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Chapter 5 Climate migration and Tokelauan language endangerment
No full textThe Routledge Handbook of Translation and Migration explores the practices and attitudes surrounding migration and translation, aiming to redefine these two terms in light of their intersections and connections. The volume adopts an interdisciplinary and transnational perspective, highlighting the broad scope of migration and translation as not only linguistic and geographical phenomena, but also cultural, social, artistic, and psychological processes. The nexus between migration and translation, the central concern of this Handbook, challenges limited conceptualisations of identity and belonging, thereby also exposing the limitations of monolingual, monocultural models of nationhood. Through a diverse range of approaches and methodologies, individual chapters investigate specific historical circumstances and illustrate the need for an intersectional approach to questions of language access and language mediation. With its range of approaches and case studies, the volume highlights the inherently political nature of translation and its potential to shape social and cultural inclusion, emphasising the crucial role of language and translation in informing professional practices, institutional policies, educational approaches and community attitudes towards migration. By bringing together perspectives from both researchers and creative practitioners, this book makes an innovative contribution to ongoing global discussions on linguistic hospitality and diversity, ideal for those pursing postgraduate and doctoral studies in translation studies, linguistics, international studies and cultural studies
A History of Rhetoric, Sound, and Health and Healing
No full textA History of Rhetoric, Sound, and Health and Healing argues for medico-sonic knowledge — systematically interpreted bodily sounds with medical knowledge mediated by rhetoric — as an evolving corporeal practice with an incomparable, sprawling history. Taking a materialist-feminist perspective, the book rhetorically accounts for sound and suggests rhetoric enables bodily sounds as understandable, knowable, and treatable with power to help and discipline bodies in health, healing, and hospital contexts. From an expansive, pan-historiographic approach integrated with and influenced by fieldwork from neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) in Denmark and the United States, the author explores intentional and unintentional diagnostic, prognostic, and therapeutic uses of sound in contemporary Western biomedical health systems and promotes a new research concept and fieldwork practice, sound in all research. The insightful, timely volume will interest students and researchers in the medical humanities, rhetoric and communication, health communication, sound studies, medical and allied health sciences, and research methods
Advances in Artificial Intelligence in Manufacturing II
No full textThis open access book reports on recent developments of artificial intelligence applications in the manufacturing industry. Gathering contributions to the second European Symposium on Artificial Intelligence in Manufacturing, held on October 16, 2024, in Athens, Greece, it reports on machine learning, deep learning and generative AI models for process monitoring, optimization, and control, flexible and precise industrial robots, human-robot collaboration, data management and information technologies, digital twins, data augmentation and synthetic data. Giving a special emphasis to the integration of artificial intelligence in manufacturing systems, automation and processes, this book offers a timely and practice-oriented guide to a multidisciplinary audience of engineering researchers, system developers, AI scientists and industrial managers
Le handicap dans la littérature féminine au XIXe siècle en France
No full textLa figure du handicapé occupe une place particulière dans l’histoire de la littérature. Elle a notamment capté l’attention de plusieurs autrices françaises du xixe siècle qui se sont penchées sur cette forme d’altérité avec lucidité, passion et sympathie. Sous leur plume, la « monstruosité » et les stigmates de l’invalidité corporelle, de la souffrance et de la déviance, ouvrent de nouvelles pistes de réflexion sur les problèmes liés au corps, au genre et à l’écriture féminine. Dans une société patriarcale où les discours scientifiques, religieux et moraux tendent à assimiler le handicap à la nature de la physiologie féminine, sa représentation permet aux écrivaines de transgresser les contraintes de leur sexe et de mettre en cause l’hégémonie de la normalité. Avec sa brillante analyse de quatre romans – Anatole de Sophie Gay (1815), Olivier ou le secret de Claire de Duras (1822), Monsieur le Marquis de Pontanges de Delphine de Girardin (1835) et Laide de Juliette Lamber (1878) –, l’autrice cherche à enrichir le dialogue entre les études féministes et celles sur le handicap et à proposer des analyses croisées entre ces deux domaines
Spinning the Cosmos
