The city is the womb of our history and our civilisation. It is the largest work of art ever created by humanity. The city is «the supremely human achievement» (Lévi-Strauss, 1973: 124) and the driving force of the development of thought, progress and social accomplishments. Over time it has become the main place of production, exchange and the consump-tion of goods; …
The space age dawned in 1957 with the successful orbiting of Sputnik by the Soviet Union, and it surged forward with the Apollo moon land-ings, ushering in the era of satellites and deep space probes. This situation in which space business relied on space science probes, space shuttle flights, and satellite launches largely persisted until the…
International humanitarian law (IHL), now synonymous for many withjus inbello, is the branch of international law that governs the conduct of war. Eventhough the main instruments of IHL have been universally ratified, however,and IHL is perhaps the most effective means so far developed to limit theeffects of war, it is notoriously difficult to implement and enforce (Sassòli2007, 46–47; Bartl…
Cows—certain types ofbovinae—can evoke strong emotions among peo-ple, different emotions rooted in different worldviews. One worldview,which is arguably a galaxy of worldviews emerging over centuries in India,has come to be called “Hindu.” Some people who identify themselvesas Hindus have strong feelings about cows—feelings that tie into theirsense of conviction that cows are not just…
he Northern Areas, synonymous for the Gilgit Wazarat and colonial Gilgit Agency and Baltistan and federally administered by the central government of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, cover an area of 70 332/72 971/72 496 km². Curiously, this part of Pakistan has been designated also during the Buddhist time as “northern region”, Uttar?patha, as witnessed by an inscription from Shing Nala …
This book is about f ilms and f ilmmakers committed to reality. For them, the world is not a mere construct or discourse, but made of people, animals, plants and objects that physically exist, thrive, suffer and die. They feel part of, and responsible for, this material world and want to change it for the better. ‘Realism’, this book argues, is what def ines these f ilms’ mode of producti…
Eros mendorong pintu di hadapannya. Tubuhnya menyelinap cepat masuk ke dalam ruangan. Dalam sekejap pintu kembali tertutup di belakang punggungnya. Nafasnya masih terengah saat gadis dengan gaun pengantin itu menatapnya bingung. "Apa aku mengenalmu?" ucapnya. Bibir merahnya bergerak di antara riasan sederhana. Eros berhenti. Matanya tidak berkedip seiring dengan kakinya yang terpaku. Butuh se…
For some time now, in newspapers and books, a series of words keep ap-pearing that begin with the pref ix “post-.” As for these new words, the key to understanding seems to be a semantics of ambiguity. Post does not indicate something absolutely different but something in-between: postcapital-ism would be a new phase of capitalism; postmodernism, a new f igure of modernism; and post-history…
igitalisation and virtual worlds are increasingly permeating the cultural sector and the creative industries. When it is difficult for cultural offerings to find their audience, they can or must actively reach out to their audience. This also applies to museums, which can find and retain audiences in different ways and with different formats. Even a virtual museum is fundamentally a museum. …
Central to the practice of the modern museum sector are the principles of access, inclusion, diversity, sustainability, and community participation (ICOM, 2022). As the curators of our cultural and social histories, the heritage sector is morally and legally required to provide reasonable adjustments to ensure equitable access or all people. The dictionary definition of access is the me…
It has been seven years since the so-called refugee crisis in Europe, andwarfarecontinuestoforcepeopletoleavetheirhomelandstosettleelsewhere.AsIamwritingthis,inAprilof2022,RussiantroopsaretearingapartUkraineand the lives of its people, forcing many people to flee their homes. Forcedmigration is not temporary phenomenon, and historical, ethnographic andcity museums will –one wayor another –c…
Muri bersekolah di SMA Veritas, salah satu sekolah swasta favorit di Jakarta, yang siswanya kebanyakan anak-anak pejabat dan pengusaha. Di sekolah barunya ini Muri lebih mementingkan pelajaran daripada kegiatan ekstrakurikuler. Walau begitu, Muri tetap populer. Dia langsung masuk dalam daftar "Most Favourite Girl". Nggak cuma itu. Predikat mantan kapten cheers yang pernah membawa timnya juara …
