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"This handbook explores trauma in East Asia from the 19th to the 21st century, assessing how victims, perpetrators and societies have responded to such experiences and to what extent the legacies still resonate today. Mapping the trauma-scape of East Asia from an interdisciplinary perspective, including anthropologists, historians, film and literary critics, scholars of law, media and education, political scientists and sociologists, this book significantly enhances understandings of the region's traumatic pasts and how those memories have since been suppressed, exhumed, represented and disputed. In Asia's contested memory-scape there is much at stake for perpetrators, their victims and heirs to their respective traumas. The scholarly research in this volume examines the silencing and distortion of traumatic pasts and sustained efforts to interrogate denial and impunity in the search for accountability. Addressing collective traumas from across East Asia (China, Hong Kong, Japan, Russia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam) this book is a valuable resource for students and scholars of Trauma and Memory Studies, Asian Studies and Contemporary Asian History more broadly"--

"The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Africa presents to a broad readership an accessible, comprehensive, up to date, and topical comparative analysis of sociological thinking in Africa. Sociological discourse about African societies has been challenging and difficult, due to a lack of both comprehensive analyses and holistic sociological evidence that covers Africa from past to present times. This Handbook brings together latest analyses of sociological phenomena from the best scholars working on numerous thematic areas. It provides contributions that locates African sociological thinking in historical context and takes a critical look at its current manifestations across the continent. This collection builds upon an existing body of literature which has demonstrated that while the analysis of African societies has long been an item on the agenda of sociologists worldwide, advances of the decolonial critique made notably by African scholars in Africa enhances the scholarship of the sociology of Africa. Thus, the collection is premised upon the understanding that in order to understand the sociology of Africa as significant intervention, the participation and representation of African ways of knowing and doing is a critical starting point. This Handbook comprises a series of scholarly and interdisciplinary perspectives on current debates over how best to unpack sociological imaginations in African context. The scholarly contributions, therefore, are based on both perspectives illustrating the importance of specificity in sociological phenomenon"--

Die Herausforderungen, denen sich Pflegeeinrichtungen stellen müssen, werden immer vielfältiger. Jenseits von hohem Ressourcendruck und Veränderungen im bzw. durch das gesellschaftliche Wertesystem prasseln auch immer mehr technologiegetriebene Entwicklungen, wie sie sich in Pflegeassistenzsystemen manifestieren, sowie Anforderungen in puncto Nachhaltigkeit auf das Zielsystem der Einrichtungen ein. Diese Themen werden in diesem Band behandelt.Prof. Dr. Hans-R. Hartweg (Dipl. Gesundheitsökonom) ist Professor im Fachbereich "Wiesbaden Business School" der Hochschule RheinMain und stellt dort Lehre, Forschung und Knowhow-Transfer im Fach "Gesundheitsökonomie" für den Gesundheits- und Pflegesektor sicher.Dr. Wolfgang Röhr (Dipl. Kaufmann) ist Vorstandsvorsitzender (CEO) der von ihm in Hamburg gegründeten Villa Vitalia Gesundheit und Pflege AG, die sich um altersgerechte und innovative Wohn- und Quartierskonzepte sowie um die Betreuung chronisch Schwerstkranker im Rahmen ihres gemeinnützigen Hospizprojektes Schloss Bernstorf kümmert.Rolf Kaestner (Dipl.-Volksw.) hat im betriebswirtschaftlichen Teil seines Studiums Planung und Organisation in der öffentlichen Verwaltung studiert und arbeitet als Projektmanager und Gutachter in der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit und im Gesundheitswesen.

"Où peut-on croiser plus de diversité que devant le guichet de l'Office des étrangers ? Et pourtant, le droit a choisi de regrouper et d'écraser ce foisonnement de différences sous une catégorie juridique homogénéisante : les " étrangers ". En combinant des outils tirés à la fois de la philosophie et du droit, Nina Hetmanska retrace la généalogie de cette catégorie juridique singulière qu'est le statut d'" étranger ". Comment s'est-il progressivement dessiné ? Devait-il nécessairement se construire en opposition à la nationalité ? Condamne-t-il les étrangers à s'assujettir au pouvoir administratif pour être reconnus comme des sujets à part entière ? Partant de l'hypothèse selon laquelle toute catégorie juridique crée une différence bien plus qu'elle ne la constate, cet ouvrage explore jusque dans ses dernières ramifications l'impact du statut d'étranger sur les trajectoires biographiques des migrants."

"Outlaw Capital explores the ethnographic case of Ciudad del Este, Paraguay, which is described as the "largest illicit economy in the Western Hemisphere." Jennifer Lee Tucker details the city's transformation from a tiny frontier outpost into a global trading hub and demonstrates the key contradictions of outlaw capital: tens of thousands of poor street vendors and traders depend on the border economy, yet outlaw capital also reproduces stark inequalities and undermines democratic practice. The book explores the politics and power of what Tucker calls outlaw capital, profits made in so-called "black markets.""