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Inside Asylum Appeals
No full textAppeals are a crucial part of Europe’s asylum system but they remain poorly understood. Building on insights and perspectives from legal geography and socio-legal studies, this book shines a light on what takes place during asylum appeals and puts forward suggestions for improving their fairness and accessibility. Drawing on hundreds of ethnographic observations of appeal hearings, as well as research interviews, the authors paint a detailed picture of the limitations of refugee protection available through asylum appeals. Refugee law can appear dependable and reliable in policy documents and legal texts. However, this work reveals that, in reality, myriad social, political, psychological, linguistic, contextual and economic factors interfere with and frequently confound the protection that refugee law promises during its concrete enactment. Drawing on evidence from Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Italy and the United Kingdom, the book equips readers with a clear sense of the fragility of legal protection for people forced to migrate to Europe. The book will appeal to scholars of migration studies, legal studies, legal geography and the social sciences generally, as well as practitioners in asylum law throughout Europe and beyond. This book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license
Shakespeare and Seriality
No full textEncompassing a wide variety of genres, media and art forms across a broad historical scope, this open access book identifies central strategies of serialization in Shakespeare’s plays and their adaptations. Beginning with an introduction that theorizes the method of reading Shakespeare serially on page, stage and screen, the first section investigates Shakespeare himself as a serial writer and serial rewritings of Shakespeare by Joyce and Beckett. Shakespeare and Seriality then moves to a series of case studies of performative seriality from the early modern stage to theatre, film and ballet in the 20th and 21st centuries. It culminates in the analysis of adaptations of Shakespeare in complex TV series, including Succession, the postapocalyptic series Station Eleven and the cosy crime series Shakespeare and Hathaway. This book investigates Shakespeare’s seriality from various theoretical perspectives and through multiple methods, including gender and queer theory, ecocriticism, memory and heritage studies, psychoanalysis, empathy studies and fandom studies, reception history and theatre history. Examining serial reading as a method of establishing intertextual and intermedial links, this volume contributes to recent developments in adaptation studies including the debate between Shakespeare and ‘not-Shakespeare’. 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 Centre of Cultural Inquiry (ZKF) and the Publication Fund of the University of Konstanz
Integrating Emerging Technologies into Education and Training: Proceedings of the 2nd ETELT 2024 Workshop
No full textThis open access book compiles state-of-the-art research on the development and implementation of advanced learning technologies and AI-assisted tools, showing how they can transform the educational landscape and learning processes in various domains. Covering topics ranging from immersive learning environments to personalized education, it offers insights and practical applications that are shaping the future of classrooms and training programs. This book provides research insights on harnessing emerging technology’s potential to enhance education, and it is an essential reading for educators, researchers, and edu-tech professionals
Global Politics of Welsh Patagonia
No full textInspired by decolonial thinking, this book challenges romantic images of Y Wladfa, the Welsh Patagonian settlement founded in 1865. Drawing on archival sources written in Spanish, Welsh and English, it exposes the complex human relationships of this settler colony, and in particular disrupts the myth of Welsh–Indigenous friendship by foregrounding Indigenous experience and revealing less familiar accounts in the record. A newly-developed framework applies three logics – possession, racialization/barbarisation, and assimilation – to make sense of settler colonialism in Patagonia and to debate Wales’s complex position as both colonised and coloniser. A new analysis of contemporary cultural products (television, film, textbooks) further demonstrates how the romantic view continues to shape racial stereotypes today, concluding that such settler origin countries as Wales are vital sites of decolonial debate
Paradigm Shifts in Management Theory
No full textParadigm Shifts in Management Theory is an illuminating exploration of the evolving landscape of management science. This book goes beyond the surface, delving into profound insights and perspectives that redefine traditional paradigms. Through rigorous analysis and reflective narratives, each chapter unveils the transformative shifts shaping organizational leadership, offering a comprehensive understanding of key concepts and methodologies. From classical principles to emerging paradigms, elucidating the future of organizational leadership, readers will gain invaluable insights through empirical evidence and theoretical explorations, fostering a nuanced comprehension of practical applications. Advanced students, researchers, and practitioners will find that this book equips readers with essential knowledge to navigate the complexities of modern management science, fostering critical thinking and innovative approaches in real-world scenarios. Practitioners in organizational leadership benefit from practical insights and innovative perspectives, enhancing strategic decision-making and competitive advantage. Additionally, policymakers and interdisciplinary scholars exploring social phenomena find value in the interdisciplinary exchange facilitated by paradigm shifts. Embracing these shifts is crucial for advancing management science, ensuring its relevance and effectiveness in addressing contemporary challenges. Catering to a diverse audience within academia and professional settings, it serves students and researchers in management studies, offering a robust foundation in theoretical frameworks and research methodologies
