brill apr 2026 (54 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book focuses on the economic and political challenges posed by the simultaneous processes of globalisation and rapid technological change for public management and policy making in the Visegrád countries (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia). The empirical work, based on 90 interviews and close cooperation with experts in the field, has provided valuable insights into the social consequences of the technological revolution, technical revolution, technical upgrading and economic development, public services, data management, communication and disinformation, coordination within the public sector and with private entities in the management of data and intellectual property. The research reveals a set of complex political economies with a high degree of political inertia characteristic of semi-peripheral countries, combined with various attempts to actively shape the technological flow.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book offers an interdisciplinary analysis of populism, authoritarianism, and hate speech, integrating theoretical debates with empirical case studies. It examines how populist movements can evolve into authoritarian regimes, exploring the manipulation of media and democratic institutions. The book includes global case studies, such as Turkey, Hungary, and Brazil, highlighting the role of media in spreading propaganda and hate speech. It also addresses the methodological challenges of studying these phenomena and emphasizes the need for multidisciplinary approaches. The book serves as a valuable resource for academics, policymakers, and activists confronting the rise of populism and authoritarianism.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Positioned at the intersection of Sociology, Urban Studies, Youth Studies, and Middle East Studies, Youth between Participation and Exclusion addresses key debates on urban inequality, informality, and precarity across the north-south divide, with a particular focus on urban youth in the context of Tunisia's post-revolutionary transition.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Over the past decade, interest has developed in social constructivist pedagogies that position students of qualitative research as independent and collaborative meaning makers rather than passive receivers of qualitative information. Grounded by theory originated primarily by Lev Vygotsky (1978) and supported by Jean Piaget (1977), social constructivism asserts knowledge is acquired through social interactions in particular social contexts 'in which language plays a significant role' (Edelen et al, 2022, p. 29). In social constructivism teaching/learning strategy groups, students engage together in conversations and exchange ideas about complex topics, supported by an instructor when necessary. There is a lack of research-based strategies in the extant literature that adhere to social constructivist teaching perspectives. Therefore, with this book, we add to the small body of work that offers explicit directions appropriate for instructors to add to their qualitative teaching and learning pedagogical repertoires. Contributors are: Christy Bebeau, Lynn Butler-Kisber, Michelle Lindquist, Taiwo Ogundapo, Darlshawn Patterson, Kathleen Pithouse-Morgan, Janet Richards, Anastasia Samaris, Jessica Shotts, Patriann Smith and Dianne Wellington.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book provides a comprehensive analysis of regulatory freedom of States in international law and investigates the interaction of regulatory freedom with treatment standards contained in investment treaties. Regulatory freedom is a rule of customary international law that need not be asserted solely based on treaty provisions. The requirements of regulatory freedom: bona fide, public interest and non-discrimination once cumulatively met do not overlap with treatment standards, thus excluding the possibility of a State being found responsible for breach of investment treaties.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The book explores philosophical, psychological and practical problems with, and warrants for, inclusive education and calls for radical change in both the nature of education and in schools.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Korean test-prep academies (hagwons) embody a distinct culture of achievement, combining Eastern values and rugged American individualism in the age of optimization. The students in this study share their experiences navigating college admissions within this complex, and demanding landscape.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - How are we to understand the internal dynamics of an Islamic reform movement that calls for nationalist rallies and joins a delegation to meet with the French Prime Minister but denies that it 'does politics' This book analyzes how the Association of Algerian ?Ulama?, founded in 1931 as a league of Muslim scholars, addressed the peculiar situation of French laïcité in colonial Algeria and competed with Algeria's revolutionary nationalists. It also highlights the financial basis and the grassroots organizations of the movement, from which it brought about a 'passive' revolution against the colonial social order.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This brutal, vivid poem of war is the first Turkmen historical epic ever translated into English. Abdysetdar Kazy's poem recounts the momentous battles of 1858-1860 between the Turkmens and Iranians, in which the Turkmens triumphed. Along with the lively translation, Jeff Eden puts these pivotal battles in context with an introduction using rare eyewitness sources in Persian, Turkic, Russian, and French. Revered as a classic in Turkmenistan today, the Jangnama is essential (and often delightful) reading for the history of Central Asia and Iran in the nineteenth century.