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Duell unter Abwesenden
No full textThe conflict between Duke Henry the Younger of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel and Elector John Frederick of Saxony and Landgrave Philip of Hesse demonstrates how closely political power and its communicative framework were intertwined. Between 1538 and 1542, over 100 deeply insulting pamphlets accompanied this dispute, some of which were published by the opponents themselves. Stefan Beckert uses this media event as a key to understanding the political events of the 1530s and 1540s and to provide a communication- and cultural-historical insight into the 'imperial public sphere'. As a result of the media transformation of the Reformation period, the rules of political debate also changed: Printed matter was not only used to publicly question the honor of opponents, but also to attack facades of consensus, ambiguous political styles, and social ties
Foraging for a Future
No full textBased on more than five years participation in the Case Delle Erbe movement of the Apennine mountains of Central Italy, Foraging for a Future describes how spontaneous plants have become intrinsic to a social fabric involving an economy of exchange and living with greater freedom. It offers rare insights into a post-productive 'experience economy' that empowers people, and yet simultaneously decommodifies experiences - bypassing neoliberalism.
In this book, Tamara Griffiths enters into dialogue with Heideggerian thinking, which is applied to the Case Delle Erbe with surprising outcomes. The results illuminate experiences of intersubjectivity beyond humans, showing how we can re-understand ourselves in nature, to create space for reciprocal and rich relationships with more-than-human communities.Publishe
Uso de la inteligencia artificial en la actividad hotelera
No full textThe present research studies the applications of artificial intelligence (AI) in the hospitality industry, with emphasis on its impact on the customer experience and the improvement of operational efficiency. To this end, and through an integrative review of the literature that includes a total of 32 documents from scientific articles and specialized sources, some of the main applications of AI chatbots, virtual agents, predictive analytics, etc.,
are identified, which allow the personalization of services or the automation of internal processes. It also assesses the benefits, disadvantages and opportunities offered by their implementation, pointing out the need to overcome cultural, technical and ethical barriers that can complicate their implementation. This study offers an updated reference framework that serves to contribute to the understanding and strategic use of AI in the
hotel sector and, therefore, be able to increase its competitiveness and sustainability.PublishedLa presente investigación estudia las aplicaciones de la inteligencia artificial (IA) en la hotelería, con énfasis en su impacto sobre la experiencia del cliente y la mejora de la eficiencia operativa. Para ello, y mediante una revisión integradora de la literatura que incluye un total de 32 documentos, entre artículos científicos y fuentes especializadas, se identifican algunas de las principales aplicaciones de la IA: chatbots, agentes virtuales y analíticas predictivas, las cuales permiten la personalización de los servicios o la automatización de los procesos internos. También se valoran los beneficios, desventajas y oportunidades que ofrece su implementación, señalándose la necesidad de una superación de las barreras culturales, técnicas y éticas, que pueden suponer una complicación para su implantación. Este estudio ofrece un marco de referencia actualizado, que sirve para contribuir a la comprensión y a la utilización estratégica de la IA en el sector hotelero y, por tanto, ser capaz de incrementar la competitividad y sostenibilidad del mismo
Horizontal Learning in the High Middle Ages
No full textThe history of medieval learning has traditionally been studied as a vertical transmission of knowledge from a master to one or several disciples. Horizontal Learning in the High Middle Ages: Peer-to-Peer Knowledge Transfer in Religious Communities centres on the ways in which cohabiting peers learned and taught one another in a dialectical process - how they acquired knowledge and skills, but also how they developed concepts, beliefs, and adapted their behaviour to suit the group: everything that could mold a person into an efficient member of the community. This process of 'horizontal learning' emerges as an important aspect of the medieval learning experience. Progressing beyond the view that high medieval religious communities were closed, homogeneous, and fairly stable social groups, the essays in this volume understand communities as the product of a continuous process of education and integration of new members. The authors explore how group members learned from one another, and what this teaches us about learning within the context of a high medieval community
Zur Kolonialität von Kupfer
No full textAb 1893 begann die deutsche Kolonialmacht mit der Enteignung der Erz- und Mineralvermögen in Tsumeb im Norden des heutigen Namibia. Die florierende überregionale Kupferökonomie zwischen Haiǁom, Damara und Aawambo wurde sukzessive durch den Rohstoff-Frontier unterwandert. In drei Kapiteln betrachtet Noam Gramlich koloniale Kontinuitäten anhand von Fotografien, toxischen Überresten des Kupferabbaus und der weißen Ignoranz gegenüber afrikanischer Technologie. Im Anschluss an mediengeologische Ansätze zu Infrastrukturen, Elektroschrott und Extraktionsorten werden Vorstellungen von medialer Konnektivität herausgefordert und untersucht, wie die unscheinbare Kategorie des Rohstoffs in koloniale Prozesse von Rassifizierung und Vergeschlechtlichung eingelassen ist. Vor dem Hintergrund der Lücken im Kolonialarchiv steht die Suche nach alternativen Wissensarchiven im Zentrum. Aus einer weißen Perspektive erprobt die Studie ein verkörpertes und spekulatives Schreiben, das anti-koloniale, queere und feministische Perspektiven auf Kupfer vereint, um Möglichkeiten anti-extraktivistischer Widerstände, Vulnerabilitäten, Allianzen und Widersprüche zu thematisieren. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcod
Archaeological Research on Cultures in Northeast China from the Xia to the Warring States Period
No full textThis open access book mainly focuses on Northeast China, which historically included Heilongjiang Province, Jilin Province, Liaoning Province, and the eastern part of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. This area borders Mongolia to the west, the ocean to the south, the Korean Peninsula to the east by the Yalu River and the Tumen River, and Russia to the north by the Heilongjiang River and Ussuri River. In Northeast China, the period from the Xia to the Warring States was an important cultural stage between the Neolithic Age and the (Qin) Han and Wei dynasties. Since 1921, a wealth of archaeological data of this period has been gained through investigations and excavations by scholars from China and abroad. This treasure trove of data covers a considerable timespan and broad geographic area. Accordingly, it is necessary to conduct a comprehensive analysis to distill valuable archaeological insights from materials unearthed throughout the Northeast. This book breaks down the chronological coordinates of archaeological cultures during the Xia and Warring States period into seven natural geographic regions, namely the Nenjiang River basin in the Northeast; the mountainous area of Liaoxi; the Liaoxi Plain; southern Liaodong; northern Liaodong; the Second Songhua River basin; and the Tumen River basin. Further, it pursues a multi-dimensional approach: grouping individual sites and cemeteries, categorizing multiple sites and cemetery groups, and identifying the period division and chronological sequence of the archaeological cultures. Based on a comparison and integrated studies of these seven coordinates, we identify four archaeological periods: the Xia-Shang period, the late Shang period, the Western Zhou to Spring and Autumn period, and the Warring States period
Cutting Processes for Materials in Manufacturing
No full textHigh-efficiency and high-performance cutting of difficult-to-cut materials has been an important topic for over one hundred years. As there is an increasing emergence of new machining techniques and materials, there is an increasing need to update the current pool of knowledge in order to gain a deeper understanding of various cutting techniques. The topics covered in this Reprint include material removal mechanisms, chip formation, cutting force, temperature, surface integrity, etc
Under Pressure?
No full textThis open access book gathers different case studies of resilience and coping strategies in hunter-gatherer societies who were confronted with natural hazards. Joined in this book, authors display a range of strategies how people could face natural hazards and climate change, how they manage stress at a group or personal level, and how they transmit their knowledge about dreadful events and successful responses to later generations. Consequently, this book is primarily for a scientific audience focused on hunter-gatherers but will also provide insights for those interested in human responses to crisis and change
The Pathology of Plenty
No full textThis open access book critically examines the role international law plays in post-colonial countries, which primarily rely on the exploitation of their natural resources for economic and human development. Since the 1990s, expressions such as the ‘resource curse’ and ‘paradox of plenty’ have been associated with unequal patterns of power and wealth distribution in post-colonial and neo-colonial countries. They have also been applied to the ecological and social costs of natural resources exploitation, and the planetary costs of mineral resources-based production and consumption patterns. Taking various resource-curse and paradox-of-plenty theories as a starting point, the book illustrates how the law's role in resource-cursed countries is at once constitutive, preventive, remedial and punitive. It does so by engaging with various fields of public international law. The book revisits how rights and principles such as sovereignty over natural resources and economic self-determination were applied in decolonisation processes; studies the proliferation of international treaties protecting foreign property rights; and zooms in on various contract models used in the mineral resources sector to evaluate the distributional choices of cost and revenue. This will be important reading for scholars in the fields of international law and international development. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation
Interpretation for Liberation
No full textIntroductory and critical overview of African philosophical hermeneutics African philosophical hermeneutics has emerged in response to the predicaments of post-colonial African societies. Its central premise is that practical responses have a lot to gain from interpreting people’s experience of meaning and the disruption of it. But where does understanding originate from? And what are the possibilities and limitations of interpretation as support for practice? Suspended in the tension between Africa’s traumatic past and people’s continuing quest for autonomy, African hermeneutics draws on old traditions, adopted ideas and creative reflection. This results in intense intellectual engagement with history and conflict, translation and human nature, epistemic domination and liberation. This book explores the role of hermeneutics in African philosophy. By examining its leading thinkers, it offers stimulating perspectives for any reader grappling with interpretation, critique, pluralism, decolonization and politics – in Africa and elsewhere