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Utdanningspolitikk har stor betydning for hvordan barnehager, skoler og andre pedagogiske institusjoner drives. I arbeidet med disse institusjonene er det interessant å studere hvordan makt legitimeres og forvaltes.Hvordan studere utdanningspolitikk? Tekster, teorier, tilnærminger presenterer en rekke faglige og metodiske tilnærminger for å studere utdanningspolitikk. I tillegg til å nyansere akademiske fagtradisjoner, presenterer forfatterne kvalitative og komparative tilnærminger til dokumentstudier og ekspertintervjuer. Boken gir en rekke eksempler på hvordan studier kan gjennomføres, inkludert digitale og praksisbaserte analyser. Den tar opp spørsmål om teoriens plass i studier og hvordan forskningen kan og bør rapporteres. Et sentralt tema er betydningen av evidens og ekspertise i utdanningspolitikk og reformarbeid, et fagfelt som forfatterne har utforsket gjennom POLNET-prosjektet (Policy Knowledge and Lesson Drawing in Nordic School Reform in an Era of International Comparison).Boken henvender seg til akademikere, fageksperter, pedagogikkstudenter, lærerutdannere og ansatte i offentlig sektor. Education policy has a significant impact on how kindergartens, schools and other educational institutions are run. In working with these institutions, it is interesting to study how power is legitimized and managed.How to Study Education Policy: Texts, Theories and Approaches presents a range of academic and methodological strategies for studying this field. In addition to nuanced academic subject traditions, the authors present qualitative and comparative approaches to document studies and expert interviews. The anthology provides a number of examples of different ways of carrying out studies, including digital and practice-based analyses. It addresses questions about the role of theory and how research is best reported. A central theme is the importance of evidence and expertise in education policy and reform work, a field that the authors have explored through the POLNET project (Policy Knowledge and Lesson Drawing in Nordic School Reform in an Era of International Comparison).This book will be of interest to academics, experts in the field, education students, teacher educators and public sector employees.

Etableringen av krisesentre i Norge er en kvinnehistorisk viktig begivenhet. Fra det første senteret ble etablert i 1978, tok det få år før det var sentre over hele landet. Bak opprettelesen sto kvinneaktivister og lokale ildsjeler som ville synliggjøre vold mot kvinner som et kjønnet maktovergrep og et samfunnsproblem.I denne boken ser Solgunn Eidheim på fremveksten og organiseringen av krisesentrene, og hvordan de endret seg i løpet av det første tiåret. Sentrale spørsmål er hva som påvirket etableringen av krisesentrene, hvilken ideologisk plattform de utformet og hvordan de utviklet seg i møte med myndighetene. Spesiell betydning hadde valget av flat organisasjonsform, som ga sentrene både muligheter og utfordringer. Eidheim viser hvordan bevegelsen jobbet i et praktisk og i et politisk spor. Arbeidet besto av forhandlinger med både hjelpetjenester og politi, samtidig som det ble stilt krav om skjerpet bruk av straff for gjerningspersonene.Boken bygger på et rikt kildemateriale og gir et nært historisk bilde av tida da krisesentrene ble etablert, samt innsiktsfull analyse av bevegelsen. Den anbefales til alle som er opptatt av kvinnebevegelsen og forståelsen av vold mot kvinner. Den er også relevant for studier av sosiale bevegelser og organisasjonsformers betydning for politisk makt.Synopsis in EnglishThe establishment of crisis centers in Norway is an important event in women's history. The first center was established in 1978, and within a few years there were centers all over the country, thanks to the efforts of activists and local advocates who sought to highlight violence against women as a social problem and gendered abuse of power.In this book, Solgunn Eidheim looks at the rise of shelters, their organization, and how they changed during the first decade, and answers central questions: What influenced the establishment of the shelters? Which ideological platform or platforms did they shape? And how did they evolve in relation to public authorities. Of particular importance was the choice of a flat organizational form, which gave the centers both opportunities and challenges. Eidheim shows how the movement worked in practical and political ways, including negotiating with both emergency services and the police, and also calling for stricter punishments for perpetrators of violence against women.The book is based on rich source material and provides a detailed historical view of the era during which crisis shelters were established, as well as insightful analysis of the women's movement. It is recommended to anyone interested in the women's movement and an understanding of violence against women. It is also relevant for studies of social movements and the importance of organizational forms for political power.

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, and freely available to read online.Despite ongoing efforts to promote diversity, universities continue to reflect and perpetuate traditional patriarchal, colonial, and privileged hierarchies of gender, ethnicity, and class. Ensuring class diversity in academia is crucial for challenging the perception of universities as exclusive domains of privilege. Acknowledging the institutional challenges that hinder the work and careers of working-class academics (WCAs), The Intersections of a Working-Class Academic Identity recognises the adverse impacts of the overrepresentation of scholars from privileged classes, including a lack of cultural wealth in teaching and research, as well as the discouragement of talented working-class individuals who might otherwise pursue prolific academic careers.Looking beyond individual struggles, author Teresa Crew presents an informed, alternative perspective to the prevailing viewpoints in research on working-class individuals in higher education, analysing statistical data and consolidating the systemic challenges encountered by WCAs within a framework of classism. Recognising that academia is not only a classed space, but one that tends to be white, masculine, and able-bodied as well, Crew builds upon her previous research to incorporate a rich intersectional overview of the voices that higher education continues to overlook, including clear recommendations for future research and support.Proposing not a suggestion for transformation but an impassioned plea to dismantle barriers and dissolve silences, The Intersections of a Working-Class Academic Identity calls for informed strategies and robust support systems that will foster a more inclusive and equitable higher education landscape.