Physical Education at School and in Today's Society
No full textThis book emphasizes the role of physical education in shaping individuals and society, extending beyond movement to promote holistic well-being – physical, mental, and emotional. In an era of sedentary lifestyles and digital distractions, the book emphasizes the urgent need for physical education to cultivate lifelong habits that foster health and resilience in schools and society. Highlighting schools as foundational spaces for developing motor skills, teamwork, and discipline, the book demonstrates how these values impact broader societal contexts. It also tackles modern-day challenges, advocating for innovative approaches to physical activity to address these issues. The book offers a comprehensive resource combining theory and practical strategies by integrating insights from educators, researchers, and practitioners. It aims to empower teachers, policymakers, and parents to embrace physical education’s transformative potential for fostering healthier, more resilient future generations
Chapter 7 Grey Matters in Technologies
No full textThis book explores the conceptual, historical, and ethical issues of information conflict to present a detailed analysis of cognitive warfare. Is it possible for liberal democracies to deliberately use information on civilian populations to impact political and social institutions? While information conflict has been a part of political conflict, warfare, and international relations for as long as there has been political competition, given that our modern political and social lives are saturated by information, we are now faced with a pressing set of reasons to understand cognitive warfare, and to place it in a wider historical and technological context. This book identifies a series of conceptual and ethical challenges facing liberal democracies around modern information conflict. Drawing from historical practices, it suggests that two values – human dignity and political autonomy – can explain why some acts of cognitive warfare might be judged to be good while other acts are judged to be bad. This book will be of much interest to students and researchers of intelligence studies, ethics, security studies, and International Relations
Learner Language, Discourse and Interaction
No full textHow do language learners interact with speakers of the language they are learning? This book explores three corpora to demonstrate the dynamics of discourse construction, making it essential reading for researchers and students of applied linguistics and corpus linguistics. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core
Socialisme et innovation technologique
No full textQuel avenir technologique les socialistes français nous préparent-ils dans les années 1980, alors qu’Internet n’existe pas encore et que le futur prend la forme d’un minitel ? À l’heure où les questions d’innovation et de réindustrialisation du pays reviennent sur le devant de la scène, cette étude nous emmène quarante ans plus tôt, lorsque la France et l’Europe commencent tout juste à prendre conscience de leur retard. Créé au début du premier septennat Mitterrand, le Centre d’études des systèmes et technologies avancées (CESTA) doit aider le pays à se préparer aux bouleversements technologiques à venir, tout en reflétant les priorités politiques de la gauche. Dirigé par l’iconoclaste Yves Stourdzé, sociologue soixante-huitard devenu expert des télécommunications, le CESTA offre par son caractère insolite un aperçu sur la manière dont le pouvoir socialiste tente d’appréhender la question technologique. Se fondant sur des archives écrites et orales, l’ouvrage suit l’évolution de cette institution baroque à tous points de vue. Un « exceptionnel-normal » qui fait la jonction entre une réflexion hétérodoxe des années 1970 sur les nouvelles technologies, et les projets réformistes des socialistes. L’analyse détaillée de sa trajectoire permet d’articuler le lien subtil entre les idées et l’action, et de faire ainsi apparaître cet espace où se fabriquent les politiques publiques
3D Research Challenges in Cultural Heritage V
No full textThis open access book presents a collection of papers focussing on 3D digitisation in the domain of cultural heritage. The use of data acquisition technologies in digitising cultural heritage holds great potential for preserving and disseminating the history of mankind. However, to exploit these opportunities in full, comprehensive guidelines for documenting the process of digitisation are required. Only then can the efficiency and credibility of digital representations be assured. A major focus of the 16 papers included in this State-of-the-Art Survey is on all aspects of the documentation of the digitisation process, i.e., the paradata, which, alongside the metadata, is critical to the scientific rigour, replicability and sustainability of digital heritage resources. The volume provides a useful resource for computer scientists, surveyors, archaeologists, architects, museologists and engineers