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Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Setting the Stage: Performing the Divided Self of a New Cosmopolitanism -- The Cosmopolitan Subjectivity of the Divided Self -- Cosmopolitan Theatre: Trying on a New Definition -- On Methodological Considerations -- On the Layout of the Book -- In Lieu of Concluding Remarks -- Bibliography -- Part I: Encounters in Language -- Chapter 2: Dramaturgies of the Self: Staging the Décalage of Vernacular Cosmopolitanism -- Immigration and Multiculturalism in Canada -- Canadian Immigrant Theatre: On Aesthetic and Political Paradigms -- Vinci: On Décalage of I as Other and I as Myself -- Je me souviens: The Décalage of Internal Exile -- Fronteras Americanas: Staging the Décalage of the Border-Crossing -- Trois: On the Heteroglossia of Cultural Décalage -- Sœurs: On the Décalage of Cultural and Technological Mediations -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: 'Speaking in Tongues': Staging Hospitality of (Non)Translation1 -- On Theatrical Multilingualism and the Practices of Linguistic (Non)Hospitality -- On Vernacular Bilingualism and Theatrical Transcription -- La Trilogie des dragons: On Dramaturgies of Encounter and Relexification -- Betty Quan's Mother Tongue: On the Dramaturgies of Immigrant-Speak -- Polyglotte: On the Dramaturgy of Canada-Speak -- In Sundry Languages: On the Canadian Multilingualism of a Common Space -- Bibliography -- Part II: Encounters in Body -- Chapter 4: Dramaturgies of the Body: Staging Stranger-Fetishism in a Cosmopolitan Solo Performance -- The Body: A Synecdoche of Cosmopolitanism -- Natasha Davis: Staging an Extreme Autobiography of the Divided Self -- On the Embodied Interculturalism of Anita Majumdar's The Fish Eyes Trilogy -- On the Mediated Self of Cosmopolitanism: Wajdi Mouawad's Inflammation du verbe vivre -- Bibliography.

Intro -- Danksagung -- Inhaltsverzeichnis -- Abkürzungsverzeichnis -- Abbildungsverzeichnis -- Tabellenverzeichnis -- 1 Einleitung -- 1.1 Problemaufriss und Fragestellung -- 1.2 Theoretische Ansätze und methodisches Vorgehen -- 1.3 Aufbau der Arbeit -- 1.4 Formalien -- 2 Analysekonzept -- 2.1 Die (In)Effektivität politischer Problemregelungsversuche als Untersuchungsgegenstand -- 2.1.1 (In)Effektivität - Begriffsklärung und Operationalisierung -- 2.1.2 Effektivität und Ineffektivität - Erklärungsansätze in der steuerungstheoretischen Diskussion -- 2.1.3 Zwischenfazit -- 2.2 Ineffektive Problemregelung als Ergebnis von Politikdesign und Politikimplementierung -- 2.2.1 Politikdesign und Ineffektivität -- 2.2.2 Politikimplementierung und Ineffektivität -- 2.2.3 Zwischenfazit -- 2.3 Politikdesign und Politikimplementierung als Ergebnisse von Akteurhandeln in Konstellationen in Interaktionen -- 2.3.1 Neoinstitutionalistische Hauptströmungen -- 2.3.1.1 Rational Choice-Institutionalismus -- 2.3.1.2 Soziologischer Institutionalismus -- 2.3.1.3 Historischer Institutionalismus -- 2.3.2 Synthese-Optionen -- 2.3.2.1 Allgemeine Theorie des Handelns nach H. Esser -- 2.3.2.2 Akteurzentrierter Institutionalismus -- 2.3.3 Zwischenfazit -- 2.4 Gegenstandsbezogene Spezifizierung: Akteure, Konstellationen und Interaktionen der Problemregelung durch die EU - EU Multi-level Governance -- 2.4.1 Multi-level Governance-Ansatz -- 2.4.2 Externe EU-Governance unter den Bedingungen der Beitrittskonditionalität -- 2.4.3 Governance im EU-Mehrebenensystem in nicht vergemeinschafteten Politikbereichen -- 2.4.3.1 Offene Methode der Koordinierung -- 2.4.3.2 Mainstreaming -- 2.4.4 Multi-level Governance und Europäisierung -- 2.4.5 Zwischenfazit -- 2.5 Analysemodell, Methoden und Übersicht der verwendeten Literatur -- 2.5.1 Zentrale forschungsleitende Fragen und Analysemodell.

This book engages with the topic of ethical consumption and applies a critical-realist approach to explore the process of becoming and being an ethical consumer. By integrating Margaret Archer's theory of identity formation and Christian Coff's work on food ethics, it develops a theoretical account explicating the generative mechanism that gives rise to ethical consumer practices and identities. The second part of the book presents the findings from a qualitative study with self-perceived ethical food consumers to demonstrate the fit between the proposed theoretical mechanism and the actual experiences of ethically committed consumers. Through integrating agency-focused and socio-centric perspectives on consumer behaviour, the book develops a more comprehensive and balanced approach to conceptualising and studying consumption processes and phenomena. --

"The cross Taiwan Strait clash has evolved from a regime challenge revolving around ideological confrontation between Taipei and Beijing into a conflict about Taiwan's nationhood. In Evolving Identity Politics and Cross-Strait Relations, Yana Zuo shows that Taiwan's future is still full of uncertainty and unpredictability. A mutually acceptable solution is not likely without the 'one China' principle as an independent Taiwan fundamentally challenges China's modern national identity. Zuo demonstrates that dialogues between nationalism studies and international relations are urgently needed in explaining much of the identity-related conflict. States are under pressure of finding balance between an ordered state and a harmonious society. National consciousness contributes as a possible starting point to bring the society back to constructivism theorization of identity. "--

