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Barns tilhørighet blant mennesker og ting
No full textFor children and young people, belonging is crucial. The need for community and security shapes their identity, relationships, and experience of community in everyday life, but can also lead to boundaries between ""us"" and ""them"" and trigger processes of inclusion and exclusion, power and powerlessness, continuity and change.
Through real-life examples, this anthology explores how children and young people create and experience belonging to peers, places, and things. The first part examines how material goods influence children's social belonging, with examples such as food, clothing, and digital games. The second part looks at how belonging takes shape in various social arenas, from children's birthday parties and the football field to more challenging contexts such as criminal activity. The third part addresses children's belonging from a professional perspective, with insights from social workers, public health nurses, teachers, and other professional groups who play a central role in children's lives.
The book is primarily aimed at master's students, educators, and researchers in the field of children and youth, but will also be relevant to professionals in politics and civil society.For barn og unge er tilhørighet avgjørende. Behovet for fellesskap og trygghet former deres identitet, relasjoner og opplevelse av fellesskap i hverdagen, men kan også føre til grensedragning mellom oss og dem og utløse prosesser av inkludering og ekskludering, makt og avmakt, kontinuitet og endring.
Gjennom levende eksempler utforsker denne antologien hvordan barn og unge skaper og opplever tilhørighet til jevnaldrende, steder og ting. Første del undersøker hvordan materielle goder påvirker barns sosiale tilhørighet, med eksempler som mat, klær og digitale spill. Andre del ser på hvordan tilhørighet tar form i ulike sosiale arenaer, fra barnebursdager og fotballbanen til mer utfordrende sammenhenger som kriminell aktivitet. Tredje del tar for seg barns tilhørighet fra et profesjonsperspektiv, med innsikter fra sosialarbeidere, helsesykepleiere, lærere og andre yrkesgrupper som spiller en sentral rolle i barns liv.
Boken retter seg primært mot masterstudenter, undervisere og forskere innen barne- og ungdomsfeltet, men vil også være relevant for fagpersoner innen politikk og sivilsamfunn
Core Assumptions in Business Theory
No full textThe modern market-based economy generates great wealth, but it lags on well-being; it has mastered efficiency, but struggles with equity; it boasts size, but falls short on sustainability. In other words, our economy delivers performance but neglects progress (i.e., fairness, well-being, and sustainability). Many rightly call for tighter regulation, higher (“true”) prices, and longer-term incentives. Others appeal to corporate purpose, shared value, and stakeholder-centrism. Beyond smarter regulation and the reformed practice of business, we must attend as well to education and a reformed theory of business. In particular, we must look at core assumptions in the business paradigm. In an applied field such as business, where theory tends to be normative, flawed assumptions could act as a “wedge” cleaving apart performance and progress. In this volume, Subramanian Rangan brings together eminent social scientists, philosophers, and business leaders to explore and evaluate core assumptions in each of the major fields of business—including economics, strategy, marketing, operations, decision science, leadership, governance, technology, and finance. This structured field-by-field reflection aims to reveal and expand the bounds of our rationality. Core Assumptions in Business Theory proposes a revised profit function that integrates harm, outlines how economic actors may draw on moral philosophy to enact Pareto equity (and not just Pareto efficiency), suggests a two-stage rationality approach that can attend to well-being, and recasts marketing as consumer education and not merely demand promotion. With an emphasis on the education rather than the regulation of economic power, this volume argues that moral reasoning and moral roles can fruitfully supplement prudential reasoning and functional responsibilities. Such an evolution will enable our economy to be both modern and moral
Fake News – What’s the harm?