Dunia dilanda krisis nuklir. Sejumlah rudal antar benua berhulu ledak nuklir di beberapa negara dikabarkan hilang. Amerika Serikat tentu saja menjadi negara yang paling dipusingkan dengan hilangnya rudal-rudal nuklir tersebut. Jika rudal-rudal tersebut jatuh ke tangan teroris atau negara yang sedang terlibat konflik dengan negara lain, dunia akan terancam perang nuklir yang bisa memusnahkan per…
Tiara sudah dua tahun menjadi pacar Raymond - model keren, ganteng, dan berkelas. Tapi ketika dinner bersama Raymond, kenapa jantung Tiara tidak lagi berdebar kencang seperti dulu ya? Debar itu justru Tiara rasakan ketika bertemu dengan Al di taman. Alfred Effendi, cowok sederhana, berkacamata, bertampang biasa, dan mempunyai passion yang sama dengan Tiara, yaitu penyayang binatang. Tanpa ter…
This book focuses on returned former child soldiers of the so-called Lord’s Re-sistance Army (LRA) in northern Uganda, and their reintegration into public, occu-pational and family life. In the last chapter (chapter5), we will compare their history and present situation with that of ex-rebels in the neighboring region of West Nile, and discuss the instructive similarities and differ…
The Prestes Column is one of the most famous events in modern Brazilian history. What started out as an unsuccessful rebellion soon morphed into a roving expedition that crisscrossed the country for almost three years. From 1924 to 1927, a group of roughly one thousand army officers and soldiers marched fifteen thousand miles through the vast interior regions of Brazil (…
Language teaching and learning were crucial to Europeans’ colonial, national, and individual enterprises in the Levant, and in these processes, “Oriental language teachers” – as they were termed prior to the Second World War – were fundamental. European state nationalisms influenced and increasingly competed with each other by promoting their languages and cultures abroad, by means of…
Sekarang malam pernikahan Rachel Chu. Ia memakai cincin bermata berlian Asscher-cut, gaun pengantin yang sangat ia sukai, dan memiliki tunangan yang rela kehilangan semua harta warisan demi menikahinya. Namun, gadis itu sedih. Ayah kandungnya, yang tidak pernah ia kenal, takkan mengantarnya menuju altar. Lalu suatu kejadian mendadak membuat identitas pria tersebut terungkap. Dan Rachel pun te…
WAE REBO "Setiap detik di sini adalah kekaguman, ketenteraman, keindahan, kekeluargaan, keakraban, dan kehangatan." BROMO "Seolah nafas saya terhenti selama beberapa saat, mengagumi trio gunung itu." IJEN "Aku dan Stephane duduk manis di undukan batu tak jauh dari kawah, menatap dalam hening pijaran api biru di gelap pagi buta. Biarlah mata ini meresapi keajaiban alam ini." LARANTUK…
DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Back Roads Great Britain takes you to the beautiful villages and stunning landscapes that can only be discovered along the scenic routes and back roads of England, Scotland, and Wales. Discover towns such as picturesque St. Ives, home to national museums and brimming with galleries. Embark on historical journeys through Neolithic stone circles, ancient abbeys and …
The increasing complexities with today’s interlinked challenges related to resource insecurities, the emergence of novel infectious diseases, socio?economic decline and environmental degradation require systemic approaches that address trade?offs, enhance synergies, minimise resource depletion, and promote waste reduction while operating within the planetary boundaries (Kimani?M…
City-wide inclusive sanitation (CWIS) is becoming the new paradigm in thinking about globally appropriate solutions for urban sanitation. The goal of CWIS is equitable, safe, and sustainable sanitation for everyone. Access to safely managed sanitation can be achieved through implementation of a range of appropriate technologies tailored to the realities of …
The value chain (VC) system is a key way to address important sanitation technological and institutional gaps in production and service delivery (Drost et al., 2012) and could constitute a natural platform for development actions and also serve as a market systems approach to improve access to safely-managed sanitation (Springer-Heinze, 2018a). The value chain concept is used to gain a better u…
This open access book aims to review the history, achievements, and challenges of trilateral cooperation among China, Japan, and South Korea in a systematic way. It offers numerous perspectives to explain the emergence of trilateral institution-building processes and the fluctuations of trilateral cooperation, and underscores three countries’ respective policy stances towards the building of …
What is spirituality? What is the relationship between spirituality and religion? Are they inseparable or just coincidentally connected? Does spirituality need a reference to God or is true spirituality perhaps only possible without religion? How do different forms of spirituality affect the lives of individuals and society? This book is dedicated to these questions and thus comprehensively exp…
