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Fernsehserien wollen massenmedial verstärkte Resonanzen erzielen. Sie generieren ein historisch wandelbares Wissen, das sie für die Selbstverständigungen in Kultur und Gesellschaft relevant, d.h. für Kulturdiagnosen geeignet macht. Diese mediale Spezifik wird im vorliegenden Band systematisch wie historisch auf die Frage nach der Popularisierung und Reflexion von Technikwissen und Technikdiskursen hin untersucht.

Der Beitrag zeigt, dass das Konstrukt der moralischen Selbstregulation der Wirtschaft durch "Corporate Social Responsibility" (CSR) gesellschaftstheoretisch unhaltbar ist und die ideologische Funktion hat, eine neoliberale Gesellschaftspolitik zu legitimieren. Der Verfasser umreißt ein rekonstruktives Verständnis von Moral und zeigt, dass die Moralisierung der Wirtschaft theoretisch und empirisch ins Leere läuft. Die CSR-Strategie der österreichischen Industriellenvereinigung wird ideologiekritisch analysiert. Es wird ein kurzer Überblick über die Entstehung von CSR in Österreich gegeben und das Interessen der Industriellenvereinigung an CSR und ihre CSR-Strategie werden unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Option der Freiwilligkeit umrissen. Des Weiteren werden die steuerpolitischen Positionen der Industriellenvereinigung sowie ihr Verhältnis zum politischen System der Demokratie analysiert. Der Verfasser kommt zu dem Schluss, dass CSR keinen substanziellen Beitrag zur Realisierung gesellschaftlicher Gerechtigkeit wird leisten können. (ICE2)

"Wir sind alle Wilde", sagt Andreas Weber und verdeutlicht, dass unsere Zivilisation nicht nur die Indigenen kolonialisiert hat - sondern auch unser eigenes Denken. Wild bedeutet dabei nicht regellos im Sinne von Hobbes, sondern offen für den Austausch in einer Welt der Gegenseitigkeit. Wenn wir die Welt wieder zu einem lebensspendenden Ort machen wollen, sollten wir das Indigene in uns selbst entdecken. Avantgardisten des Denkens in Physik, Biologie und Geisteswissenschaften beginnen diesen genial ganzheitlichen Kosmos angesichts unserer ökologischen und gesellschaftlichen Krisen gerade neu zu erforschen. Sich darauf einzulassen, bietet die Chance, lebendiger Teil einer ganzheitlichen Wirklichkeit zu werden und einen neuen Umgang mit ihr zu gewinnen. (Verlagstext)

Contributors to this theme issue examine the history of the life sciences at the Botanical Gardens in Bogor (Kebun Raya Bogor) in Indonesia. Each of the essays in this theme issue focusses on a major transformation that the garden, its networks, and staff underwent in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Before summarizing individual contributions, this introductory essay familiarizes readers with more recent scholarship in the field. Taken together, the essays in our theme issue suggest that the practice of the life sciences at the Gardens can be best analyzed as the outcome of historical processes of coordination and competition in which different disciplines, communities, and networks not only in insular Southeast Asia but also other parts of the world played a formative role.

Until recently in Germany, there has been a lack of meaningful data or statistics related to that segment of the population that is disabled yet still part of the active workforce, including older working people. Since 2009, Project GINKO has been tackling this gap in research for this section of employed, hearing-impaired people (through communication and organization, GINKO specifically studies the effect legislation has had on the professional integration of the hard-of-hearing, those who have lost their hearing and deaf people). One of the study's objectives is to analyze the conditions involved in professionally integrating the hearing-impaired into the workforce, with particular reference to the issue of legal mobilization of SGB IX, including its specific implementation during the average work day by structuring the workplace to meet the needs of the disabled as defined under § 81(4) SGB IX, e.g. by providing technical assistance. Nationwide, every disabled person who was part of the GINKO study was provided with a standardized survey -- which was also available online as sign language videos -- asking them about the contents of the current legislation and their workplace situation. Overall, n?=?3,189 severely disabled working persons responded to the GINKO survey, of whom n?=?661 (20.7?%) were between 50 and 65 years were old. The percentage of female workers in this age group was 48.7?%. The results of the GINKO project showed that the measures provided by § 81 para 4, SGB IX for configuring disability-friendly workplaces for elderly hearing-impaired employees have been rather minimal. Thus, data analysis for older, professionally active participants (n?=?661) regarding how their workplaces are configured showed that only 29.6?% of this group judged their workplace overall as meeting the needs of the hearing impaired. In particular, technical aids such as FM systems or additional microphones are not available to many of the employed participants, although they could use them. Also important for people with hearing impairment is noise reduction in the workplace, such as sound insulation, which has only been taken into account for about a third of respondents. Thus, GINKO project analyses show that further efforts are needed to actually implement existing legal options.

In 2005, Switzerland harmonised its law on chemicals with the related EU law on chemicals by bringing the Chemicals Act and the PARCHEM ordinances into force. Unless this law on chemicals is revised again, both at act and at ordinance level, Swiss regulations will again differ from those of the EU in important respects. The question therefore arises of whether and to what extent the Swiss legislation on chemicals should be adapted to REACH. In this article, we consider the need for REACH in order to resolve the existing chemicals issue, the contribution of the new regulations to the protection of the environment, the relationship between the new EU regulation and the existing Swiss legislation and how the possibility of collaboration with the European Chemicals Agency could influence the Swiss adaptation process.