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Das Handbuch Demokratische Republik Kongo richtet sich an ein breites Publikum und bietet einen Überblick zu Geschichte, Politik, Gesellschaft und Kultur des facettenreichen Landes in Subsahara-Afrika. Systematisch aufbereitete, gut verständliche Texte zur kongolesischen Geographie, Politik, Wirtschaft, Gesellschaft und Kultur schaffen ein vertieftes Verständnis für globale Verflechtungen, ihre historischen Ursprünge und die Auswirkungen in Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Zukunft. Dabei werden die verschiedenen Perspektiven auf die Demokratische Republik Kongo übersichtlich erfasst und miteinander in Beziehung gesetzt. Dieses differenzierte, interdisziplinäre Kaleidoskop umfasst unter anderem Beiträge zu Geo- und Demographie, zur Geschichte und zu Kriegen und Konflikten seit den 1990er Jahren, zum politischen System, zu Institutionen, Infrastruktur, Zivilgesellschaft und Außenbeziehungen sowie zu Medien, Bildungs- und Gesundheitssystem, Religionen, Frauenrechten, Sprachen, Sport, Kunst, Musik, Literatur, Film, Mode und den kulinarischen Kulturen des Landes

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- INTRODUCTION -- APPENDIX: SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ARABIC AND PERSIAN SOURCES -- INTRODUCTORY NOTE -- FOREWORD -- Contents -- 1. The Empire -- 2. The Caliphs -- 3. The Princes of the Empire -- 4. Christians and Jews -- 5. Shi'ah -- 6. The Administration -- 7. The Wazir -- 8. Finances -- 9. The Court -- 10. The Nobility -- 11. The Slaves -- 12. The Savant -- 13. Theology -- 14. The Schools of Jurisprudence -- 15. The Qadi -- 16. Philology -- 17. Literature -- 18. Geography -- 19. Religion -- 20. Manners and Morals -- 21. The Standard of Living -- 22. Municipal Organization -- 23. The Festivals -- 24. Land Products -- 25. Industry -- 26. Trade -- 27. Inland Navigation -- 28. Communication by Road -- 29. Marine Navigation.

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Table of Cases -- Table of Statutes -- Table of Other Primary (Legal) Sources -- Introduction -- I. Objectives -- II. Previous Work -- III. Scope and Limits -- IV. A Brief Note on Structure -- V. Conclusion -- 1. Authority Claims in Europe -- I. Introduction -- II. Understanding the Importance of Claims -- III. Political Authority as Manifestation of Practical Authority -- IV. The Specific Characteristics of Political Authority Claims -- V. State Sovereignty and International Authority Claims: Two Ends of a Spectrum -- VI. Empirical and Normative Legitimacy -- VII. Authority and Political Obligation -- VIII. Conclusion -- 2. An Authority Claim Over Peoples -- I. Introduction -- II. The Many Labels of the EU's Authority Claim in the Literature -- III. Why the EU does not Claim Sovereign Authority -- IV. Why the EU does not Claim International Authority -- V. An Authority Claim Over Peoples -- VI. Conclusion -- 3. Institutional Reflections on the EU's Authority -- I. Introduction -- II. Traces of Authority in the Treaties -- III. The Court: From Effective Contracts to Institutional Integrity -- IV. The Commission: Delivering Benefits between Social and Moral Legitimacy -- V. The EP: Input Legitimacy First -- VI. The European Council: International Instrumentalism -- VII. National Constitutional Courts: Popular Consent -- VIII. Conclusion: Theoretical Purity vs Institutional Reality -- 4. Potential and Limits of Current Models on the EU's Authority -- I. Introduction -- II. Identifying the Source of the EU's Authority -- III. Taking Stock: The Obscure Debate on the Moral Basis of the EU's Authority -- IV. Conclusion: Anarchy? -- 5. Demoicratic Authority I: The Theory -- I. Introduction -- II. What is Demoicracy and Why Do We Need it? -- III. Demoicratic Authority Explained.

This book examines qualitatively and quantitatively the exploitation of African through colonialism and imperialism. The contribution included build on previous qualitative analyses of the effects of imperialism and colonialism in Africa. Chapters expand on that body of work and introduce new ways to measure some of the benefits that accrued to Europe and North America through centuries of systematic underpayments and overcharges that one can consider abuse of dominance. The collection also adds to an ongoing process that is related to the growing work related to reparations. This book, thereby, contributes to a process of changing international development assistance policy. It helps to create a basis for officially estimating the continuing gains from past and current actions against African economic, social, and political institutions and systems. This edited volume, which showcases a diversity of scholars and their perspectives, attempts to establish wrongful benefits and damages from almost 600 years of international harm to the African continent

This book offers a striking and pointed reflection on what histories of masculinity in modern Britain have been and where they might go next. Addressing the constant contemporary talk of crisis around men's lives, Men and Masculinities argues powerfully that we need histories of masculinity which are present-centred and politically engaged. In so doing, it sets out a new agenda for the field. Ranging over the past 130 years, a series of engaging and original essays trace how men, like masculinity, were made. In exploring that process, contributors demonstrate the radically different ways in which men made sense of the world and their place in it. The book provides compelling evidence of how individual life stories can transform how we think about the time- and place-specific formation of men's experiences and ideas of masculinity. Through vivid case studies that include trans men's encounters with the welfare state, the experience of wounded Jamaican servicemen, and the social world of the public librarian, the volume interweaves histories of masculinity with wider histories of society, culture, economy, and politics. It is on that basis that the work shows how thinking critically about histories of masculinity also provides new ways of understanding the making and remaking of modern Britain. Men and Masculinities both provides a critical genealogy for contemporary gender politics and the persistence of patriarchy and male power and establishes new ways of understanding how men's lives and ideas of masculinity have (and have not) changed in modern Britain.

