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Education and Development in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa
(2020)
This open access edited volume offers an analysis of the entangled histories of education and development in twentieth-century Africa. It deals with the plurality of actors that competed and collaborated to formulate ...
Bedeutsame Momente im Coaching
(2019)
Auf der Grundlage einer differenzierten Kritik an der aktuellen Coaching-Forschung wird in diesem Open-Access-Buch eine Landkarte für die künftige Ausrichtung der Coaching-Prozessforschung vorgestellt. Als weiteres Ergebnis ...
Häuser machen Schule
(2019)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch werden in einem methodisch unkonventionellen, quasi-archäologischen Vorgehen aus Architekturen von Schulhäusern die in ,Stein gehauenen‘ Sinnstrukturen rekonstruiert. In ihren Raum(an)ordnungen ...
Gender Innovation and Migration in Switzerland
(2019)
This open access book analyses migration and its relation to socio-political transformation in Switzerland. It addresses how migration has made new forms of life possible and shows how this process generated gender innovation ...
Internal Diversity
(2020)
This book explores the interrelation between diversity in migrants’ internal relations and their experience of inequality in local and global contexts. Taking the case of Hamburg-based Iranians, it traces evaluation processes ...
Qualitätssicherung
(2019)
Translation revision is essential for ensuring the quality of translations. It is a service of its own, which involves the provision of additional personnel, time and financial resources. The quality standards, the auditing ...
Konzeptionen von Förderung, Selektion und Gerechtigkeit
(2019)
In diesem Open Access Buch wird in einer rekonstruktiven Vorgehensweise der Frage nachgegangen, inwiefern sich an Primarschulen kollektive/divergierende Orientierungen von Förderung und Selektion sowie dahinterliegende ...
Religiöse Rituale und soziale Ordnung
(2020)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird die Bedeutung von religiösen Ritualen für die soziale Ordnung systematisch untersucht. Dazu werden Konzepte des Zusammenhangs von Ritualen mit verschiedenen Ebenen des Sozialen erarbeitet: ...
Deutsche und italienische Besatzung im Unabhängigen Staat Kroatien
(2020)
The “Independent State of Croatia,” occupied by Germany and Italy, is a laboratory for investigating Nazi and Fascist notions of empire, occupation, and the enforcement of power. For the first time, Sanela Schmid draws on ...
Les manuscrits arabes des lettres de Paul
(2018)
Dans cet ouvrage, Sara Schulthess discute l’état de la recherche sur les manuscrits arabes des lettres de Paul et offre une contribution innovante en éditant et analysant la Première lettre aux Corinthiens dans le Vaticanus ...
Ecritures digitales
(2019)
Ecritures digitales aims to demonstrate how digital writing, as new technology, contributes to the emergence of a reconfigured relationship between the human body and the machines, and how this transition influences the ...
Civil Society and the State in Democratic East Asia
(2020)
This volume focuses on the new and diversifying interactions between civil society and the state in contemporary East Asia by including cases of entanglement and contention in the three fully consolidated democracies in ...
Queere Theologie
(2024)
Roman Charity
(2016)
»Roman Charity« investigates the iconography of the breastfeeding daughter from the perspective of queer sexuality and erotic maternity. The volume explores the popularity of a topic that appealed to early modern observers ...
Klosterflucht und Bittgang
(2015)
Religious sometimes broke their vows and returned illegally to the society of the late Middle Ages. The study deals with the most radical violation of the monastic way of life, the escape from the monastery and the apostasy ...
Die Nutzung von Evaluationen in den Schweizer Parlamenten
(2019)
Evaluations assess the effectiveness of a public policy using a scientific approach and thus provide bases to make effects-oriented and well-founded decisions in parliament. Although policy evaluations have been established ...
Lenkung und Ablenkung
(2019)
This book is on four plays by John von Düffel, Peter Handke, and Franz Xaver Kroetz. The texts show a new understanding of direction and leadership, which is no longer related to hierarchical structured principles of ...
To Be a Minority Teacher in a Foreign Culture
(2023)
This open access book offers in depth knowledge on the challenges and opportunities offered by the inclusion of minority teachers in mainstream educational settings from an international perspective. It aims to be a unique ...
