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"Russia and Central Asia provides an overview of the relationship between these two dynamic regions, highlighting the ways in which they have influenced and been influenced by Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. This readable synthesis, covering early coexistence in the seventeenth century to the present day, seeks to encourage new ways of thinking about how the modern world developed. Shoshana Keller focuses on the five major "Stans": Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan. Cultural and social history are interwoven with the military narrative to provide a sense of the people, their religion, and their practices--all of which were severely tested under Stalin. The text includes a glossary as well as images and maps that help to highlight 500 years of changes, bringing Central Asia into the general narrative of Russian and world history and introducing a fresh perspective on colonialism and modernity."--

Macroprudential policy focuses on the financial system as a whole, as distinct from individual institutions, and its objective is to limit the costs to the real economy from system-wide distress of the financial sector. This book offers a critical, contextual and comparative examination of the nature of macroprudential policy as an emerging legal domain. It explores why macroprudential policy is necessary and how best to design tailored legal, institutional and governance frameworks that support the various supervisory stages in macroprudential regimes. Questions addressed relate to the design of the macroprudential mandate and institutional structures, independence, transparency and accountability arrangements, the nature and limitations of macroprudential authorities' supervisory powers, as well as the challenges that are likely to be encountered during the generation, collection and analysis of data and the use of macroprudential tools. The book extends well beyond being a 'one-stop-shop' introduction on all aspects of macroprudential policy. It digs deeper and does the heavy lifting by analysing the unique features of macroprudential policy that set it apart from other policy areas; examining the pulling (and at times, contradicting) forces which affect it and surfacing its complex and evolutionary nature and the unique challenges confronting macroprudential authorities.In order to derive and capture the theoretical foundations of macroprudential policy and support the high-level suggestions made on how to operationalise it, the book draws on established scholarships from international law as well as theories developed in the Organisational Behaviour field. It presents and explains the law within the context of the most recent empirical research in economics, including research on the prevalent governance structure of macroprudential policy, its interaction with other policy areas and the effectiveness of macroprudential tools. The normative discussion in the book is also grounded in practical specificities through detailed critical analysis of macroprudential policy frameworks at the national level (UK and US), regional level (EU) and global level (FSB, IMF and BIS). Dr. Anat Keller is a Lecturer in Law at the Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London, and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Data Analytics for Finance and Macroeconomics (DAFM) at King's Business School. She was previously a Teaching Fellow and a Visiting Lecturer in Law at University College London (2007-2016). She is also a qualified solicitor and serves as a Deputy Chief Examiner of the University of London. She is co-author of the book 'Law Relating to Financial Services' now in its 8th edition and has published numerous articles and chapters in peer-reviewed journals and edited collections focusing on macroprudential policy

Frontmatter -- INHALTSVERZEICHNIS -- LITERATURVERZEICHNIS -- EINLEITUNG -- I. TEIL. Die Begründung der Todesstrafe -- 1. KAPITEL: Die ontologische Begründung der Todesstrafe -- 2. KAPITEL: Die religiöse Begründung der Todesstrafe -- 3. KAPITEL: Die ethische Begründung der Todesstrafe -- 4. KAPITEL. Die Begründung der Todesstrafe aus ihrer Zweckmäßigkeit -- II. TEIL. Die Ablehnung der Todesstrafe -- 5. KAPITEL: Die Unvollkommenheit der Todesstrafe als Strafe -- 6. KAPITEL: Die mangelnde Berechtigung des Staates zur Verhängung der Todesstrafe -- 7. KAPITEL: Der Mißbrauch des Täters als Objekts psychischer Bedürfnisse der Gemeinschaft -- 8. KAPITEL: Die Mißachtung der menschlichen Fehlbarkeit durch die irreparable Todesstrafe -- 9. KAPITEL: Die Brutalität der Todesstrafe -- 10. KAPITEL: Die Unmenschlichkeit der Todesstrafe

Adoptionsprozess als Brennglas erziehungswissenschaftlicher Fragen -- Neuere Kindheitsforschung und ihre Versuche des Paradigmenwechsels -- Konzeption von Child-Well-Being -- Phänomenologie der Relevanz in kindlichen Lebenswelten -- Hybride als Zugang zu neuen Erkenntnissen -- Vom Text zum Bild: "Iconic turn" in Sozialwissenschaften -- Methoden der Bild- und Fotoanalyse -- Bedeutungsdimensionen in Umgebungen des Aufwachsens

Der zeitgenössische französische Soziologe Michel Maffesoli hat seit Ende der 1970er-Jahre in zahlreichen Büchern die Skizze einer 'postmodernen Soziologie der postmodernen Gesellschaften' entworfen. Im Kern seiner Arbeiten steht die These des gegenwärtigen gesellschaftlichen Wandels von einer modernen, rationalistisch-individualistisch verfassten Gesellschaftsformation zu einer postmodernen sozialen Konfiguration, die primär durch temporäre Gefühls- und Erlebensbeziehungen, also durch flüchtige Vergemeinschaftungsprozesse in Gruppen bestimmt ist. Er spricht diesbezüglich in seinem international wohl erfolgreichsten Buch von der 'Wiederkehr der Stämme in den (postmodernen) Massengesellschaften'. Damit verbindet er ein entschiedenes Plädoyer für eine neue 'einfühlend-verstehende Soziologie'. Das vorliegende Buch stellt neben der Person Maffesoli die Werkentwicklung und die zentralen Argumente dieses in Frankreich umstrittenen Denkers vor. Abschließend werden seine wichtigsten Thesen diskutiert und kritisch gewürdigt. Michel Maffesoli ist Professor für Soziologie an der Sorbonne und Direktor des Centre d'Études sur l'Actuel et le Quotidien (Paris V).