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - How did courts navigate reform, revolution, warfare, and restoration between 1780 and 1830 Not only does this volume reveal reforming princes, plotting royals, and the careers of household dignitaries; it also examines the political and social roles of women at court and the experiences of regime change and exile. Reconsidering the history of monarchy and the court in the early nineteenth century, Courts and Politics in an Age of Turmoil broadens the definition of politics to include court sociability and women. It concludes that historians of the nineteenth century can no longer take for granted the political marginalization of the court. Contributors include Nigel Aston, Jeroen Duindam, Kristine Dyrmann, Mikolaj Getka-Kenig, William D. Godsey, Vincent Haegele, Philip Mansel, Heidi Mehrkens, Fabian Persson, Quinten Somsen, Thibaut Trétout, Damien Tricoire, Charles-Eloi Vial, and Joost Welten.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Dual Use of Global and Local-Indigenous Mental Health Services: The Middle East Case presents a groundbreaking examination of how individuals and communities in the Middle East navigate and integrate both global mental health systems and local, Indigenous healing practices. Bridging Western psychiatric models with culturally rooted approaches, the book highlights the importance of contextually relevant care in addressing mental health needs. Through research and case studies, it provides critical insights for social work and mental health professionals, emphasizing the need for culturally competent service models. This work significantly contributes to reshaping mental health policy and practice in multicultural and Indigenous contexts.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book explores the creative depiction of Palestinian traumas in Palestinian Anglophone novels, examining memory as a trope of resistance against erasure and forgetfulness in the works of Isabella Hammad, Susan Abulhawa, Hala Alyan, and Selma Dabbagh. Moving beyond North American and European models of trauma and remembrance, it extends the analysis of trauma tropes to literature from the Global South. In the context of a Palestinian archival history that has been systematically destroyed to obscure the brutal realities of settler colonialism, popular memory and testimonial forms--including literature--emerge as adversarial strategies that counter the politics of memoricide and historical erasure.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - We are at once in a compound crisis and an era of what Cornelius Castoriadis called 'the retreat from autonomy.' It will be necessary to change, quite radically, the social imaginary so as to provoke a new Age of Utopian Dreaming in which the possibility of a better world can once again appear on the horizon. Utopian Dreams against the Grain lays out the capitalist social imaginary, the utopian task at hand, the utopian dream's background in literary thought, and - in the conclusion - a practical discussion of climate change and of how transformative thinking can help mitigate the situation to come.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The global ecological crisis is increasingly manifesting itself in different regions of the world, here in East Asia and Europe. It produces multi-situated inequalities on a global scale, drawing new geographical, climatic, social, and moral boundaries in an 'ecological cosmopolitanism.' Democratic and authoritarian governments put in place biopolitical apparatuses for societal reinvention. Individuals develop social, economic and emotional capabilities for survival, recovery, and mobilization in the post-disaster process. In Western Europe, environmental and disaster sociology has been built around a Western way of thinking about the relationship between risks, disaster, and modernity. Japanese and Chinese sociologists/anthropologists highlighted non-Western approaches to disasters. This book is a contribution to the post-Western sociology in a cross-pollinization process where 'Western' and 'non-Western' knowledge about disaster do interact, articulated through cosmovisions to move towards dialogical between East Asia and Europe.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - How does the pandemic affect the notion of biopolitics Immunity and Contagion offers a twofold perspective on the notion of biopolitics: on the one hand, it examines the negative effects of the pandemic, such as mourning, melancholy, dispossession, affective disorders, as well as social and racial inequalities; on the other hand, it reveals the need to redefine biopolitics as a positive attempt to survey, govern, and overcome the crisis. The pandemic encourages us to reformulate biopolitics in positive terms so that it would take into account all forms of human, biological, and geological life and becomes capable of operating on a planetary scale.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In this book, Martin Vacek advances a bold metaphysical thesis: that an explosive divine being exists. This provocative work invites readers to engage with radical ideas at the intersection of theology and philosophy.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - What if India were thought of in the plural Island Indias, Archipelagic Memory reimagines postcolonial cartographies through a poetics of fragments that links islands, coastlines and oceans to decentre India's subcontinental core. A literary critical methodology, drawing on archipelagic theory, island studies, and transoceanic memory work, reveals littoral and island geographies as dynamic and porous sites of creolised cultural memory that unsettle fixed notions of nation, home, and history. Island Indias invites you to navigate a fluid world assembled across discontinuous shores, where memory drifts, ruptures, and resurfaces to make fragmentation a method of world-making. Contributors are: Rosa Beunel-Fogarty, Ananya Jahanara Kabir, Farha Noor, Nikhita Obeegadoo, Shazia Rahman, Luca Raimondi, and Sandrine Soukaï.