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Zwischen Emanzipation und Emigration
No full textDie Geschichte vom Aufstieg und der Zerstörung des größten Hamburger Modehauses.1889 siedelte Leo Robinsohn von der Provinz Posen nach Frankfurt a. M. über und gründete dort die Firma »Gebr. Robinsohn«. Drei Jahre später machte er sich auf den Weg nach Hamburg, wo er auf der Bleichenbrücke ein Geschäft eröffnete, das kontinuierlich expandierte und schon bald zum führenden Modehaus für Damen in der Hansestadt wurde. Seit 1901 befand es sich am Neuen Wall.Leo und – seit 1894 – sein Bruder Max Robinsohn waren zunächst alleinige Eigentümer, in späteren Jahren traten dann ihre Söhne in die Firma ein, die auch Modelle und Hüte anfertigte und in ihrer Hochphase über 700 Mitarbeiter beschäftigte.Mit der Machtübernahme der Nationalsozialisten änderte sich alles. Spätestens seit der brutalen Zerstörung des Modehauses am 9. November 1938 war den Eigentümern klar, dass nichts mehr zu retten war. Die beiden Seniorchefs wurden inhaftiert, später wieder freigelassen. Hans Robinsohn, der Sohn von Max, floh mit seiner Familie nach Dänemark und später nach Malmö, wo bereits seine Eltern lebten. Leo Robinsohn und seine Frau konnten nach Paris entkommen. Die Firma wurde im März 1939 »arisiert« und weit unter Wert verkauft. Nach Kriegsende kam es zur Restitution, sodass das Grundstück am Neuen Wall noch lange im Familienbesitz blieb
Italianistica digitale. La ricerca dei giovani studiosi
No full textPublishedCon questo volume si inaugura la nuova collana dell’Associazione degli Italianisti «MiriADI», pensata per accogliere gli esiti delle iniziative di studio promosse dai gruppi di ricerca tematici e dai coordinamenti dei giovani attivi nell’Associazione, sostenuti da programmi appositi.
In tale scenario ha preso forma l’incontro internazionale Italianistica digitale, che si è tenuto a Macerata il 4 e 5 aprile 2024, in occasione del quale sono stati chiamati a raccolta gli early stage researchers impegnati nell’ambito delle Digital Humanities applicate a un ventaglio di questioni molto vario. Lo testimonia l’articolazione del libro, i cui contenuti sono distribuiti in ordine alfabetico per sezioni che nell’insieme delineano il panorama delle attuali implicazioni delle discipline letterarie e filologiche con le tecnologie digitali
Chapter Introduction
No full textThis edited volume offers a new interpretation of the historically momentous 1952 Wassenaar negotiations between representatives of the Federal Republic of Germany, Israel, and the Jewish Claims Conference to negotiate reparations, compensation, and restitution in the aftermath of the Holocaust. Wassenaar 1952 marked the first time that reparations were the subject of negotiations between representatives of victims and perpetrators following mass human rights violations and genocide. The reparations program that Germany established after the Holocaust eventually became a point of reference for many calling for reparations to deal with the aftermath of other atrocities – from colonialism to slavery – in contexts as diverse as Namibia, the United States, and beyond. Combining perspectives from history, anthropology, international relations, and transitional justice, this volume reassesses the course and global legacy of these negotiations. The book’s holistic and nuanced intervention in the study of the politics of repair makes it essential reading for students of history, law, transitional justice, and political science interested in the complex topic of reparations
Educazione è Sostenibilità
No full textThe adoption of the 2030 Agenda has made clear that sustainable development involves everyone: individual states, the international community, politics, the third sector, schools, and universities. The success of this commitment cannot be separated from a cultural transformation that only education can foster and sustain. This volume, which brings together contributions from national and international experts on sustainability, is intended as a tool for reflection and interdisciplinary dialogue. It is designed for students of all disciplines, and anyone interested in these issues, exploring to which extend education could respond to the demands of a rapidly changing society and world. In a time when education is not always recognized as the right investment for the future, this book highlights its potential—political, ethical, and value-driven—as the opportunity everyone has to contribute daily to transforming sustainable development from a utopian ideal into a beautiful reality
Delivering Universal Health Care to People with Major Limb Loss or Damage in Low and Middle Income Countries
No full textThis Open Access book addresses the need for rehabilitation services for people impacted by Major Limb Loss in Low and Middle Income Countries. It focuses on a Complex Intervention study in Uganda supporting the provision of affordable and accessible prosthetic services in a public referral hospital. The book demonstrates the impact that overwhelming dependency on overseas support has had on service development and the delivery of universal health coverage and provides an evidence base to support a change in the contribution that overseas assistance makes to health systems planning
Reading Literature and Theory at the Intersections of Queer and Class
No full textReading Literature and Theory at the Intersections of Queer and Class focuses on the crossover of queer and class, examining a range of texts across languages and genres and spanning nearly a century. This collection of chapters considers the intersection of queer and class in relation to literary aesthetics, a locus in which the interaction between sexuality and class is rendered with lucidity. Each chapter puts forward class and its manifestations as central to queer analysis of literary and cultural texts in historical and contemporary contexts. The readings adopt Kimberlé Crenshaw’s intersectional paradigm by pointing to its activist as well as literary precedents and elaborations. These chapters emerged from a long-standing collaboration among three Central European universities whose faculty and graduate students established a joint queer literature and theory research seminar. They are supplemented by a roundtable discussion in which the contributing authors and their colleagues discuss how the concepts of queer and class in theory and (academic) practice have informed their current and previous work. Reading Literature and Theory at the Intersections of Queer and Class is intended for scholars in gender and queer studies
Mapping Feminist International Relations in South Asia
No full textThis book provides a comprehensive overview of feminist international relations in South Asia. It highlights the key contentions, debates, and tensions in the field, and studies how the trajectory of feminist international relations in the region has been marked by dialogue, dissidence, and difference with the Global North. In doing so, the volume draws attention to different feminist histories, herstories, and differing ways of knowing, seeing, and doing global politics. It particularly foregrounds a feminist intersectional/ postcolonial lens to a diverse range of issues such as women, peace and the security agenda, populism and nationalism, militarism and militarisation, and underlines the rich textured contours of feminist epistemologies in South Asia.
