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The broad valley of the Bradano river and its tributary, the Basentello, separates the Apennine mountains in Lucania from the limestone plateau of the Murge in Apulia in southeast Italy. This book explains how the pattern of settlement and land use changed in the valley over the whole period from the Neolithic to the late medieval

Die Beiträge des Bandes untersuchen das Kino in der DDR aus alltagsgeschichtlicher Perspektive. Im Mittelpunkt steht die Frage, welche Bedeutung das Kino für die Menschen in der DDR hatte. Dabei richtet sich der Blick auf das Kino als Freizeitstätte und Arbeitsraum im Spannungsfeld von filmischer Unterhaltung und politischer Instrumentalisierung.

"The Oxford Handbook of Berkeley is a compendious examination of a large number of topics in the philosophy of George Berkeley (1685-1753), Anglican Bishop of Cloyne, the famous idealist and most illustrious Irish philosopher. Berkeley is best known for his denial of the existence of material substance and his insistence that the only things that exist in the universe are minds (including God) and their ideas. But Berkeley was a polymath who contributed to a variety of different disciplines, not well distinguished from philosophy in the eighteenth century, including the theory and psychology of vision, the nature and functioning of language, the debate over infinitesimals in mathematics, political philosophy, economics, chemistry (including his favoured panacea, tar-water), and theology. This volume includes contributions from thirty-four expert commentators on Berkeley's philosophy, some of whom provide a state-of-the-art account of his philosophical achievements, and some of whom place his philosophy in historical context by comparing and contrasting it with the views of his contemporaries (including Mandeville, Collier, and Edwards), as well as with philosophers who preceded him (such as Descartes, Locke, Malebranche, and Leibniz) and others who succeeded him (such as Hume, Reid, Kant, and Shepherd)"--

Rising India and its global governance imperatives / Harsh V. Pant -- India's rise in the global nuclear governance architecture : principles, exceptions and contradictions / Arka Biswas -- From Rio to Paris : India in global climate politics / Aniruddh Mohan -- India's pursuit of United Nations Security Council reforms / Manish S. Dabhade -- India's democracy assistance : not promoting and not exporting / Ian Hall -- India's evolving views on responsibility to protect (R2P) and humanitarian interventions : the significance of legitimacy / Kartik Bommakanti -- India and global trade governance : re-defining its 'national' interest / Mihir Sharma and Preeti Bhogal -- BRICS in India's vision for global governance / Raj Kumar Sharma -- India's subregional connectivity initiatives : re-imagining the neighbourhood / Harsh V. Pant and K. Yhome -- India and maritime governance : the Indian Ocean dynamic / Harsh V. Pant and Ivan Lidarev.

"The goal of the book is to provide an anthology covering the reception of Plato's Republic in the Islamic world, with a focus on Averroes's outstanding but underappreciated commentary on Plato's most famous dialogue. Despite the publication of Ralph Lerner's excellent English translation almost 50 years ago, very few scholarly studies have been written on it. We propose the following chapters, keeping in mind that some might be changed owing to collaboration with contributors"--

Patterns of women's political participation in India: An introduction -- Participation in politics: Voting behaviour and engagement in political activities -- Individual and motivational factors affecting women's political participation -- Political socialization at home: Locating women in personal spaces -- Internalized patriarchy: Socio-cultural and economic barriers to participation of women in politics -- Politics as a career: Systemic political challenges -- Political opinion and attitude: Issues and party preferences.

WIE VIKTOR ORBÁN FREIHEIT, DEMOKRATIE UND RECHTSSTAATLICHKEIT UNGARNS AUSGEHÖHLT HAT.In Ungarn findet ein auf allen Ebenen der Gesellschaft und Politik ausgetragener Kulturkampf statt. Die Gegner sind ein von Viktor Orbán immer autoritärer geführter, immer rücksichtsloser agierender Staat und eine immer schwächer werdende liberale Opposition. Die Machtverhältnisse sind so ungleich, die Entrechtung der innenpolitischen Gegner so skrupellos und effektiv, dass man kaum noch auf eine Rückkehr zu rechtsstaatlichen und freiheitlichen Verhältnissen zu hoffen wagt.Wenn man in einem freiheitlichen Land politische Verhältnisse mit dem Wort ?System? beschreibt, denkt man an Despotie und Tyrannei. Für die Machthaber in Ungarn ist der Begriff ?System? seit dem Triumph der Fidesz-Partei unter ihrem Führer Viktor Orbán eine honorige Bezeichnung für ihre antidemokratischen Ziele und ihre unterdrückerischen Methoden geworden. Das ?System Orbán? könnte ein Zyniker vielleicht als ?diskursfreie Demokratie? bezeichnen. Es stützt sich - abgesehen von den Fidesz-Parteigängern - auf die Enttäuschten, die Zurückgesetzten und Zukurzgekommenen und bietet ihnen das zur Staatsraison erhobene Prinzip der NATIONALEN ZUSAMMENARBEIT. Dessen Kern besteht aus christlich grundiertem, nationalkonservativem und letztlich autoritärem Denken. Die Entwicklung, die Europa in Ungarn mit wachsendem Entsetzten beobachtet, ist ein rechtsnational gesteuerter Kollaps aller Werte einer liberalen Demokratie. WIe sich dieser Kollaps vollzieht, wird von György Dalos anhand zahlreicher Beispiele anschaulich beschrieben und präzise analysiert.(Verlagsinformation)

