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Towards Resilient Societies: The Synergy of Religion, Education, Health, Science, and Technology
No full textResilience and sustainability are essential in navigating today’s global challenges. Towards Resilient Societies: The Synergy of Religion, Education, Health, Science, and Technology presents innovative interdisciplinary research that explores how diverse fields contribute to building adaptive and inclusive communities. This book highlights the intersections of governance, education, health, science, technology, social transformation, and ethical perspectives in achieving sustainable development. This proceedings publication features 164 peer-reviewed papers by scholars all over the world, and delves into seven key themes: education and psychology in resilience-building; governance and political transformation; economic and legal frameworks for sustainability; scientific and technological advancements for societal resilience; religion, ethics, and sustainability; language, communication, and humanities in cultural and social sustainability; and gender equity and inclusive development. By integrating these themes, the book aligns with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and provides theoretical and practical insights for shaping a sustainable future. This is an essential resource for academics, researchers, policymakers, and professionals in sustainability, governance and development studies; science and technology; education and health; and social sciences. It offers evidence-based insights and strategic recommendations for fostering more resilient and equitable societies
Hybride Medialität
No full textIn diesem Open Access Buch wird in einer Zeit, in der digitale Medien zunehmend an Bedeutung gewinnen, die dynamische Interaktion innerhalb digitaler Praxisgemeinschaften am Beispiel von Let’s Play-Videos auf YouTube untersucht. Die Autorin beleuchtet die sich verändernden Medienwelten und ihre Auswirkungen auf die Sozialisation junger Menschen. Sie zeigt den Zusammenhang zwischen digitalen Spielen und traditionellen Lernformen auf und diskutiert notwendige Anpassungen. Mittels der Grounded Theory Methodology werden zwei kontrastierende Let’s Play-Videos analysiert, wobei der Fokus auf den Praktiken der Let’s Player und der dazugehörigen Community liegt. Ein eigens entwickeltes Kommunikationsebenenmodell beschreibt die interaktiven Beziehungen zwischen Spiel, Let’s Player und Community. Durch die narrative Erschließung bieten Let’s Play-Videos eine eigenständige Erzählperspektive an und bringen so eine neue Form des Erzählens in der digitalen Kultur hervor. Diese Arbeit zeigt auf, dass Let’s Play-Videos ästhetische Phänomene mit gemeinschaftsbildender und identitätsstiftender Funktion sind, die sich mit konventionellen Praktiken des Deutschunterrichts verbinden lassen und somit einen wichtigen sozialen Ort für die Enkulturation in der digitalen Gesellschaft darstellen
Communautés déchirées ?
No full textLa « réforme grégorienne » eut de nombreuses répercussions, à tel point que cette période est comprise par certains chercheurs comme un point de rupture entre deux Moyen Âge. Les différentes historiographies restent néanmoins divisées sur la compréhension de ce phénomène et de ses conséquences et l’objectif de ce volume est justement d’interroger la violence de ce conflit en s’intéressant à ses conséquences concrètes sur les communautés médiévales. Cet ouvrage questionne ainsi la manière dont les communautés, qu’elles soient laïques ou ecclésiastiques, ont pu être divisées et recomposées (ou ne pas l’être) en Occident pendant une période grégorienne comprise au sens large, du milieu du xie à la deuxième partie du xiie siècle
Food Security and Islamic Ethics
No full textThis is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline, thanks to generous funding support from the Qatar National Library, the College of Islamic Studies at Hamad Bin Khalifa University, the research project “Food Security and Migrant Workers in Qatar: a Socio-Economic Analysis” funded by the Qatar National Research Fund and the Qatar Ministry of Municipality as well as funds contributed by the book’s editors. Bringing together a team of expert scholars, this insightful book considers how Islamic ethics is responding to the pressing contemporary challenge of global sustainable food security.Publishe
The Eco-Social Polity?
No full textThe devastating effects of climate change are undeniable. Fires rage and waters rise in every corner of the globe. In light of these changes to our planet, the issue of social and environmental wellbeing has gained prominent attention from both academia and policy makers. Scholarly research on the interaction between social and employment policy domains has flourished. Academics now reflect on the different aspects of environmental and social protection, ecological and social risks, and the costs of climate change, sustainable welfare and new social movements prompted by green transitions.