No full textThis open access book investigates the epistemological concept of and the knowledge transfer interwoven with the moveable paper wheels found in medieval and early modern books—the so-called “volvelles.” The earliest known volvelles emerged in the mid-thirteenth century and were cut out and installed by the reader, often appearing in books dealing with astronomical subjects. The brain processes and remembers images more easily than words—the so-called “picture superiority effect”—especially if the images move, making volvelles a useful method to help students of the Quadrivium memorizing the heavenly movements, thus the composition of a device embedded within a text promises a comprehensive insight into the didactic concepts of early modern knowledge transfer. The Tractatus de Sphaera by Johannes de Sacrobosco (1195–1256), the standard university textbook for astronomy from the thirteenth until the seventeenth century, was particularly noted as containing volvelles of different kinds. The project “The Sphere,” located at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, has collected a corpus of 359 printed De sphaera editions, building a promising basis for examining different volvelles and placing the results in a cultural context. These volumes had never been analyzed in detail before, nor was there such a large corpus that could provide a quantitative database for such an investigation. The results of the book show that a book and knowledge tradition as widespread as that of the Sphaera contained more than one third of volvelles and was used in university teaching in the early modern period. For historians, this sheds light on a new aspect of movable paper instruments in university didactics and book history in the early modern period
Marleen Gorris
No full textDutch director Marleen Gorris is known chiefly for two films: A Question of Silence (1982), her fiercely feminist first film, in which three women meet by chance in a women’s clothing boutique and ritually murder its male owner; and Antonia’s Line (1995), her fourth film and winner of the 1996 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, which traces four generations of Antonia’s female ‘line’ in the matriarchal community she establishes in postwar rural Holland. Both have been extensively discussed, though rarely together, and appear on university syllabuses. Her second Dutch language film, Broken Mirrors (1984), and her five films in English, however, have received far less, and in some cases no critical attention. Using feminist reformulations of ideas of vulnerability and resistance, this first book-length study of her films examines their revisionings of narrative, time and space, and the possibilities they present of other narratives, other subjectivities and other relationships
Families, Welfare States and Resilience
No full textThis is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. This pioneering book critically reviews and develops the concept of resilience in relation to family life. It examines the experiences of low-resourced families in Belgium, Croatia, Poland, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom, assessing how they manage challenges such as low income and poor working conditions whilst also caring for children and others needing care. It considers the resources that are available to families, how they are utilised and the role and effectiveness of the welfare state system in supporting families with low resources.Publishe
Syrian Families in Germany
No full textThis book highlights the dynamics and conflicts of Syrian families within the German asylum context; examining the interplay of cultural; social; economic; and legal factors shaping familial relationships. Using anthropological methods such as participant observation; interviews; and focus groups; the book analyzes the challenges faced by Syrian families before; during; and after displacement. It focuses on marital conflicts influenced by gender roles; economic changes; cultural and religious differences; and the legal frameworks in Germany. Finally; it explores conflict resolution strategies within the new social and legal environment. This book provides readers with a profound understanding of the challenges and adaptations of Syrian families in the asylum context
Navigating Challenges for Sustainable Growth
No full textThe open access volume stems from a conference held during the Indian G20 Presidency in New Delhi on 28-29 July 2023, featuring 40 leading experts from 14 countries across the world. It addresses issues, such as climate adaptation, global health, technology, and financial investments. It discusses India's transition to net-zero emissions, the dynamics of technological disruptions, the shift towards a unified digital economy, and the transformations in the global economy. It critically analyzes the global financial architecture, the evolving nature of capital and the job market, and the complex interplay between economics, politics, and global health. It also discusses the uneven progress in international development, focusing on Africa's unique challenges and potentials. With expert contributions across sectors, including policy, academia, and industry, the volume provides cross-cutting insights that resonate with multiple stakeholders and offer pragmatic agendas for a sustainable future. This book stands as a crucial resource for anyone keen on understanding or influencing sustainable growth on a global scale
Le défi préhistorique
No full textBy revealing a vertiginous and sublime age, the discovery of prehistoric art has profoundly transformed our culture. Because of the gaps in archaeological remains, the absence of textual sources and the paradoxical artistic modernity of the Paleolithic, this era is incommensurable with the traditional historical framework and requires us to rethink history. What concepts and models have been developed to give prehistory a place in history? What are their epistemological implications? What do they tell us about art, our history and culture? The book calls upon prominent names in prehistory and anthropology (Gabriel de Mortillet, Henri Breuil, André Leroi-Gourhan), as well as art theorists as dissimilar as Alois Riegl, Élie Faure, Carl Einstein and George Kubler, to make prehistoric art a philosophical matrix for questioning the relationship between art, history and humanity