There has been signifi cant progress in the reduction of poverty in the developing world over the past few decades. The prevalence of income poverty defi ned at US$1.25/day per capita declined from 43 to 22 % from 1990 to 2008 according to information presented in Ahmed et al. (Chap. 6 this volume). This progress is the result of various factors, including economic growth reac…
This anthology comprises written versions as well as extended case studies of talks from the international two-day workshop “Architectonics of Game Worlds—On Aesthetics and Mechanics, Spaces and Places, Rhythms and Philosophies” at the University of Cologne in March 2019. The contributors do not only come from across Europe but also cover diverse research disciplines thro…
This article aims to analyze the composition and structure of street theatersin Chang’an, the capital of the Tang Dynasty in the early 9th century, mainlybased on the novelThe Tale of Li Wa(???).The Tale of Li Wais a love storywritten by Bai Xingjian, a scholar-official; however, it was adapted from astreet play performed by wandering entertainers in Chang’an (Seo 1987b: 476-505).The Tale o…
Above all, the building authority centres on preventing dangers to the public, which may arise from the construction process. In Germany, the general conditions governing the building, alteration or demolition of structures have been a federal responsibility since the 19th century. Even so, individual tasks were transferred to the Deutsche Institut für Bautechnik (DIBt) in an agreement and thi…
A challenge is that transforming these sectors must have a focus on equity because large parts of the world population depend on these two sectors and have their livelihoods connected to them. More than 500 million small farms form part of the world food systems, many of these farm families live in inadequate housing, and many are among the approximately 830 million undernourish…
The “Psychology of Human Thought” is an “open access” collection of peer-reviewed chapters from all areas of higher cognitive processes. The book is intended to be used as a textbook in courses on higher process, complex cognition, human thought, and related courses. Chapters include concept acquisition, knowledge representation, inductive and deductive reasoning, problem solving, metac…
Approaches tomediating and mediated agencywere first developed in responseto Actor-Network-Theory (ANT), which has been booming since the 1990s (La-tour 2005; Blok et al. 2020), leading to subsequent drafts of an emerging“actormedia theory”(Schüttpelz 2013; Krieger and Belliger 2014; Spöhrer and Ochsner2017). Most existing approaches to mediating and mediated agency, despite allinternal d…
Volcanic unrest is a complex multi-hazard phe-nomenon of volcanism. Although it is fair toassume that probably all volcanic eruptions arepreceded by some form of unrest, the cause andeffect relationship between subsurface processesand resulting unrest signals (geophysical orgeochemical data recorded at the ground surface,phenomenological observations) is unclear andsurrounded by uncertainty (e.…
As the dominant narrative forms in the age of media convergence, films and games call for a transmedial perspective in narratology. Games allow a participatory reception of the story, bringing the transgression of the ontological boundary between the narrated world and the world of the recipient into focus. These diverse transgressions - medial and ontological - are the subject of this transdis…
In such stirring reports Europeans– explorers, missionaries, merchants, delegates and consuls– characterised the market as a place of brutal in- humanity where captured Africans were examined and treated like animals rather than beings with human dignity forming an undeniable, essential part of humankind. They used their outcry to attack especially the Arab sla…