An important contribution, the book will be of great interest to scholars, teachers, and students of feminism, international relations, postcolonialism, women’s studies, gender studies, security studies, and South Asian studies
The Performance Apparatus
No full textThe publication of Louis Althusser’s 1969 article “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses,” made a deep impact on cultural studies and was instrumental in the formation of the apparatus theory in film studies. While contemporaneous with the emergence of performance art, this article and the questions of ideology and apparatus it raises barely registered in the field of performance studies, which was then in its formative phase. Jakovljević takes this absence of Althusser’s apparatus theory from performance studies as an indicator of the ideological position of the field at the moment of its emergence, arguing that, while theories of ideology played no major role in early performance studies, performance art itself offered a number of incisive critiques of ideology. Jakovljević looks at permutations of the apparatus by investigating the work of theorists such as Louis Althusser, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, and Judith Butler, and engagements with the apparatus by a number of artists, such as Amiri Baraka, Philippe Thomas, New York Art & Language, Terry Fox, Every house has a door, Clive Robertson, and Cassils.
Jakovljević suggests that the centrality of behavior in early performance theory is important for the understanding of contemporary society, which is dominated by surveillance capitalism. If ideology is lodged in behaviors, and if surveillance capitalism thrives on the monetization of the behavioral surplus, then performance theory can make significant contributions to our understanding of the moment in which we live and the future we are facing. The Performance Apparatus argues for the importance of continuing attention to the question of ideology in contemporary, neoliberal order
From Electronic to Mobile Government
No full textThe open access book combines insights from policy sciences (backgrounds of cross-border coordination challenges), design science (development of architectures for mobile services), information ethics (privacy and security of e-government services in international arenas) and business studies (changes in existing business models). The notably interdisciplinary character provides scholars and policy professionals working in specific (legal, political, engineering) disciplines a unique outlook on how policy making, implementation, and pilots are related in multi-level and cross-border governance. The book presents the results of the EU-funded “Mobile Cross-Border Government Services for Europe” (mGov4EU) project in which various pilots implemented and validated enhanced infrastructure services for electronic voting, smart mobility, and mobile signing. Together, the single pilots demonstrated how enhanced electronic identities and trust services (eIDAS) and Single Digital Gateway Regulation (SDGR) layers can accommodate once-only, digital-by-default and mobile-first principles. By taking advantage of security features of modern smartphones like hardware-backed secure elements together with integrated convenience elements like biometric sensors, this research showed how both the security needs and data-protection expectations one has into public services and the usability challenges that arise when accessing complex services using constrained mobile devices meet. This book is the first one in his kind to address this gap in the academic knowledge, as well as this gap in available compendiums for policy professionals at European levels of decision-making, as well as for policymakers and experts working on electronic identification, cross-border and cross-sector information exchange in the various member states of the European Union. This way, it serves various audiences: first, researchers in informatics-related areas like information systems, electronic government, and mobile applications, as it describes empirical examples of secure, easy-to-use and cross-border electronic services that have been developed and successfully tested in practice. Second, it also caters to researchers in international relations or political science as well as policymakers and politicians, both at national or European levels, who are involved in drafting policies and implementing European initiatives in relation to the building blocks of next-generation e-government services
Chapter 1 Byzantine Identity and Dress
No full textThis book offers approaches to the study of Byzantine dress of elites and non-elites, in sacred and secular modes, from the beginning of the Empire in the fourth century until the fifteenth century. Byzantine dress is considered from within and outside of the Empire and examines both artifactual remains as well as emphasizing studies that elucidate Byzantine dress when few or no artifacts exist. Byzantine Dress: A Guide tackles current conceptual frameworks in the first three chapters and considers identity and sartorial signaling among Byzantines as well as foreigners in images as well as actual items of dress. A second section addresses material considerations, reflecting on construction and its effect on value. The interpretation of archaeological material is analyzed, along with reconstruction and context. Dress as part of rituals—at court, church, and in various ceremonies—is the focus of the third section. The final two chapters bring Byzantine dress into conversation with dress studies more broadly. A discursive chapter argues for a fashion system within the Byzantine Empire, which has been largely seen as pre-dating the notion of fashion. The final chapter concerns the display, interpretation, and conservation of fragmentary material in a museum context. This book aims toward a general audience new to the subject of Byzantine dress. Specialists in Byzantine studies and dress studies more generally will find the attention to current scholarship and archaeological interpretation invaluable for research, and the book will also appeal to an audience new to the subject of Byzantine dress