This book offers a new analytical framework for the multi-layered processes of politicising and gendering care for older people, understood as an inherently political and gendered condition of human existence. It brings together contributions that focus on different manifestations and interpretations of these processes in several European settings and at various societal and political levels. It investigates how care for older adults varies across time and place and aims to provide an in-depth comprehension of how it becomes an arena of political struggle and the object of public policy and political intervention. The book comprises multidisciplinary research stemming from gender studies, history, political science, public policy, social anthropology, social work, and sociology. These analyses examine the issue of care for older people as a political concern from many angles, such as problematising care needs, long-term care policies, home care services, institutional services, and family care. The book’s contributions reveal the diversity of situations in which the processes of politicising and gendering care for older adults overlap, contradict, or reinforce each other while leading to increased gender (in)equalities on different levels – familial, professional, and societal. Both caring for older adults or being taken care of when becoming old(er) or frail are potentially a feature of any personal trajectory, which is always contextually situated. Therefore, this book is an invitation to reflect upon care for older people as an issue particularly significant at any time and relevant at any societal level or socio-political sphere.

This book reports on the findings of an eighteen-month UKRI funded mixed-methods research project that took place in England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales between September 2020 and November 2021. It provides a comprehensive overview of the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on the UK’s cultural sector, identifying implications for policy, practice and the sector’s future direction. Over eleven chapters, the book summarises the local, regional and national policy responses to the crisis, and provides statistical analyses of the impacts on the UK’s cultural workforce and audiences’ responses to the pandemic. These insights are further illustrated via detailed case studies of cultural sub-sectors of theatre, museums and galleries, screen industries, libraries and festivals, interviews with cultural leaders and an ecosystem case study of the Greater Manchester city region. The book identifies recurrent themes emerging from the research, commenting on policy responses, audience confidence, shifts to digital engagement and civic responsibility, organisational practice and recovery. It offers a robust analysis of the short, medium and longer-term impacts of Covid-19 and highlights their implications for cultural practitioners, organisations, funders and policymakers. The unique contribution of the book lies in the presentation of findings which highlight the challenges faced by cultural practitioners, organisations and audiences from different backgrounds, regions and art forms. Using lenses which focus on both macro and micro levels, the book provides fresh insights into the implications for research on, with, and around the cultural sector, highlighting possible future directions for arts management, audience research and cultural policy studies.

Knowing COVID-19 looks at how different kinds of knowledge and meaning have been created and communicated, and the repercussions this has had – and continues to have – for how COVID-19 is managed, experienced, understood and remembered. Knowledge-making, it suggests, took various forms, and these are reflected in the diversity of chapters this volume curates. In the first instance, it demonstrates a rich humanities tradition of constructive critique, as ‘official’ communications around ‘staying home’, ‘keeping distance’, safety on buses, lateral flow testing and vaccine hesitancy are tested and interrogated. Through this collective work, we see one of the clear, indisputable values of the humanities; their attentiveness to the human, and the clarifying or reflective power this might have had with greater embeddedness in policy and information design. In the second instance – and frequently both are accomplished in the same short chapter – this volume collects a series of interventions which set out specifically to create and sustain meaning, particularly when dominant cultural narratives about the pandemic rely on those meanings slipping away from political or popular memory. Thus, we have rich and detailed explorations of the experiences of museum workers, people told to ‘stay home’, older victims of gender-based violence, people with deafblindness and racialised nurses working in the NHS; as well as extensive reflection on what it was like to make the projects which formalised this knowledge work. Taken as a whole, this volume critiques and redefines pandemic epistemologies, assembling a partial blueprint for making future crises legible.

In Governance, Democracy and Ethics in Crisis-decision-making, we reflect on what it means to govern ethically in a pandemic. We explore what it means to be in a situation in which rational or epistemic framings of the COVID-19 pandemic, with a focus on data and scientific ways of knowing the world, rub up against the way people experienced the pandemic, as an unexpected, and often harmful, event in their own lives. The book brings together findings from The Pandemic and Beyond research projects linked by a focus on how decisions have been made, but looking at the pandemic from very different perspectives. In their exploration of decision-making processes from the everyday to the global, the contributors consider whether and how values have featured in decision-making, and sometimes why they have not. Exploring issues ranging from the authority of the World Health Organization and the power of data during an emergency, to the role of public engagement as a source of policy evidence, contributors consider whether (and how) the expected standards and norms of public life and decision-making should be different in times of crisis. We also reflect that the pandemic seems impossible to disentangle from matters of trust in power and authority. The answers to the questions discussed in this book will be vital in reviewing our experiences of emergency decision-making. As we emerge from the pandemic, the essential lessons drawn out in this book should direct and constrain future decision-makers in both ordinary times and extraordinary emergencies.

"Human trafficking has generated intense global concern, with stories of sex slavery and images of women forced into prostitution so persuasive that states have raced to respond ahead of empirical data and clear definitions of the crime. In Trafficking Rhetoric, Annie Hill analyzes the entanglement of state veneration and state violence by tracking how the United Kingdom points to the alleged crimes of others in order to celebrate itself and conceal its own aggression. Hill compares the UK’s acclaimed rescue approach to human trafficking with its hostile approach to migration, arguing that they are two sides of the same coin—one that relies on rhetorical constructions of “trafficked women” and “illegal migrants” to materialize the UK as an Anglo-white space.Drawing from official estimates, policy papers, NGO reports, news stories, and awareness campaigns and situating them in the broader EU context, Hill accounts for why the UK’s antitrafficking agenda emerged with such rhetorical force in the early twenty-first century. Trafficking Rhetoric reframes controversies over labor, citizenship, and migration while challenging the continued traction of race-baiting and gender bias in determining who has the right to live, work, and belong in the nation."

