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Verfolgung und Widerstand von Fürsorgerinnen in Wien 1934–1945
No full textMost female social workers in Vienna during Austrofascism and National Socialism remained obedient to the regime. Many of their colleagues were disenfranchised, dismissed, forced to flee or exterminated, and only a minority was active in the resistance. Using 80 exemplary biographies of politically and racially persecuted social workers, the study analyses their private and professional networks, institutional exclusion processes and forms of knowledge transfer into exile. Based on biographical research, historical contextualisation and sources that have been made accessible for the first time, the professional history is enriched by marginalised and previously overlooked actors - as a contribution to a plural, intersectional and critical history of social work in Austria.PublishedDie Mehrheit der Wiener Fürsorgerinnen im Austrofaschismus und Nationalsozialismus verhielt sich regimetreu. Zahlreiche ihrer Kolleginnen wurden entrechtet, entlassen, zur Flucht gezwungen oder ermordet und nur eine Minderheit war im Widerstand aktiv. Anhand von 80 exemplarischen Biografien politisch und rassistisch verfolgter Fürsorgerinnen analysiert die Studie deren private und berufliche Netzwerke, institutionelle Ausschlussprozesse und Formen des Wissenstransfers ins Exil. Auf Basis von Biografieforschung, historischer Kontextualisierung und erstmals erschlossenen Quellen wird die Berufsgeschichte um marginalisierte und bislang übersehene Akteurinnen ergänzt – als Beitrag zu einer pluralen, intersektionalen und kritischen Geschichte der Sozialen Arbeit in Österreich
Professuren der Erwachsenenbildung
No full textDas SEPE-Projekt – Systematische Erfassung von Professuren der Erwachsenenbildung – wirft erstmals einen empirisch fundierten Blick auf die Entwicklung der Erwachsenenbildungswissenschaft im deutschsprachigen Raum. Auf Basis umfassender Recherchen zu Professuren in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz seit 1945 analysiert das Projekt strukturelle Entwicklungen, regionale Schwerpunkte, Karriereverläufe und institutionelle Dynamiken. Die im Professor:innen- Atlas Erwachsenenbildung (PAEB) gesammelten Daten geben detaillierte Einblicke in Denominationen, Geschlechterverhältnisse, Qualifikationswege und Mobilitätsmuster von Professor:innen der Erwachsenenbildung und eröffnen neue Perspektiven auf Netzwerke und disziplinäre Formationsprozesse. Das Buch liefert damit nicht nur ein bislang fehlendes Fundament für die disziplingeschichtliche Forschung, sondern lädt auch dazu ein, die Rolle von Professuren als strukturprägende Akteure in der Wissenschaft neu zu denken. Ein Grundlagenwerk für alle, die sich mit Erwachsenenbildung, Hochschulforschung oder Wissenschaftsgeschichte befassen
Hurt Feelings
No full textThis open access book offers the first full study of the phenomenon of self-wounding as it is represented in early modern literature. It looks at depictions of self-injury in ballads, plays, medical texts and histories from the 1580s to the turn of the eighteenth century. In this period, it argues, self-injury was not necessarily viewed as indicative of psychological distress, as it is in modern discourses of ‘self-harm’. Rather, self-wounding might work as a form of protest, a persuasive tactic, a means of self-regulation or an assertion of agency over one’s own body. This book blends traditional literary studies methodologies with insights from sociology, emotion studies, cognitive psychology and practice-led research to shed new light on early modern ideas about rhetoric, authenticity, emotion, and the relationship between body and identity. The book also confronts the difficulties of examining such ‘topical’ phenomena. Can the anachronism of comparisons between modern and historical self-injury be made productive, rather than reductive? What does it mean to talk about ‘self-injury’ in a period which did not have a distinct word for these practices? In so doing, it suggests new directions for literary-historical studies of the body and its practices, arguing that in such cases, we should seek not to familiarise the past but to defamiliarize the present
Global Internet of Things and Edge Computing Summit
No full textThis Open Access book LNCS 2719 constitutes the proceedings of the Second International Summit on the Global Internet of Things and Edge Computing, GIECS 2025, held in Madrid, Spain, on September 22, 2025. The 14 full papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 21 submissions. They were organized into the following topical sections: Smarter IoT: Energy, Connectivity & Real-World Impact Building Trust: Privacy, Security & Responsible AI Data Spaces & Digital Infrastructure for the IoT Era Sustainable Solutions & Applied IoT Innovatio
Knowledge in Modern Transimperial History
No full textThis volume intervenes in the growing field of transimperial history, which explores interactions across empires—European and non-European—between the mid-1800s and mid-1900s, a period of heightened imperial entanglement. It focuses on how actors from one empire came to know, interpret, and position themselves in relation to actors from other empires, emphasizing the role of socio-professional profiles, informal networks, and formal institutions. The volume is structured around three themes. First, it examines actors, including both individuals (e.g. a Chinese diplomat in Europe) and professional groups (e.g. journalists, military officers). Second, it analyzes formations of transimperial knowledge through diverse textual objects such as bank chops and travelogues, highlighting processes of commensurabilization. Third, it explores causes, noting how specific inter-imperial junctures and enabling factors—like language skills and institutional access—facilitated knowledge creation. Altogether, the volume sheds light on the concrete, situated ways in which transimperial knowledge was produced, mediated, and made meaningful in a competitive imperial world
