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Als ab Herbst 1989 die DDR langsam verschwand – sowohl institutionell als auch in der gesellschaftlichen Wahrnehmung – reiste Cordia Schlegelmilch in den Osten, um eine von der Hamburger Stiftung zur Förderung von Wissenschaft und Kultur unterstützte soziologische und fotografische Langzeitstudie zu beginnen. Insbesondere im Spätsommer 1990 fuhr sie durch die DDR auf der Suche nach einem geeigneten Studienort, den sie schließlich in Wurzen fand. Schlegelmilch, lange Zeit Mitarbeiterin am Wissenschaftszentrum für Sozialforschung in West-Berlin, hielt auf diesen Touren ihre Eindrücke fotografisch fest. Ihre Aufnahmen dokumentieren eine Welt in Auflösung. Es sind Zeugnisse des auch mit staatlichen Neubaumaßnahmen nicht aufzuhaltenden Verfalls der Städte wie der politischen Auseinandersetzung mit den alten Eliten. Andere Fotografien zeigen die DDR-typische Schaufenstertristesse sowie sozialistische Plakatpropaganda, die nun von den grellen Werbeplakaten und dem beginnenden Konsum westlicher Produkte abgelöst wurden. Der Farbbildband, ergänzt mit kurzen Texten Schlegelmilchs zu den damaligen Reisen, ermöglicht einen unverfälschten Blick in eine Zeit des Umbruchs, in der anstelle heutiger deutsch-deutscher Ressentiments die Hoffnung auf eine baldige Wiedervereinigung und bessere Zukunft stand.

Dieses Buch ist eine Reiseerzählung der anderen Art. Der Betrachter reist beim Lesen durch die Zeit und bleibt dabei am gleichen Ort, dem Dorf Berka in Thüringen. Das Dorf wurde von drei Fotografen einer Familie über 70 Jahre - zwischen 1950 und 2022 - fotografisch begleitet. Es handelt sich um ein ungewöhnliches, mehreren Zufällen geschuldetes Projekt, das viel erzählt über dieses Land, das Dorf, seine Menschen und wie sich die Dinge so entwickelt haben. Zufall: Der Müllermeister von Berka, Ludwig Schirmer ist begeisterter Amateurfotograf, der nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg neben der Arbeit als Müller noch Zeit findet das Leben im Dorf und auf dem Feld in Bilder zu fassen, die an andere große deutsche Fotografen seiner Zeit erinnern. Zufall: Die Familie Schirmer bekommt 1950 eine Tochter, Ute, die ihre Kindheit in Berka verbringt. Zufall: Ute heiratet 1973 Werner, den sie am Gymnasium in Oranienburg kennenlernt. Beide studieren später an der HGB Leipzig und Werner macht 1977/78 sein Diplom über Utes Heimatdorf, Berka. Zufall: Werner bekommt 1997 einen Auftrag vom STERN, die von Helmut Kohl versprochenen "Blühenden Landschaften" zu fotografieren und geht 1998 noch einmal nach Berka zum Fotografieren. 2001 stirbt Ludwig Schirmer, der in den sechziger Jahren zu einem der bekanntesten Werbefotografen der DDR geworden war und in seinem Nachlass tauchen zufällig einige wenige Abzüge und viele Negative seiner Berka-Bilder auf. Ute Mahler und Werner Mahler machen in ihrer Dunkelkammer erste Abzüge und ihnen wird klar welche künstlerische und dokumentarische Qualität diese Bilder haben. 2021/2022, kein Zufall mehr: Ute Mahler fährt wiederholt nach Berka und porträtiert die Jugendlichen des Dorfes, die noch nicht einmal geboren waren, als Werner Mahler das letzte mal dort fotografierte. Es sind die Ur- oder Ururenkelinnen der Menschen, die Ludwig Schirmer in den fünfziger Jahren kannte und porträtierte. 2022/2023, das vollkommen analog und schwarzweiß fotografierte Langzeitprojekt ist abgeschlossen und die Idee des Buches, die schon einige Jahre gereift ist, nimmt erste Formen an

