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Economía marxista: una guía de apoyo
No full textIn this reading guide to the first volume of Capital, we follow the central arguments that Karl Marx developed to uncover the laws governing the capitalist system. Marx describes how working-class men and women sell their labor power—that is, their capacity to create during the labor process—to those who own or control the means of production that they set in motion when performing their tasks, and how this is key to understanding the inequality and violence in our society
The Palgrave Handbook of Decolonising the Educational and Language Sciences
No full textThis open access handbook contributes to decolonising the scholarship that lies at the intersections of the educational and language sciences. Contributors from across the planet interrogate issues related to mainstream western/northern hegemonies of knowledge production and institutional hierarchies and practices which continue to dominate the research landscape. Engaging with alternative, marginalised and/or Southern thinking, the scholarship presented here goes beyond calls for multidisciplinarity, and instead offers multiversal, ‘undisciplinary’ ways and waves of doing research ‘otherwise’. The handbook will appeal to scholars and students working in and beyond the broad areas of education and language who are interested in discussions about Southern and decolonial perspectives, positionality and the politics of knowledge production
The Anthology in Digital Culture
No full textAs a cultural form, media practice and organizational model, the anthology has represented an important editorial framework in the development, preservation and retrieval of narratives, from paper-based media to machine-generated content, all throughout a series of discontinued analog and digital technologies. Over time, anthologies became part of the “metaphors we live by” (Lakoff and Johnson 2008), figurative lenses through which we read, navigate, interpret stories and organize human thoughts for better understanding. By providing an overview on the role of the anthology on streaming platform environments, this book examines how traditional editorial practices of anthologization intersect with data-driven content classification and sorting in the context of both pre- and post-digital culture. The author ultimately proposes to insert “anthology” in a vocabulary of digital culture that accounts for new curatorial and algorithmic processes of content filtering, in the attempt to expand the critical “keywords” (Williams 1983; Striphas 2015; Thylstrup et al. 2021) for the study of culture, society, data
Changing lusospheres
No full textThe present volume is the result of a symposium held at the University of Luxembourg in November 2022. It brought together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars working on historical and contemporary connections between Portugal, Brazil, Luxembourg, and certain African countries. The objective of our joint project was to understand the movements and relationships in question as historico-politically and socio-culturally interconnected processes. The papers deal with specific migrations and diaspora experiences, as well as with the multiplicity and diversity of the relationships within the space that is created by these processes and that we tentatively describe as “changing lusospheres”.
The choice of location was related to the resolution to mark Luxembourg as part of a universe of migrations and encounters that is constituted by Portuguese and wider lusophone mobilities. Systematic research on these historically and culturally complex migration processes is still largely lacking, not least comparative interdisciplinary work on longstanding relationships and movements that connect Europe, Latin America, and Africa. With this edited volume, we aim to contribute to revealing this complexity by a broadening of perspective, more precisely, by a partial shift of focus to the “periphery”, which is represented by Luxembourg in a factual as well as in an emblematic sense.Publishe
The Students and Their Books
No full textIn the practices of teaching and learning in the academy of the early modern age, epochal factors intervene, such as the rupture of the religious-ideological unity of the West, the spread of the printing press, the rise of new scientific ideas, and the profound reform of university curricula. The studies in this volume privilege the perspective of the then-student as an agent in the processing and transfer of higher knowledge
The Pragmatics of Straw Man Fallacies: An Experimental Approach
No full textThis open-access book provides the first experimental pragmatic investigation of the straw man, uncovering a variety of factors that increase or decrease the acceptability of this fallacy. The book starts with an overview of the primarily theoretical frameworks on argumentation/fallacies and the straw man. The aim is to provide a synthetic review of the research conducted in argumentation and the study of fallacies with a strong focus on modern approaches and the role of language within these approaches. It is followed by an overview of the empirical methods in argumentation, which leads the reader to the core part of the book, i.e., the experimental pragmatic approach to the straw man fallacy. This part of the book presents several original studies assessing the role of different linguistic factors in the perception of straw men. The book is structured as follows: Chapter 1 introduces the book. The reader will be familiarised with the topic of the straw man as a fallacious argument and the research axes of the book. Chapter 2 provides an overview of argumentation and fallacy theory, and the role of language in the selected approaches. Chapter 3 discusses various theoretical approaches to the straw man fallacy. Chapter 4 provides an overview of empirical methodologies in argumentation. Chapter 5 presents a series of exploratory studies discussing three pragmatic factors. Chapter 6 addresses the question of information structure for the communication of straw man fallacies. Chapter 7 presents a more detailed analysis of the role of causal connectives used to introduce an argument. Chapter 8 presents a cross-linguistic examination of the role of causal connectives with attributive functions. Chapter 9 focuses on the refutational dimension of the straw man fallacy. The previous chapters have mainly investigated factors related to the misrepresentational dimension of the straw man. Chapter 10 provides a summary of the main findings and opens toward future lines of investigation. The book targets young and senior scholars interested in research on straw man fallacies, experimental approaches to the study of fallacies and argumentation in general
