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Chapter 30 On Translation and Censorship of Children's Literature during the Cold War in Europe
No full textThe Routledge Handbook of Translation and Censorship is the first handbook to provide a comprehensive overview of the topic, offering broad geographic and historical coverage, and extending the political contexts to incorporate colonial and postcolonial viewpoints, as well as pluralistic societies. It examines key cultural texts of all kinds as well as audio-visual translation, comics, drama and videogames. With over 30 chapters, the Handbook highlights commonalities and differences across the various contexts, encouraging comparative approaches to the topic of translation and censorship. Edited and authored by leading figures in the field of Translation Studies, the chapters provide a critical mapping of the current research and suggest future directions. With an introductory chapter by the editors on theorizing censorship, the Handbook is an essential reference and resource for advanced students, scholars and researchers in translation studies, comparative literature and related fields
The Civil Service in Europe
No full textThis book opens an often nationally focused field of research to a transnational, common European debate. It addresses the ongoing transformation of the civil service, examining its evolving landscape across Europe and exploring the intricate web of historical, social, and political influences that are shaping its current state and setting the future direction. Written by experts from different European countries, this book offers a transnational and interdisciplinary perspective on the civil service by combining legal analysis with insights from public management, political science, and sociology. It addresses the growing complexity of public administration tasks and the increasing requirements related to the qualification of civil servants, amidst global challenges such as climate change, migration, and technological progress. The book is structured to provide both a broad overview as well as in-depth analyses. It covers national developments, presents comparative studies, and tackles intersecting issues such as employment systems, non-discrimination and human rights, digitalisation, artificial intelligence, the fight against corruption, and administrative culture. It aims to identify common European standards and provide practical guidance for public service reforms. The volume will prove to be an indispensable resource for academics, practitioners, and policymakers concerned with public administration and governance.
The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license
Dimensionen des Dschihadismus
No full textThe many dimensions of jihadism are often not adequately captured. It is rarely possible to capture the entire ecosystem of jihadism. This book provides a comprehensive account of the jihadist media system up to Web 3.0 and its history. The jihadist theology of violence is analyzed in detail; jihadist technical thinking is also covered. The attack in Vienna of 2020 and the statements of the attacker are discussed as a case study
Urban Screens
No full textThis book offers a discussion of the screens, installations, and media architecture that populate contemporary urban public spaces. It proposes a methodological approach and conceptual toolset for the critical examination, not only of what these screens do, but also of what we can do with them. The book contains a collection of theoretical concepts, developed through an in-depth examination of the material, relational, and performative aspects of a range of urban screens and screen practices. Its situational and practice-oriented approach focuses on the space between their material surfaces, the spectatorial situations they create, and how such screens situate us in relation to the surrounding social and cultural environment of the city. Offering concepts for a critical understanding of the wide variety of contemporary urban screen practices, the book’s methodological proposal integrates close situational analyses and a historical-comparative approach for individual screens and screening situations in their role as part of a wider global contemporary screen culture
Narrative Objects
No full textNarrative Objects is concerned with the conversations that arise when artists, scholars, and museum practitioners come together with historic objects. Its focus is a unique mammoth ivory model of yhyakh – the annual celebration of the Sakha people in the Russian Far East – which has been in the collection of the British Museum since 1867. Almost 150 years later, the model was loaned to the National Arts Museum of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) for exhibition and public engagement. As Sakha people revisit past histories and reconstitute cultural knowledge following decades of Soviet rule, this book considers narratives generated by the return of the model which speak to wider concerns in anthropology, material culture studies, and history about how knowledge is both suppressed and engaged with. The book also explores how art can be a focus for cultural pride, how skilled practices are entwined with oral histories, and how historic objects can contribute to wider processes of cultural revival. The chapters draw on fieldwork and museum and archival research in Sakha Sire, Paris and London.