"The Routledge Handbook of Queer Rhetoric maps the ongoing becoming of queer rhetoric in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. The handbook features rhetorical scholarship that explicitly uses and extends insights from work in queer and trans theories to understand and critique intersections of rhetoric, gender, class, and sexuality. More important, chapters also attend to the intersections of constructs of queerness with race, class, ability, and neurodiversity. In so doing, the book as a whole acknowledges the many debts contemporary queer theory has to work by scholars of color, feminists, and activists inside and outside the academy. The Handbook of Queer Rhetoric is the first of its kind, helping to trace and document the emergence of this subfield within rhetorical studies while also pointing the way toward new lines of inquiry, new trajectories in scholarship, and new modalities and methods of analysis, critique, intervention, and speculation"--

"This book examines globalization and urban cultures in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, from a socio-cultural view. It focuses on the evolving nature of urbanity in the city due to globalization and the global flow of information while framing the changing patterns of everyday cultures and practices. The volume explores key linkages and factors in urban transformation: the history and heritage of Old Dhaka; globalization, diverse urban cultures and ethnic spaces; changes in food habits, clothing, health practices and recreation; changing forms of festivals, marriages and religious practices; situation of indigenous people in Old Dhaka; and the role played by NGOs, civil society and the local government. With its rich ethnographic case studies and field-based evidence, it discusses the relations between technology-driven economic activities and increasing cultural homogenization. It traces developments induced by cultural globalization and includes contemporary debates along with comparisons of Asian and global perspectives. This book will be a useful resource for scholars and researchers of urban studies, city studies, urban sociology, social anthropology, cultural anthropology, political sociology, development studies, South Asian studies and cultural studies, and to those interested in Bangladesh"--

"Politics and Kinship: A Reader offers a unique overview of the entanglement of these two categories in both theoretical debates and everyday practices. The two, despite many challenges, are often thought to have become separated during the process of modernisation. Tracing how this notion of separation becomes idealized and translated into various contexts, this book sheds light on its epistemological limitations. Combining otherwise-distinct lines of discussion within political anthropology and kinship studies, the selection of texts covers a broad range of intersecting topics that range from military strategy, DNA testing, and child fostering, to practices of kinning the state. Beginning with the study of politics, the first part of this volume looks at how its separation from kinship came to be considered a 'modern' phenomenon, with significant consequences. The second part starts from kinship, showing how it was made into a separate and apolitical field - an idea that would soon travel and be translated globally into policies. The third part turns to reproductions through various transmissions and future making projects. Overall, the volume offers a fundamental critique of the epistemological separation of politics and kinship, and its shortcomings for teaching and research. Featuring contributions from a broad range of regional, temporal and theoretical backgrounds, it allows for critical engagement with knowledge production about the entanglement of politics and kinship. The different traditions and contemporary approaches represented make this book an essential resource for researchers, instructors and students of anthropology"--

Eugene Linden wrote his first big cover story on climate change, for Time magazine, in 1988. In the years since, he has written many more investigative pieces, for many outlets, as well as served as an advisor for nonprofits, insurance companies, and other businesses in the cross-hairs of the disastrous impact of global warming. Fire and Flood represents his definitive case for the prosecution as to how and why we have arrived at our current dire pass, closing with his argument that the same forces that have so confused the public's mind and slowed the policy response are poised to pivot with astonishing speed, as long-term risks have become present-day realities and the cliff's edge is now within view. Starting with the 1980's, Linden tells the story decade by decade by looking at four clocks within each span that move at different speeds: the reality of climate change itself; the scientific consensus about it, which always lags reality; public opinion and political will, which lag farther still; and finally, what he argues is the most important clock, business and finance. Reality marches on at its own pace, but the public will and even the science are downstream from the money, and Fire and Flood shows vividly how devilishly effective the monied climate-change deniers have been at slowing and even reversing the progress of our collective awakening. When a threat means certain disaster at an unknown future point, but addressing it means certain lost profit in the present, capitalism's response is sadly predictable.

"The present work reexamines the importance of the Danish philosopher and theologian Søren Kierkegaard (1813-55). It argues that many of Kierkegaard's most controversial and influential ideas are more relevant than ever. Specifically, it shows how we can make good sense of ideas such as subjective truth, "the leap" into faith, and "the teleological suspension of the ethical." When properly understood, none of these ideas are as problematic as commentators have long assumed. This book shows that Kierkegaard offers a novel account of wholeheartedness that is relevant to discussions of personal identity, truth, ethics, and religion (particularly after Frankfurt, MacIntyre, C. Taylor, and Williams). Concluding Unscientific Postscript, notably, describes wholeheartedness as subjective truth, and despair as subjective untruth. This account involves an original, adverbial theory of truth in which agents, rather than propositions, are the basic truth-bearers (Watts 2018). For Kierkegaard, wholeheartedness requires living truly by having a coherent personal identity (something he also describes as "purity of heart"). Despair and doublemindedness, by contrast, involve an incoherent identity, which fails to be true to itself"--

"Through two World Wars and the Great Depression, this book explores the turbulent history of colonial Indian industry in the period immediately prior to independence. Focusing on five major industries in Bengal - coal mining, iron-smelting, jute manufacturing, paper making and tea plantation - the book looks at the impact of the war efforts on production, employment and capital: some industries experienced rapid growth due to additional investment, others suffered due to the dislocation of markets. Moreover, by drawing lessons from the war economy (especially the dearth of various essential commodities including war materials), the colonial government took up various measures in the inter-war period to promote India's domestic industries for the first time. Additionally, the book also argues that many of the expatriate firms in India became financially weak because of the Depression which paved the way for the 'Indianisation' of corporate houses. These elements were significant factors in the decline of British industrial hegemony in India and aided the de-colonisation process which followed. This book will be of interest to scholars of Indian economic history as well as those with wider interests in decolonisation, industrial history and the first half of the twentieth century"--