Chapter Vico Magistretti e l’architettura vernacolare: Casa Arosio a Pantelleria
No full textThe here collected contributions relating to the 46th International Conference of the Representation Disciplines Teachers, organized jointly by Sapienza University of Rome, Roma Tre University, and San Raffaele Roma University, aim to offer the scientific community a reflection on the theoretical and methodological aspects related to the concept of èkphrasis, a term that, in the field of representation, concerns descriptive, analogical, and digital activities that generate new knowledge in several areas of application. The Conference aims to place at the center of the discussion an interpretation of the concept of research that, without neglecting an idea of study, protection, and enhancement of environmental and cultural heritage, focuses on the needs of contemporary society and its possible developments, making use of innovative theoretical, methodological, and operational activities, including those characterized by an interdisciplinary approach. According to this interpretation, research can also be seen as a foreshadowing of the definition and testing of experimental proposals aimed at exploring new areas of investigation: this opens up imaginative and utopian perspectives in the relationship between the sciences, the arts, and the disciplines that contribute to common goals, through the experimentation of methods, techniques, and languages for conceiving, prefiguring, designing, and representing
Arquitecturas porticadas valencianas: lonjas, porches y riuraus
No full textPublishedEntre las arquitecturas rurales, unas de las más características en nuestro territorio son las porticadas, aquellas que encontramos formando parte de antiguas masías, molinos y ermitas, definiendo patios de antiguos santuarios y lonjas de comercio, presentes también en corrales de ganado y lavaderos. Arquitecturas diáfanas, generalmente ritmadas, que las podemos observar a lo largo de todo el Mediterráneo, pero en nuestras tierras adquieren presencia y carácter singular. Construcciones que debemos analizar con una visión amplia, entendiendo que a lo largo del tiempo se ha ido creando en estas tierras una cultura constructiva propia que nació posiblemente de aquel tronco que marcaron los primeros espacios porticados, vinculados tanto a las logias artesanas o gremiales, como al palacio municipal, a los porches urbanos y por supuesto a los espacios de cobijo de actividades agrarias y ganaderas, y dieron paso a los secaderos de uva pasa que en los últimos siglos han dejado una huella imborrable en el imaginario de amplias zonas del país. El libro analiza la génesis de estos porches y se centra en el estudio del riurau, en sus formas, materialidad y ámbitos de existencia, en su vinculación con la producción de la uva pasa. Asumiendo que el riurau y la naia son el canto de cisne de una cultura que ha ofrecido un maridaje fecundo entre arquitectura y paisaje, al que hoy la sociedad ha vuelto una mirada quizás más amable, dentro de la alarmante situación general de nuestra arquitectura rural. Citar como: Del Rey Aynat, M. (2025). Arquitecturas porticadas valencianas: lonjas, porches y riuraus. edUP
Warszawa w świetle badań naukowych. Diagnozy i wyzwania początku XXI wieku
No full textThe publication which is devoted to contemporary challenges, changes and development potentials of the capital of Poland combines the perspectives of socio-economic geography, spatial management, sociology, economics and finances, Earth and environmental sciences and history.
The authors of the texts are the researchers associated with leading research centers, including the University of Warsaw, the University of Life Sciences, SWPS University and the University of Gdansk, as well as the practitioners and social organizations activists. They address such key topics related to the functioning of the capital as: urban resilience, revitalization, creative economy, sustainable transport, social differences and new models of participation in city life. Warsaw is shown here as a dynamically changing urban organism, the laboratory of contemporary urban processes and the space for social negotiations.PublishedPublikacja poświęcona współczesnym wyzwaniom, przemianom i potencjałom rozwojowym stolicy Polski, łącząca perspektywy geografii społeczno-ekonomicznej, gospodarki przestrzennej, socjologii, ekonomii i finansów, nauk o Ziemi i środowisku oraz historii.
Autorami zebranych w niej tekstów są badacze związani z czołowymi ośrodkami naukowymi, m.in. z Uniwersytetem Warszawskim, ze Szkołą Główną Gospodarstwa Wiejskiego, z Uniwersytetem SWPS i Uniwersytetem Gdańskim, a także praktycy oraz działacze organizacji społecznych. Podejmują oni takie kluczowe tematy związane z funkcjonowaniem stolicy, jak: odporność miejska, rewitalizacja, gospodarka kreatywna, zrównoważony transport, zróżnicowania społeczne i nowe modele uczestnictwa w życiu miasta. Warszawa prezentowana jest tutaj jako dynamicznie zmieniający się organizm miejski, laboratorium współczesnych procesów urbanizacyjnych i przestrzeń negocjacji społecznych
Chapter Sequenza video di panorami sferici 360° per l’implementazione di modelli informativi in ambiente BIM/HBIM
No full textThe here collected contributions relating to the 46th International Conference of the Representation Disciplines Teachers, organized jointly by Sapienza University of Rome, Roma Tre University, and San Raffaele Roma University, aim to offer the scientific community a reflection on the theoretical and methodological aspects related to the concept of èkphrasis, a term that, in the field of representation, concerns descriptive, analogical, and digital activities that generate new knowledge in several areas of application. The Conference aims to place at the center of the discussion an interpretation of the concept of research that, without neglecting an idea of study, protection, and enhancement of environmental and cultural heritage, focuses on the needs of contemporary society and its possible developments, making use of innovative theoretical, methodological, and operational activities, including those characterized by an interdisciplinary approach. According to this interpretation, research can also be seen as a foreshadowing of the definition and testing of experimental proposals aimed at exploring new areas of investigation: this opens up imaginative and utopian perspectives in the relationship between the sciences, the arts, and the disciplines that contribute to common goals, through the experimentation of methods, techniques, and languages for conceiving, prefiguring, designing, and representing