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In addition to introducing a denotational meaning, utterances often convey an expressive meaning, that provides information about the speaker or the judger. This volume collects original research papers on the semantics and pragmatics of expressive meaning in interaction with speech acts, and on the way that these two domains are encoded in syntax. By covering a broad variety of well-known and new expressive phenomena -including non-lexical datives, tense, modality, expletive negation, minimizers, conditionals, or mood- the contributions uncover the pervasive presence of expressive meaning across speech acts, while providing new insight into the old and new issues at the semantics-pragmatics interface.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The modern era was dominated by conflicts between claims to certainty about justice and denials that certainty is warranted. The purpose of this book is to develop a postmodern alternative to both philosophies, one which is universal without being absolutist. The approach is dialectical in Plato's sense of that term. Dialectic is both necessary and sufficient for the theoretical and the practical aspects of living. The primary symbol in this book is the Athenian Socrates who spent his days in the Agora and his evenings in the houses of his friends, the active professionals of the world's first democracy. His questions were unabashedly philosophical, concerned with the most urgent matters. What is worth living for What is worth dying for Who is best suited to rule in the state How should young people be educated The nature of justice is closely connected with other questions of value, so the discussion freely moves from that central focus to related matters with the primary goal of developing a dialectical philosophy that is both applicable to life and open to all.Universal Justice is concerned with how to think about justice rather than what to think about justice.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - More often than not, debates around free speech in the early modern period had to do with religious speech and expression. This interdisciplinary volume extends the discussion of free speech to look at the broader concept of free of expression in relation to religious practice and religious belief in early modern Europe. It includes exploration of actual speech and freedom of press, but also moves beyond this to look at in practice, theory, and writing. Chapters span a wide range of geographical and linguistic contexts, including the Netherlands, Italy, England, Switzerland, and Poland. Authors provide essays sharing insights from different scholarly fields including church history, intellectual history, cultural studies, history of the press, literary studies, theology, philosophy, and art history. Ultimately, the case studies explored here shed light on both freedom and its curtailment as this relates to religious experience from the post-Reformation times up to the early enlightenment period. Contributors to this volume: Markus Bardenheuer, Wouter Kreuze, Timothy G. Fehler and Amelia Spell, Jakub Basista, Marius van Hoogstraten, Jan Kvetina, Gary K. Waite, Martin van Gelderen, Vincenzo Lavenia, William Cook Miller, Nigel Smith, Erica Heinsen-Roach, Vera J. Camden, and Freya Sierhuis.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This first comprehensive English-language examination of the Dojunkai Foundation (1924-2024) is a must-read for anyone interested in modern Japanese architecture. The Dojunkai Apartments (1924-1934), the Foundation's best-known work, introduced apartment living to Japan in response to crucial historical and social challenges such as urban reconstruction after the devastating earthquake of 1923 and the emergence of new working and middle classes. The book's texts, by prominent scholars and architects, as well as a series of original drawings and photographs from the period, bring the work of the Dojunkai Foundation back to life 100 years after its founding. While the Dojunkai Apartments have unfortunately been lost in the rapid changes and greedy redevelopment typical of Japanese metropolises, this book seeks to contribute to the preservation of their memory and their significance.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This collection features autobiographical essays from UCL IOE students exploring their educational journeys through racial identity. Using frameworks like Critical Race Theory and Intersectionality, the essays reveal how education shapes racial identity across diverse contexts, histories, and experiences.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - More than mere labels, medieval titles strongly defined the identities of the persons or groups who bore them. Ontologies of Titles questions modern assumptions that guide how historians frame social titles; it shows that Norse titles often were indifferent to boundaries between individual and common, person and office. Drawing on a wide range of sources, the book explores how titles were shaped by political practice, textual production, and the conflicting aprioris governing the categorization of beings. It demonstrates how social titles alternated between signaling inherent personal qualities and abstract categories, thus revealing how language operated across multiple ontological registers in structuring social order. (The open access publication of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation.).