Wie werden aus (potenziell) »gefährlichen« Leuten »gewöhnliche« Gesellschaftsmitglieder? Kategorien, die aus Menschen behördliche Fälle machen, sind hartnäckige Produkte institutionellen Arbeitens. Sie zu lösen, bedarf umfangreicher Arbeiten. Die Autor*innen liefern ethnografische Einblicke in die Praktiken der »Deradikalisierung« und Extremismusprävention, die sicherheits- und justizbehördliche Fälle in Gesellschaftsmitgliedschaften zu überführen versuchen. Diesen Rückbau von Statuskategorien bewirken häufig Coaches aus nichtstaatlichen Organisationen durch beiläufige Vorarbeiten sowie permanente Adressierungen und Vorschläge - was zeigt, wie vielfältig und unverzichtbar Transitional Work rund um den Strafvollzug ist.

Eating together unites people and has a significant impact on their physical, social, and emotional development. This book looks at practices and traditions of sharing food prevalent among major religious communities in India, including Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism, Christianity, and Islam.Food insecurity is one of the major problems every country in the world is facing today because of increasing population, climate change, agrarian distress, wars and conflicts, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Including case studies from across India, this book examines the necessity and effectiveness of food-sharing practices in temples, mosques, and gurudwaras, among others. Emphasising the importance of these practices for the social and physical well-being of the most vulnerable sections of society, it showcases how traditional religious practices of food sharing have contributed to tackling hunger, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. The volume also offers long-term solutions to address underlying issues which cause hunger and food insecurity.One of the first to study food sharing and alms-giving practices in India, this book will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of sociology, anthropology, food studies, religion, security studies, political economy, public policy, and South Asian history and culture.

Forskere inngår i stadig mer komplekse relasjoner med samfunn og næringsliv i gjennomføring av forskning. Hvordan kan kvalitativ forskning produsere kunnskap av høy kvalitet når det er tette bånd mellom forskerne og de som forskes på, eller mellom forskningsinstitusjoner, oppdragsgivere og brukergrupper? Dette er et spørsmål forskere bør forholde seg aktivt til, men som mange ikke alltid er seg like bevisst.Med eksempler fra kvalitative studier innen helse, politi, byråkrati og politikk, gir bokas bidragsytere en samlet fremstilling av utfordringer forskere kan møte når de er tett på dem de forsker på, samt hvilke verktøy man kan ta i bruk for å håndtere gitte utfordringer.Tett på profesjon, arbeid og politikk henvender seg spesielt til studenter og forskere som arbeider med studier av profesjon, organisasjon, arbeid og politikk, enten gjennom oppdragsforskning eller andre forskningsprosjekter.

Something must have changed in society. We weren’t always this worried. Not always caught up in disastrous scenarios in our minds. What is this nagging voice in our head? Why won’t it stop, and why are we so fixated on it?In Why We Worry, Roland Paulsen paints a broad picture of the cultural variations and historical evolution of anxiety. Through this lens, he invites readers to explore the paradox of how material wealth has enriched our lives in every aspect except one: our mental well-being.This book offers empirically grounded insights into the sociological underpinnings of issues relating to worry. As such, it is suitable for undergraduate students in psychology, sociology, and medicine – and anyone who has ever been trapped in rumination.

This edited volume provides a holistic compilation of the diverse range of emerging scholarship in critical environmental justice studies in Nepal.This book brings together environmental justice scholarship set within a robust conceptual framework, focusing on a diversity of case studies from Nepal. Its locale-specific contextualization provides a unique analysis of the natural resource-based livelihoods common in the region, together with the health and well-being impacts of urban and industrial developments in its rapidly changing political, economic, social, and ecological environment. Centering contributions from Nepalese scholars and practitioners, this volume spans a wide range of topics, including the origins of environmental justice in Nepal, land and agriculture, conservation, infrastructure and development, Indigenous peoples, climate justice, and health equity. It reflects on the rise and development of social movements and public policy, discusses the further evolution of environmental justice, and highlights how the work of scholars, activists, and practitioners in the Nepalese context can enrich global conversations about social and environmental issues.This book will appeal to scholars, researchers, students, and activists in environmental justice, sustainable development, South Asian, and Himalayan studies.The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license

Notwithstanding its ruthless dynamics, the capitalist economy has the flaw of deficient employment-generating spending. This leads to unemployment of non-owners, individual suffering, social unrest and it undermines military strength. To deal with these issues, states use prosthetic policies, artificial transfers to the productive economy and to non-owners. But the funding of such prosthetic policies - through violent wealth appropriation abroad, protectionism, war, domestic expropriation and taxation, debt and money creation - is caught in dilemmas, while politicians are caught between non-solutions. According to Gerhard H. Wächter, the history of capitalist society is largely the history of this dilemmatic brotherhood.

Migration, Klimawandel, Inflation, Krieg – Krisen kumulieren in immer kürzeren Abständen. Dieses Buch bietet einen aktuellen, pointierten, aber wissenschaftlich fundierten Beitrag über die Korrosion von Politik und Gesellschaft. Die Moralisierung politischer Kultur wird im Kontext gegenwärtiger Transformationskonflikte als ein Krisensymptom demokratischer Gesellschaften analysiert. Eine These lautet: Das Schwinden liberaler Demokratie und die Transformation der Gesellschaft bewirken emotionale Kontrastverschärfungen, die in einen Vertrauensverlust staatlicher Institutionen münden können.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Der Klimawandel, das Artensterben, globale Migrationsbewegungen und zunehmende politische Gewalt zeugen von den multiplen Krisen des Anthropozäns. Diese Krisenhaftigkeit macht Ungewissheit mehr denn je zu einer Grundbedingung des Zusammenlebens und stellt sowohl bestehende Mensch-Natur-Verhältnisse als auch unsere Vorstellung von Zukunft als linearer Fortschritt grundlegend in Frage. Dieses Buch versammelt Beiträge, die sich aus einer praxistheoretischen Perspektive mit dem Spannungsfeld von umkämpften Zukünften und Ungewissheit vor dem Hintergrund der Allgegenwärtigkeit sozial-ökologischer Krisen auseinandersetzen.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode

