo Governance offers a new interpretation of presidential power that shifts focus to the media dynamics that surrounded Donald Trump. The former president's unhinged behavior and skilled media and digital manipulations changed the nature and process of significant governance at the federal and state levels, including denying election results and restricting voting opportunities. He went'Gonzo'– promoting himself without regard for conventional norms and practices – and blasted ideological fault lines into explosive political fragments, resulting in so much dissensus that numerous legislators would not recognize the newly elected President Biden, nor would they agree to take a potential life-saving vaccine because it had been associated with a politicized virus, COVID-19.Nurtured by media logic and a communications ecology that has wedded people to digital technologies and formats that govern the structure, grammar, form, expectations, and meanings of messages that can entertain, enlighten, and disinform, this form of governance alters the fundamental way that information is communicated. David L. Altheide emphasizes how these changes informed Donald Trump's electoral strategies as well as the insurrection attempt on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.

Este ensayo intenta aproximarse desde distintas perspectivas a la globalización. Consta de una discusión teórica inicial y continúa con tres partes que pueden leer se de manera independiente y que giran en torno a la literatura, la política y el cine. En el primer capítulo se discuten sobre posibles conceptos de lo que sería una civilización o una cultura, y cómo podríamos entender la globalización como una civilización o cultura, o como la cultura de Occidente en su última fase de expansión. En un segundo momento reflexiona sobre el lugar que ocupan las obras de César Aira y Guido Tamayo en la cultura global. La tesis de la tercera parte es que Hugo Chávez llevó a la práctica las teorías de Slavov Žižek. En la parte final se interroga por la relación que establecen las películas de Luis Estrada con un inminente cambio de sistema-mundo. Al encarar la globalización económica, política y cultural, estos films se afirman allí donde el Estado desaparece y la globalización sólo tiene un carácter destructivo.

This open access book presents selected contributions on a wide range of scientific and technological areas originating from the BUiD Doctoral Research Conference (BDRC 2022). It discusses the following topics: project management, macroeconomic factors, Fourth Industrial Revolution, agility, multiculturalism, diversity, inclusion, leadership, language, discourse analysis, curriculum, critical thinking, programming, online learning, and natural ventilation. The contributions reflect the multifaceted nature of the research in three academic disciplines, i.e., humanities, formal science, and applied science. This publication shares with its readers genuine research studies and reflections from practitioners on the current practice and understanding in the three academic disciplines. The significant findings of these studies have considerable educational, industrial, and economic implications.

This book examines Fanti kinship terminology from a variety of analytic and formal perspectives. Based on work with a broad number of informants, David B. Kronenfeld details and analyzes internal variation in usage within the Fanti community, shows the relationship between terminology and social groups and communicative usage, and relates these findings to major theoretical work on kinship and on the intersections of language, thought, and culture. The terminological analysis in this study employs a great variety of formal approaches, assesses the strengths and weaknesses of each approach, and covers a wide range of types of usage. This work also performs a systematic, formal analysis of behavior patterns among kin, joining this approach with the analysis of a kinship terminological system. Rather than treating kinship terminology as a special, isolated piece of culture, this study also ties its analysis to more general semantic and cultural theoretical issues. Including computational and comparative studies of kinship terminologies, this volume represents the fullest analysis of any kinship terminological system in the ethnographic record.

Masterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2022 im Fachbereich BWL - Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte, Note: 1,5, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Wirtschaftsgeschichte), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Anhand einer vergleichenden Studie soll in dieser Arbeit die folgenden Fragen beantwortet werden: Kann man eine Verbindung zwischen der Funktionsweise des Bankensystems und den Finanzierungsmodalitäten von Unternehmen herstellen? Gibt es nennenswerte Unterschiede in der Finanzierung innerhalb des Stahlsektors in Deutschland und Frankreich? Auch wird untersucht, wie das Bankensystem die Finanzierung von Unternehmen beeinflusst hat und ob es Unterschiede in der Unternehmensfinanzierung zwischen den beiden Ländern im 19. Jahrhundert gibt. Der erste Teil der hier vorliegenden Studie wird sich mit dem deutschen und französischen Bankensystem beschäftigen und eine vergleichende Analyse erstellen, um die Entwicklung des Bankwesens zu beleuchten. Dabei konzentriert sich die Untersuchung auf die Entwicklung der Methoden der Bankfinanzierung durch Kredite und Anleihen. Hier liegt der Schwerpunkt auf den Mechanismen der Unternehmensfinanzierung; es wird untersucht, wie die Banken die Unternehmen unterstützt haben. Zunächst werden die Veränderungen in der Wirtschaft fokussiert, um die Ursprünge der Industriellen Revolution schärfer zu skizzieren. Anschließend wird auf die Finanzierungsmechanismen eingegangen, insbesondere auf die Rolle von Krediten und Anleihen in Frankreich und Deutschland im 19. Jahrhundert. Ein zweiter Teil, der sich auf eine vergleichende mikroökonomische Studie stützt, verfolgt das Anliegen, das Finanzierungssystem anhand von zwei Fallstudien – Schneider & Co in Frankreich und Krupp in Deutschland – besser zu verstehen. Da beide Unternehmen in derselben Branche tätig sind und symbolisch für die Industrielle Revolution in ihren jeweiligen nationalen Kontexten stehen, ermöglicht diese vergleichende Fallstudie ein differenzierteres Verständnis der Finanzierungsmechanismen.

A timely and revealing look at the intertwined histories of science, art, and racism. ‘Race Is Everything'explores the spurious but influential ideas of so-called racial science in the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth centuries, and how art was affected by it. David Bindman looks at race in general, but with particular concentration on attitudes toward and representations of people of African and Jewish descent. He argues that behind all racial ideas of the period lies the belief that outward appearance—and especially skull shape, as studied in the pseudoscience of phrenology—can be correlated with inner character and intelligence, and that these could be used to create a seemingly scientific hierarchy of races. The book considers many aspects of these beliefs, including the skull as a racial marker; ancient Egypt as a precedent for Southern slavery; Darwin, race, and aesthetics; the purported “Mediterranean race”; the visual aspects of eugenics; and the racial politics of Emil Nolde.

This textbook introduces the reader to the field of military sociology through narrative reviews of selected key studies in the discipline.The book provides a guided introduction. In each chapter, the authors set the stage and then immerse the reader in Spotlights – that is, descriptions of essential studies that inform the discipline of military sociology. The goal is to afford readers a ready pathway into how sociologists and social scientists have thought about topics in the study of the military and war.Topics covered in the book include: What is military sociology? What does it have to offer in understanding armed forces, wars, and societies? What basic tools are needed to ply sociological, or more broadly, social science perspectives for studying war and the military? What are the bio-social bases of war? What does the spectrum of such societally organized violence look like? How do societies raise and maintain formal militaries? What are variations in their social composition and in the profiles of civil–military relations? How and why is military organization and war changing so dramatically in the 21st-century? What does the future hold? This book will be of great interest to students of military sociology, the armed forces and society, peace studies, and International Relations.

Combining critical race studies with cultural production studies, Navigating White News: Asian American Journalists at Work is the only academic book to examine the ways that racial identification and activation matters in their understanding of news. This adds to the existing literature on race and the sociology of news by examining intra-racial differences in the ways they navigate and understand White newsrooms. Employing in-depth interviews with twenty Asian American journalists who are actively working in large and small newsrooms across the United States, Navigating White News: Asian American Journalists at Work argues that Asian American reporters for whom racial identities are important questioned what counted as news, questioned the implicitly White perspective of objectivity, and actively worked toward providing more complex, substantive coverage of Asian American communities. For Asian American reporters for whom racial identity was not meaningful, they were more invested in existing professional norms. Regardless, all journalists understood that news is a predominantly and culturally White institution.