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Would it be possible to overcome the dualism of universalism and relativism that the story of the Tower of Babel portends, and modernity perpetuates Between the dominant paradigms of the dualism of the classical and the vernacular, of universal grammar of Chomskian bio-linguistics and hermeneutic relativism of Steiner, of the ideal and ordinary language theories of Wittgensteinian socio-linguistics, this dichotomy plays itself out, again and again. Tracing the genealogy of the fundamental difference between the presuppositions of a grammar of pluralism and of universal grammar to the disagreement between Plato and Aristotle on the theory of forms, this book brings into focus the dramatic and crucial changes wrought in the liturgy of the Eucharist, in the 13th century, that consolidated Aristotelianism as the dominant regime of the Christian Church and laid the foundations of universal grammar both of the European modernity and of the modern world at large. It argues that it is the vernacular traditions however, that continually challenge this regime within different religious orthodoxies and in modernity with the reiteration and re-affirmation of the theory of the true name as the basis of a grammar of pluralism.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Landscapes are the skin of the Earth: they reflect the environmental and cultural well-being of human communities, especially in an age of climate crisis. Focusing on Peru's Huancavelica region, this book affirms the philosophical value of Andean cosmovision, challenging dominant aesthetic paradigms shaped by tourism and media. The book advances an original onto-phenomenological theory of landscape, bridging prevailing spatial models with insights from diverse disciplines in a transdisciplinary and innovative framework.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book is an attempt to introduce Kojin Karatani and his work to a larger public, placing his reconstruction of Marx at its centre. An expository work that tries to bring out the singularity of Karatani's systematic philosophical-theoretical reading of Marx, it particularly illuminates his vital reconstruction of Marx's Capital. Written with the aim not to contest but clarify, not to argue but to explain, The Unconscious Spirit of Communism seeks to praise Karatani and his unique intellectual project, which stands as corrective to a now more-than-a-century-old Marxism, as well as to the many Marxists, from Friedrich Engels on, who have distorted Marx's thought--today no less than in the first decades of the twentieth century.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - From Iamblichus to Eriugena was completed almost fifty years ago and, having been in considerable demand but out of print for many years, is here made available once more without substantial alteration. The original book described the metaphysical and theological system of later (post-Plotinian) Neoplatonism in one of its most important pagan forms and in one of its most significant Christian forms, striving thereby to depict the conceptual analogies and doctrinal intersections between these two often competing sets of ideas. The reprint of this book includes a new introduction which is intended to be a substantial document in its own right. This provides a meta-critical analysis of the historical and conceptual method pursued in the original work, especially by drawing the reader's attention to ideas, topics, and themes given less emphasis in the earlier text. The new introduction also inserts, at critical points in the discussion, bibliographical notices of the present author's numerous more recent publications dealing with the same or similar issues.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This comprehensive volume in Oceans Law and Policy from Lima, Peru focuses on the most compelling issues in the field, exploring strategic competition over deep seabed minerals, China's maritime governance, autonomous ships and remote operating centers, IUU fishing in Latin America, marine biodiversity and data management, maritime piracy and the threat to international shipping in the Gulf of Aden, offshore wind power expansion, and Peru's approach to the BBNJ Agreement. Contributors are leading figures in the law of the sea and oceans law and policy.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - What is the relation of Marxism to philosophy Is Historical Materialism the supersession of philosophy as idealist speculation Is there still some space left for it Is philosophy a particular form of what we call ideology Is philosophy destined to disappear By returning to Marx and Engels's theoretical and political trajectory and in particular their insistence on a radical way out of philosophy, Georges Labica shows how any Marxist engagement with philosophy cannot be the production of just another philosophy, but must rather be an intervention against philosophy as ideology--an intervention within philosophy and its contradictions, which are the result of class struggle. This new edition of a major work on Marxism and philosophy is published here with a new introduction by Stathis Kouvelakis and Panagiotis Sotiris.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This high-profile and award-winning work shows the organic working-class character of the Polish Solidarnosc revolution of 1980-81 and thus debunks the canonical idea that the movement was orchestrated primarily by intellectuals from the democratic opposition, who brought consciousness to the workers 'from the outside'. Sierminski traces the origins of the Polish revolution to the self-activity and self-organisation developed by the Polish working class during earlier protests, strikes, and occupations. The author convincingly demonstrates that Solidarnosc was driven by the working class's own aims, experiences and revolutionary instinct--often in direct opposition to the efforts of intellectuals to contain its radicalism.