Sind Kapitalismus und Nachhaltigkeit miteinander vereinbar? Falls ja: Mit welchen Folgen und Nebenfolgen gelingt es kapitalistischen Ökonomien, eine Antwort auf die multiplen ökologischen Krisen zu finden? Ist es ausgeschlossen, dass die »schöpferische Zerstörung« (Schumpeter) als Modus kapitalistischer Dynamik nicht auch den fossilen Kapitalismus »schöpferisch« zerstört und neue »Kombinationen von Dingen und Kräften« ersinnt, die den Kapitalismus tatsächlich ergrünen lassen? Oder gibt es materiale Schranken dafür, die in den stofflichen Eigenschaften von Öko-Systemen liegen? Scheitert der Kapitalismus letztlich an der ökologischen Frage?Mit Beiträgen von Alyssa Battistoni, Jedediah Britton-Purdy, Philipp Degens, Klaus Dörre, Nancy Fraser, Ali Aslan Gümüsay, Ulrike Herrmann, Lisa Knoll, Sarah Lenz, Mariana Mazzucato, Jason W. Moore, Sighard Neckel, Kohei Saito und Jin-Wook Shin.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode

Hinter der Auswahl von wissenschaftlichen Übersetzungen und ihren Übersetzer*innen steht eine komplexe Politik der Buchübersetzung mit nachhaltigen Auswirkungen auf das jeweilige Feld. Translationspolitik wiederum prägt die sozialen Ausdeutungen der Buchübersetzung. Diese Studie nimmt die Buchübersetzung in den Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften in den Fokus und rekonstruiert Übersetzungsflüsse, translatorische Netzwerke und Positionierungen von Übersetzer*innen. In vielschichtiger Weise zeichnet sie die Politik der Buchübersetzung in der BRD ab 1945 nach, zeigt bedeutende Entwicklungslinien auf und verdeutlicht den wechselseitigen Einfluss von Wissenschaft und Übersetzung. Es entsteht ein Begriffsinstrumentarium zur Analyse vielfältiger translationspolitischer Phänomene.CC BY-ND 4.0

Die Muster, nach denen Innovationen verlaufen, haben sich in den letzten Jahren deutlich gewandelt. Dies zeigt sich an offeneren Innovationsstrategien von Unternehmen, steigenden Anforderungen an Geschwindigkeit und Agilität von Innovationsprozessen, der Ausweitung globaler Kooperationen und insbesondere der wachsenden Bedeutung digitaler Technologien mit neuen spezifischen Anforderungen. Gleichzeitig haben sich die gesellschaftlichen und ökologischen Herausforderungen für die Problemlösungsfähigkeit durch Innovationen massiv erhöht. Die Konsequenz ist, dass das etablierte Innovationssystem unter Wandlungsdruck gerät. Vor allem muss auch Innovationspolitik ihre strategischen Ziele ausweiten und gesellschaftlich gewünschte Wirkungen von Innovation verfolgen. Allerdings sind die mittel- und langfristigen Herausforderungen dieser Entwicklung für das gesamte Innovationssystem und eben auch für Innovationspolitik bislang nur zu erahnen. Diese Fragen werden im vorliegenden Buch kritisch in einer interdisziplinären Perspektive diskutiert. Dabei steht die Frage im Vordergrund, wie die Transformation des Innovationssystems vorangetrieben und seine Agilität gesteigert werden können.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Climate change and urban development threaten health, undermine coping and deepen existing social and environmental inequities. A changing global environment requires transformative social responses: new partnerships, deep engagement with local communities, and innovations to strengthen individual and collective assets. The chapters of this proposed edited volume will be contributed mainly by established and emerging scholars from individuals, representing social work, sociology, development studies, law, government, social anthropology, urbanism, The chapters of this proposed edited volume will be contributed mainly by established and emerging scholars from individuals representing social work, sociology, development studies, public policy, and other social sciences This book is to be used for academics, policy makers, social work students, lecturers and other stakeholders to promote advocacy for vulnerable client groups affected by Climate Change. It gives some measure of hope and make the invisible visible to change.

Die kritische Theorie erklärte Faschismus und autoritäres Bewusstsein aus den Widersprüchen und Krisentendenzen der bürgerlichen Gesellschaft. Die Analyse der extremen und populistischen Rechten kann an die Einsichten von Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno und Co. anknüpfen. Die Beiträge dieses Bandes rekapitulieren zentrale theoretische Überlegungen zum autoritären Charakter und zum autoritären Staat, zu Antisemitismus und Rassismus sowie zum Verhältnis von liberalem und völkischem Denken. Darüber hinaus setzen sie sich in der Tradition der kritischen Theorie mit verschiedenen Aspekten der gegenwärtigen extremen Rechten auseinander.

This book charts the transoceanic history of South Asian women in California through their speech and songs across the twentieth century.Nicole Ranganath reimagines the history of the South Asian diaspora through an examination of gender and the dynamic interplay of water and land in the cultural history of Sikhs, a faith and cultural community that emerged in the Punjab region of north South Asia over 550 years ago. It shows how the history and music of transoceanic communities, in this case Sikhs, spilled beyond the boundaries of regions, empires and nation-states. It emphasizes the heterogeneity of the South Asia diaspora by uncovering the distinct history of women’s migration experiences, as well as an alternative oceanic imaginary among Sikhs that envisions unity in the cosmos. It foregrounds the pivotal role that women played in transforming Sikh communities in California through songs and female affinities. Based on six years of fieldwork in rural northern California, it explores song as a window into the interior lives of Sikh women through their performance of diverse genres: gadar anti-colonial songs, folk music, hymns, and autobiographical songs. This sonic history of South Asian women in the diaspora dislodges dominant paradigms in diaspora studies and oceanic humanities that depict men as mobile and women as stationary.Women and the Sikh Diaspora in California will interest scholars of migration, South Asia and South Asian American studies, oceanic humanities, Sikh studies, music, and women’s studies. It is also essential reading for anyone who is curious about global music and migration, as well as Sikh history.

