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This volume develops a theoretical framework for the modelling of meaning-making and cultural processes as crucial to the scientific study of contemporary complex societies. It focuses on the methodological and empirical aspects of the analysis of culture and its dynamics that could be applied to policymaking and to the understanding of social phenomena. It covers culture-based segmentation, ad hoc survey instruments like the VOC and PROSERV questionnaires, discourse flow analysis, the Homogenization of Classification Functions Measurement, and others. It also presents a detailed discussion of the methodology of cultural analysis in contexts of health and education. The volume showcases a top-down approach by including quantitative methods and/or automatized or semi-automatized procedures, and at the same time supports a hermeneutic, bottom-up, abductive approach, focused on the situated dynamics of meaning-making. It provides insights from cultural studies, social statistics, social policy, and research methodology in the social sciences. This is a useful resource for academics involved in studying cultural dynamics and for policy-oriented researchers and decision-makers who are interested in cultural dimensions of the design, implementation and reception of public policies

This edited book provides perceptions on "indigeneity" through a global perspective. Emphasizing the contemporary and postcolonial debates on indigenous, it delves into diversity and dissonance within indigenous concepts. Through its chapters based on theoretical and empirical studies from Asian, African, and American perceptions of indigenous societies, it brings out complexity, resilience, and response of "indigenous" in the post-colonial global society. It especially looks at how these societies manage to move forward by going beyond the stigma of the colonial past. The chapters in the book are divided into three sections where they discuss indigenous cultures through interdisciplinary perspectives. The narrative approach of historical concepts and contemporary indigenous challenges within the book include anthropological, cultural, ecological, historical, literary, and legal studies. The contributions in the collection come from widely respected international scholars who are engaged in indigeneity and postcolonial questions. It allows the reader to (re)discover the theories and resilience of the indigenous societies that are historically marked and are reshaping the histories and contemporary narratives in the world. This book is of particular interest to scholars, students, policymakers, and people curious about the histories and the dynamic progress of the indigenous and indigenous societies of Africa, the Americas, and Asia

This edited collection provides an alternative discourse on cities evolving with physically and virtually networked communities-the 'digital polis'-and offers a variety of perspectives from the humanities, media studies, geography, architecture, and urban studies. As an emergent concept that encompasses research and practice, the digital polis is oriented toward a counter-mapping of the digital cityscape beyond policing and gatekeeping in physical and virtual gated communities. Considering the digital polis as offering potential for active support of socially just and politically inclusive urban circumstances in ways that mirror the Greek polis, our attention is drawn towards the interweaving of the development of digital technology, urban space, and social dynamics. The four parts of this book address the formation of technosocial subjectivity, real-and-virtual combined urbanity, the spatial dimensions of digital exclusion and inclusion, and the prospect of emancipatoryand empowering digital citizens. Individual chapters cover varied topics on digital feminism, data activism, networked individualism, digital commons, real-virtual communalism, the post-family imagination, digital fortress cities, rights to the smart city, online foodscapes, and open-source urbanism across the globe. Contributors explore the following questions: what developments can be found over recent decades in both physical and virtual communities such as cyberspace, and what will our urban future be like? What is the 'digital polis' and what kinds of new subjectivity does it produce? How does digital technology, as well as its virtuality, reshape the city and our spatial awareness of it? What kinds of exclusion and cooperation are at work in communities and spaces in the digital age? Each chapter responds to these questions in its own way, navigating readers through routes toward the digital polis. Chapter "Introduction - The digital polisand its practices: Beyond gated communities" is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com

This book seeks to offer a collection of relevant essays dealing with different aspects of dark tourism sites in the Iberian Peninsula, delving into issues related to shared attitudes in the face of death and suffering. Thus, all the chapters explore the ideological readings that may turn dark sites into places of dissonant heritage, and therefore make them meaningful elements in the formation of collective identities. Illustrating the multidisciplinary potential of dark tourism studies, the contributors come from different fields of study, including historiography, literary studies, sociology.This collection reflects on how tourism managers, researchers, academics, policy makers and local communities can mobilize, transition and adapt to cultural tourism fluctuations, as well as mitigate the negative impacts of global crises. It also provides examples of tourist practices which, despite their local scope, have a strong potential impact on collective and social levels, as well as on business and multiple fields of study, research and education

Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, Volume 69, the latest release in this premier outlet for reviews of mature, high-impact research programs in social psychology, provides defining pieces of established research programs, reviewing and integrating thematically related findings by individual scholars or research groups. Topics discussed in Volume 69 include Countering Misinformation Through Psychological Inoculation, Coherence of Emotional Response Systems: Theory, Measurement, and Benefits, The Impact of the Environment on Behavior, Human Creativity: Functions, Mechanisms, and Social Conditioning, and Predicting Other People Shapes the Social Mind

