Zusammenfassung der Dissertation Die Politik des Tanzes und die Poetik des Raumes: Kurdische Tänze in Deutschland Diese Dissertation untersucht eine beliebte Form des kollektiven Tanzes, die auf Kurdisch als Govend und auf Türkisch als Halay bekannt ist. Ausgehend von der Frage, inwiefern dieser Tanz in der Türkei ein politisch umstrittenes Thema sein kann, da er oft als "ideologischer Halay" bezeichnet wird, verfolgt die Studie die transnationale Reise des Tanzes von der Türkei nach Deutschland. Mit einem besonderen Fokus auf Mîhrîcana Govendên Kurdistan zielt der Text darauf ab, die Auswi...
Trotz der Nähe vieler ihrer Würdenträger und Ortspfarrer zur bisherigen Regierungspartei Recht und Gerechtigkeit (Prawo i Sprawiedliwość - PiS) nimmt der Einfluss der katholischen Kirche Polens auf die Gesellschaft rapide ab. Die Bischöfe finden keine Antwort auf die Säkularisierungswelle, die vor allem die jüngere Generation erfasst. Medienberichte über Sittenskandale im höheren Klerus tragen ihren Teil dazu bei. Überdies hat Papst Franziskus wegen der Vertuschung von pädophilen Straftaten Geistlicher über mehrere Bischöfe kanonische Strafen verhängt, was beispiellos in der Geschichte Polens ist.
One of the standard textbooks of German-language evaluation research has undergone a new edition. Since the first edition from 2007, 15 years have passed. In the meantime, a lot has happened with regard to the institutionalisation and professionalisation of evaluation research. With the new edition of the Handbook for Evaluation, students, practitioners and also experienced evaluators receive a significantly expanded and updated version of the classic. The volume documents the steps taken so far in the institutionalisation and professionalisation of evaluation and provides practical advice for conducting evaluations throughout their entire course. Despite some desiderata, the handbook is still the most comprehensive introduction to evaluation research for many practitioners and students in German language. It offers orientation and serves as a reference work even for experienced evaluators. Stockmann's commitment to the professionalisation and institutionalisation of evaluation has thus created an institution of its own kind in the form of the Handbook, the reception of which will hopefully help to clear up the misunderstandings often found about the status and quality characteristics of evaluations.
During the last decade the number of people fleeing to the European continent peaked. As a consequence, European institutions, together with the European Union member states, tried to find quick remedies to what they called the refugee crisis. The high number of refugees led to an increase in narratives regarding refugees, which were widely circulated in the media and within European institutions. In this chapter, we look at these narratives and how they prevent the European institutions from taking into account the refugees' own knowledge and skills. We raise the question of whether disregarding refugee knowledge is intentional or whether it stems from a lack of consideration or benign neglect. The main questions for the analysis are: What are the dominant discourses or narratives regarding refugee knowledge impacting European rhetoric and, as a result of that, European decision-making and policymaking? In what ways do these institutions and organisations narrate and recognise the knowledge of refugees? How do they acknowledge the knowledge and capabilities of the refugees? The main site of research comprises institutions within the European Union, although some attention is also paid to the Council of Europe. We have analysed policy papers, travaux préparatoires, proposals, white papers, and news outlets. We look at what kinds of roles the refugees are assigned in these reports and whether any of these roles take the expertise of the refugees into account. We understand the so-called European refugee crisis as a context for identifying five different, partially overlapping, and even contradictory narratives. We demonstrate how these dominant narratives contribute to categorising refugees and migrants in stereotypical and harmful ways that hinder recognition of the refugees' own knowledge and hearing their voices. Seeing refugees as valuable human beings with knowledge and skills risks being overshadowed by these problematic narratives, which are circulated and reproduced not only in the media but within the European institutions as well. ; Peer reviewed
International audience ; The use of he concept diaspora is more and more frequent. It is used in the works concerning migrations and their future. is is alson used in the works concerning help to development by the authorities or the countries of residence and those of origin; The diaspora can build a link between the couutries of origin and he countries of the countries of residence. They can become important actors of development. However things have changed during the last years. he model of centered diaspora with a unique root is no more dominant. The actual model of diaspora is bulid around many points. the periphery is everywhere and the centre nowhere. ; L'usage du terme diaspora est de plus en plus fréquent, aussi bien dans les travaux consacrés aux migrations et à leur devenir, que dans les politiques d'appui au développement. Que ces politiques émanent des pays fournisseurs de migrants ou de pays récepteurs, elles font systématiquement référence aux diasporas, comme si ces dernières étaient indispensables à la constitution du lien entre pays de résidence et pays d'origine et devaient prendre leur part dans les programmes d'actions menés par les premiers en direction des seconds. Dans cette logique, les diasporas peuvent jouir d'une reconnaissance en tant qu'actrices du développement, mais elles peuvent aussi être instrumentalisées par l'un ou l'autre des Etats partenaires 1. Mais la donne a quelque-peu changé au cours des dernières décennies. Le modèle de la diaspora centrée, constituée autour d'une racine unique, n'est plus dominant. Il est de plus dépassé par le modèle de diaspora « hybride » où, selon les termes de Richard Marienstras, «le centre est partout et la circonférence nulle part» 2. Plutôt que de se référer à un seul territoire originel, ces diasporas se construiraient sur le modèle du rhizome, privilégiant les réseaux, les liens et les échanges entre plusieurs localisations. Elles ouvrent un espace identitaire particulièrement attractif du fait de la diversité et de la richesse culturelle ...