Einleitung / Yana Milev -- Europa im Ringen um die Macht in der Mitte / Herfried Münkler -- Digitaler Kolonialismus / Peter Sloterdijk -- Regime Change und verdeckte Kriegsführung in der Ukraine / Daniele Ganser -- Ist ein gesamt-europäisches Haus überhaupt möglich? / Ruslan Grinberg, Boris Shmelev

Der Designbegriff befindet sich in einer Krise. Sie stellt die seit den 1950er-Jahren gültigen und vorherrschenden Design-Regime der industriellen Produktion, des Computing, der Objekt- und Markenkultur in Frage. Diese Krise fordert zudem eine komplementäre Designforschung und -wissenschaft ein, die das Feld neu bewertet und vermittelt. Eine Designanthropologie - und speziell eine Designsoziologie - wollen diesem Paradigmenwechsel Rechnung tragen. Design oder Gestaltung wird in diesem Buch als Herstellungsprozess symbolischer Ordnungen und Formationen in sozialen, politischen und kulturellen Kontexten vorgestellt. Symbolische Ordnungen und Formationen sind weitestgehend mit sprachlichen Ordnungen und Formationen gleichzusetzen, den so genannten Semiosen, die in ihrer Vielfalt als gesellschaftliche Praxen signifikant werden. Das Buchprojekt untersucht auf der Grundlage eines komplementär erweiterten Designbegriffs zentrale Konzepte der Soziologie und Politischen Theorie wie Prekarität und Armut, Kreativität und Kriminalität, Anarchie und Angst, Resilienz und Devianz, Governance und Gewalt, Krieg und Guerilla. Oder umgekehrt formuliert: Eine Designsoziologie will Fragen der Gestaltung und Repräsentation unter den Gesichtspunkten von Macht, Identität, Ritualen, Arbeit, Massenmedien, Technologie, Protest und Widerstand beantworten. Das radikale soziologische Argument innerhalb der komplementären Designforschung erschließt sich in der Partizipation, der teilnehmenden Beobachtung, der Solidarität und Betroffenheit, schließlich in der Gestaltkraft des Überlebens in sozialen Feldern.

Epistemology (Erkenntnistheorie), phenomenology (Phänomenologie); anthropological dimension of design culture : visual culture (signal, invisibility, visibility, image, imagination, representation), doing culture (act, cooperation, relation, fabrication, exchange), material culture (object, artefact, thing, facing, texture), knowledge culture (techniques, practices, norms, values), narrative culture (mythology, significance, meaning, memory, identity), critical culture (watching, criterion, antagonism, crisis, theory), aesthetic culture (emotion, sentiment, taste, feel, sense);

Presently, the process of assessing the effectiveness of higher education institutions and analysing the dynamics of its change needs to be improved, which determines the relevance of this study. The purpose of this study was to improve the assessment of the efficiency of agricultural higher education institutions of Ukraine in the scientific and journalistic context, as well as to investigate the changes in dynamics using the non-parametric method of assessing the relative efficiency of data envelopment analysis. The study used methods of statistical processing and data analysis, linear programming, computer computing to solve research problems, and logical and analytical methods to determine the purpose of the study, the means of achieving it, substantiate the findings of the study, and formulate conclusions. To evaluate the effectiveness of scientific and publishing activities of these higher education institutions, the input-oriented model of variable returns to scale of the data envelopment analysis method was applied. Using statistical data for 2020- 2022, the net technical efficiency of scientific and publishing activities of 37 agricultural higher education institutions of Ukraine was assessed. Based on the results of the assessment, a rating of agricultural higher education institutions in Ukraine was compiled. It was found that in 2021 and 2022, 27% of the surveyed higher education institutions were 100% effective. The average net technical efficiency in 2021 and 2022 was 0.91. In 2021-2022, 27% of agricultural higher education institutions increased the efficiency of scientific and publishing activities, 59% did not change, and 14% decreased. On average, there was a 1% increase in the use of educational resources in the field of agricultural higher education. Thus, the scientific and publication activities of agricultural higher education institutions during the study period are progressive. The findings of this study can be used for a reasonable ranking of higher education institutions according to the efficiency of scientific and publishing activities, analysis of the dynamics of changes in efficiency.

Assessing the state of democracy and freedom is an important but difficult task. The stakes are high, not only for researchers interested in uncovering the drivers of democratic consolidation or decline but also for policy makers, civil society organizations, journalists, activists, and citizens who work daily to promote and protect human rights at home and abroad. In light of the significance of the task, it is not surprising that the issue of how to measure democracy most accurately continues to be hotly debated.

This article discusses the tensions of Human Resources (HR) work in Belarusian IT companies by examining it within the context of an ongoing crisis in the industry. HR workers in Belarusian IT are predominantly female, and various gendered expectations are assigned to them, both formally and informally. Based on the qualitative study conducted in 2021, I examine how care (Fisher & Tronto, 1990), emotional labor (Hochschild, 2012), and intimate labor (Zelizer, 2010) manifest in HR work, regulated by the idea of balancing the interests of different groups and employer branding rationale. HRs have to perform several kinds of emotional work that are not officially part of their job and even can be regarded as unprofessional, but that are nevertheless perceived as unavoidable. I discuss how performing impartiality involves what Hochschild calls deep and surface acting (2012) with several audiences in mind. I argue that the ambiguity of this role is strategic in the sense that it serves the businesses, by allowing them to benefit from emotional labor without acknowledging it.