This book provides a vital contribution to the emerging research agenda. It brings together scholars from interconnected disciplines to discuss the eco-social debate, providing a critical overview on extant scholarship and reflecting on future research pathways on the eco-social nexus from a variety of analytical perspectives
Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles
No full textThis book explores the remarkable potential of zinc oxide (ZnO) nanostructures, one of the most versatile materials in nanotechnology, notable for their wide bandgap, high exciton binding energy, and adaptable surface chemistry. It provides a comprehensive overview of the latest advancements in ZnO research, focusing on their synthesis, properties, and diverse applications across key scientific and industrial fields. Readers will discover how ZnO nanostructures are revolutionizing environmental science with sustainable pollution control solutions, advancing biomedicine through innovative drug delivery systems and diagnostics, and enhancing agriculture by improving crop yield and quality. The book also delves into the precision engineering of ZnO for cutting-edge sensors and electronic devices while exploring bioinspired approaches to designing nanomaterials with tailored functionalities. With its multidisciplinary scope, this volume serves as an essential resource for researchers, academics, and professionals, offering valuable insights into the transformative role of ZnO nanoparticles in addressing today’s scientific and technological challenges
Chapter Introduction
No full textThis edited volume critically investigates women’s knowledge about war and explores the epistemic agency of women in a range of contemporary settings across the globe. Women are deeply affected by war, participate in war and resist war. At the same time, knowledge production often ignores and marginalizes women’s experiences and gendered ways of knowing war. From Colombia to Israel and Palestine, Liberia, Mali, Myanmar, Nepal, North America, Northern Iraq and Ukraine, the chapters in this book illuminate gendered knowledge production in and about different conflict-affected sites. By taking the embodied and narrative epistemic agency of local ‘knowers’ seriously, new insights are thereby presented about the role women play in producing knowledge about war. This book proposes new theoretical vantage points in order to understand how epistemic power and epistemic violence are closely related. Bringing the topic of knowledge production into the so-called ‘Women, Peace and Security’ (WPS) agenda, it analyses how knowledge of the gendered nature of war and security is produced and circulated, and argues that the WPS agenda is a system of knowledge with its own omissions and silences. By theorizing gendered knowledge production and amplifying the voices of women as epistemic agents, this book advances scholarship on gender and war. This book will be of much interest to students of feminist studies, peace studies, war and conflict studies and International Relations. The Introduction, Chapter 3, and Chapter 9 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 license. Chapter 6 and Chapter 7 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license
Freiheitsschauplatz
No full textThree revolutions in three decades; a vibrant civil society and the epitome of resilience—Ukrainian society is as impressive and diverse as it is largely unknown in Germany. Who are the Ukrainians; and how do they see themselves and their country in Europe? How have the revolutions; the upheaval of the 1990s and the developments since the Maidan shaped Ukrainian society? What is the significance of Europeanisation and the decades-long conflict with Russia to Ukrainian society? In this book; German and Ukrainian experts explain Ukrainian society for the first time; it is also the first German-language publication of a sociology of Ukraine
Language and Place
No full textThis Element explores the relationship between language and place in sociolinguistics, focusing on place orientation, gentrification, globalization, and commodification. It introduces concepts and frameworks from geography, sociology, architecture, and psychology, and case studies. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core
Chapter 7 ‘There’s No Singular Brown Voice’
No full textThe Politics and Poetics of Indian Digital Diasporas explores the emancipatory potential and pitfalls of digital platforms and how well or how poorly they reflect intra-communal diversities within South Asian diasporic communities. This book brings together an international network of scholars, both established and emerging, to explore South Asian diasporic communities in the United States, Canada, Australia, and the U.K. It is a comparative cross-national analysis of the intersection of digital technologies and South Asian diasporas. The book centres on three key themes: the ever-presence of digital spaces and the importance of exploring them as focal points for defining and contesting identities; an exploration of how ‘home’ is represented in and across South Asian diasporic communities; and intra-communal diversity in South Asian diasporic communities. The chapters show how digital spaces sometimes create unprecedented opportunities for diasporic communities to mobilise (multi)cultures, sexuality, race, and queerness within South Asian diasporic communities and to move beyond ‘Desi’ and ‘Brown’ as homogenising identifiers. The contributors also demonstrate that digital spaces can be and have been used to reassert internal hegemonies far from homelands. Examining the discursive meanings of South Asian-ness – ‘Desi’, ‘Brown’, ‘South Asians’– the book foregrounds how it is defined, performed, and contested through digital platforms, in ways that redefine the concept of diaspora in innovative, non-territorialized, polyphonic, variegated, and dialogic ways. A novel contribution to the intersection of global digital inequalities, digital cultures and the South Asian diaspora, this book will be of interest to a wide scholarly audience of digital media, South Asian diaspora, culture and ethnicity, race, and the politics of resistance and counter-hegemonic mobilisations