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Womens networks their relations with other women, men, objects and place were a source of power in various European and neighbouring regions throughout the Middle Ages. This interdisciplinary volume considers how womens networks, and particularly womens direct and indirect relationships to other women, constituted and shaped power from roughly 300 to 1700 AD. The essays in this collection juxtapose scholarship from the fields of archaeology, art history, literature, history and religious studies, drawing on a wide variety of source types. Their aim is to highlight not only the importance of networks in understanding medieval womens power but also the different ways these networks are represented in medieval sources and can be approached today. This volume reveals how womens networks were widespread and instrumental in shaping political, familial and spiritual legacies.

This volume addresses processes of human mobility in times of crisis from different scientific perspectives and at a global and trans-regional level. The first part sets out to discuss established paradigms in migration studies and politics in order to suggest new approaches to analyse mobility, migration and to challenge boundary making approaches. The second part presents empirical cases from Latin America and Spain to demonstrate how migrants challenge, negotiate and mobilize citizenship and belonging. The third part deals with the question how belonging is produced and identity is constructed at a transnational level. New information and communication technologies, human mobility but also the mobility of concepts, ideas and values foster these collectivization processes across and within physical and symbolic borders.

Globalization has led to new forms, and dynamics, of migration and mobility. What are the consequences of these changes for the processes of reception, settlement and social integration, for social cohesion, institutional practices and policies? The essays collected in this volume discuss these issues with reference to recent research on migration and mobility in Europe, the US, North and East Africa and South and Southeast Asia. The twenty authors are leading migration researcher from different academic fields such as sociology, geography, political science and cultural studies.

This volume explores the renewal of Asian migration to Europe that began in the late 18th century while still in the frame of the colonial regime. It counters the construction of an unchanging East versus a dynamic West developed in the 19th century; of static, rooted populations versus adventurous young men seeking opportunities afar (the producers of this cliche overlooked migrating women). These essays provide analyses of some of the migrants from the different societies of Asia in Europe. They focus on migrants from East and South Asia and explore their different experiences in Europe from the 18th century to the present.

The volume is an important contribution to the scholarship on childhood and education in globalised contexts. It is marked by conceptual depth, theoretical pluralism, and a commitment to social justice. The authors challenge prevailing assumptions, raise critical voices and foreground the child as an epistemic subject living in complex and contested realities. The volume shows the child not only as a passive recipient of adult interventions, but as a subject constructed by and within dynamic global technological, economic, cultural and political forces. They provide a valuable resource for scholars in the fields of educational theory, childhood studies and globalization studies.

Nesta nova edição, todos os 57 capítulos foram totalmente revisados e ampliados, sem perder as características que fizeram da obra o livro-texto em sua área: explicações claras, ênfase na base escrit

The book "Rethinking Postwar Europe" offers an in-depth insight into the largely unexplored topic of artistic practices in the 1940s and 1950s in Europe which until recently had been obscured by ideologies of the Cold War. Thanks to the authors diverse methodological backgrounds, the volume presents for the first time a comprehensive multilayered narrative, focusing on the complexities and entanglements in the artistic field. Instead of assessing the postwar period in the traditional way as divided by the Iron Curtain, the contributions investigate processes of contact, interaction, dissemination, overlapping, and networking. Consequently, the analysis of a diversified European modernism in both its aesthetic and its socio-political dimension resonates with all the different case studies. In particular, the volume looks at how artists developed, designed and (re)negotiated identities and discourses, and sheds new light on the power of art and creative powers in general in a postwar setting of mutilations, losses, and devastations.

Medievalism and medieval medicine are vibrant subfields of medieval studies, enjoying sustained scholarly attention and popularity among undergraduates. Popular perceptions of medieval medicine, however, remain understudied. This book aims to fill that lacuna by providing a multifaceted study of medical medievalism, defined as modern representations of medieval medicine intended for popular audiences. The volume takes as its starting point the fictional medieval detective Brother Cadfael, whose observations on bodies, herbs, and death have shaped many popular conceptions of medieval medicine in the Anglophone world. The ten contributing authors move beyond Cadfael by exploring global medical medievalisms in a range of genres and cultural contexts. Beyond Cadfael is organized into three sections, the first of which engages with how disease, injury, and the sick are imagined in fictitious medieval worlds. The second, on doctors at work, looks at medieval medical practice in novels, films and television, and public commemorative practice. These essays examine how practitioners are represented and imagined in medieval and pseudo-medieval worlds. The third section discusses medicine designed for and practiced by women in the Middle Ages and today, with a focus on East Asian medical traditions. These essays are guided by the recognition that medieval medical practices are often in dialogue with contemporary medical practices that fall outside the norms of Western biomedicine.

