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Chapter Le fonti notarili nella formazione dell’immagine storica del costruito
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
Technoscientific Globalisation from Below
No full textGlobal South populations, firms and governments play a key role in redefining the relationship between sciences, technologies and markets on an international scale. Forces shaping the future of global technoscience emerge from unexpected places, prompting a reassessment of global power processes. This volume contains rich case studies studying technoscientific globalization ‘from below’ drawn from fieldwork in Asia, Latin America and Africa, examining the interplay between technology, power, and society at the global scale. The cases are grounded in postcolonial Science and Technology Studies and address a range of topics including pharmaceutical markets, scientific developments and digital practices. This approach illuminates the multiple creative ways in which subaltern players appropriate, divert, overturn or bypass prevailing views on technology and market construction
Chapter Hanz e Parkie. Un metodo grafico per il disegno degli elefanti
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
Aristotle in Africa
No full textHow best to bring the genius of African traditional philosophy into dialogue with the European and global traditions of thought? The philosophy of Aristotle – ‘baptised’ by medieval Christian philosopher Thomas Aquinas – has been formative in premodern European thought. Now this frame of thinking, predating the skepticism and relativism that has accompanied the culture of modernity, has been re-expressed in a contemporary vein by Bernard Lonergan and Alasdair MacIntyre. Patrick Giddy shows how the critical realism of Lonergan (d. 1984) and the communitarian ethic of MacIntyre (d. 2025) – both counter-cultural thinkers – are in tune with the African traditional understanding of the world. Aristotle, he argues, ‘belongs’ to Africa.Refereeing Giddy’s PhD thesis, Ethics and Human Nature (1994) MacIntyre commented, “this is the best account I have read of my philosophy”. In Aristotle in Africa, Giddy brings the Aristotelian tradition to bear on fundamental topics in African thought and applies these ideas to various areas of ethics as well as to rethinking the university curriculum
Politische Dimensionen der Deutschdidaktik
No full textDer Deutschunterricht ist politisch, ob durch seine Indienstnahme für Staat und Nation, ob durch eine neoliberale oder kritische Ausrichtung. Seine Macht entfaltet er oft nahezu unbemerkt, durch die Legitimierung von Sprache(n), Identitäten und Denkweisen. Wie aber wird diese Wirkmächtigkeit von der Deutschdidaktik beforscht? Welche Lernbereiche, Materialien, Fragestellun-gen werden untersucht? Und mit welchen Konzepten werden die hegemonialen Diskurse diskutierbar und dekonstruiert? Dieser Band gibt einen Einblick in Forschungen zum historischen Deutschunterricht und zu kritischen Konzepten jenseits des Nationalstaates in der Migrationsgesellschaft. Er hinterfragt, wie Politik als Thema von Sprache und Literatur didaktisiert wird, auch was politikdidaktisch offen bleibt. Zielhorizont ist eine Reflexion der eigenen Zunft mit Blick auf Versäumnisse, aber auch auf Potenziale für Gegenwart und Zukunft
The Phenomenology of Travel and Tourism
No full textThis Special Issue of the Humanities journal is on the theme of “the phenomenology of travel and tourism”. The papers in this volume seek to elicit deeper understandings of the experiential and embodied modalities of travel, and of the practical interdisciplinary orientations through which such understandings may be productively elicited. It is the first collection to bring together contributions from across the humanities and social sciences that explicitly address the phenomenology of travel and tourism as a methodological underpinning of travel and tourism narratives. Inspiration for the Special Issue is drawn from the fields of phenomenological and existential anthropology which are developed alongside broader interdisciplinary engagements with scholarship that examines the practices, performances, feelings and doings of travel and tourism through the lens of phenomenology. The insights offered in the papers that form this Special Issue, grounded as they are in a phenomenological approach to understanding tourism and travel as social and cultural practices, bring questions of embodiment and the sensory entanglements with places and spaces of travel prominently to the fore
Reading New Testament Writings through Non-supersessionist Lenses
No full textThis book re-reads New Testament writings through non-supersessionist lenses. This reading strategy serves to facilitate conversations of greater honor and respect with Jews who do not follow Jesus as their Christos (Messiah). Supersessionism, as a reading strategy of the New Testament, serves to replace, displace, or supersede ethnocultural Israel in God’s salvific economy with the multiethnic followers of Jesus the Christos. Post-supersessionist readings, on the other hand, explore how a New Testament text or book serves theologically, ideologically, socially, culturally, and/or politically to emplace Jews and Gentiles who are followers of Jesus further into God’s eternal covenant with Israel
Partizipation nach der Flucht
No full textWie gestalten Geflüchtete Zugehörigkeit trotz struktureller Ausschlüsse? Anhand dreier Fallstudien zivilgesellschaftlicher Partizipation in institutionalisierten Kontexten legt Maria Ullrich dar, wie Geflüchtete gemeinsam mit Unterstützer*innen soziale Handlungsräume erschließen. Im Zentrum ihrer Analyse steht ein dynamisches Verständnis von Citizenship als alltagsnahem, situativem Aushandlungsprozess jenseits formaler Rechte. Der performative Zugang beleuchtet dabei Aushandlungen um bürgerschaftliche Positionierungen und Zugehörigkeitsansprüche. Es zeigt sich, wie sich Vorstellungen von Citizenship im Spannungsfeld von Fremd- und Selbstzuschreibungen entwickeln und zu einem Verständnis von Zugehörigkeit in pluralistischen Demokratien beitragen
117: Technology and food
No full textIn contemporary times, food, farming and technology are increasingly interlinked. While historically, humans started using technologies when hunting and gathering, with the onset of the Industrial Revolution in the 19th century, a new logic was developed to food production and consumption. Through cases of mechanisation, chemical inputs, biotechnology, and digitisation, we show the ongoing cultivation of a capitalist and colonial logic of extracting resources for the presumed need to increase food production. This logic is deeply entangled with the development of agrifood technologies and machinery that, in turn, foster a productivist understanding of food production. However, this productivist logic is detrimental to the environment and health. We thus need to consider what kind and how much technology is needed for future food production that is just and sustainable.Publishe
Arthurian Intertextualities
No full textReaders encountering the Middle English Arthurian tradition are confronted by three texts with confusingly similar titles: an anonymous poem in alliterative verse called Morte Arthure, an anonymous poem in eight-line stanzas entitled Le Morte Arthur, and Sir Thomas Malory’s influential prose Arthuriad, LeMorte Darthur [sic]. To add to the confusion, Malory made use of both English poems to augment his French sources in composing his Morte Darthur, so specialists often speak of two or more of these English Mortes in the same breath. Yet each Morte poem deserves to be studied on its own merits. Arthurian Intertextualities offers new readings of Malory’s Morte as well as the two English poems that most influenced him. Tolhurst and Whetter situate Malory’s Arthur story in the context of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century England. Combining these contexts with intertextual analysis of scenes and characters from Le Morte Darthur and both sources, the authors illustrate the full extent of Malory’s debt to these two English poems while making a stronger case for Malory’s artistry—and the stanzaic-poet’s artistry—than previous scholarship has acknowledged. These new readings demand a reassessment of Arthurian women, kingship, and warfare and heroism, including reconsidering the alliterative-poet’s attitude to war and to Arthur as conqueror. The authors also offer a spirited defense of Malory’s Guenevere, who remains frequently maligned by scholars, and argue for Palomydes’s acceptance by his Round Table Fellowship. Arthurian Intertextualities will appeal to readers who are interested in the book that serves as the source for most of the Arthuriana (whether novels, plays, works of art, or films) in today’s world: Le Morte Darthur