This book tells the story of how a human community comes to be and how aspirations for the good life confront the dilemmas and detours of real life. Suzanne Keller combines penetrating analysis of classic ideas about community with a remarkable and unprecedented thirty-year case study of one of the first "planned unit developments" in America and the first in New Jersey. Twin Rivers, this pioneering venture, featured townhouses and shared spaces for children's play and adult work and play in a society that stresses individual over collective goals and private over public concerns. Hence the timeless questions asked over millennia: How does an aggregate of strangers create an identity of place, shared goals, viable institutions, and a spirit of mutuality and reciprocity? What obstacles stand in the way and how are these overcome? And how does design generate (or deter) community spirit? Inspired by the legacy of Plato, Rousseau, de Tocqueville, and Tönnies, Keller traces the difficult birth and the rich unfolding of Twin Rivers from a former potato field into a vibrant contemporary community. Most community studies remain at a highly descriptive level. This book has both broader and deeper aims, endeavoring to develop principles of the common life as we enter the age of cyberspace. Keller reveals the community of Twin Rivers through a multidimensional social microscope, having monitored the community from the day it opened by participant observation, attitude surveys, the study of collective records, and nearly 1,000 in-depth interviews with homeowners. She offers fascinating insight into how residents maintain privacy, relate to neighbors, cope with social conflict, and develop ideas about the common good. She shows that Twin Rivers residents remain hopeful about the possibility of community despite variable success in achieving their desires. Indeed, she argues that the hard-won experience, more than the utopian ideal, is the true measure of community. Keller concludes that, despite the homogenizing effects of mass communication and globalization, local communities will continue to proliferate in the foreseeable future--due to changing lifestyles and the continuing quest for roots. This important and engaging book will be appreciated by social scientists, architects, physical planners, developers and lenders, and community leaders as well as by the general reader interested in creating a bridge between individualism and community

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- A Note on Translations -- Introduction -- 1. "A Vigilant Surveillance" -- 2. "Proceed with a Discreet Surveillance" -- 3. Enemies, Charlatans, and Propagandists -- 4. "Powerless with Regard to Our Nationals" -- 5. Creating Networks -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF TABLES -- PREFACE -- Part I: Community as Image and Ideal -- 1 . Community: The Passionate Quest -- 2. Historic Models of Community -- 3. Key Theories and Concepts -- Part II: A Community Is Launched -- Twin Rivers Time Line 1970-2000 -- A . Creating Roots -- 4. Twin Rivers: The First Planned Unit Development in New Jersey -- 5. The Residents Appraise Their Environs -- 6. Securing the Vox Populi: The Struggle for Self-Government -- B. Creating a Collective Self -- 7. Joiners and Organizers:Community Participation -- 8. Sociability in a New Community -- C. Building the Foundations -- 9. Space, Place, and Design -- 10. Private and Public:Whose Rights, Whose Responsibilities? -- 11. Go Fight City Hall: The First Lawsuit -- 12. Leaders as Lightning Rods -- 13. Unity and Division,Conflict and Consensus -- Summary of Key Findings -- Part III Old Imperatives, New Directions -- 14. The Continuing Salience of the Local community -- 15. Concluding Reflections -- Epilogue Is There Community in Cyberspace? -- APPENDIX -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INDEX

Amid melting glaciers, rising waters, and spreading droughts, Earth has ceased to tolerate our pretense of mastery over it. But how can we confront climate change when political crises keep exploding in the present? Noted ecotheologian and feminist philosopher of religion Catherine Keller reads the feedback loop of political and ecological depredation as secularized apocalypse. Carl Schmitt's political theology of the sovereign exception sheds light on present ideological warfare; racial, ethnic, economic, and sexual conflict; and hubristic anthropocentrism. If the politics of exceptionalism are theological in origin, she asks, should we not enlist the world's religious communities as part of the resistance? Keller calls for dissolving the opposition between the religious and the secular in favor of a broad planetary movement for social and ecological justice. When we are confronted by populist, authoritarian right wings founded on white male Christian supremacism, we can counter with a messianically charged, often unspoken theology of the now-moment, calling for a complex new public. Such a political theology of the earth activates the world's entangled populations, joined in solidarity and committed to revolutionary solutions to the entwined crises of the Anthropocene

Menschen sind in der Lage, wahrnehmbare Ereignisse zu interpretieren und die Interpretationsfähigkeit ihrer Mitmenschen zum Zwecke des Kommunizierens auszubeuten. Sie verfügen über semiotische Kompetenz. Konventionelle sprachliche Zeichen sind nicht Voraussetzung erfolgreicher kommunikativer Bemühungen, sondern deren ungeplante Konsequenz. Kellers unverändert aktuelle Theorie zeigt, wie durch die kommunikative Nutzung semiotischen Wissens sprachliche Zeichen entstehen, wie sie funktionieren und wie sie sich verändern.Über das Buch:"Rudi Kellers Buch ist sehr inhaltsreich und anregend. Für Seminare stellt es eine sehr gute Diskussionsgrundlage dar." – Linguistische Berichte 167 (1997)