Evangelical Christian Publishers Association Top Shelf Book Cover Award 2017 We are political beings and our lives are shaped by political institutions. Being a good citizen involves understanding these institutions and how they can be used to promote the common good. Christians further believe these institutions are integral to Gods created order, intended by God to promote justice and help people flourish. Christians thus have good reason to be informed about political science as they seek to be ambassadors for Christ in a diverse society.Introduction to Political Science: A Christian Perspective is an accessible guide to the study of politics. Written for students who may not have any prior knowledge about political life, this textbook provides a nonpartisan introduction to the key concepts, institutions, and policies that shape politics today. Fred Van Geest draws on a variety of sources and examples to present a balanced Christian perspective on political science. Christians, he argues, are called to engage in political action in order to advance public justice, even though full shalom is ultimately the work of God alone.IVP Instructor Resources include an Instructors Guide and Students Study Guide.

Este volumen reúne los ensayos de uno de los más grandes congresos científicos que se hayan realizado sobre el fútbol latinoamericano y el mayor en el continente europeo, organizado por miembros de la Asociacion Alemana de Investigaciones sobre America Latina (ADLAF) en 2018. Partiendo de la tesis de que no existe algo que se pueda considerar como "el" futbol latinoamericano, el volumen, que conto con el apoyo financiero de la Fundacion Konrad Adenauer, explora, a lo largo de siete campos tematicos, la relevancia cultural de este deporte en America Latina tanto en el ambito comunal, como en el institucional, nacional y global a lo largo del tiempo. Desde diferentes perspectivas transdisciplinarias, los autores describen (re)construcciones de pertenencia y exclusion en formaciones cambiantes de identidad comunitaria basadas en distinciones de genero, etnicas o de estilo. La lucha permanente por el poder politico en y sobre la cancha y sus actores principales, los procesos (acelerados) de migracion y el rol de los medios de comunicacion, del cine, la literatura y de las representaciones visuales representan los tres grandes ejes de analisis sobre las relaciones dinamicas entre futbol y sociedad en America Latina.

Las personerías municipales en Colombia tienen una larga historia que surge en el mismo momento del descubrimiento por parte de los españoles, se instaura durante la conquista y se consolida durante la epoca de la colonia y en la republica. Son cerca de 500 años de historia de esta institucion que ha estado siempre orientada, de acuerdo a las caracteristicas de cada epoca, a asegurar el respeto de las reglas de juego de la democracia, la vigencia del respeto de la dignidad humana y la lucha contra la corrupcion. De hecho, en el 2032, se conmemoran los 500 años de la creacion de la primera personeria municipal en la ciudad de Santa Marta.Paradojicamente a pesar de su importancia misional y de su presencia en la historia institucional del pais, la personeria municipal es hoy una institucion sin el reconocimiento social y politico necesario para una entidad que es pieza maestra de la democracia por las tareas que debe cumplir en materia de defensa, proteccion y promocion de los derechos humanos, y como garante de la moralidad publica, no solo en el actuar de los servidores publicos sino de todos los ciudadanos y de sus organizaciones.

La obra aspira a profundizar en el debate sobre el envejecimiento en España, desde una perspectiva jurídica, política y sociológica. Para ello, el estudio, realizado en la Universidad CEU San Pablo, se divide en Ires bloques. El primero, coordinado por los profesores Dra. Ainhoa Uribe y Dr. Leopoldo Abad, aporta una vision amplia sobre la sociedad espanola, a partir del analisis del concepto "envejecimiento activo", la evolucion demografica de los mayores, las caracteristicas psicologicas y sociorogicas de dicho colectivo, su grado de incorporacion a las nuevas tecnologias, asi como se investiga en torno a las claves del comportamiento politico de los mayores de 65 años puesto que ellos son tambien ciudadanos activos de nuestras democracias. El segundo bloque, coordinado por el profesor Dr. Juan Pablo Maldonado, se adentra en el estudio de los derechos socioeconomicos de los mayores, prestando especial atencion a aquellos derechos relacionados con las cuestiones Iaborales, como el derecho al trabajo, la jubilacion, o el disfrute de las pensiones, dada su importancia durante la vejez. Por ultimo, el tercer bloque, realizado bajo la coordinacion de la profesora Dra. Begoña Fernandez, se refiere al estudio de los derechos civiles de los mayores de manera que se analizan temas tan relevantes como las refaciones familiares entre los abuelos y. los nietos en caso de ruptura matrimonial, la capacidad de obrar de los mayores, su incapacitacion o tutela, entre airas. En suma, se trato de una obra amplia, de caracter multidisciplinar, que aspiro a ahondar en el debate abierto en Espana sobre el envejecimiento activo, desde la perspectiva de la necesidad de impulsar y mejorar la participacion y los derechos de los mayores en nuestra sociedad.

Since the 1990s, contemporary art in the Arab world has experienced exponential growth and numerous changes. With the appearance of artists from the region in international exhibitions, the dynamics within the art scenes changed significantly. Museums & art foundations began to collect, biennials were launched, contemporary art galleries, fairs, residencies and schools emerged in many countries, and the governments of the Gulf states launched megaprojects. This reader serves as a guide for anyone interested in the foundations, structures and growth of these art scenes. It also functions as an anthology of what is now considered established in the Arab world, with contributions covering all aspects of the subjectboth from across the region and from a Western perspective.