«Woche für Woche neue Preisaufschläge»
(2016)
The focus of this volume is on economic supply in Switzerland during the First World War. In the second half of the war, especially the shortage of food and energy became a question of national existence. The volume connects ...
Gesundheitswissen in der Schule
(2016)
What influence did doctors have on schools? A study on school hygiene from the middle of the 19th century onwards.
Radio Explorations
(2024)
Radio signals keep making material, informational, political, and social connections in this world. Exploring these signals architectonically, the contributors engage with the situatedness of radio signal recordings in ...
Lernen am Artefakt
(2024)
So schaffen wir das – eine Zivilgesellschaft im Aufbruch
(2017)
While dealing with the challenge of fleeing from war and poverty, the German civilian society has reinvented itself. Between 2015 and 2016 approximately 15,000 projects were established and creative answers to the manifold ...
Gewalt im Computerspiel
(2017)
Grand Theft Auto, Battlefield, Counterstrike – more and more, violence in computer games is becoming the subject of heated discussion. But what emotional experiences does the playful use of virtual violence make possible? ...
Arbeit transformieren!
(2017)
In the next decades the working world will change fundamentally. What powers affect the labor market? What changes are to be expected? And what does that mean for those involved in labor politics? This conclusive report ...
The Moral Implications of Human and Animal Vulnerability
(2023)
In this open access book, Angela K. Martin thoroughly addresses what human and animal vulnerability are, how and why they matter from a moral point of view, and how they compare to each other. By first defining universal ...
Art Unlimited?
(2016)
Until recently still a blank spot on the world map of art, China today occupies one of the top positions in the rankings of the global art market and has moved into the center of the speculations and the covetousness of ...
Afrodiasporic Identities in Germany
(2024)
Aminata Camara, Maya K., Lafia T., Oxana Chi and Layla Zami are middle-class, highly educated women in Germany and come from families of mixed African European heritages. This ethnographic study traces the coming of age ...
Johann Gottlob von Quandt (1787−1859) Kunst fördern und ausstellen
(2019)
Quandt was the builder of a first Goethe memorial site, founder of the Saxon Kunstverein and pioneer for a modern art gallery in Dresden. He promoted contemporary artists and explored Old Masters. He wanted his fellow ...
Style and Intersubjectivity in Youth Interaction
(2017-02-15)
This book examines how style and intersubjective meanings emerge through language use. While numerous studies on youth language focus on face-to-face interaction, this book draws data from conversation, e-forums, teen ...
La Fin de vie en Suisse
(2019)
This volume gives an overview of what is known from an academic perspective about the end of life in Switzerland. The authors, who represent different academic disciplines, deal with crucial questions, such as experiences ...
On the Social History of Persecution
(2023)
This multi-disciplinary volume is about social change in various cases of mass violence. In life under persecution, social relations and social structures were not absent or replaced by an ethno-racial order. The studies ...
Banned Birds
(2019-12-09)
The dietary prohibitions in Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14 represent one of the most detailed textual overlaps in the Pentateuch between the Priestly material and Deuteronomy. This is especially the case for the birds: ...
Vernetzte Islamfeindlichkeit
(2019)
With the slogan of "Islamization" different social currents mobilize their followers. It also serves the fight against liberal democracies with their social pluralism. In the intra-societal cultural struggle, apocalyptic ...
Macht und Gewalt im Widerstreit
(2016)
This volume reconstructs Arendt’s understanding of power and violence clearly and in detail. The author discusses the implications of Arendt's conception of power and violence for a political theory of democratic practice.
Die Ikonographie Palästinas/Israels und der Alte Orient
(2018)
"This forth volume of “Die Ikonographie Palästinas/Israels und der Alte Orient (IPIAO)” is on Iron Age until the beginning of the Achaemenid’s
rule. Almost 1000 objects of the pictorial art of Palestine / Israel are ...
Im Namen der Dinge
(2019)
The main assumption of this book is that Locke’s methaphysical considerations spread throughout his works build a coherent metaphysical theory about the essence of things. Contrary to prevalent opinions, Locke thereby ...
Das Lebensende in der Schweiz
(2019)
This volume gives an overview of what is known from an academic perspective about the end of life in Switzerland. The authors, who represent different academic disciplines, deal with crucial questions, such as experiences ...