Datafication and the use of algorithmic systems increasingly blur distinctions between policy fields. In the financial sector, for example, algorithms are used in credit scoring, money has become transactional data sought after by large data-driven companies, while financial technologies (FinTech) are emerging as a locus of information warfare. To grasp the context specificity of algorithmic governance and the assumptions on which its evaluation within different domains is based, we comparatively study the sociotechnical imaginaries of algorithmic governance in European Union (EU) policy on online disinformation and FinTech. We find that sociotechnical imaginaries prevalent in EU policy documents on disinformation and FinTech are highly divergent. While the first can be characterized as an algorithm-facilitated attempt to return to the presupposed status quo (absence of manipulation) without a defined future imaginary, the latter places technological innovation at the centre of realizing a globally competitive Digital Single Market.
Systematic research on transgender migration is limited and mostly focused on the 'during' and 'post' stages of displacement. Little attention has been paid to the decision-making process and pre-migration phase. In Central America, transwomen face severe discrimination, marginalization and abuses based on their gender identity and are exposed to constant physical and sexual violence. Despite limited data, reports show that they are part of the new wave of international displacement affecting the region. Analysing why they flee and the factors contributing to their decision is essential to understand the multiple facets of displacement and this often-invisible phenomenon. This study uses life-stories to deepen the knowledge of transwomen's decision-making to flee across borders, often following multiple life experiences of internal displacement. It uses the concept of 'survival migration' to describe movements that literally save their lives, situations of flight that result from the deprivation of basic rights and from persecution, exploring how the broad range of factors affecting the decision interrelate. The findings suggest that although seeking a safe place in which it would be possible to build a better life is important, their life experiences, and the decisions they make are complex. The changing circumstances in which their reactive or preventive movements occur will determine the nature of their decision to flee across borders. Often for them, migration does not necessarily mean freedom, but a limited strategy to survive. The objective of this study is to provide a new insight into the complexity of transwomen's decisions to flee. In doing so, it contributes to the knowledge about this community, and the urgent need to listen to them in order to understand the multitude of interconnected reasons underpinning their decisions to migrate.
International audience ; The use of he concept diaspora is more and more frequent. It is used in the works concerning migrations and their future. is is alson used in the works concerning help to development by the authorities or the countries of residence and those of origin; The diaspora can build a link between the couutries of origin and he countries of the countries of residence. They can become important actors of development. However things have changed during the last years. he model of centered diaspora with a unique root is no more dominant. The actual model of diaspora is bulid around many points. the periphery is everywhere and the centre nowhere. ; L'usage du terme diaspora est de plus en plus fréquent, aussi bien dans les travaux consacrés aux migrations et à leur devenir, que dans les politiques d'appui au développement. Que ces politiques émanent des pays fournisseurs de migrants ou de pays récepteurs, elles font systématiquement référence aux diasporas, comme si ces dernières étaient indispensables à la constitution du lien entre pays de résidence et pays d'origine et devaient prendre leur part dans les programmes d'actions menés par les premiers en direction des seconds. Dans cette logique, les diasporas peuvent jouir d'une reconnaissance en tant qu'actrices du développement, mais elles peuvent aussi être instrumentalisées par l'un ou l'autre des Etats partenaires 1. Mais la donne a quelque-peu changé au cours des dernières décennies. Le modèle de la diaspora centrée, constituée autour d'une racine unique, n'est plus dominant. Il est de plus dépassé par le modèle de diaspora « hybride » où, selon les termes de Richard Marienstras, «le centre est partout et la circonférence nulle part» 2. Plutôt que de se référer à un seul territoire originel, ces diasporas se construiraient sur le modèle du rhizome, privilégiant les réseaux, les liens et les échanges entre plusieurs localisations. Elles ouvrent un espace identitaire particulièrement attractif du fait de la diversité et de la richesse culturelle ...