What does it mean to turn something into capital? What does considering things as assets entail? What does the prevalence of an investor's viewpoint require? What is this culture of valuation that asks that we capitalize on everything? How can we make sense of the traits, necessities and upshots of this pervasive cultural condition? This book takes the reader to an ethnographic stroll down the trail of capitalization. Start-up companies, research centers, consulting firms, state enterprises, investment banks, public administrations : the territory can certainly prove strange and disorienting at first sight, with its blurred boundaries between private appropriation and public interest, economic sanity and moral breakdown, the literal and the metaphorical, the practical and the ideological. The traveler certainly requires a resolutely pragmatist attitude, and a taste for the meanders of signification. But in all the sites in which we set foot in this inquiry we recognize a recurring semiotic complex : a scenario of valuation in which things signify by virtue of their capacity to become assets in the eye of an imagined investor. A ground-breaking anthropological investigation on the culture of contemporary capitalism, this work directs attention to the largely unexplored problem of capitalization and offers a critical resource for current debates on neoliberalism and financialization.

The Heart of the Matter explores the legacies of Ilyenkov and Vygotsky, two Russian thinkers who marshalled their passion for truth, enlightenment and independent thought to understand the human mind, not for the sake of knowledge alone, but to help create the conditions in which human flourishing can become a reality for all. The book renders their theories intelligible against the dramatic social and historical background in which they lived and worked, bringing their ideas into dialogue with themes and thinkers in Western philosophy to reveal how they illuminate philosophical issues of enduring significance.

An examination of anticolonial thought and practice across key Indigenous thinkers. Accounts of decolonization routinely neglect Indigenous societies, yet Native communities have made unique contributions to anticolonial thought and activism. Remapping Sovereignty examines how twentieth-century Indigenous activists in North America debated questions of decolonization and self-determination, developing distinctive conceptual approaches that both resonate with and reformulate key strands in other civil rights and global decolonization movements. In contrast to decolonization projects that envisioned liberation through state sovereignty, Indigenous theorists emphasized the self-determination of peoples against sovereign state supremacy and articulated a visionary politics of decolonization as earthmaking. Temin traces the interplay between anticolonial thought and practice across key thinkers, interweaving history and textual analysis. He shows how these insights broaden the political and intellectual horizons open to us today.

From broadcast to social media, comedy plays a prominent role in Japan's cultural landscape and political landscape. The Time of Laughter explores how comedy grew out of the early days of television to become a central force in shaping Japanese media over the past half-century. Comedy and its impact, David Humphrey argues, established a “time of laughter” in the media of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries in Japan. Through masterful interrogation of Japanese televisual archives and media discourse, Humphrey demonstrates that the unique temporality of laughter has had a profound role in the cultural atmosphere of Japan's recent past. Laughter both complemented and absorbed the profound tensions and contradictions that emerged in Japanese television. Joyous and cacophonous, reaffirming and subverting, laughter simultaneously alienated and unified viewers. Through its exploration of the influence of comedy and the culture of laughter, The Time of Laughter presents a vibrant new take on Japan's recent media history.

Published in 1977, this is a detailed account of the results of controversial methods as they were applied in a major company, when twenty-one managers came together for eight months to grapple with important problems for the purpose of learning some of the skills required for senior management. From their very different points of view, the course organisers, GEC's own personnel specialists, and the managers involved, describe their experiences and discuss with unusual candour the effects on themselves as individuals and on their organisations. There is no attempt to gloss over the difficulties and the disappointments. This is a book that will be read with attention and profit not just by personnel and management development specialists but by all managers seeking ways to improve business performance.

¿El dinero da la felicidad? ¿O la compra? Hay millonarios que lo son desde el día en que nacieron y otros que lo han logrado con algún invento o gracias a una carrera profesional longeva. ¿Pero qué ocurre cuando un día te das cuenta de que tienes más dinero del que podrás gastar jamás? Este libro nos ofrece algunas de las excentricidades más rocambolescas que han llegado a cometer los más ricos. -

In an increasingly polarised world, it sometimes feels impossible to talk to someone you disagree with, let alone change their mind. However, as David McRaney reveals, you could be just one conversation away from reshaping someone's world view – here's how. ‘In a time when too many minds seem closed, this is a masterful analysis of what it takes to open them.'ADAM GRANT, AUTHOR OF THINK AGAIN Self-delusion expert and psychology nerd David McRaney sets out to discover not just what it takes to influence others, but why we believe in the first place. Along the way he meets a former Westboro Baptist Church member who was de-radicalised on Twitter, goes deep canvassing to see how quickly people will surrender their character-defining views, finds a former 9/11 Truther who turned his back on it all, and reveals how, within a few years, half a country can go from opposing the ‘gay agenda'to happily attending same-sex weddings. Distilling the latest research in psychology and neuroscience, How Minds Change reveals how beliefs take hold, not over hundreds of years, but in less than a generation, in less than a decade, and sometimes in an instant. ••• ‘Optimistic, illuminating and even inspiring.'GUARDIAN ‘A tonic for those who might scratch their head at how others could be so nonsensical.'NEW SCIENTIST ‘How Minds Change brings us face to face with the radically weird science of how our thoughts, perceptions, and beliefs are actually formed, and how they can, for better or worse, be modified.'JORDAN ELLENBERG

