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India’s Role in the Indian Ocean Region in the 21st Century
No full textThe book explores India’s role as a normative power, with solid credentials based on a long history of thalassic experience of states of South India. It examines how India has been interpreting international law and rules for the exploitation of living and non-living resources in her way.
The book presents an analysis of India’s activities in four key areas of maritime governance and a description of its roles in the Indian Ocean Region. It highlights India as a maritime security and sustainable maritime development model alternative to the Chinese. The volume also showcases a holistic, interdisciplinary picture of India’s maritime policy and thoroughly explains its historical and semiotic background. Further, it discusses India’s endeavours as a new version of the ASEAN+ cooperation model combined with the US hub and spoke system adapted to new time and place conditions.
Researchers interested in India, the Indian Ocean, and maritime affairs in general would find the book informative and systematising knowledge about maritime governance in the Indian Ocean Region. The book will be useful to students, researchers, and teachers from the departments of international relations, political science, economics, public policy and administration, and defence studies. It will especially be a useful read for diplomats, policy analysts, think tank members, and those interested in international law of the sea and maritime research centres. It also offers practical insights for those interested in Indian foreign policy, the Indian Ocean Region, and maritime governance in general and scholars researching the role of states in international relations, the instruments of foreign policies of emerging powers in the Global South, and the maritime strategies of developing countries
Museums, Identity and Family Practices
No full textMuseums, Identity and Family Practices locates museum participation and meaning making in the realm of everyday family practices, which are central to understanding the role museums play in family social life. Drawing on a substantial amount of data from a wide range of sources, Moussouri discusses the importance of understanding how family practices are enacted across settings and how the arena of the museum can facilitate certain family practices and impede others. Developing and theorising key concepts, the book elucidates the key research themes, including everyday family practice; meaning making; and the structural characteristics of museums as arenas for the family visit activity. The analysis is rooted in a dialectical theoretical framework specifically developed to bridge the macrolevel (social order or the arena of the museum) and microlevel (family practices). Museums, Identity and Family Practices offers a novel and holistic approach to studying contemporary families and, as such, is key reading for scholars and students of museum and heritage studies, family studies, visitor studies, cultural studies, education, sociology and anthropology. Museum and heritage professionals working with families in different communities around the world will also find this book relevant to their practice. 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
Des bandits face au pouvoir colonial
No full textFrom the insurrection of 1871 to the emergence of nationalist groups between the wars, Algeria entered a period of triumphant colonialism. The administration was strengthened, land was massively transferred to European settlers, and order seemed to prevail in this colonised territory. However, on closer inspection, rural life was still marked by lively social conflict. The use of forest lands was the subject of bitter confrontations. Confiscated lands often remained occupied. Above all, the emergence of rural banditry was an endless concern for the colonial administration. In the 1890s, the authorities saw banditry as a potential breeding ground for insurrection. This perceived resistance prompted a repressive response that was met with silent hostility from rural society, which regularly thwarted attempts to dismantle the gangs. Rewards for denunciation or capture, internment of bandits' families, military campaigns, sentencing to prison or capital punishment are just some of the measures that were taken to overcome resistance to authority. What does this phenomenon say about the society from which it emerges? Who are these rural bandits? This book seeks to follow these rural bandits step by step, from taking up arms or their flight from the colonial administration to their final moments, from their anchoring in a rural territory vulnerable to dispossession to their transport to the penal colony. These conflicting trajectories are examined through various sources, from repression archives to popular poetry, the press and private correspondence
Sehen Sie – überall
No full textWolf Vostell (1932-1998), who as the central protagonist of the Fluxus concerts and founder of European happenings, co-founded action art, a pioneer of video art and the plastic theory of and the sculptural theory of object art, is one of the most influential German artists of the second half of the 20th century. With his action art he exploded the classical aesthetic categories and created sensual spaces for events and experiences in which he repeatedly the categorical distance between artwork and viewer: Art became dangerous, active participation in the performative situations and distanced reception became impossible. This Vostell's early actions of the 1950s and 1960s in the context of an expanded concept of the image that goes beyond the visual and ties in with art philosophical discourses on the interaction between image and performativity. With contributions by Klaus Gereon Beuckers, Nick Böhnke, Lea Corves, Sarah Schmid, Lea Schöning and Thekla Zell.PublishedWolf Vostell (1932–1998), der als zentraler Protagonist der Fluxus-Konzerte und Begründer des europäischen Happenings die Aktionskunst mitbegründet hat, Pionier der Videokunst und der plastischen Theorie der Objektkunst war, zählt zu den einflussreichsten deutschen Künstlern der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts. Mit seiner Aktionskunst sprengte er die klassischen ästhetischen Kategorien und schuf sinnliche Ereignis- und Erfahrungsräume, in denen er immer wieder die kategoriale Distanz zwischen Kunstwerk und Betrachter verletzte: Kunst wurde gefährlich, die aktive Teilnahme an den performativen Situationen zwingend und ein distanziertes Rezipieren unmöglich. Dieser Band stellt Vostells frühe Aktionen der 1950er und 1960er Jahre in den Kontext eines erweiterten Bildbegriffs, der über das Visuelle hinausgeht und an kunstphilosophische Diskurse zur Wechselwirkung zwischen Bild und Performativität anknüpft. Mit Beiträgen von Klaus Gereon Beuckers, Nick Böhnke, Lea Corves, Sarah Schmid, Lea Schöning und Thekla Zell
Research on Mycotoxins