The autonomy granted to local communities (such as towns, municipalities, and city-states) by larger, central powers (such as empires, kings, lords, and central states) is a recurrent feature of European history over time, from Antiquity to the contemporary period. This volume explores the political, social, and cultural aspects of this feature in a diachronic and comparative perspective, from the Roman Empire to today's city partnerships. To this end, it uses the concept of polycentric governance. Originally developed by political economist Vincent Ostrom in the 1960s and then expanded by the 2009 winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, political scientist Elinor Ostrom, this concept characterises the interdependent system of relations between different actors involved in a process and, for that reason, it is frequently used in policy studies. This volume applies the concept of polycentric governance to historical studies as a heuristic device to analyse the multilayer systems into which cities were integrated at various points in European history, as well as the implications of the coexistence of different political structures. Fourteen chapters examine the structures, the dynamics, and the discourse of polycentric governance through various case studies from the Roman Empire, from medieval towns, from early modern Europe, and from contemporary cities. The volume suggests that for extended periods of time throughout European history, polycentric governance has played a pivotal role in the organisation and distribution of political power

"The geographical position between the gulfs of Naples and Salerno made pre-Roman Sorrento a fundamental point of passage. Around the inhabited centre, sacred sites or scattered settlements developed including the sanctuary of Athena on the extreme tip of the peninsula, near Punta Campanella. This book explores the historical development of the sanctuary from the 6th century B.C. to the 1st century A.D. Drawing on partly unpublished archaeological documentation and literary sources, the book provides useful elements for understanding the site and its relationship with the surrounding area. Sorrento and the Greek presence in the Gulf of Naples are linked to the sanctuary installation, perhaps first dedicated to the Sirens but surely after to Athena. Judging from literary sources, it was one of the best-known places of worship in ancient Italy. It was only in the 1980s that the discovery of an Oscan inscription with a dedication to Minerva made it possible to hypothesise the presence of a sanctuary near the Medieval tower at Punta Campanella. The analysis of the archaeological documentation known until now, the study of the new archaeological plans and of the material culture (ceramics) from the site make it possible to better understand the development and the importance of the sanctuary. This book, therefore, defines the historical and territorial development of the sanctuary of Athena, reconstructing the history of the territory of ancient Surrentum and above all of its most important sanctuary. The book will be of particular interest to archaeologists, ancient historians and historians of religion"--

Der seit dem 16. Jahrhundert in der deutschen Sprache gebräuchliche Krisenbegriff erstreckte sich bis ins 18. Jahrhundert ausschließlich auf den Fachbereich der Medizin. Danach wanderte er langsam in die Alltagssprache und bezeichnete Entscheidungssituationen oder Höhepunkte gefährlicher Entwicklungen, vor allem im Gesundheitsbereich (Seuchen) und in der Wirtschaft. Krisen sind in ihren jeweiligen historischen Konstellationen einzigartig und nicht wiederhol- oder vorhersehbar. Wie der Krisenbegriff dennoch erfolgreich in der Geschichtswissenschaft eingesetzt werden kann, illustriert dieser Band.

Unsere Lebens- und Wirtschaftsweise ist mit einem enormen Verbrauch an natürlichen Ressourcen und Energie verbunden, mit nachteiligen Folgen für die Umwelt wie dem Klimawandel und sozioökonomischen Ungleichgewichten. Gut ausgebildeten, zukunftsorientierten Fachkräften kommt in diesem Zusammenhang eine zentrale Rolle zu. Das Projekt "RessKoRo - Ressourcenkompetenz für die Rohstoffnutzung in globalen Wertschöpfungsketten" hat zum Ziel, das Bewusstsein für die Ressourcennutzung in globalen Wertschöpfungsketten zu schärfen und Handlungsoptionen für Hochschulen und für politische Akteure aufzuzeigen. Gegenstand des Projekts mit einer Laufzeit von 2019 bis 2023 ist die Ermittlung des Status quo der Ressourcenbildung am Beispiel der Studiengänge Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen und Design. Diese Dokumentation präsentiert die Projektergebnisse, darunter Erkenntnisse zu bestehenden Lehr- und Lernkonzepten, Herausforderungen bei der Implementierung von Ressourcenbildung an Hochschulen sowie Best Practices. Die Ergebnisse wurden in Form von konkreten Handlungsoptionen zusammengefasst, die sich sowohl an Hochschulen als auch an politische Entscheidungsträger richten. Sie umfassen Vorschläge für die Integration des Themas Ressourcennutzung in die Curricula und Forschungsschwerpunkte für den Aufbau von interdisziplinären Netzwerken und Kooperationen und für die Förderung des Lernens in der Praxis sowie für die Entwicklung von Weiterbildungsangeboten für Fachkräfte. Darüber hinaus werden Empfehlungen ausgesprochen, um die Hochschulen auf politischer und institutioneller Ebene dabei zu unterstützen, diese Maßnahmen umzusetzen.

Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Individuals -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: "Which Is the Counterfeit, and Which the Real Man?": Stories of Suffering and Questions of Credibility, 1819-25 -- Chapter 2: "He a Discoverer, Forsooth!": Arctic Circles and Scientific Sociability, 1818-29 -- Chapter 3: "All Things Are Queer and Opposite": Arctic Circles on the Far Side of the World, 1837-43 -- Chapter 4: "Have You Seen the Esquimaux Sketch of the Ships?": Disappearing Ships and Inuit Maps, 1845-9 -- Chapter 5: "The Argument from Negative Evidence": The Many Lives of the Open Polar Sea, 1850-3 -- Chapter 6: Full Circles: Relics, Stories, and Silences -- Bibliography -- Index.