The elder population in Japan is increasing drastically, causing a number of issues that have not yet surfaced in most Western countries. Demographic data from Japan reveal that the Japanese have the longest lifespan globally, resulting in the world's highest population of older adults. Concurrently, the country has a rapidly declining birth rate. As the population ages, the workforce is shrinking and leaving a high number of elders with fewer caregivers to meet their needs. At present, the Japanese government is developing robotic care solutions to overcome the elder care labor shortage and implementing a new agenda to introduce social robots into the field. This article discusses professional women in Japan and their burden of caring for aging relatives and how introducing robotic care devices might reduce current anxieties regarding the provision of elder care. It analyzes the elder care strategies of 12 white-collar professional women in their forties and fifties and examines the extent to which gendered, expected at-home caregiving affects their professional commitments and associated anxieties. The findings below provide crucial insight into the most effective strategies that can be used by Japanese women to balance their careers with responsibilities to care for older relatives, particularly when it is impossible to predict the intensity of caregiving in the future.
In this text we will focus specifically on scientific knowledge, on the trust that it has among specialists and adherents of its epistemic principles, and on its palpable hegemony around the planet as the only accepted path towards a cure for a virus perceived as invading our daily lives and territory. Specifically, this text aims to open the discussion regarding the public image of science (IPC), in the time of a pandemic characterized by revealing the crisis of the global political and economic system. ; En este texto nos enfocaremos específicamente en el conocimiento científico, en la confianza que cuenta entre especialistas y adeptos a sus principios epistémicos, y en su palpable hegemonía alrededor del planeta como único camino aceptado hacia la cura de un virus percibido como invasor de nuestra cotidianidad y territorio. De manera concreta, este texto pretende abrir la discusión respecto de la imagen pública de la ciencia (IPC), en el tiempo de una pandemia caracterizada por desvelar la crisis del sistema político y económico global.
Hunter–gatherers past and present live in complex societies, and the structure of these can be assessed using social networks. We outline how the integration of new evidence from cultural evolution experiments, computer simulations, ethnography, and archaeology open new research horizons to understand the role of social networks in cultural evolution. ; This research has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC-CoG-2015) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme (grant agreement no. 683018) to J.F.-L.d.P. Additionally, F.R. acknowledges support from the European Research Council (ERC-CoG-2018, grant agreement no. 817564), S.L. acknowledges suport from Generalitat de Catalunya through the grant no. 2017 SGR 1466 , M.D. acknowledges IAST funding from the French National Research Agency (ANR) under grant no. ANR-17-EURE-0010 (Investissements d'Avenir programme), and J.F.-L.d.P. acknowledges the CIDEGENT programme of Generalitat Valenciana (reference no. 2018/040).
International audience ; The use of he concept diaspora is more and more frequent. It is used in the works concerning migrations and their future. is is alson used in the works concerning help to development by the authorities or the countries of residence and those of origin; The diaspora can build a link between the couutries of origin and he countries of the countries of residence. They can become important actors of development. However things have changed during the last years. he model of centered diaspora with a unique root is no more dominant. The actual model of diaspora is bulid around many points. the periphery is everywhere and the centre nowhere. ; L'usage du terme diaspora est de plus en plus fréquent, aussi bien dans les travaux consacrés aux migrations et à leur devenir, que dans les politiques d'appui au développement. Que ces politiques émanent des pays fournisseurs de migrants ou de pays récepteurs, elles font systématiquement référence aux diasporas, comme si ces dernières étaient indispensables à la constitution du lien entre pays de résidence et pays d'origine et devaient prendre leur part dans les programmes d'actions menés par les premiers en direction des seconds. Dans cette logique, les diasporas peuvent jouir d'une reconnaissance en tant qu'actrices du développement, mais elles peuvent aussi être instrumentalisées par l'un ou l'autre des Etats partenaires 1. Mais la donne a quelque-peu changé au cours des dernières décennies. Le modèle de la diaspora centrée, constituée autour d'une racine unique, n'est plus dominant. Il est de plus dépassé par le modèle de diaspora « hybride » où, selon les termes de Richard Marienstras, «le centre est partout et la circonférence nulle part» 2. Plutôt que de se référer à un seul territoire originel, ces diasporas se construiraient sur le modèle du rhizome, privilégiant les réseaux, les liens et les échanges entre plusieurs localisations. Elles ouvrent un espace identitaire particulièrement attractif du fait de la diversité et de la richesse culturelle ...
