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Sealed Off Heritage: Navigating Hitler’s Bunker in Postwar Berlin
No full textScholarly debates about the ‘difficult heritage’ associated with National Socialism typically rest with the preservation, memorialisation or eradication of the visible remains of the Third Reich. Heritage, though, is more than a tangible place or object. It is also a process of social and cultural engagement where acts of remembrance (or concealment) reflect contemporary politics and social values. The tension between a distinct sense of historical place and the present-day reality of a voided landscape is illustrated keenly through a case study of Adolf Hitler’s Berlin Führerbunker. Despite being physically absent from today's cityscape, Hitler's bunker has long generated both concern about the potential for becoming a Neo-Nazi pilgrimage site, and curiosity among international tourists, keen to see where the Nazi dictator met his end. Tracing tourist activity since 1945, and exploring recurring efforts to contain, destroy or expose the site, this article posits that the Führerbunker has become an effective countermemorial, its very absence from the contemporary cityscape sparking public discussions among visitors and fostering a critical, grassroots reflection upon the challenges of handling legacies of dictatorship
Addressing Inequalities in Accessing Mental Health Services for Muslim University Students in the United Kingdom: Implications for Attainment and Wellbeing
No full textIntergenerational transmission and the reinforcement of the political engagement gap: Identifying how university educated parents enable their children to become more politically interested during early adolescence
No full textResearch consistently shows that parents' educational attainment is associated with their children's level of political interest. The life stage when this relationship is established and grows has been identified to be between the ages of 10 and 16. This paper identifies the social class‐based practices that drive the influence of parental education on the development of political interest among early adolescents and explains why the social gap grows at this point. The paper draws on two panel surveys, the Citizenship Education Longitudinal Study and the Understanding Society Youth Survey, and applies latent growth curve modelling and path analysis. The findings show that university‐educated parents influence the change in political interest of their children in early adolescence by raising their educational aspirations, enabling their access to political activities in school, choosing the school for their children, taking their children to museums and art galleries and influencing their children's friendship groups
Does digitalization enhance the effects of lean production on social performance?
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Helpful and unhelpful factors in school-based counselling and pastoral care as usual: analysis of qualitative data from the experience of service questionnaire
No full textThe Impact of Relational Depth on Subjective Well-being in Close Relationships in the Community
No full textAn introduction to acoustic location Template-based positioning model
No full textIndoor location information, which is an indispensable label for linking the vast amount of data circulating in the world of IoT, 5G, and AI, is essential. This paper proposes a novel template pattern matching-based acoustic positioning method, Location Template-based Positioning Model, for indoor acoustic source localisation. This innovative technology, similar to the passive SONAR systems on submarines, uses audible acoustic waves to locate acoustic sources in complex indoor environments. The proposed LTPM is a statistical model, and it calculates the coordinates of acoustic sources by matching input acoustic signals with template acoustic signals that are pre-collected from preset locations. A comprehensive overview of the principles and implementations of LTPM is provided, and its feasibility is verified through preliminary positioning tests in this paper. It is hoped to provide research references for the advancement of pattern matching-based acoustic indoor positioning technologies
Nuclear response to the climate challenge?:The sustainability argument in the European Union taxonomy debate
No full textIn the fight against climate change, nuclear energy as a sustainable energy source has gained interest. The European Union’s taxonomy is a significant initiative because it de- fines at a European level which economic activities can be considered sustainable, and because it gave citizens, businesses, environmental organizations and research institutes the opportunity to provide feedback on certain parts of the taxonomy during two public feedback periods. The aim of our research is to explore how respondents argue about the sustainability of nuclear energy. Our research confirms that those arguing for the inclusion of nuclear energy in the taxonomy stress the low-carbon nature of nuclear energy production and focus on the economic dimension of sustainability. Contrastingly, those arguing for the exclusion of nuclear energy highlight the unsolved problem of ra- dioactive waste disposal and the environmental dimension of sustainability. The social dimension of sustainability is neglected in the arguments justifying both positions.<br/
Missiology
No full textThis article highlights key themes from history, current practice, and future directions in missiology. It traces the development of missiology as a discipline, highlighting some of the key voices, groups and movements along the way. It provides a brief overview of the history of missiology, noting voices and influences from the Majority World. The social, political, and religious changes of the twentieth century had a significant impact on missiology, and the article considers some of the missiological movements and organisations which emerged during that time. The issue of evangelism and social action in ecumenical councils receives particular attention. Contextualization and attitudes to culture are considered in some detail, and a critique is offered of some of the contemporary understandings of contextualization.Various themes in missiology are explored, including liberation; the significance of women’s voices; the increasing importance of contextual theologies; the urgency of caring for creation; issues around land; and the emergence of Indigenous voices and theologies in each of these areas. Questions of ecclesiology are also discussed from a missional perspective.The article concludes with some key questions for missiology. Colonial assumptions of mission are considered, arguing that in the non-Western world, mission and colonialism were two sides of the same coin of imperialism. Therefore, more recent missiological reflection from the Majority World is urgently needed to correct this. A non-Western approach to mission is considered via a brief study of missio Dei and the Bantu concept of ubuntu, which argues for a holistic approach to mission and careful stewardship of creation. Finally, the role of pneumatology in mission is highlighted, and an integrated understanding of divine and human action in mission is called for, based on participation in the work of the Spirit, which has sometimes been lacking in missiological reflection. The entire article is written with a commitment to listen to and learn from diverse and global voices. It considers mission from liberative, communal, and collaborative perspectives