"This book explores how Chinese border provinces have become actors in international relations. Through an analysis of the international actorness - the inherent characteristics of a subnational entity as an international player - of Yunnan and two other geographically peripheral provinces, Guangdong and Guangxi, the domestic, economic and legislative circumstances that motivated these provinces to conduct transboundary engagements is determined. The study is based on an extensive field study including interviews with those involved in the implementation of Yunnan's foreign agenda, representatives from province-owned enterprises, universities and think tanks, and officials and experts from the countries neighbouring Yunnan. Acknowledging the role of external geopolitics, the authors analyse the efforts of these border provinces to incentivise neighbouring countries to cooperate with them on areas of trade, investment and non-traditional security. Yao Song and Tianyang Liu also observe how border provinces have leveraged their paradiplomatic strengths to affect China's foreign relations with neighbouring countries. This volume will appeal to researchers, academics and postgraduates in political science, international relations, and diplomacy as well as geography, Southeast Asian politics, political economy, Chinese periphery diplomacy, and non-federal paradiplomacy"--

Sir Karl Popper was a major thinker of the twentieth century, one who - as Anthony O'Hear writes in his new Foreword - 'has had a beneficent influence on those who have come under the spell of his thought and of the inimitable prose in which he articulates it'. It is now twenty-five years since Popper died, and thus seems - after a quarter of a century - an apposite moment to revaluate his impact, significance, and influence. The several chapters in this classic volume focus on many key elements of Popper's thought and philosophy. They are by no means uncritical, but afford Popper the respect due to a philosopher who wrote always with a degree of clarity, precision, and directness rare in the academic world of his time, and - as O'Hear puts it - 'even rarer subsequently'. This important book constitutes an essential introduction to some of the most esteemed philosophical writing of our times.

"Considering that environmental science draws students and practitioners with widely varied backgrounds, there is a need for materials that help readers to grow their knowledge of fundamental principles from chemistry, physics, and biology to understand, describe, and predict the ways in which constituents (sediment, nutrients, organic matter, etc.) interact and move in aquatic systems (rivers, lakes, groundwater, and the atmosphere). Aquatic Environmental Systems - an Interdisciplinary Approach for Scientists and Engineers focuses on developing a common vocabulary and a rigorous material balance-based approach to understanding these movements and interactions"--

"When the crucial years after the Korean War are remembered today, histories about North Korea largely recount a grand epic of revolution centering on the ascent of Kim Il Sung to absolute power. Often overshadowed in this storyline, however, are the myriad ways the Korean population participated in party-state projects to rebuild their lives and country after the devastation of the war. North Korea's Mundane Revolution traces the origins of the country's long-term durability in the questions that Korean women and men raised about the modern individual, housing, family life, and consumption. Using a wide range of overlooked sources, Andre Schmid examines the formation of a gendered socialist lifestyle in North Korea by focusing on the localized processes of socioeconomic and cultural change. This style of "New Living" replaced radical definitions of gender and class revolution with the politics of individual self-reform and cultural elevation, leading to a depoliticization of the country's political culture in the very years that Kim Il Sung rose to power"--

This pathbreaking work integrates African countries into broader comparative theories of how spatial inequality shapes political competition over the construction of markets, states, and nations. Existing literature on African countries has found economic cleavages, institutions, and policy choices to be of low salience in national politics. This book inverts these arguments. Boone trains our analytic focus on the spatial inequalities and territorial institutions that structure national politics in Africa, showing that regional cleavages find expression in both electoral competition and policy struggles over redistribution, sectoral investment, market integration, and state design. Leveraging comparative politics theory, Boone argues that African countries' regional and core-periphery tensions are similar to those that have shaped national economic integration in other parts of the world. Bringing together electoral and economic geography, the book offers a new and powerful map of political competition on the African continent.