Since the 1990s, contemporary art in the Arab world has experienced exponential growth and numerous changes. With the appearance of artists from the region in international exhibitions, the dynamics within the art scenes changed significantly. Museums & art foundations began to collect, biennials were launched, contemporary art galleries, fairs, residencies and schools emerged in many countries, and the governments of the Gulf states launched megaprojects. This reader serves as a guide for anyone interested in the foundations, structures and growth of these art scenes. It also functions as an anthology of what is now considered established in the Arab world, with contributions covering all aspects of the subjectboth from across the region and from a Western perspective.

In "Saints and Sinners on Horseback" Volume I, we meet saints, sinners, and their horses, mules, and donkeys on the road. Whether saint, sinner, or simply all too human, the medieval individuals connection to equids reflected relationships with other animals, the rest of humanity, and with the deity. Knowledge of horses permeated hagiographies and homilies, histories and biographies. Equids were recruited in commentaries on morality and Christian duty. In a world in which equids are not so readily encountered, "Saints and Sinners on Horseback" informs the modern reader about the essential part played by horses in medieval life, literature, and belief.

La imagen desfigurada: cultura visual y violencia en los siglos XX y XXI en Latinoamérica reúne nueve ensayos que buscan proporcionar escenarios críticos para reflexionar sobre la estrecha y compleja relacion entre visualidad y violencia en America Latina durante los siglos XX y XXI. En la primera seccion, "Archivo, memoria y corporalidad", se presentan escritos que ponen el enfasis en la reflexion sobre la forma en que los medios y los modos de inscribir y archivar la violencia determinan y estructuran nuestra aproximacion a ella. Esta seccion incluye articulos de Jens Andermann, Valeria de los Rios, Javier Guerrero, Eduardo Cadava y Raul Antelo. La segunda seccion, "Sensacionalismo, consumo y circulacion", presenta colaboraciones de Sergio Delgado Moya, Camilo Hernandez y Dylon Robbins. Aqui se incluyen escritos cuyo enfasis analitico gira en torno a las dinamicas de circulacion de la imagen. El volumen concluye con un ensayo de Suely Rolnik que ofrece una posible via de escape para reflexionar sobre formas de resistencia frente a las instancias estructurales, a menudo invisibles y veladas, que la violencia ha adquirido en nuestro tiempo.

El presente volumen reúne algunos escritos originales e inéditos de dramaturgxs de la escena española actual; en concreto, lxs autorxs que han adherido al proyecto son (en orden de presentación): Antonio Miguel Morales, Javier Liñera, Albert Tola y Laura Freijo Justo. Se trata de un conjunto de creadorxs que ha puesto la visibilizacion de las personas del colectivo LGBTQI+ en el centro de su escritura teatral. La labor testimonial de estos textos autobiograficos viene acompañada por seis ensayos de caracter academico que se centran en la investigacion de los diferentes matices que lo queer ha recibido en las tablas españolas al fin de contribuir, desde el ambito critico y literario, a una mayor concienciacion sobre un corpus de obras teatrales valientes y comprometidas.

The e-book describes and evaluates the status and functioning of the constitutional and governance systems of the Western Balkans countries (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, Northern Macedonia, Serbia), with regard to their EU-accession. As it describes the main branches of government functions, it may also be used as a handbook, which also identifies the bottlenecks of governance (especially the sensitive ethnic power sharing and representation issues) and critically examines the rule of law aspects. This comparative study covers all six countries of the region systematically, in terms of governance and rule of law. The e-book presents all major institutional fields of constitutional and administrative law: electoral system, ethnic issues, organisation of the state, separation of powers (legislative, executive, judiciary), administrative procedure, civil service, and constitutional adjudication.

Assumptions of politicians, teachers, and other professionals about integration often fall short of theoretical and empirical support. This work seeks to bridge this gap by proposing a new theoretical concept looking at personal security and testing it empirically with data from 21 European countries. As migration often affects migrants and members of the receiving society alike both have been included in the analysis. Whereas classic identity research strongly relies on qualitative techniques and experimental designs, Yvonne Hapke adopts a quantitative approach. She successfully demonstrates that ethnic closure and xenophobia are the result of damaged or threatened identities and pose a major obstacle to integration. However, welcoming individuals with all of their defining characteristics, needs, and identities helps people to develop trust in others as well as in political institutions and makes them more confident about their countrys future.

Childrens picture books from the Romantic period. Theatrical stages inspired by Spinoza. Scenes from the Thirty Years War reimagined by artificial intelligence. What narrative cannot achieve, Alexander Kluge transposes into the logic of images. The first half of the nineth volume of the "Alexander Kluge-Jahrbuch" contains a compilation of Kluges most recent image experiments that wrestle with crisis and astonishment in the transatlantic public spheres of the twenty-first century. For Kluge, astonishment not only provokes philosophical reflection but also serves as an essential tool for critically grappling with the society of the spectacle. In addition to dialogues with Oskar Negt, Stefan Aust and painter Katharina Grosse, this volume contains scholarly essays on technology and the new space race, cinema and iconoclasm, revolution and Kluges aesthetic politics, and decolonialism and ecocriticism.