No full textThis book is comprised of seven chapters, highlighting recent advances in mycotoxin contamination of food, feed and agricultural crops from diagnostic methods to mitigation plans for control of mycotoxin contamination, detoxification of mycotoxins by novel approaches and finally, the importance of mycotoxins in human and animal health. The book provides readers with several cutting-edge aspects of mycotoxin research, gathering valuable information for mycologists, microbiologists, toxicologists, plant pathologists, and pharmacologists who are interested in understanding the impact, significance, and recent developments in mycotoxin research, particularly in areas that have not received sufficient attention elsewhere
Advances in Differential and Difference Equations and Their Applications
No full textThis Special Issue presents a collection of articles that highlight the significant progress in the study of differential and difference equations. These contributions cover a wide range of topics, from boundary value problems and the asymptotic behavior of solutions to complex mathematical models and the application of fractional and difference equations in various scientific and engineering fields. Differential equations are a core mathematical tool for modeling dynamic systems in a diverse range of areas, such as physics, biology, economics, and engineering. Likewise, difference equations provide discrete counterparts to continuous models, which are crucial in understanding phenomena occurring in digital systems and various computational models. The papers presented in this Special Issue reflect the latest theoretical advancements and applications in these important research areas
Food Polysaccharides, Starch, and Protein
No full textNatural macromolecular substances, such as polysaccharides, starch, and protein, are prevalent in the organs of plants and animals and are major types of biopolymer components in food. They not only provide people with energy and nutrition but are also used in food processing as natural additives due to their gelling, emulsifying, film-forming properties, etc. The food industry has been gaining increasing impetus recently to create desired nutritional profiles and to improve the quality of food products, and so we expect a greater emphasis will be placed on understanding the physicochemical characteristics of food polysaccharides, starch, and protein. Many researchers focus on the modification, food technology and future industry of polysaccharides, starch, protein, etc. These studies help to obtain changed physicochemical and enhanced functional properties of these components, further promoting their high-value utilization in the food field. This Special Issue brings together 14 articles regarding the latest advances in the structural characteristics, bioactivity, and nutritional function properties of polysaccharides, starch, and protein, as well as their application potential in the food industry
Progress on the Study of the Ginibre Ensembles
No full textThis open access book focuses on the Ginibre ensembles that are non-Hermitian random matrices proposed by Ginibre in 1965. Since that time, they have enjoyed prominence within random matrix theory, featuring, for example, the first book on the subject written by Mehta in 1967. Their status has been consolidated and extended over the following years, as more applications have come to light, and the theory has developed to greater depths. This book sets about detailing much of this progress. Themes covered include eigenvalue PDFs and correlation functions, fluctuation formulas, sum rules and asymptotic behaviors, normal matrix models, and applications to quantum many-body problems and quantum chaos. There is a distinction between the Ginibre ensemble with complex entries (GinUE) and those with real or quaternion entries (GinOE and GinSE, respectively). First, the eigenvalues of GinUE form a determinantal point process, while those of GinOE and GinSE have the more complicated structure of a Pfaffian point process. Eigenvalues on the real line in the case of GinOE also provide another distinction. On the other hand, the increased complexity provides new opportunities for research. This is demonstrated in our presentation, which details several applications and contains not previously published theoretical advances. The areas of application are diverse, with examples being diffusion processes and persistence in statistical physics and equilibria counting for a system of random nonlinear differential equations in the study of the stability of complex systems
Approaching Social Hierarchies in Byzantium
No full textUtilising new methodological approaches to understanding not only the poor as a social and economic group but also of the internal means of stratification which informed social organisation within local communities, this book looks at the place of the poor within the multi-layered hierarchies of Byzantine society using evidence from archaeology, art, architecture, as well as narrative, theological, and legal texts. Rather than treating the different levels of society independently, it looks at the social interactions which replicated and reinforced hierarchies but were also subject to negotiation within local communities. Fifteen leading Byzantine scholars discuss and analyse the topic of social hierarchies in the Byzantine Empire, covering topics such as working lives, the material world, the stratification of space, and philanthropy and social obligation.
The book will appeal to scholars and students alike interested in identity formation and expression in the Byzantine provinces, as well as those researching the social history of the poor in Byzantium, and the mechanisms of hierarchies, social marginalisation, and oppression
Wohnen in Gesundheit
No full textIn diesem Open-Access-Buch wird die Coronapandemie in besonderen Wohneinrichtungen der Eingliederungshilfe im sozialwissenschaftlichen Blick erfasst. Die Lagebeschreibung spiegelt verschiedene Perspektiven: die Einschätzungen von Menschen mit Beeinträchtigungen, Leitungsverantwortlichen, Fachpersonal und Angehörigen. Die Daten wurden bundesweit während der Lockdown-Phasen in einer qualitativen Feldstudie erhoben. Die Analyse folgt den Rahmungen der ICF (International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health der WHO) und der Behindertenrechtskonvention der Vereinten Nationen (UN-BRK). Faktenbasiert zeigen sich fehlende Brücken zwischen den Handlungsfeldern Gesundheit und Soziales. Im demografischen Wandel bleibt Wohnen in Gesundheit über die Pandemie hinaus ein drängendes Zukunftsthema. Die WoGe-Studie bietet Ansätze zur konstruktiven Auseinandersetzung mit ungleichen Versorgungschancen in Gleichstellung, Teilhabe und Gesundheitssorge. Durch den Blick hinter die Kulissen öffnen sich Lernoptionen und zeigen sich Handlungsnotwendigkeiten bei Risiken der Fremdbestimmung, erheblichen Personalengpässen und anhaltendem Kräfteverschleiß. Auch Bedarfe an mehr Gesundheitsbewusstsein und Präventionsorientierung werden aufgezeigt