Gemeinnützige Stiftungen operieren im 21. Jahrhundert gesellschaftsweit und begegnen ihren Umwelten mit sehr ambitionierten Wirkungsansprüchen. Auf den Wegen zu ihren Zielen sind sie an ihre Eigenschaften als Organisation gebunden und mit der Komplexität einer funktional differenzierten Weltgesellschaft konfrontiert. Zur wissenschaftlichen Analyse dieser Einrichtungen eignen sich daher besonders organisations- und gesellschaftstheoretische Ansätze. Die Autor*innen nehmen diesen doppelten Zugriff auf und leisten eine systematisch-soziologische Einordnung von Stiftungen und ihren Strukturen - Einsichten, die auch für Praktiker*innen aus dem Stiftungswesen höchst relevant sind.

Notwithstanding its ruthless dynamics, the capitalist economy has the flaw of deficient employment-generating spending. This leads to unemployment of non-owners, individual suffering, social unrest and it undermines military strength. To deal with these issues, states use prosthetic policies, artificial transfers to the productive economy and to non-owners. But the funding of such prosthetic policies - through violent wealth appropriation abroad, protectionism, war, domestic expropriation and taxation, debt and money creation - is caught in dilemmas, while politicians are caught between non-solutions. According to Gerhard H. Wächter, the history of capitalist society is largely the history of this dilemmatic brotherhood.

Interventionswissenschaft hat das Potential, nachhaltige Veränderungen zu ermöglichen. Roland J. Schuster gibt einen umfassenden Einblick in Theorie, Praxis und Entstehungsgeschichte dieser besonderen Form der Wissenschaft. Aus trans- und interdisziplinärer Sicht widmet der Band sich der Bedeutung von Wissen und Bewusstsein in Bezug auf die menschliche Wahrnehmung und Kommunikation. Sieben Forschungsbeispiele zeigen auf, wie Veranstaltungsdesign, didaktische Interventionen oder Gruppenreflexionen neue Wege öffnen können - für ein Mehr an Kreativität in Praxis, Forschung und Lehre.

Innovation is ubiquitous and has become a universal term that is indispensable to describe interventions, projects, or products. Franziska Sörgel argues that emotions influence innovations as they are inherent in initial ideas, expectations and habitual evaluation criteria that impact the development process. Instead of assuming that the innovation process is subject to rational and linear creativity, the study adopts the notion of ›moral economies‹ by Lorraine Daston as a space for negotiation. Such an approach enables decision-makers to question the evaluation criteria and patterns for technological developments before implementing them in society.

Was ist rechte Ideologie? Anknüpfend an Karl Mannheims Studie zum konservativen Denkstil zeigt Felix Schilk, dass es ein spezifisches Muster gibt, wie rechte Akteure Geschichte und Gesellschaft erzählen: Mensch und Welt sind schon immer entzweit, die dekadente Gegenwart ist ein andauernder Verfallsprozess und in der Zukunft droht die unvermeidliche Apokalypse. Ein Beispiel dafür ist die sogenannte Neue Rechte, die diese konservativen Krisennarrative für ihren Kampf um Diskursverschiebungen und kulturelle Hegemonie nutzt. Da sie ihre Identität aus der Wiederholung der immer gleichen Untergangsballaden schöpft, ist sie als Erzählgemeinschaft zu verstehen.

Die Société des observateurs de l'homme, die Gesellschaft der Menschenbeobachter, wurde im Jahr 1799 mit dem Ziel gegründet, eine "vergleichende Anthropologie" zu etablieren. Sie wollte die spekulativen Ansätze der Erforschung des Menschen aus dem 18. Jahrhundert durch eine empirische Wissensform ersetzen. Diese sollte im napoleonischen Frankreich dazu beitragen, eine sichere, dauerhafte und wissenschaftliche Basis für die Regierbarkeit der Menschen zu schaffen. Die Kenntnis des menschlichen Geistes, seines esprit und seiner Neigungen war ein integraler Bestandteil dieses Projekts. Laurens Schlicht untersucht, wie im Umfeld dieser gelehrten Gesellschaft Menschen zum Gegenstand der Forschung wurden und wie sich die Konstruktionen dieser Menschen als Forschungsgegenstände und als politische Akteure transformierten.

Innovations create new possibilities for the welfare state. Digital technologies, however, can create a range of surprising and unintended effects. Lost in Digital Translations: Studies of Digital Resistance and Accommodation to the Welfare State in Practice is an exploration of what happens when digital technologies intersect with welfare state practices.This book seeks to develop a creative critique of digital welfare. Digitalising welfare runs the risk of undermining or suppressing knowledge dimensions that are central in the distribution of welfare – in short, knowledge can be ‘lost in digital translation’. The universal welfare state is intended for all citizens. By sensitizing us to what is lost in digital translation, we are made aware of some of the exclusionary mechanisms that impact our digital society.In this anthology a group of researchers investigate how digitalisation influences the most ambitious welfare state in the world: Norway. Given Norway’s extensive welfare system, the process of digitalisation has had a profound impact. Digital technologies are used to enhance cooperation and coordination between health trusts and municipalities, standardizing communication between frontline workers and citizens, and even altering the architectural design of public buildings, all of which influences the quality of welfare services. At the same time, patient security is endangered, vulnerable groups experience even more exclusion from society, and for others, the quality of welfare deteriorates.