Narrative Objects is particularly relevant to scholars of anthropology and museum studies as well as those with an interest in the subarctic and post-Soviet states
Dem Schweigen zuhören
No full textThis volume explores the sinister connections between religion; gender and the body in the abuse of adult women in the Catholic Church. The author investigates cases of abuse committed by the founder of the St. Franziskusschwestern Vierzehnheiligen against members of the ne xommunity; among others; at the end of the 19th century. Miranda Fricker's concept of “epistemic injustice” is an important hermeneutical key to exploring the possibilities and limits of talking about abuse. The book analyzes how the (suppressed) knowledge about the incidents shaped the community right up to the present day and which factors prevented the incidents from being addressed
The Politics of Serial Television Fiction
No full textFictional TV politics played a pivotal role in the popular imaginaries of the 2010s across cultures. Examining this curious phenomenon, Sebastian Naumann provides a wide-ranging analysis of the rapidly evolving landscape of contemporary polit-series. Proposing a novel structural model of serial television, he offers an innovative methodological framework for comparative textual analysis that integrates sociocultural, economic, sociotechnical, narratological, and aesthetic perspectives. This study furthermore explores how the changing affordances of (nonlinear) television impact serial storytelling and identifies key narrative trends and recurring themes in contemporary TV polit-fiction
Le tirage au sort dans l’Antiquité
No full textThe practice of drawing lots has a long history, dating back to ancient times. As far back as the Iliad and other epics, because it was based on chance and the intervention of the gods, it was opposed, philosophically and practically, to human choice, whether that choice was based on reason and deliberation, voting or personal goodwill. This volume focuses on this procedure, which was both frequent and common in the ancient Mediterranean basin. Through eighteen contributions, it sketches out a collective reflection on the political, religious, administrative and playful uses to which the sors was put. The study begins with the Greek and Italian worlds of the Archaic and Classical periods and takes the reader all the way to Republican and Imperial Rome, an area and period for which sortitio has not yet received the attention it deserves. Taking a diachronic and comparative approach, the book seeks to highlight the different meanings and virtues attached to the drawing of lots, depending on the regimes that used it and their political culture. Why did the Romans, like so many other ancient peoples, choose to leave so much to chance in the running of the city’s affairs? In addition to the issues specific to ancient history, this book is part of a contemporary debate. In particular, it seeks to give historical and anthropological depth to the current debate on the reintroduction of the drawing of lots in the context of the crisis of “representativeness” that Western democracies are currently experiencing
Creation and Creativity in Medieval Art
No full textCreation imagery in manuscripts made in the Middle Ages became a locus for visual experimentation as well as the expression of ideas about creativity. By examining representations of divine creation and illustrations of the creation stories in Genesis, this book links medieval ideas about creation, the characteristic of the Divine Creator, and the act of creation with themes in medieval thought about the work of medieval artists.
Case studies from manuscripts illuminating the creation dating from the eleventh to the fourteenth century (Junius 11/The Cædmon Manuscript, Roda Bible & Ripoll Bible, Bible moralisées, Hamburg Bible, Holkhalm Bible) reveal self-reflective moments; where medieval artists relate artistic invention and theological debates about creation. This book traces the artists’ thinking in their own work and then contextualizes those visual cues within the context of philosophical arguments about the creation of the world. It also considers how Western medieval artists, in inventing original illuminations and experimenting with new representational modes, suggest potential analogies between their own work, God’s acts of creation, and nature’s generative force
Entre manuscrits et imprimés, Lyon et ses livres (1470-1520)
No full textLyon acquired its first printing press in the early 1470s. In the space of fifty years, the printing press revolutionised libraries, book production, and the perception of books in the city. What did books look like at that time, whether manuscript or printed? How were books produced? Who owned them, and how were they preserved, exchanged, and passed on?By the end of the 15th century, the city had become Europe's third-largest printing centre, with numerous workshops relying on Lyon's fairs to export their products across the continent. Serving as a base for shipments to Italy, it was also a major hub for producing richly illuminated manuscripts for the Lyonnais and the French court for several decades. However, in 1520, fifty years after the arrival of printing in Lyon, the manuscript seemed to have lost the battle definitively.Historian Jean-Benoît Krumenacker's book begins by immersing us in the world of manuscripts, which was well established before the advent of printing. He explores the libraries and the books preserved, used and passed on by the people of Lyon and the city's churches. The production of books, both manuscripts and prints, along with the entire book economy in Lyon is then examined, as well as the circumstances that enabled printing to take root and flourish in the cit