Upon its premiere in 1992, Midway's Mortal Kombat spawned an enormously influential series of fighting games, notorious for their violent “fatality” moves performed by photorealistic characters. Targeted by lawmakers and moral reformers, the series directly inspired the creation of an industrywide rating system for video games and became a referendum on the wide popularity of 16-bit home consoles. Along the way, it became one of the world's most iconic fighting games, and formed a transmedia franchise that continues to this day. This book traces Mortal Kombat's history as an American product inspired by both Japanese video games and Chinese martial-arts cinema, its successes and struggles in adapting to new market trends, and the ongoing influence of its secret-strewn narrative world. After outlining the specific elements of gameplay that differentiated Mortal Kombat from its competitors in the coin-op market, David Church examines the various martial-arts films that inspired its Orientalist imagery, helping explain its stereotypical uses of race and gender. He also posits the games as a cultural landmark from a moment when public policy attempted to intervene in both the remediation of cinematic aesthetics within interactive digital games and in the transition of public gaming spaces into the domestic sphere. Finally, the book explores how the franchise attempted to conquer other forms of media in the 1990s, lost ground to a new generation of 3D games in the 2000s, and has successfully rebooted itself in the 2010s to reclaim its legacy.

How did Europeans view the unknown region at their antipodes in early times, before the explorations of Captain Cook and others made it well known? Throughout the ages it has evoked fantastic images which affected the arts and sciences, and the evolution of the novel in the century prior to the major discoveries was influenced in the same way. The eighteenth century was also a critical phase in European social history, a time when many modern patterns of economic life and international relations were formed. Distant explorations and discoveries bore implications for that process, which tended to be worked out in fictional voyages mingling fact with fiction. Images of the Antipodes asks what these can tell us about Europe's expansion to the limits of the New World - about the first contacts between cultures with very different worldviews, about the colonial relations that followed, and about the geopolitics of the region since then. They offer a perspective on cross- cultural relationships generally - nowhere more apparent than in their use of ancient images of the antipodes.This is the third part of a study on the intellectual history of travel fiction, and deals with the period from the 1720s to the 1790s, focusing on an issue that is as vital now as it was then: cultural or racial stereotyping, and the link between this and the differing politico-economic aspirations of peoples. It is a dual problem of exploitation, which has been associated with the antipodes since the beginnings of Western literature. The book discusses teratological fantasies, the literary background in utopias and Robinsonades, Gulliver's Travels and other travel fiction from mid-century onwards, the parallels between real and imaginary voyages, and the way the latter often prefigured the rise of modern anthropology and of colonial relationships in the austral regions. Particularly relevant was the odd blend of arcadianism and horror inspired by, or projected onto, these places in the later eighteenth century - as it had long been in the past. The works discussed are chiefly English and French, but include other European examples of the type.

The De concordia, published by Juan Luis Vives in 1529 and dedicated to the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V, is a comprehensive analysis of the social and political problems which were then afflicting Europe. It is the only such analysis undertaken by any of the Renaissance humanists. The De concordia merits a much more important place in Vives'oeuvre than scholars have hitherto given it. It is structured around the Augustinian concept of concordia and its antithesis, discordia. As such, it is an explicit attempt to understand current history in metaphysical terms. Vives'intention is not to give strategic or tactical advice to Charles V, but to examine the general disorder of Europe with a view to determining its fundamental nature and significance. This is the first critical edition of the De concordia and the first English translation.