Informed by original ground-breaking research, this book “shifts the lens” of study, identifying how Indigenous Australian values and principles have influenced and contributed to an evolving non-Indigenous mainstream Australian culture. Based on the Indigenous principle of respect, Muller presents a solid research framework to break down the barriers of social differences in a culturally safe space.The text offers an insight into the cultural aspects of modern Australian society that contributed to its globally acclaimed handling of the current coronavirus pandemic. During the preparation for dealing with the pandemic, Muller’s research was validated as the world witnessed the Australian culture undergoing major change, shifting away from the original colonialist culture based on individuality and social stratification, to a community collective-based culture. It will be a valuable read for scholars in the area of community and allied health, humanities, social policy, social sciences and political studies. People seeking alternative lifestyles, a decolonised future and social change will also find this book useful.

Ecological Democracy offers an original, thought-provoking, and engaging treatment of why and how democracy should be re-imagined in reaction to today’s ecological crisis. The book explains that one need to re-imagine both the view on nature and democratic ideals within the same framework in the Anthropocene, the present geological epoch of human-made instability in the Earth system and its planetary boundaries. This book proposes unique and challenging readings of green political theory and its development of ecological democracy in the last four decades. The book is the first to offer a systematic and detailed interpretation of the role of critical theory vis-à-vis green political theory through an update regarding current non-anthropocentric critical theorists and how they may contribute to the further development of ecological democracy. Ecological Democracy builds further on deep ecology, ecophenomenology, and animism by articulating an ecocentric view on nature which defends an intrinsic moral value of all existence as well as formulating the democratic principle of all ecologically affected parties.This book provides a sophisticated, convincing, and accessible argument for how to re-imagine ecological democracy as ecocentrism in practice: ecological love. To love ecologically means caring for and encountering all existence on the Earth and in the cosmos. This book is multi-disciplinary and will be of great value to researchers as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students from many disciplines.

This book explores how dementia studies relates to dementia’s growing public profile and corresponding research economy. The book argues that a neuropsychiatric biopolitics of dementia positions dementia as a syndrome of cognitive decline, caused by discrete brain diseases, distinct from ageing, widely misunderstood by the public, that will one day be overcome through technoscience. This biopolitics generates dementia’s public profile and is implicated in several problems, including the failure of drug discovery, the spread of stigma, the perpetuation of social inequalities and the lack of support that is available to people affected by dementia. Through a failure to critically engage with neuropsychiatric biopolitics, much dementia studies is complicit in these problems. Drawing on insights from critical psychiatry and critical gerontology, this book explores these problems and the relations between them, revealing how they are facilitated by neuro-agnostic dementia studies work that lacks robust biopolitical critiques and sociopolitical alternatives. In response, the book makes the case for a more biopolitically engaged "neurocritical" dementia studies and shows how such a tradition might be realised through the promotion of a promissory sociopolitics of dementia.

The anthology Explorative Perspectives in Music and Education resulted from the MiU22 conference and seeks to support diverse dialogues. The publication, which is multimodal and interdisciplinary, explores how academic, artistic, and pedagogical research and performative work within the realm of music and education intertwine with the central theme.The anthology aims to objectively explore the intersection of performative, qualitative and quantitative research paradigms by bringing diverse artistic and research-based perspectives into dialogue.Notably, the anthology presents the first peer-reviewed video article in the MusPed:Research series, contributing innovative work. The book's 10 peer-reviewed research chapters on music and education focus on conceiving music and education concepts in different contexts.

Ökosoziale Transformation ist in aller Munde, aber wie können Praktiker*innen im sozialen Bereich auf eine gerechte und inklusive Weise dazu beitragen? Die in diesem Sammelband vorgestellten Beiträge legen nahe, dass Räume, Praktiken und Didaktiken der Transformation dekolonisiert werden müssen, um den gegenwärtigen Status quo in Richtung einer gerechten und regenerativen planetarischen Zukunft zu verändern. Die hier versammelten Stimmen aus der Praxis zeigen, zeigen, dass dies möglich ist und leisten bereits jetzt in der Praxis dekolonisierende Transformationsarbeit. Wir bringen Praktiker*innen zusammen, die das vielfältige Spektrum sozialer Positionierungen widerspiegeln: – Schwarze, People of Color, Migrant*innen und weiß, queer und cisgender, älter und jünger, bildungsprivilegiert und von Klassismus betroffen. Gemeinsam präsentieren sie eine Vielzahl globaler Stimmen und Ansichten darüber, wie dekolonisierende Ansätze zur ökosozialen Transformation in einem vielfältigen Europa heute aussehen. Die Autor*innen dieses Buches laden deshalb auf eine Reise ein zu Zugängen und Praktiken, die die Grundlagen schaffen, um innere und äußere Transformation für eine gerechte Welt zu ermöglichen.Der Sammelband richtet sich an Praktiker*innen, Fachkräfte und Studierende im sozialen und pädagogischen Bereich und an Menschen in Deutschland, die sich selbst als migrantisch, BIPoC, FLINTA* oder queer positionieren und ihre Verbündeten sind, um gemeinsam antirassistische, diversitätskritische und post-humanistische Zugänge in den Praktiken der ökosozialen Transformation Realität werden zu lassen.

Institusjonell etnografi er en forskningstilnærming som opprinnelig ble utviklet av den kanadiske sosiologen Dorothy E. Smith, og som har som formål å utforske og utfordre maktforhold i samfunnet. I Norge og Norden for øvrig brukes tilnærmingen av forskere fra ulike disipliner og fagfelt. I Erfaringer med institusjonell etnografi får vi innblikk i ulike forskeres motivasjon for, erfaringer med og refleksjoner rundt å sette seg inn i og bruke institusjonell etnografi i sin egen forskning. Vi får innblikk i bestemte forskningsprosesser og metodiske grep i slike prosesser, i erfaringer med å bruke sentrale begreper fra institusjonell etnografi og i refleksjoner over forskerrollen.Boken er et nyttig redskap for forskere, masterstudenter og stipendiater som benytter – eller vurderer å benytte – institusjonell etnografi i sin forskning.