"The role and meaning of sustainable development have been recognized in the scientific literature for decades. However, there has recently been a dynamic increase in interest in the subject, which results in numerous, in-depth scientific research and publications with an interdisciplinary dimension. This edited volume is a compendium of theoretical knowledge on sustainable development. The context analysed in the publication includes a multi-level and multi-aspect analysis starting from the historical and legal conditions, through elements of the macro level and the micro level, inside the organization. Organizing Sustainable Development offers a systematic and comprehensive theoretical analysis of sustainable development supplemented with practical examples, which will allow obtaining comprehensive knowledge about the meaning and its multi-context application in practice. It shows the latest state of knowledge on the topic and will be of interest to students at an advanced level, academics, and reflective practitioners in the fields of sustainable development, management studies, organizational studies, and corporate social responsibility"--

Servile labor in India in a global context, 1500-1900 / Titas Chakraborty -- Woven, mined, milled, and packed: the global destinies of Indian commodities, 1500-2023 / Ben Siegel -- The news of 1857: the Indian Uprising and Belize during Yucatán's Caste war / Rajeshwari Dutt -- Would you deprive him of toddy?': Singapore's English-language press, and the racialization of alcohol consumption by Indians, 1900-1960 / Alexandra Sundarsingh -- Conspiracy in Meerut: a global history of colonial India, 1929-1933 / Michele Louro -- Nonviolence and nonalignment: Indian foreign policy and the American Civil Rights movement, 1936-1964 / Nico Slate -- Mohandas the man, Mahatma the legend: Gandhian legacies outside the Subcontinent / Trishula Patel -- To the students: education for nonviolence in the world / David Busch -- A Bombay periodical, Indian non-alignment & Afro-Asian internationalism / Swapna Kona Nayudu.

"This book examines the social construction and representation of 'youth on the move' in context of the migration process using El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras as a case study to reinterpret the immigration process under the frameworks of coloniality and Epistemologies of the South. The discussion surrounding Central American migrants has increased exponentially with the emergence of the caravans and the increased security measures along Mexican and US borders. Explicitly focused on the plight of children and young people, the examination of migration includes exploring the global context and dynamics that influence migratory trends and framing Central American migrant processes and youth strategies of survival and resistance. Contributing to existing conversations about the migration of people from Central America, this text seeks to understand the phenomenon's root. This book will interest scholars and students across the social sciences, particularly those studying the global dynamics of power and studies of migration, governance, as well as practitioners involved in decision-making with governments and international organizations"--

Almost forty years ago, Neil Postman argued that television had brought about a fundamental transformation to democracy. By turning entertainment into our supreme ideology, television had recreated public discourse in its image and converted democracy into show business. In Trolling Ourselves to Death, Jason Hannan builds on Postman's classic thesis, arguing that we are now not so much amusing, as trolling ourselves to death. Yet, how do we explain this profound change? What are the primary drivers behind the deterioration of civic culture and the toxification of public discourse? Trolling Ourselves to Death moves beyond the familiar picture of trolling by recasting it in a broader historical light. Contrary to the popular view of the troll as an exclusively anonymous online prankster who hides behind a clever avatar and screen name, Hannan asserts that trolls have emerged from the cave, so to speak, and now walk in the clear light of day. Trolls now include politicians, performers, patriots, and protesters. What was once a mysterious phenomenon limited to the darker corners of the Internet has since gone mainstream, eroding our public culture and changing the rules of democratic politics.Hannan shows how trolling is the logical outcome of a culture of possessive individualism, widespread alienation, mass distrust, and rampant paranoia. Synthesizing media ecology with historical materialism, he explores the disturbing rise of political unreason in the form of mass trolling and sheds light on the proliferation of disinformation, conspiracy theory, "cancel culture," and digital violence. Taking inspiration from Robert Brandom's innovative reading of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Trolling Ourselves to Death makes a case for building "a spirit of trust" to curb the epidemic of mass distrust that feeds the plague of political trolling

This interdisciplinary textbook serves as a solid introduction to the future of legal education against the background of the widespread use of AI written by colleagues from different disciplines, e.g. law, philosophy/ethics, economy, and computer science, whose common interest concerns AI and its impact on legal and ethical issues.

"What is the status of indigenous religious rights in the world today? Despite important legal advances in the protection of indigenous religious beliefs and practices at the international and national levels, there are still many obstacles to the full implementation of these provisions. Using a unique large-scale comparative approach, this book aims to identify the fundamental issues that characterize the law of indigenous religions in several countries, as well as certain avenues that may prove useful in state-implementation of the the provisions of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples regarding the practice, promotion, transmission, protection, and access to spiritual heritage"--