No full textFormer news reporter and founder of Africa’s first fact-checking organisation Peter Cunliffe-Jones argues that since concern about ‘information disorder’ soared in 2016, we have laboured under flawed assumptions about the nature and effects of ‘fake news’ and misinformation. Based on a four-year review of 250 case studies, Cunliffe-Jones sets out four ideas for fact-checkers, policymakers and platforms to curb harmful consequences and protect wider freedom of speech. First, information disorder is about more than misinformation. Second, misinformation in offline settings can cause as big a problem as misinformation online. Third, misinformation that affects policymakers can be as bad as misinformation that affects the public. Fourth, he proposes a model for fact-checkers, researchers and platforms to distinguish false claims that do and do not have substantive potential to cause substantive consequences
Presenting Counterpoints to the Dominant Terrestrial Narrative of European Prehistory
No full textChallenges the terrestrial focus of European prehistory, emphasizing the significance of seascapes, maritime networks, and coastal societies in shaping prehistoric Europe. This book is the first in the multi-author series Maritime Encounters, outputs of the major six-year (2022-2028) international research initiative, funded by Sweden’s central bank. Our programme is based on a maritime perspective, a counterpoint to prevailing land-based vantages on Europe’s prehistory. In the Maritime Encounters project a highly international cross-disciplinary team has embarked on a diverse range of research goals to provide a more detailed and nuanced story of how prehistoric societies realised major and minor sea crossings, organised long-distance exchange, and adapted to ways of life by the sea in prehistory. Recent advances with ancient DNA have brought migration back into archaeological explanation, but little attention has been paid to maritime aspects of these movements or the maritime legacies inherited from indigenous cultures. The formation of the populations, cultures, and languages of Europe are now seen largely as consequences of three great prehistoric migrations: hunter-gatherers repopulating the post-glacial landscape, followed by farmers spreading from Anatolia, and then Indo-European-speaking pastoralists from the steppe. There is a significant gap in this current model that we sense most acutely in Scandinavia and the British Isles. Unanswered questions include: How these groups reached the islands and peninsulas of Atlantic Europe? What types of boats were used? How many people and animals could they carry? To what extent did indigenous coastal peoples contribute traditions and knowledge of boats, boat building, seaways, navigation, and subsistence in coastal environments? How was the long-distance trade in metals organised during the European Bronze Age? And what was the impact of this seacrossing network on the cultures, languages, and populations of the producers and consumers of bronze
Sustainable Agroecosystems
No full textIn an era where global agriculture faces unprecedented challenges, Sustainable Agroecosystems - Principles and Practices is a comprehensive guide to fostering resilience and sustainability in farming systems. This book explores innovative strategies and practices designed to enhance soil health, optimize nutrient and water management, and integrate ecological and technological advancements. By addressing critical topics such as conservation agriculture, agroecological practices, precision nitrogen management, and biological pest control, this book equips researchers, practitioners, and policymakers with the tools and knowledge needed to transform agricultural landscapes. Special emphasis is placed on fostering environmental resilience, resource efficiency, and the adoption of eco-friendly solutions that align with the principles of the circular economy. Readers will benefit from the book’s multidisciplinary approach, which bridges traditional and modern practices to meet the demands of sustainable agriculture. Whether you are a seasoned academic, an agricultural innovator, or a policymaker seeking actionable insights, this book provides a rich repository of knowledge and inspiration for achieving sustainable agricultural development worldwide
Climate Policies
No full textThis collection of chapters is organized in sections that reflect humanity’s three broad categories of climate policy options: abate (mitigate to reduce the likelihood of climate impacts), adapt (ameliorate some of the consequences of those impacts), and suffer (the residual costs that cannot be avoided). All apply a risk-based perspective to discussions and assessments of what we do and do not know and, thus, what we can or perhaps cannot really do. Each chapter includes, in their concluding remarks at least, some attempt to identify critical gaps in our current understanding of the specific circumstances of the coupling of the climate and human systems on earth and, by continuation, elaborate on constraints on our confidence in relative efficacies that we project in our policy deliberations as we confront particular illustrative risks. Specifically, efficacy judgements take account of at least one of the IPCC metrics for judging response efficacy: net climate change damages, co-benefits and costs of policies, measures of sustainability (of systems and policies), equity calibrated in various metrics of human welfare security, and the degree to which people, communities, sub-national governance bodies, nations, and international institutions are averse to risk