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. This book explores analytic induction, an approach to the analysis of cross-case evidence on qualitative outcomes that has deep roots in sociology. A popular research technique in the early decades of empirical sociology, analytic induction differs fundamentally as a method of social research from conventional variation-based approaches. In Analytic Induction for Social Research, Charles C. Ragin demonstrates that much is gained from systematizing analytic induction. The approach he introduces here offers a new template for conducting cross-case analysis and provides a new set of tools for answering common research questions that existing methods cannot address.

Kreativ-künstlerische Methoden schaffen Räume für Formen des Wissens, (Ver-)Lernens, Erinnerns und Handelns, die dominante und verräumlichte Machtverhältnisse hinterfragen. Kunst ist dabei nicht nur ein methodisches Werkzeug und Forschung kein bloßes Kunstprojekt: Stattdessen bringt die Schnittstelle dazwischen multiskalare Fragen und Antworten auf aktuelle gesellschaftliche Prozesse hervor, die sich im Begriff artographies treffen. Die Beitragenden schreiben u.a. zu Sounds, Zines, Figurentheater, Skulptur, Film, Malen sowie Pantomime - und zeigen so neben den Möglichkeiten und Grenzen kreativ-künstlerischer Praktiken auch deren Beitrag zu einer machtkritischen und raumbezogenen Forschung und Lehre auf.

Inwiefern fordern Asylsuchende (Menschen-)Rechte ein? Können in einem allumfassend rechtlich regulierten und von Unsicherheit geprägten Alltag überhaupt Ansprüche gestellt werden? Lässt die Asylpraxis Raum für Subjektpositionen abseits von Opferschaft? Andrea Fritsche nähert sich dem (Asyl-)Recht aus alltagssoziologischer Perspektive und fokussiert Asylsuchende als handelnde Subjekte und Rechteinhaber*innen. Dabei zeichnet sie Bedeutungen von Recht und Rechten in der österreichischen Asylwirklichkeit nach und schafft ein Verständnis für die Folgen rechtlicher, politischer und gesellschaftlicher Praktiken, die die Gewährleistung von Rechten an Dankbarkeit, Leistung und Anpassung koppeln.

Das Buch handelt von Lernen, Lehren, Lernfähigkeit, Unterricht, Lehrsätzen, Kompetenzen, Bildung, Altern und Ungewissheit — eingebettet in eine soziologische Medien- und Kommunikationstheorie, die die gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhänge all dieser Phänomene nachzuzeichnen erlaubt. Im Zentrum steht die These, der Lebenslauf lasse sich – wie Geld, Macht, Liebe und manches mehr – als ein symbolisch generalisiertes Medium der Kommunikation begreifen. Lernen und seine Komponenten kommen in den Blick, wenn man nach den Formen fragt, die sich im Medium des Lebenslaufs bilden und es reproduzieren.

Das Pflichtteilsrecht ist bis heute ein zentraler Bestandteil des Erbrechts. Es sichert den engsten Angehörigen eines Verstorbenen einen Mindestanteil an dessen Nachlass. Jan Dirk Harke zeichnet nach, wie sich dieses Recht allmählich gegen eine zunächst unbegrenzte Testierfreiheit im römischen Vermögensrecht durchsetzte: Um dem Gebot der familiären Verantwortung zu entsprechen, wurde den engsten Verwandten eines Erblassers die Möglichkeit eröffnet, ein Testament, durch das sie vom Erbe ausgeschlossen wurden, als pflichtwidrig anzufechten. Dies war jedoch nur unter dem Vorwand möglich, der Erblasser sei bei Errichtung des Testaments nicht zurechnungsfähig gewesen. Hieran zeigt sich die große Bedeutung der Testierfreiheit für die Gesellschaft der Antike. creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/deed.de

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.Recovering Identity examines a critical tension in criminalized women's identity work. Through in-depth qualitative and photo-elicitation interviews, Cesraéa Rumpf shows how formerly incarcerated women engaged recovery and faith-based discourses to craft rehabilitated identities, defined in opposition to past identities as "criminal-addicts." While these discourses made it possible for women to carve out spaces of personal protection, growth, and joy, they also promoted individualistic understandings of criminalization and the violence and dehumanization that followed. Honoring criminalized women's stories of personal transformation, Rumpf nevertheless strongly critiques institutions' promotion of narratives that impose lifelong moral judgment while detracting attention from the structural forces of racism, sexism, and poverty that contribute to women's vulnerability to violence.

Die Verletzung internationaler Arbeits- und Sozialstandards entlang der Lieferkette ist bei global agierenden Unternehmen eher die Regel als die Ausnahme. Mittlerweile sind solche Firmen allerdings durch die Gesetzgebung gefordert, nach der Idee der Corporate Social Responsibility Verantwortung für die Beschäftigten ihrer Zulieferer zu übernehmen. Die Beiträger*innen zeigen Hintergründe dieser Verpflichtung auf und stellen Instrumente zur Durchsetzung sozialer Standards vor. Zu diesen Instrumenten zählen globale Rahmenabkommen und Lieferkettengesetze ebenso wie CSR-Richtlinien und digitale Tools. Es zeigt sich, dass bei der Durchsetzung sozialer Standards vor allem Workers' Voice und Mitbestimmung zählen: Abhilfe ist nur möglich, wenn Missstände auch benannt werden.

In Berlin und Brandenburg – wie in ganz Deutschland – stieg Anfang der 1990er Jahre die Zahl rassistischer Ausschreitungen und rechter Gewalttaten enorm an. Ein demokratiefeindliches gesellschaftliches Klima entwickelte sich, welches bis heute nachwirkt. Der Sammelband präsentiert Ergebnisse des gleichnamigen Forschungsprojektes »Jugendarbeit, Polizei und rechte Jugendliche in den 1990er Jahren«. Er rekonstruiert das sozialpädagogische und polizeiliche Handeln in dieser Zeit und trägt damit zu den aktuellen Fachdiskursen und der Weiterentwicklung fachlicher Standards in der Praxis im Umgang mit Rechtsextremismus bei.

