Der Dialog ist für die einen das Versprechen gelingender Kommunikation, für die anderen ein überholtes Ideal. Der Autor zeigt in einer interdisziplinär angelegten Studie, dass sich die Lücke zwischen Lobpreisungen und Abgesängen schließen lässt. Er setzt bei der Unmöglichkeit des Denkens "nach der Shoah" an und erkundet in exemplarischen Untersuchungen der europäischen Literatur-, Theater- und Theoriegeschichte die Spannungen und Widersprüche im Verhältnis zum "Anderen", ohne die der Dialog nicht zu greifen ist. So macht er zwischenmenschliche, soziale und politische Vorgänge als prinzipiell unabschließbares Sprachgeschehen fassbar und eröffnet einen Spielraum für die Aushandlung und das Aushalten von Dissens und Differenz.
An overview of the contemporary literature & development of social science approaches to social & human rights is presented. A sociological model of modern society citizenship -- based on identity, civic virtue, resources, & community -- is used as a foundation to analyze T. H. Marshall's (eg, 1981) seminal work on modern citizenship. Critical objections to Marshall's work are discussed: (1) use of an incomplete notion of citizenship & citizenship rights in the 20th century; (2) dependence on Fordist & patriarchal assumptions; (3) assumption that citizenship is evolutionary & cumulative; & (4) use of a one-dimensional view of citizenship. A revised model of citizenship rooted in the ideas of globalization & human rights is presented. 1 Figure, 37 References. Adapted from the source document.
"The present volume of studies is not a history of German literature in the nineteenth century. It is an attempt to trace the elements of democratic thought in some characteristic forms of this literature."--Pref. ; Bibliography: p. 377-394. ; Mode of access: Internet.
This book critically examines current workplace diversity management practices and explores a nuanced framework for undertaking, supporting, and implementing policies that equally favor all people. It presents critical perspectives that not only elevate respect for differences but also provide insights into the nature and dynamics of differences in view of an inclusive and truly participative organizational environment. The book first presents a brief overview of the connotations associated with workplace diversity and its effective management. Next, it focuses on the organizational appropriation of differences through the formation and mediation of various diversity discourses. It demonstrates the particular articulations of these discourses with inequality and oppressive structures that perpetuate structural disadvantage due to existing power disparity between dominant and unprivileged group members. The book then goes on to underscore the need of constructing relational and context-sensitive diversity management frameworks. Overall, the book outlines that current business cases for diversity focus solely on instrumental goals and tangible outcomes and, as a result, fail to fully capture the complexity as well as the particularity of the diversity phenomenon. The book underlines the necessity for a more inclusive paradigm, implying a progressive problem-shift in the dominant diversity research agenda from a market-driven business-oriented diversity management to one highly valuing, affirming, and respecting otherness
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Abstract The purpose of this paper is to review the current research on catchment areas of private general practices in different developed countries because healthcare reform, including primary health care, has featured prominently as an important political issue in a number of developed countries. The debates around health reform have had a significant health geographic focus. Conceptually, GP catchments describe the distribution, composition and profile of patients who access a general practitioner or a general practice (i.e. a site or facility comprising one or more general practitioners). Therefore, GP catchments provide important information into the geographic variation of access rates, utilisation of services and health outcomes by all of the population or different population groups in a defined area or aggregated area. This review highlights a wide range of diversity in the literature as to how GP catchments can be described, the indicators and measures used to frame the scale of catchments. Patient access to general practice health care services should be considered from a range of locational concepts, and not necessarily constrained by their place of residence. An analysis of catchment patterns of general practitioners should be considered as dynamic and multi-perspective. Geographic information systems provide opportunities to contribute valuable methodologies to study these relationships. However, researchers acknowledge that a conceptual framework for the analysis of GP catchments requires access to real world data. Recent studies have shown promising developments in the use of real world data, especially from studies in the UK. Understanding the catchment profiles of individual GP surgeries is important if governments are serious about patient choice being a key part of proposed primary health reforms. Future health planning should incorporate models of GP catchments as planning tools, at the micro level as well as the macro level, to assist policies on the allocation of resources so that opportunities for good health outcomes for all groups within society, especially those who have been systematically denied equitable access, are maximised.
Als Ernst Robert Curtius 1919 eine Vorlesung über die Wegbereiter des neuen Frankreich hielt, murrten die Gralshüter des Faches. Die Romanische Philologie habe die Entstehung der romanischen Sprachen und Literaturen im frühen Mittelalter zum Gegenstand, nicht die neuere Literatur unserer westlichen und südlichen Nachbarn. Inzwischen hat sich jedoch eben diese als das vorrangige Interessengebiet der Romanistik herausgestellt. Hinzugekommen sind die Literaturen der Romania jenseits der Meere, Afrikas, Lateinamerikas, der Karibik und Kanadas - und das bedeutet zugleich eine Annäherung an die Völkerkunde. Andere Nachbarwissenschaften wie die Geschichte oder seit letzter Zeit auch die kognitive Ethologie sind hinzugekommen. Diesen Grenzüberschreitungen trägt der hier vorgelegte Band des Göttinger Romanisten sowohl in geographischer wie in methodischer Hinsicht Rechnung. Er richtet sich daher ebenso an Fachkollegen, die für solche Erweiterungen aufgeschlossen sind, wie an Vertreter anderer Fächer, die an der Romanistik interessiert sind.
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In contemporary science fiction the idea of a false or secondary reality is often employed as a means to critically examine current technological and political trends. But the theme has a long heritage. In this original and boundary-crossing study, Svante Lovén investigates how the notion of virtual reality has been explored in twentieth-century science fiction literature, in a trajectory which connects E.M. Forster's seminal dystopia "The Machine Stops" to William Gibson's cyberpunk classic Neuromancer. But this is not primarily a genre study. Instead, it shows how these narratives contribute to a critical inquiry into the ethical and political dimensions of the manufactured illusions, which has been pursued over the centuries within intellectual traditions such as gnosticism, Puritanism, and romanticism. Also Make the Heavens – the title being a quote from the Renaissance scholar Marsilio Ficino – thus offers valuable historical perspectives on a cultural preoccupation which has reached obsessive heights in the era of computers and electronic media.
The aim of my presentation is to examine the concept of gardening as a cultural construct, and how this concept is created and transformed in picture books from 1968 (the canonical year of student revolt). We often think of the 1970s as the decade when Nordic children's literature became political. But such a judgment may be premature. An analysis might show that this claim only offers a schematic image of the 1970s as the period dismissing fairy tales, idyllic representations, and fantasy stories because they were too "conservative and by extension obscured capitalistic power relations in society" (Widhe 1). Dwelling, place, and garden arealso a recurring theme in these tumultuous times. I am particularly interested in how Garden (as in a cultivated landscape) works as a rhetorical topoi.In rhetoric, topos refers to a method for developing arguments.Topoi could be analysed through Kenneth Burke's explication of cluster analysis (for finding topoi in texts and pictures), which he identifies as a qualitative method designed to analyse rhetorical discourse. What I want to show through is thatthe concept of the pastoral garden is set out with much more complex and ambivalent features than usually taken forgranted. A garden can be infused with the essence of dwelling, emulatinga home. But it can also be a threat representing world detachment and confinement.
