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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Instead of a Preface, a Frontispiece -- Incipit, a Chord -- Tempered in the Time of the Analemma -- Didascalicon -- Digital Ekphrasis -- The Digital, a Continent? -- Cosmoliteracy and Anthropography -- Statuesque Words in Locum Tenens: Cornucopian Instruments, Lieu-tenants of Statements -- Photosynthesis: Cosmic Convivia of Meteora Alloys -- The Alphabetic Absolute -- Capital Bodies: Secrets of the Universe -- In Medias Naturae -- The Instrumentation of Space: Time, Cosmos, Politics -- Entwurf of the Method and Ethics of its Discourse: Cartesianism Reconsidered -- Once Upon the Autonomy of Words -- Bibliography.

While there have always been high levels of philanthropic giving in the Global South, the urgency and unexpectedness of COVID-19 transformed the parameters within which philanthropy operates. 'Reimagining Philanthropy in the Global South' examines how newer models of philanthropy are tackling development challenges, including poverty, inequality and access to healthcare and education, and questions how organisations are coping with structural changes in donor-driven philanthropy; how changes in traditional grant making are impacting the imperatives of recipient organisations; and how indigenous philanthropy is making a difference. The chapters provide frank assessments of the priorities, challenges and opportunities of emerging market philanthropy, and the lessons learned from the pandemic. The authors highlight the deeper issues at play, as well as offering ideas and positive examples of how diverse stakeholders are coming together to solve social challenges in creative and practical ways. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Zahlen, Fakten und Statistiken sind im Normalfall langweilig und manchmal schwer zu verstehen. Dies gilt besonders für Wirtschaftsstatistiken, die oft mehr verschleiern als erhellen. Oder in sich geschlossene Systeme darstellen, also lediglich Äpfel mit Äpfeln vergleichen - am Besten noch von der gleichen Sorte und vom gleichen Produzenten. Tritt man aber einen Schritt zurück und schaut über den Tellerrand, dann entdeckt man wahnwitzige Zahlen, die mehr über unsere Gesellschaft und die Welt in der wir leben aussagen, als langwierige Analysen es vermögen. Die Zahlenvergleiche, die Anabelle Körbel recherchiert und zusammengestellt hat, sind oft überraschend, manchmal verblüffend und absurd. In ihrer Gesamtheit zeichnen sie das Bild einer Welt, in der sich finanzieller Größenwahn und seine skurrilen Auswirkungen einen festen Platz gesichert haben. Größenwahn in Zahlen liefert einerseits unterhaltsame Fakten zum Weitererzählen, regt aber auch zum Nachdenken über die Unverhältnismässigkeiten dieser Welt an.

"A provocative, virtuosic inquiry that reveals how the valorization of times and migrations past are intimately linked to our exclusion and demonization of migrants in the present When and how did migration become a crime? Why did "Greek ideals" become foundational to the West's idea of itself? How have our personal migration myths -and our nostalgia for a lost world of clear borders and values - shaped our troubling new realities? In 2020, Lauren Markham went to Greece to cover the burning of a refugee camp on Lesbos. Some said the refugees had done it, to destroy what had become their prison. Others said it was the island's fascists, or the government itself, enraged at the burden they bore for an overwhelming global problem. Soon-too soon-six young Afghan refugees were arrested. As she immersed herself in the reporting, Markham-an American of Greek heritage who had been working with and writing about migrants for more than a decade-saw that the story she was reporting was part of a larger tapestry, with roots not only in centuries of history but in the myths we tell ourselves about who we are. In this mesmerizing, trailblazing synthesis of reporting, history, memoir, and essay, A Map of Future Ruins makes us realize that the stories we tell about migration don't just explain what happened. They are oracles: they predict the future"--

"This book explains the formation and evolution of the capitalist society from the perspective of language and media. It argues that linguistic presentations given by using language serve as a basis for humans to define private property rights, engage in market exchange, establish the wage labor system, exploit science and technology in production, and organize socialized production."

«Les premiers seront les derniers, les derniers seront les premiers». Aux XIIe et XIIIe siècles, Abélard, Héloïse, Dominique de Guzmán, François et Claire d'Assise – d'autres encore – inventent une forme de gouvernement renversante. Selon eux, le chef d'une communauté doit se faire le dernier des serviteurs de ceux qu'il guide. Un devoir d'humilité strictement codifié. Voici, en direct, des scènes frappantes où les ardents réformateurs du Moyen Âge abaissent les puissants pour exalter les humbles, tout en se dépouillant eux-mêmes des emblèmes du pouvoir. Dans le sillage de Michel Foucault et Giorgio Agamben, Jacques Dalarun fait revivre une tradition contestataire judéo-chrétienne différente du modèle gréco-romain, une « puissance de la faiblesse » toujours active dans les démocraties du XXIe siècle

Der Aufsatz widmet sich dem digitalen Basteln, verstanden als selbstbestimmter Umgang mit verschiedensten Materialien, analogen wie auch digitalen Werkzeugen und Techniken. Diesem wird ein Einübungspotenzial in digitale Kultur zugeschrieben. Um diese These argumentativ zu entfalten, wird zunächst mithilfe von Friedrich Tenbruck digitale Kultur als spezifische Wirklichkeitsvorstellung beschrieben. Sodann wird das digitale Basteln als Praktiken der Einübung in digitale Kultur präsentiert. Durch diese Einübung gewinnen vor allem die digitalen Bastlerinnen und Bastler Orientierungsmöglichkeiten in digitaler Kultur jenseits der von Tenbruck herausgearbeiteten Orientierung in Kultur durch Geschichte.

The table provides an overview of the descriptive data of the international research project "Gender Equity Policy Analysis: Assessing, Understanding, and Modeling the Impact of Gender Equity Policies (GEP) in the Film Industry". For the period 2010-2020 (for Germany, the UK and Canada: 2005-2020), 12,107 films from 34 Eurimages countries were analyzed with regard to gender distribution in the three positions of directing, screenwriting and producing.

We examine how banks manage carbon transition risk by selling loans given to polluting borrowers to less regulated shadow banks in securitization markets. Exploiting the election of Donald Trump as an exogenous shock that reduces carbon risk, we find that banks' securitization decisions are sensitive to borrowers' carbon footprints. Banks are more likely to securitize brown loans when carbon risk is high but swiftly change to keep these loans on their balance sheets when carbon risk is reduced after Trump's election. Importantly, securitization enables banks to offer lower interest rates to polluting borrowers but does not affect the supply of green loans. Our findings are more pronounced among domestic banks and banks that do not display green lending preferences. We discuss how securitization can weaken the effectiveness of bank climate policies through reducing banks' incentives to price carbon risk.