Verschwörung | Conspiracy
No full textFor an academic discipline like German studies to make its mark, global networking is essential, especially in a country such as Australia, which due to its geostrategical location does not allow for proliferent German studies research in the same way that Europe does. ‘Limbus—The Australian Yearbook of German Literary and Cultural Studies’ is intended to take this need into account. Its goal is to further promote Australian German studies to readers with some knowledge of this field and to provide a specifically Australian forum for international discussion on this subject area. Each annual issue focuses on a particular main topic decided on by the editors, and in no way ignores the ideas and opinions of Germanists living and working outside Australia. This periodical, which was first published in 2008, regularly publishes academic essays and reviews of new academic publications from the field of German literary and cultural studies. Its editors are assisted by an academic panel consisting of experts from around the world. With contributions by Mark Andrejevic | Paul Bräutigam | Andreas Dorrer | Axel Fliethmann | Markus Hien | Grigori Khislavski | Alison Lewis | Stefan Matysiak | Christopher O’Neill | Anne D. Peite
Transnational Activism in North America
No full textThis open access book brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to examine how North American civil society organizations have actively mobilized within and across borders in response to the tumultuous social and economic changes in the region since the implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Contributors from the three countries address the implications of recent changes in areas such trade, labour, migration and human rights. They draw on a rich and varied set of empirical case studies to detail the opportunities and constraints that activists have encountered as they navigate a changing landscape marked by the renegotiation of NAFTA, Trump’s threats to build a US-Mexico border wall, the COVID-19 pandemic and continued restrictions on migration. The contributors highlight organizing strategies, the potential for new alliances and pose critical questions about the nature of transnational activism in the current conjuncture
Quantitative History of China
No full textThis Open Access book marks the beginning of a new era in the study of Chinese history. Since the beginning of the computer age, quantitative techniques have been increasingly used to study specific topics like family, population, and living standards in China's past. However, sample sizes have usually been small due to either historical archives' availability constraints or limited human processing capacity. With much increased computing power and machine-assisted reading/processing capacity, many big historical databases have become available, offering quantitative historians and social scientists great opportunities to study China's past development experience. This volume showcases a collection of new findings concerning China's political, social, and economic history and typically based on newly constructed large historical datasets. Most of the work has involved an interdisciplinary team of economists, sociologists, political scientists, historians and econometricians, demonstrating how new big data and quantitative methods may be brought to bear on some of the biggest questions related to China's development over the past three millennia and on the implications of distant past events on contemporary China. Topics covered range from the roles of war, state formation, religion, culture, finance and institutions in long-run development and technological innovations, to regicide history, to the organization and capacity of the bureaucracy. Contributors include leading figures in the quantitative study of China's long-run socioeconomic and political history. This volume will be of value to anyone with an interest in Chinese economic, political, social and/or institutional history as well as anyone interested in quantitative history more generally
The Canary in the Coalmine
No full textAn up-to-date edited open access book on the role of sexual dysfunctions in general, and of erectile dysfunction in particular, i) to early predict non-communicable diseases, ii) to motivate patients to modify wrong lifestyles, iii) to improve follow-up efforts. A part of the expert in sexual medicine, a large number of professionals will be interested in reading and quoting this book, from andrologists to urologists, from cardiologists to endocrinologists, from internists to mental health professionals
Bridging Governance, Public Support, Innovation, and Transparency
No full textSustainable development can be achieved by organisations in a supportive environment that includes a culture of transparency, accountability and shared values. This short, open access contributed volume presents an overview of sustainable development practices through a comprehensive analysis of various initiatives, frameworks, and challenges faced by both governments and businesses in the pursuit of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It includes data-driven insights and analysis, as well as practical tools, policy recommendations, and theoretical frameworks to address sustainability challenges, with a particular focus on entrepreneurship, sustainable development governance and the impact of geopolitical risks on SDG progress. With a focus on the European Union and Ukraine, this book includes several interconnected chapters that each explore a different contributing factor required for successful sustainable development governance. Fully open access, it will be of great interest to students and scholars of sustainable development practices, sustainable governance and innovation, as well as practitioners and policymakers looking for strategic insights for sustainable business in the European Union