Patterns in the History of Polycentric Governance in European Cities
(2024)
The autonomy granted to local communities by central powers is a recurrent feature of European history over time. The density of population in urban settlements facilitates human communication, however, towns are also zones ...
Knowledge Construction in Late Antiquity
(2023)
In recent years, the focus in historical studies has moved away from asking what knowledge ancient people produced to asking how and why it was produced. The present volume follows up with these developments, positioning ...
Plotinus on Beauty
(2022)
Although Plotinus’ two treatises on beauty could be taken to reflect an evolution in his thought, a careful examination shows that he consistently argues for a conception of beauty as the illuminated unity in multiplicity ...
Corporate Diplomacy: How Multinational Corporations Gain Organizational Legitimacy
(2022)
This Open-Access book investigates corporate diplomacy as a legitimation strategy of multinational companies in the United Arab Emirates. The author applies a neo-institutional public relations perspective, according to ...
Bilderfronten
(2019)
Das Ziel der UdSSR: eine afghanische Stabilität. Das Ergebnis: eine sowjetische Instabilität.
Als die Sowjetunion 1979 Soldaten nach Afghanistan verlegte, geschah dies im Geheimen – offizielle Bilder gab es nicht. Die ...
Cervantes global
(2022)
The global nature of Cervantes Global´s work is evident in the worldwide distribution of its readers, in the variety of methodologies from which it is studied and in the depth of the texts, which are attractive in any ...
Accès aux soins et tri médical
(2024)
Despite a compulsory health insurance system, thousands of people in Switzerland live without health insurance coverage. Consequently, they face difficulties in obtaining healthcare. Through interviews and observations in ...
Kant und die Imagination der Tiere
(2018)
Kant's reflections on animals open up a hitherto overlooked approach to his conception of human intuition and imagination. In her book, Rahel Villinger shows how Kant's aesthetics, epistemology, and theory of history must ...
Die zivilrechtliche Haftung für autonome Drohnen unter Einbezug von Zulassungs- und Betriebsvorschriften
(2018)
The characteristics and abilities of autonomous drones pose major challenges for liability law. Nowadays only personal injury and damage to property on the ground are covered by strict liability (Art. 64 para. 1 Swiss ...
The Pragmatics of Commitment
(2023)
Commitment is connected to central linguistic features, such as modality and evidentiality. It has thus been investigated in many branches of the field. Building upon this heterogeneous literature, this book offers a ...
Arktischer Heizraum
(2019)
Die Halbinsel Kola im Nordwesten Russlands stellte die sowjetische Verwaltung vor ein Energieproblem. Kola war zwar reich an Bodenschätzen, verfügte jedoch über keine fossilen Brennstoffe. Wie die Region mit Energie zu ...
Tradition und Diskurs
(2023)
Infrastructures of Freedom
(2023)
Infrastructures of Freedom sheds light on the impact of inadequate public lighting in self-built communities in Cape Town. In democratic South Africa, where infrastructure provision still reflects deeply embedded notions ...
Religious Experience and Its Transformational Power
(2023)
The author approaches the phenomenon of 'religious experience' through a qualitative study in which young, urban people from Europe and the USA are empirically examined. It becomes clear that individuals themselves are ...
Topological Obstructions to Stability and Stabilization
(2023)
This open access book provides a unified overview of topological obstructions to the stability and stabilization of dynamical systems defined on manifolds and an overview that is self-contained and accessible to the ...
Because of You
(2019)
Second-person storytelling is a continually present and diverse technique in the history of literature that appears only once in the oeuvre of an author. Based on key narratives of the post-war period, Evgenia Iliopoulou ...
International Aid and Urban Change
(2022)
The presence of expatriate humanitarian workers in African cities is not neutral. Country capitals receive large and sudden influx of expatriates during humanitarian crises responses. This book examines the influence of ...
Teaching Artistic Strategies
(2024)
Artistic strategies have a great transformative potential to improving research, teaching, and artistic expression. The contributors to this volume show how to unleash this potential by presenting a variety of epistemological ...
Ein Imperium wird vermessen
(2023)
Shared Rule in Federal Theory and Practice
(2024)
This book provides the first-ever in-depth treatment of shared rule, a crucial but so far largely neglected dimension of federalism and multilevel governance. The book discusses shared rule’s conceptual evolution and defines ...