This authoritative book proposes a methodological and theoretical strategy for developing sociological explanations of the socio-cultural universe. Jonathan H. Turner and Alexandra Maryanski discuss the problems that persist in explaining the socio-cultural universe using only biological and psychological approaches and outline new strategies for understanding the evolution of human beings and their biological nature.Through exploring human evolution, human nature, human behaviours and patterns of social organisation, Turner and Maryanski demonstrate that evolutionary explanations of behaviours and patterns can be drawn from modern synthesis in biology. They also explain why certain dimensions of the socio-cultural universe can only be understood using purely sociological approaches to evolutionary analysis. They expertly analyse alternative biologically-based strategies for explaining the evolution of human beings and a purely sociological strategy for understanding the emergent properties of human socio-cultural formations.Innovative in its approach, this timely book will be of great interest to scholars interested in the fields of science and technology studies, sociology and sociological theory, cultural sociology, social psychology, and social policy. It will also be highly beneficial to those looking to better understand the optimum methodological strategies for understanding the biology of human nature

The volume – whose chapters originated at panels at the International Byzantine Congress in Belgrade and at the IMC in Leeds – seeks to offer an introduction into various aspects of social and geographical mobility, and the intrinsic relationship between the two, as well as into the microstructures of social action in the Byzantine world during the high and late Middle Ages. Based on a balanced approach to the role of personal agency and social structure, the authors of the individual chapters seek to clarify how and why various kinds of people mobilized to either change place and/or social position, or to form groups whose actions shaped social reality both at the imperial centre and the provincial periphery.

Part I. Theory- Systematic understanding of common prosperity -- 1. Background and significance of common prosperity -- 2. The basis and connotation of common prosperity -- 3. Goal and measurement of common prosperity -- Part II. Practice -Jointly promote common prosperity -- 4. Principles and policies of top-level design -- 5. Construction and promotion of common prosperity demonstration area -- 6. Influence and opportunity of common prosperity -- 7. Realizing people's all-round development.

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Historically Locating Muslim women: Australia and Coloniality of Power -- Chapter 3: Decolonial Feminism: Theorising Muslim Women's Subjectivity -- Chapter 4: Understanding of Islam and Being Muslim: Negotiating Diversity and Authenticity -- Chapter 5: "The Good Girl": Negotiating Gendered Identity at the Intersections of Islam and Ethnicity -- Chapter 6: The Oppressed and Palatable Others: Intersections of Islam, Ethnicity, Race and Gender -- Chapter 7: Muslim Women's Borderlands Identities.

Chapter 1. Decidim: A Brief Overview -- Chapter 2. The Political Plane: Decidim and the Vision of a Radically Democratic Society -- Chapter 3. The Technopolitical Plane: Decidim as a Democratic Software Paradigm -- Chapter 4. The Technical Plane: the Fabric of an Infrastructure -- Chapter 5. A Technopolitical Network for Participatory Democracy: The Future of a Collective Platform.

Die Bundesregierung hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, mit der Entwicklung einer Nationalen Kreislaufwirtschaftsstrategie (NKWS) einen entscheidenden Beitrag zur Senkung des primären Rohstoffverbrauchs, der Reduzierung der Umweltbelastung, zum ⁠Klimaschutz⁠ und zur Ressourcenschonung zu schaffen bei gleichzeitiger Sicherung der Rohstoffversorgung. Dieses Papier fasst die Empfehlungen der Ressourcenkommission am Umweltbundesamt (KRU) zur NKWS zusammen. Die KRU ist ein Gremium unabhängiger Expertinnen und Experten, welches das Umweltbundesamt mit konkreten Vorschlägen zur Ressourcenpolitik berät.

"When and why are right-wing populist parties electorally successful in developing democracies? What are the economic consequences of their electoral success? This book presents an original theoretical framework that is grounded in the socio-economic characteristics of developing countries to answer these questions and provides evidence for its theory."

"Industrial workers in Ukraine have a complex political lifeworld because their political action aimed at bringing radical social change coexists with a demobilizing stance that condemns all political participation as corrupt. This contradictory attitude to politics defines the character of populist mass mobilizations that shook Ukraine in 2004 and 2014, as well as the electoral overhaul of 2019 and the popular response to the Russian invasion in 2022. Based on three years of fieldwork in the city of Kryvyi Rih, the book focuses on the moral economy that constitutes the working-class and structures its relations with other social groups."