This book provides international perspectives on corrections, correctional treatment, and penitentiary laws. Although its focus is on African and South American countries, the information provided can be easily expanded to North America and Europe. The chapters present legal frameworks and applied research on prisons and their potential to deter crime and reduce recidivism rates. The book puts the human rights agenda at the forefront and is a useful resource for those who work in corrections, including prison, education, and probation officers.

This book puts the critical into dementia studies. It makes a timely and novel contribution to the field, offering a thought-provoking critique of current thinking and debate on dementia. Collectively the contributions gathered together in this text make a powerful case for a more politically engaged and critical treatment of dementia and the systems and structures that currently govern and frame it. The book is inter-disciplinary and draws together leading dementia scholars alongside dementia activists from around the world. It frames dementia as first and foremost a political category. The book advances both theoretical and methodological thinking in the field as well as sharing learning from empirical research. Outlining the limits to existing efforts to frame and theorise the condition, it proposes a new critical movement for the field of dementia studies and practice. The book will be of direct interest to researchers and scholars in the field of dementia studies and wider fields of health, disability and care. It will provide a novel resource for students and practitioners in the fields of dementia, health care and social care. The book also has implications for dementia policymaking, commissioning and community development. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Immer schneller, weiter, mehr! Bei diesem leistungsorientierten Diktum sind arbeitsbezogene Gesundheitsgefahren allgegenwärtig. Sozialpolitisch wird deren Vorbeugung in der betrieblichen Prävention fokussiert, die traditionell an der Unfallverhütung und der männlichen Industriearbeit orientiert ist. Im Kontrast dazu steht die Forderung spätmoderner Dienstleistungsgesellschaften nach mehr Flexibilität und Einsatzbereitschaft. Marie Jelenko untersucht, wie die Bewältigung von erhöhten Anforderungen und das damit verbundene Gesundheitsrisiko auf den Schultern des Individuums abgeladen werden.

Mit "Begeisterung" ist die motivationale Grundlage menschlichen Handelns angesprochen: Warum tun Menschen, was sie tun? In Theorie und Geschichte wird auf das Einwirken äußerer, nicht allein rational agierender Kräfte, etwa eines Geistes, eines Gottes oder eines Volkes hingewiesen. Doch ist die Begeisterung als Hochstimmung auch ein Medium und Ziel der Pädagogik und nicht zuletzt ein Risiko- und Bildungsszenarium. Denn in ihr gehen Menschen bewusst über die gewohnten Grenzen ihres Daseins hinaus. Pädagogisch geht es um eine Begeisterung, die Lust auf Bildung macht, und um eine Bildung, die begeistert – gerade, weil sie den Rahmen des Gewohnten verlässt.

"Um ihre Einsätze bei Straßenprotesten zu trainieren, laufen Polizistinnen und Polizisten in der Rolle von Demonstrierenden durch selbst gebaute Straßenzüge. Sie sind schwarz gekleidet und maskiert, tragen Spruchbanner vor sich her, stimmen Sprechchöre an und halten Redebeiträge. Sie werfen mit Steinen und Molotowcocktails und zünden Autos an. Souveränität ist simulativ geworden. Dies ist die These von Andrea Kretschmann, die sie anhand einer teilnehmenden Beobachtung polizeilicher Simulationen für das Policing von Protest in Europa entwickelt. Im Rahmen dieser Simulationen wird politische Ordnung vor allem auf sinnliche Weise hergestellt: Inszenierung, Theater und Spiel laden die inneren Abläufe der Staatsgewalt mit einer neuen Expressivität auf und lassen ein assoziativ-ereignisgetriebenes Vorgehen erkennen, das im Gegensatz zu klassischen Herangehensweisen dezidiert unsystematisch verfährt. Das hat unmittelbare Folgen für das Politische, denn die polizeilichen Simulationen stützen en gros gegenwärtige kriminalpolitische Tendenzen, Artikulationsformen abseits parlamentarischer Verfahrenswege als Sicherheitsproblem zu betrachten. Zugleich bahnt diese spezifische Perspektivierung des Politischen der Ungleichbehandlung unterschiedlicher politischer Spektren durch die Polizei den Weg. Die Autorin legt mit ihrem Buch eine Kultursoziologie des Staates vor, die dieser Bedeutung des Simulativen im soziologischen Rahmen des Verhältnisses von Gesellschaft, Demokratie und Staatlichkeit innerhalb eines kulturalisierten Kapitalismus Rechnung trägt. Damit gibt sie einen empirisch gesättigten Einblick in eine verschlossene Welt, der für eine kritische Würdigung polizeilicher Tätigkeit wie der spätmodernen Problematik politischer Ordnungsbildung unentbehrlich ist."

Nicht erst seit der Covid-19-Pandemie hat der Krisenbegriff Hochkonjunktur. Auch in Debatten rund um den Klimawandel, die Weltwirtschaft und die Frage nach der (In-)Stabilität politischer Systeme ist die Krise ein zentrales Schlagwort. Wissenschaftlich-technisches Wissen wird dabei gerne als Lösungsstrategie hervorgehoben. Zugleich ist Wissen aber selbst in höchstem Maße krisenanfällig. Die Beiträger*innen des Bandes untersuchen aus der Perspektive der Wissenschafts- und Technikforschung die komplexe Verbindung zwischen Wissenschaft und Krise. Vor dem Hintergrund aktueller und vergangener Entwicklungen diskutieren sie u.a. Praktiken, Utopien, Definitionen und Defizite.