First published in 1988, The Bhopal Syndrome documents one of world's worst industrial disaster: The Bhopal gas tragedy of 1984. The tragedy exposed a variety of issues plaguing rapid development such as the negligence of corporations and government, prioritizing of commercial benefits over human lives, inadequate post-disaster rehabilitation and compensation, and frightening levels of environmental pollution. The author argues that the Bhopal gas tragedy is being replicated across the globe at various intensities facilitating a dangerous normalisation. He asserts that workers and consumers should fight for their ‘right to know'about working conditions, chemicals used in pesticides, the harm caused by producing such chemicals, how these chemicals end up on our food as well as the manner in which the chemicals interact in our body. Climate crisis and undeterred industrial development still haunt our reality making this book an essential read for any concerned citizen and for students of disaster management, industrial disasters, climate change, environment, toxicology and workers'rights.

Este libro es la historia de una sombra que mató a un hombre de una puñalada, fue condenado a veinte años de prisión y huyó antes de entrar en la cárcel. En vez de ocultarse en un pueblo remoto o marcharse a otro país, se camufló entre la multitud de su ciudad, Barcelona, donde pasó los siguientes treinta años perfeccionando el arte de la invisibilidad a la vista de todos: detrás de la barra de un bar, recogiendo a su hija del colegio, yendo de excursión los fines de semana. El secreto de su logística del anonimato no era esconderse, sino pasar inadvertido. Se convirtió en un hombre vulgar corroído por la paranoia, siempre alerta, y en un ciudadano inexistente, sin DNI, ni tarjeta sanitaria ni seguridad social; nada extraordinario en la España de los ochenta y noventa, un país en el que todo giraba si se engrasaban las bisagras adecuadas. La Sombra es una reflexión sobre la culpabilidad, el castigo y las trampas de la memoria, pero también una demoledora crónica sobre la violencia y la corrupción de la sociedad y las instituciones. Tras años de minuciosas entrevistas e investigaciones, David Cabrera firma un drama policial y psicológico absorbente, que se lee en estado de máxima tensión. Jordi ÉvoleSOBRE EL AUTORDavid Cabrera es periodista y director de documentales. Hijo de emigrantes. Siempre ha vivido en la periferia. Le interesan las historias de perdedores, los superhéroes de barrio y las vidas insólitas que discurren en lugares ordinarios: un bar con manteles de hule, un patio de luces que huele a coliflor, un salón oscuro con tapetes de ganchillo en los brazos del sofá.Ha sido realizador del programa Salvados (La Sexta) durante casi una década. Ahora trabaja en la creación de series de no-ficción.

When the possibility of wiretapping first became known to Americans they were outraged. Now, in our post 9/11 world, it's accepted that corporations are vested with human rights, and government agencies and corporations use computers to monitor our private lives. David H. Price pulls back the curtain to reveal how the FBI and other government agencies have always functioned as the secret police of American capitalism up to today, where they luxuriate in a near-limitless NSA surveillance of all.Price looks through a roster of campaigns by law enforcement, intelligence agencies and corporations to understand how we got here. Starting with J. Edgar Hoover and the early FBI's alignment with business, his access to 15,000 pages of never-before-seen FBI files shines a light on the surveillance of Edward Said, Andre Gunder Frank and Alexander Cockburn, Native American communists and progressive factory owners.Price uncovers patterns of FBI monitoring and harassing of activists and public figures, providing the vital means for us to understanding how these new frightening surveillance operations are weaponised by powerful governmental agencies that remain largely shrouded in secrecy.

Esse livro-manifesto, escrito a quatro mãos pelo britânico Ian Parker e o mexicano David Pavón-Cuéllar, se organiza em torno da pergunta: O que é revolucionário na psicanálise? E por que nós, que estamos envolvidos com a práxis política, deveríamos levá-la a sério? Este manifesto é um argumento em favor de unir a transformação social à liberação pessoal, mostrando que esses dois aspectos de profunda mudança podem ser intimamente conectados por meio da psicanálise. O manifesto explora o que está por trás de nós, o que continuamos repetindo, aquilo que nos move a mudar e o que nos faz permanecer os mesmos, e como esses fenômenos são transferidos no espaço clínico. Este livro não deixa de ser crítico à psicanálise, mas busca transformá-la, para que os movimentos de liberação possam transformar o mundo.