Ramon Harvey revisits the Muslim theologian Ab? Man??r al-M?tur?d? (d. 333/944) from Samarqand and puts his system, and that of the M?tur?d? school, into lively dialogue with modern thought.Combining rigorous study of Arabic M?tur?d? texts with insights from Husserl’s phenomenology and analytic theology, Harvey explores themes from epistemology and metaphysics to the nature of God and specifi…
Skin necrosis is a consequence of local devascu-larisation, induced by multiple causal factors like infection, macroangiopathy or microangi-opathy, hyperpressure coming from outside or inside, or high-velocity trauma (Figs. 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, and 1.6). Necrosis is a consequence of cascades of events starting on the venous side and then blocking the arterioles …
In August 2015, while we were writing this book, a group of sustainability activists were gathering in the grounds of a borrowed château on the outskirts of Paris. They were intent upon ‘eco-hacking’ the future. What this meant was turning the château into a temporary innovation camp, equipped with the tools for develop-ing a variety of technologies of practical and symbolic…
This chapter describes some important highlights in the history of the IoT (Internet of things). Nowadays, the internet-based information architecture allows the exchange of services and goods between all elements, equipment and objects connected to the network. The IoT refers to the networked interconnection of those everyday objects, which are often equipped with some kind of intelligence. In…
This work started by trying to answer the question “how do you evaluate thescientific performance of the ESA Science Programme’s missions?” For many yearsthe decision makers responsible for the content of the ESA Science Programmehave been provided with information for each mission including the number ofpublications, the number of these that are highly cited, the total number of citation…
So warned the appalled editor of theChurch of England Magazine in 1840, after leaving a talk in a socialist hall by the London wine merchant and museum owner William Devonshire Saull (1783–1855). It was a reminder that the new science of the earth was not only startling and fashionable, but dangerous in dirty hands. Dissidents were harnessing geological armaments for use against t…
We present, in this book, a transliterated transcription of the Bugis text of the work known as the Chronicle of Bone, together with an English translation and notes. The chronicle deals with the affairs of this traditional kingdom in South Sulawesi—almost exactly in the centre of modern Indonesia—from the fourteenth century to the middle of the seventeenth century CE…
This book explores the accounts of commerce and finance developed by seventeenth- and eighteenth-century historians of England. Writers of the period, I argue, were engaged in a series of long-running and politically charged debates concerning a range of economic issues: the impact of popular and arbitrary forms of government on trade; the political and economic conseque…
okyo Ueno Station: A Novel (JR Uenoeki K?enguchi, 2014) by Y? Miri recounts the heartbreaking life story of an unnamed man, born in the same year as the now Emperor Emeritus Akihito (b. 1933; reigned 1989–2019). The protagonist’s son was born on the same day as Akihito’s eldest son, the present Emperor Naruhito, on 23 February 1960. In more ways than one, the life of the pro…
When is a reigning great power of the international system in a position to complement military containment of a challenging power with restrictive economic measures? It has been long argued that a reigning power is inclined to militarily confront a challenging power that has the potential to undermine international stability and threaten the reigning state’s privi-leged r…
Between 1935 and 1943, the city of Salvador, Bahia, received the attention of numerous foreign scholars and intellectuals, all of them impressed – if not seduced – by its “magic”, largely the result of its black popular culture. They included Donald Pierson (1900–1995), Robert Park1 (1864–1944), Ruth Landes (1908–1991), Lorenzo Dow Turner (18…
The 2018 presidential election result in Brazil surprised many. Since then, numerous debates and a growing body of texts have attempted to understand this result and unearth the seeds that sowed what was understood by different analysts as the country’s ‘conservative turn’. In this introduction, we will not elaborate on all the factors that const…
