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Österr. Religionspädagogisches Forum / Rezension zu: Mešanović, Mevlida: Entwicklung interreligiöser Kompetenzen bei islamischen Religionslehrkräften. Graz, Stuttgart: Kohlhammer 2023
No full textContemporary Southeastern Europe / ‘You’re Gonna Need a Bigger Boat’: Assessing theRelationship Between Economic Performance and Ethnonationalismin Bosnia and Herzegovina (2002-2022)
No full textIt has been postulated that encouraging the financial recovery of Bosnia and Herzegovinawill promote the easing of its ethnic polarization. However, when juxtaposing the resultsof Bosnian parliamentary elections from 2002 to 2022 with the country’s economicfluctuations in the same period, our longitudinal study shows that ethno-nationalist votingbehavior correlates with unemployment levels especially in the Banja Luka and Prijedorareas of the Republika Srpska. In an effort to update Modernization Theory, the mainfinding of this paper is that an improving economy—as measured by unemployment—maybe a factor in helping to ease ethnic tensions in certain subsets of BiH’s society. As thecorrelation cannot be shown with GDP, however, or in most individual voting districts inBiH, economic performance cannot be assumed to be the powerful influence on ethnicreconciliation that some had expected or assumed after the signing of the Dayton PeaceAgreement
mobile culture studies. the journal. / The City as an Emotional Refuge for Abandoning Traditional Jewish Life : Anna Vygodskaia’s Experience as a Young Jewish Girl in St. Petersburg
No full textIn the second half of the nineteenth century, numerous young Jewish women hailing from Eastern Europe made the deliberate choice to depart their homes and familial environments in the shtetls of the Russian Pale of Settlement, opting instead for the big city. Driven by a desire to liberate themselves from the gender norms entrenched in their conventional domestic upbringing, these women aspired to establish autonomous lives that would not demand a complete detachment from their family or Jewish customs. Among the avenues facilitating social, economic, and personal autonomy was the enrollment in higher education institutions—an option that became available in the major cities of the Russian Empire during that era. This essay concentrates on the opportunities that urban life extended to women, as evidenced by the case study of Anna Pavolovna Vygodskaia (1868–1943), a Belarusian native, who courageously defied familial objections to enroll in women’s courses in St. Petersburg. Through her memoir, readers are granted insight into the emotional realm of a young woman raised in a traditional Jewish background, underscoring how women of that epoch capitalized on the prospects presented by Modernity to attain personal independence
Pädagogisches Unterrichtskonzept : Phänomen-basiertes Lernen: Digitale Kompetenzen gegen Fake News für die Sekundarstufe
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Off Campus: Seggau School of Thought / Dilemmas of Direction: Measuring Inequality for Sustainable Development
No full textThe question of how to best measure inequality for achieving sustainable development is a source of serious debate in societies all around the world. In this paper, I compare and analyze inequality indicators for wellbeing, the economy, carbon emissions, and income with data from relevant literature, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, and the United Nations. The presented indicators include life expectancy at birth in relation to GDP (PPP) per capita, life expectancy at birth in relation to carbon emissions per capita, the Gini coefficient, and the Palma ratio. Cross-country comparisons demonstrate how these inequality indicators lead to conflicting development pathways for developing countries in the Global South. While comparisons of life expectancy in relation to GDP (PPP) per capita suggest nations in the Global South should mimic the economic development of the developed Global North, assessments of life expectancy in relation to carbon emissions per capita indicate many regions of the Global South, particularly in Central America, have already achieved a sustainable balance of wellbeing and emissions per capita as members of Goldemberg’s Corner. This dilemma between emissions reduction and economic growth is further complicated by the dimensionless Gini coefficient and Palma Ratio, which suggest high levels of internal inequality in some Global South countries deemed most ideal by Goldemberg’s Corner. Overall, this paper emphasizes how researchers and policymakers must carefully consider the implications of how they measure inequality in research contexts and when defining policy goals
Off Campus: Seggau School of Thought / The Owl of Minerva
No full textThe poem is a mediation on class and social mobility and the wiles of fate or chance, always already conditioned by society and history. The figure of the grandmother is placed in direct lineage to the speaker’s current situation. The connection is a source of strength and an occasion for reflection. Inspiration has been drawn from Alberto Manguel’s The Library at Night. I was struck by Manguel’s reference to the owl of Minerva, as my great-grandmother’s name is Minerva. I began thinking about my great-grandmother’s life and the connection of her legacy to my work in aging, which I often do at night in my home library
Off Campus: Seggau School of Thought / To Not Know
No full textThe poem is a negative apology of poetry, it is a poem written in a way that presumes the failure of all apologies of poetry. It is about the inability to write in the face of the horrors of the world, the inadequacy of poetry to give shape to the injustice of life. And yet it is written and yet it gives sorrow and suffering a shape: By negating the possibility of an apology, it apologizes. By lamenting the impossibility of writing, the speaker overcomes it
Opinion Dynamics meet Agent-based Climate Economics: An Integrated Analysis of Carbon Taxation
No full textThe paper introduces an integrated approach, blending Opinion Dynamics with a Macroeconomic Agent-Based Model (OD-MABM). It aims to explore the co-evolution of climate change mitigation policy and public support. The OD-MABM links a novel opinion dynamics model that is calibrated for European countries using panel survey data to the Dystopian Schumpeter meeting Keynes model (DSK). Opinion dynamics regarding stringent climate policy arise from complex interactions among social, political, economic and climate systems where a household’s opinion is affected by individual economic conditions, perception of climate change, industry-led (mis-)information and social influence. We examine 133 pathways for climate change mitigation policies in the EU, integrating various carbon tax schemes and revenue recycling mechanisms. Our findings reveal that while effective carbon tax policies initially lead to a decline in public support due to substantial macroeconomic transition costs, they concurrently drive a positive social tipping point in the future. This shift stems from the evolving economic and political influence associated with the fossil fuel-based industry, gradually diminishing as the transition unfolds. Second, hybrid revenue recycling strategies that combine green subsidies with climate dividends successfully address this intertemporal tradeoff, broadening public support right from the introduction of the carbon tax. A decomposition of opinion dynamics into the different channels reveals the important role of social influence through which individual experience can propagate within social networks giving rise to rapid and non-linear opinion swings.Version of recor
Robust equilibria in cheap-talk games with fairly transparent motives
No full textFor cheap-talk games with a binary state space in which the sender has state-independent preferences,we characterize equilibria that are robust to introducing slight state-dependence on the side of the sender. Not all equilibria are robust, but the sender-optimum is always achieved at some robust equilibrium.Version of recor