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Anton Philipp von Segesser* ; Volltext // Exemplar mit der Signatur: München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek -- Helv. 650

Switzerland is known for its multilingualism, yet not all languages are represented equally in society. The situation is exacerbated by the influx of heritage languages and English through migration and globalization processes which challenge the traditional education system. This study is the first to investigate how schools in Grisons, Fribourg, and Zurich negotiate neoliberal forces leading to a growing necessity of English, a romanticized view on national languages, and the social justice perspective of institutionalizing heritage languages. It uncovers power and legitimacy issues and showcases students' and teachers' complex identities to advocate equitable multilingual education.

AbstractFocusing on media discourses, this article maps the communicative reproduction of legitimacy in Great Britain, the United States, Germany and Switzerland. It argues that political communication constitutes a distinctive dimension of legitimation that should be studied alongside public opinion and political behaviour. Research on legitimation discourses can help us understand why the legitimacy of established democracies remains stable in spite of the challenges of globalisation: Delegitimating communication tends to focus on relatively marginal political institutions, while the core regime principles of the democratic nation‐state, which are deeply entrenched in the political cultures of Western countries, serve as anchors of legitimacy. These democratic principles also shape the normative benchmarks used to evaluate legitimacy, thus preventing a 'de‐democratisation' of legitimation discourses. Finally, the short‐lived nature of media interest as well as ritualistic legitimation practices shield the democratic nation‐state from many potentially serious threats to its legitimacy.

Objective: This article shows the analytical value of an approach that integrates theoretical elaborations about the temporal orientations of different types of agency (pragmatic, identity, and life course) and uncertainty management, to analyse how families dealt with the challenges emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic. Background: The pandemic has been a major shock that has seriously challenged families' ability to adapt to sudden changes affecting multiple domains of life. Switzerland established a low-intensity lockdown in the spring of 2020, with social-distancing measures based on official recommendations. Changes in employment situations and school closures resulted in significant alterations to family life. This study examines how individuals with a trajectory of lone parenthood dealt with the increased uncertainties generated by this novel context. Method: Empirical data stems from the fourth wave of fieldwork of the longitudinal project "The multiple paths of lone parenthood", ongoing in French-speaking Switzerland since 2012-2013. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 26 participants between April and June 2020. Results: The emergence of novel situations, the ambiguity of social-distancing measures, and the breakdown of routines accentuated pragmatic agency for most families. With the chronification of uncertainty, parents sought to regain identity agency by restabilising everyday routines. Uncertainty about future developments diminished life course agency, especially for parents in more insecure situations. Conclusion: The study offers an original perspective on the challenges of living through increased uncertainty and changing environments triggered by the pandemic, by highlighting the relevance of temporalities for understanding agency within life course processes.

"Based on comparative ethnographic research in four countries and three continents, Butinage: The Art of Religious Mobility explores the notion of "religious butinage" as a conceptual framework intended to shed light on the dynamics of everyday religious practice. Derived from the French word butiner, which refers to the foraging activity of bees and other pollinating insects, this term is employed by the authors metaphorically to refer to the "to-ing and fro-ing" of believers between religious institutions. Focused on urban, predominantly Christian settings in Brazil, Kenya, Ghana, and Switzerland, Butinage examines commonalities and differences across the four case studies and identifies religious mobility as located at the meeting points between religious-institutional rules and narratives, local social norms, and individual agency and practice. Drawing on Anglophone, Francophone, and Lusophone academic traditions, this monograph is dedicated to a dialogue between ethnographic findings and theoretical ideas, and explores how we may rethink common conceptions of religious normativity."--

The intelligibility of initiative proposals is of utmost importance in case of direct democratic decisions. This study sums up the tools by means of which voters are informed about referendum issues in countries or states with well developed direct democratic traditions, like Switzerland, Oregon and California. A special attention is paid to ballot pamphlets and requirements regarding the wording of the proposal. The second part of the study focuses on Hungary. Ballot pamphlets are not in use here, the practice of the authorities is centred on the "requirement of the unambiguity of the question". Based on an analysis of the resolutions of the National Election Committee, the decisions of the Constitutional Court and the Curia (Supreme Court) of Hungary, the authors demonstrate that the requirement of unambiguity has become an obligation of initiators which is very difficult to comply with. The study finally recommends possible solutions in order to make the tool of bottom-up initiative a more practicable instrument of direct democracy in Hungary.

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"6th September, 1942: a middle-aged Jewish refugee stands on the Swiss side of the Franco-Swiss border above Geneva. He has been living in Switzerland since he fled Vienna in November 1938, as the Nazi persecution of the city's Jewish population intensified. He is now waiting for the arrival of the wife he has not seen for nearly four years. Against all odds he has managed to get an entry permit for her to join him in Switzerland. She appears on the French side. They see each other. Call out. She begins to cross the few yards of no-mans-land that separate them. An official calls her back. She hesitates, turns, goes back - and is lost forever. This book tells the story of the wartime journey of Toni Schiff, as she ventured across Europe to the this fateful near-meeting at the Franco-Swiss border - and what happened next. Based on the extensive research of her daughter, Kindertransportee Hilda Schiff, and told by Sheila Rosenberg, who shared much of the later research and many of the research journeys, this book sheds light on the lives of one family - caught up in, and ultimately separated by, the tragic and tumultuous events of World War II."--Bloomsbury Publishing

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: The Most and Least Contented Countries -- The 20 Most Contented Countries -- Australia -- Bahamas -- Botswana -- Canada -- Chile -- Costa Rica -- Denmark -- Estonia -- Japan -- Netherlands -- New Zealand -- Norway -- Oman -- Senegal -- Seychelles -- Singapore -- Sweden -- Switzerland -- Tunisia -- Uruguay -- The 20 Least Contented Countries -- Afghanistan -- Cambodia -- Democratic Republic of the Congo -- El Salvador -- Equatorial Guinea -- France -- Greece -- Haiti -- Honduras -- Liberia -- Maldives -- Mauritania -- North Korea -- Russia -- Saudi Arabia -- Sudan -- Syria -- Turkmenistan -- Uganda -- Yemen -- Chapter 2: The Most and Least Contented World Cities -- The 20 Most Contented World Cities -- Accra, Ghana -- Amsterdam, Netherlands -- Bangalore, India -- Barcelona, Spain -- Bogotá, Colombia -- Cape Town, South Africa -- Copenhagen, Denmark -- Curitiba, Brazil -- Hamburg, Germany -- Helsinki, Finland -- L'viv, Ukraine -- Melbourne, Australia -- Montevideo, Uruguay -- Ottawa, Canada -- Perth, Australia -- Tokyo, Japan -- Valparaiso, Chile -- Vancouver, Canada -- Vienna, Austria -- Zürich, Switzerland -- The 20 Least Contented World Cities -- Aleppo, Syria -- Baghdad, Iraq -- Beijing, China -- Cairo, Egypt -- Caracas, Venezuela -- Chongqing, China -- Ciudad Juarez, Mexico -- Dhaka, Bangladesh -- Donetsk, Ukraine -- Dubai, United Arab Emirates -- Dzerzhinsk, Russia -- Jakarta, Indonesia -- Karachi, Pakistan -- Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo -- Lagos, Nigeria -- Marseille, France -- Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea -- Sochi, Russia -- Ürümqi, China -- Venice, Italy -- Chapter 3: The Most and Least Contented U.S. States and Cities -- The 5 Most Contented U.S. States -- Colorado -- Hawaii -- Minnesota -- New Hampshire -- Oregon.