Innovation et intervention sociales
(2024)
Innovation has long been associated with technology alone. This edited volume describes the development of social innovation in the social and health sectors, mainly in French-speaking Switzerland, and discusses the different ...
Oui, c'est oui. Le consentement à l'épreuve de la justice
(2024)
This book makes a contribution to the ongoing debate surrounding the revision of Swiss sexual criminal law by presenting research into the criminal treatment of sexual violence in Geneva. By elucidating the prevailing modes ...
Les éco-spiritualités contemporaines
(2024)
While since the 1960s, environmental degradation has been largely denounced on a global scale, this book considers that it is around 2015 that environmental mobilizations in Switzerland take a particular socio-cultural ...
Economic Innovation of Transnational Migrants and Refugees in Addis Ababa
(2024)
Ethiopia lies in the Horn of Africa, surrounded by political tension and conflict. The most populated land in the region is home to millions of refugees and migrants while also exporting a large number of workers. Addis ...
Navigating the European Migration Regime
(2022)
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC- ND
Anna Wyss’ survey of the heavily politicised group of male migrants in Europe provides insightful analysis of both masculinity and the European migration crisis. ...
Pauvres, immorales et contraintes
(2024)
This interdisciplinary book explores and analyses the adversities of single mothers during the twentieth century since nowadays in Switzerland. Thus, women who have given birth to a child out of wedlock are included in ...
Bildung und Partizipation
(2023)
Democracy has to be learned and lived - school is the ideal place for this. This book shows where pupils in Germany, Austria and Switzerland can have a say in their schools and how they learn tolerance, empathy and ...
Truth in Serial Form
(2023)
This volume examines the veritable explosion of serialized formats in all of forms representation, from painting to printing throughout the nineteenth century and into the twentieth, and the way in which these formats ...
Für das Sagbare
(2023)
Medical Missionaries and Colonial Knowledge in West Africa and Europe, 1885-1914
(2023)
This open access book offers an entangled history of hygiene by showing how knowledge of purity, health and cleanliness was shaped by evangelical medical missionaries and their encounters with people in West Africa. By ...
Religious Life in the Late Soviet Union
(2024)
This book presents the first large overview of late Soviet religiosity across several confessions and Soviet republics, from the 1960s to the 1980s. Based on a broad range of new sources on the daily life of religious ...
Das Gebet als metaphorischer Prozess
(2023)
Das Gebet ist ein reizvolles Thema, weil es ein Phänomen auf der Schwelle ist und viel verspricht: nämlich eine Brücke zu sein zwischen Himmel und Erde, Kontaktort von Endlichem und Unendlichem und ein ultimativer Trost ...
The Interpretation and Application of the Most-Favored-Nation Clause in Investment Arbitration
(2022)
The open access publication of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation. In The Interpretation and Application of the Most-Favored-Nation Clause in Investment Arbitration, Dr. ...
Gender Equality in the Mirror
(2022)
By taking an innovative perspective, Gender Equality in the Mirror aims to advance the debate on gender equalities and to engage with the complexities of their practical implications in everyday life. Through the voice of ...
Trust Responsibly
(2024)
This book offers a defence of Wrightean epistemic entitlement, one of the most prominent approaches to hinge epistemology. It also systematically explores the connections between virtue epistemology and hinge epistemolog ...
Dynasty Divided
(2023)
Dynasty Divided uses the story of a prominent Kievan family of journalists, scholars, and politicians to analyze the emergence of rivaling nationalisms in nineteenth-century Ukraine, the most pivotal borderland of the ...
The Lower !Garib - Orange River
(2023)
The Lower !Garib, or Orange River, flows through the historical Namaqualand and since 1990 has formed the international border between Namibia and South Africa. The contributors to this volume focus on this hardly discussed ...
Imaginationen des Körpers
(2024)
Spitalplanung Schweiz
(2023)
This book brings together two current issues that are much debated in federal Switzerland: firstly, the politically salient issue of hospital planning that lies in the realm of substate competence in need of coordination, ...
Etreintes paillardes
(2022)
Writing Anthropologists, Sounding Primitives
(2021)
Writing Anthropologists, Sounding Primitives re-examines the poetry and scholarship of three of the foremost figures in the twentieth-century history of U.S.-American anthropology: Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, and Ruth ...
Eclairer le crime
(2021)