I have been frequently asked over the years how – from the most unlikely of backgrounds – I became a historian of Brazil and how I came to devote the greater part of my academic career to the promotion and development of Brazilian studies in the UK (and, to a lesser extent, in the US).I was born in Leeds in the north of England in 1937. I spent my entire childhood in Hunsl…
All’inizio degli anni ’90 del ’900, quando la città di Torino pareva interrogarsi, tra circospezione e scoramento, sul proprio futuro postin-dustriale, Carlo Cresto-Dina e Franco Fornaris decisero di dar vita a un documentario costruito attraverso una serie molto ampia di interviste a persone informate dei fatti, “per capire se una citt…
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the second most frequent neurodegenerative disorder, with approximately 6.1 million people who live with PD in 2016 worldwide [1]. For several reasons that are not yet fully understood, the prevalence and incidence are expected to increase in the next years. According to the World Health Organization, globally, disability and death due to PD …
The former Saighton Camp (centred on NGR SJ 4290 6420) was built for training by the British Army just prior to the start of the Second World War. The camp was located on the plain to the west of the mid-Cheshire ridge, to the east of the River Dee and to the south of Huntington village, separated from the latter by the A55 (Figure 1). It remained in use by …
The shortage of affordable housing in cities is one of the most significant global challenges. It affects 1.6 billion people ( one- third of urban population) and is a key priority for policy change identified by the United Nations in the New Urban Agenda ( Tsenkova, 2016). Globally, cities and central governments have championed housing strategies and action plans, with a strong…
For a long time, I have been thinking about how best to talk about vio-lence in Colombia without falling prey to broad statements such as “Colombia is a violent country” or “violence rules Colombia.” These statements have contributed to the pervasiveness of Colombia’s cultural representations of violence globally, be those carried out by Colombians themselves or …
“We have fulfilled our mission; the humanitarian dismantling operation is over,” announced Fabienne Buccio, Préfète of Pas-de-Calais, on Thursday 27 October 2016.1 Her words described the completion of an episode, a supposed end to the ‘Jungle’. But in reality this speech marked the end of neither the ‘Jungles’ of Calais nor the ongoing experience of displaced people in H…
Writing equipment is key for the comprehensive study of Roman handwriting, non-monumental inscriptions and literacy. Cost, material and design of the equipment and how it was used had an impact on many aspects of writing such as letter shapes, document layout and who was writing. Im-portantly, the equipment also has an impact on what kinds of ancient handwritten texts have survived and therefor…
The research project “Performing Interspaces: Social Fluidities in Contemporary Theatre”, whose primary output is this monograph, began as an imperative to account for spaces that are awkward, evade attention, or, when they receive it, rarely do so because they produce feelings of desirability, warmth, or contentment. These spaces are sometimes …
I am very thankful to be here. And there is something more in my heart, something I cannot say.’ Sister Teresa González speaks firmly, with characteristic Spanish emphasis in the English she learnt in Australia 53 years ago. She speaks for us all, and we nod. We have sung an ancient liturgy of psalms to remember the eight Benedictine Missionary Sisters who a…
On March 1, 2020, Greece closed its borders, denying refugees the right to seek political asylum, a reaction to Turkey’s decision to strategically refuse its role as gatekeeper to the European Union. A few weeks later, Italy, France, Belgium, and Spain closed their borders as the global COVID-19 pandemic spread. China had already closed its borders a few wee…
These verses, extracted from a longer Urdu naz?m or poem, were written by Nazir, a blacksmith and bladesmith based in the North Indian city of Rampur in the mid-twentieth century. I first encountered Nazir and his poetry as part of a collection that the librarians of the renowned Raza Library in Rampur had put together to honor the city’s artisanal and material heritage.2 Nazir’s ve…
What ought we do about the bomb? The official answer given by effectively all the world’s states is abolition. To be sure, the current nuclear-armed states are for all intents and purposes resolved to retain and renew their arsenals for the foreseeable future. Disarmament rhetoric has persistently been belied by enormous investments in warheads, missiles, bombers, and submarines. Yet, on the …