Les Jeux olympiques de 1892 à 2024
No full textDepuis leur réinvention à Paris et à Athènes à la fin du xixe siècle, les Jeux olympiques semblent refléter la marche du monde. En fait, ils progressent à leur propre rythme, quadriennal, et ils ne sont jamais qu’un interlude posé dans les interstices des États, des sociétés et des économies. Faire l’histoire de leur aventure mondiale nécessite un préalable : mettre à distance le roman olympique conçu par le CIO.Tout est parti de l’idée messianique imaginée en 1892 par Pierre de Coubertin : contribuer à la paix des nations par la compétition sportive. Pour défendre son idéal contre les ingérences politiques et commerciales, ce jeune aristocrate parisien a théorisé la neutralité de l’« olympisme ». Une contre-société d’échelle mondiale est apparue avec sa capitale et son gouvernement, sa géographie et sa diplomatie, son administration et sa législation. Depuis 130 ans, le CIO bataille contre les fédérations internationales pour imposer son hégémonie.Pour appréhender la diffusion des JO d’Athènes en 1896 jusqu’à Paris en 2024, et décrypter l’olympisation des sociétés voulue par le CIO, une même trame est proposée au lecteur : l’imbrication des enjeux politiques et sportifs, la concurrence des jeux alternatifs, la compétition entre villes candidates, les portraits des présidents successifs du CIO, les cérémonies d’ouverture comme romans nationaux, le programme olympique au prisme des cultures corporelles, le dopage et la corruption, les oppositions à l’organisation des Jeux, la hiérarchie sportive des États, les trajectoires de vie des champions et championnes, les freins et avancées des droits humains dans le sport
Rechte der Natur
No full textThe book examines Rights of Nature as adopted in the United States, Ecuador, Bolivia, New Zealand and Colombia, with a particular focus on the Rights of Rivers. It looks at six crosscutting aspects: the sources of law, the holders of the rights, the content of the rights granted, the conditions for limitations, the designation of legal representatives, and the possibilities for legal enforcement. The analysis suggests that Rights of Nature could yield substantial advantages.Rechte der Natur wurden bereits in verschiedenen Rechtsordnungen dieser Welt anerkannt. Diese Arbeit untersucht ihre Ausgestaltung in den USA, Ecuador, Bolivien, Neuseeland und Kolumbien unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Rechte von Flüssen. Dabei wurden nähere Erkenntnisse über die
Rechtsquellen und ihre Stellung im Rechtssystem, die Rechtsträger:innen, die gewährten Rechte, die Zulässigkeit von Eingriffen in die gewährten Rechte, die Vertreter:innen der Rechtsträger:innen und die Möglichkeiten zur Rechtsdurchsetzung gewonnen
Corps et âme
No full textHow does the soul interact with the body? Are these two entities united or separate? Where do they intersect, or who mediates between body and soul? As part of a long-term intellectual and conceptual history, the present volume brings together eleven contributions exploring how different authors, from Antiquity to the 18th century, have questioned and analyzed the ways in which body and soul interact and unite. The contributions are grouped according to period (Antiquity, Middle Ages, Modern Age) and address the following subjects: the physiological relationships between body and soul considered as a whole, the question of vegetative and vegetative faculties that cross the different living species, the nature of certain mediators such as pneuma or spiritus and species, and what pathological contexts reveal about these links between body and soul
Representing the Commons in Early Modern England
No full textOurs is an age of extremely fragmented experiences and identities – a fragmentation paralleled by a growing awareness that we all inhabit a common world. In reality, these two phenomena have a lot more in common than one might suspect: deeply engrained individualism and the destruction of ecosystems are two sides of the same capitalist coin. Thus, the question of “the commons” becomes more relevant than ever.This book aims to fill a gap in the recent theoretical discussion of the commons by rethinking the notion from the perspective of early modern English literature and culture. It argues that the commons needs to be shown and represented, not just theorised or discussed in abstract terms. By focusing on some of the foundational, textually embodied forms through which this notion was represented and disseminated, the essays brought together here aim not only to interrogate the ways in which the commons was framed and appropriated in early modern English texts, but also to highlight the enduring relevance of these forms to critical discussions of the commons today