In 1954, Dame Enid Lyons, the first Australian woman elected to the House of Representatives, remarked in an interview with ABC Weekly that radio had ‘created a bigger revolution in the life of a woman than anything that has happened any time’, as it enabled women to engage with world affairs while doing the housework. According to Lyons, radio had given women the ‘confidence…
This open access book offers a concise overview of the theories constructed within the various human sciences around the theme of creativity as a symbolic capacity to link things together: it manifests itself when the individual endowed with a certain type of intelligence encounters cultural and social conditions that enable them to develop that capacity to the maximum, rather than inhibiting i…
n het kader van de coronapandemie, waarin we vertoeven bij het schrijven van deze uitgave van het Jaarboek Armoede en Sociale Uitsluiting, blijkt een aantal werken uit de literaire rijkdom erg goed te scoren. Zo ziet uitgeverij Penguin een opmerkelijke stijging in de verkoop van zogenaamde pandemie- en rampenliteratuur. In Frankrijk en Italië is de verkoop van La Peste van Albert Camus, versch…
ous êtes-vous déjà imaginé devoir communiquer avec un méde-cin ou un autre professionnel de la santé et des services sociaux dans une langue que vous ne parlez pas ou que vous ne parlez qu’occasionnellement ? Ceci est pourtant la réalité de plusieurs fran-cophones vivant dans les communautés francophones en situation linguistique minoritaire (CFSM). Il arrive, en effet, …
Als Siegfried Landshut im Februar 1950 zwei Gastvorträge im Hauptgebäude derUniversitätHamburghielt,kehrteererstmalsandenOrtzurück,vondemerknapp17 Jahre zuvor als Jude vertrieben worden war.1Zum Sommersemester 1951 erhielter dann den neu eingerichteten Lehrstuhl für die »Wissenschaft von der Politik«,einen der ersten seiner Art in der Bundesrepublik. An der Etablierung der Poli-tikwissen…
he Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action attempted to end this trend by limiting Iran’s nuclear program only to peaceful goals and by creating an unprecedented inspection mechanism. In other words, the nuclear deal tried to go beyond the previous history of nuclear ambiguity. As mentioned previously, the thesis will address the trajectory of the Iranian nuclear crisis from the origins of the nuc…
Onderzoek naar de effectiviteit van voor-en vroegschoolse educatie (vve) laat zien dat voorschoolse educatie eraan kan bijdragen dat onderwijsachterstanden van kinderen uit laagopgeleide gezinnen en kinderen met een migratieachtergrond verminderen, maar dat de kwaliteit van voor-en vroegschoolse educatie voor verbetering vatbaar is (Leseman & Veen, 2016; Veer, Luijten, Van Tuijl, & Sleegers, 20…
The International Law Handbook was prepared by the Codification Division of the Office of Legal Affairs under the United Nations Programme of Assistance in the Teaching, Study, Dissemination and Wider Appreciation of International Law, pursuant to General Assembly resolution 70/116 of 14 December 2015. Ambassador Emmanuel K. Dadzie of Ghana proposed the establishment of this programme when he …
Getting your driver licence is a journey. In NSW, it starts with getting your learner licence. Your learning is spread over 3 or 4 years to help build experience to become a safe and skilled driver. A driver licence gives you freedom but also brings responsibility. It’s a commitment between you and the NSW community to keep the roads safe for everyone. There’s a set process and set fees for…
From the days of the Greek cartographers dreaming about Ultima Thule at the edges of the known world, the cold reaches of the northern hemi-sphere have inspired grandiose caricatures of risk and opportunity. The region is often imagined from a distance as sublime, exceptional and prone to extremes. Out of space and out of time, as Poe put it, the cir-cumpolar North is frequently …
The Russian Revolution of 1917 raised a profound question: was socialism a means to promote national unity and wealth, or was its goal to achieve global human liberation from both capitalism and imperialism? In imperial Japan, as elsewhere in the non-Western world, the answer was neither obvious nor uni-form. This question, however, was even more complicated…
Given Australia’s lack of energy security strategy, it is not surprising that the country is void of institutional knowledge and know-how of Russian foreign energy strategy. The ‘lucky country’ as it were, relies entirely on sea lines of communication to the north to supply fuel and to export Australian coal and natural gas. Australia has entered the 2020s as the world’s largest liquefi…
In history, there are both periods of relative stability and critical nodal points, when specific turns of events and choices have an impact on which path the next phase of history will take (for the concept of nodal point, see Bhaskar 1986, 217 and Patomäki 2006, 9–18; for world-historical examples of counterfactual turning points, see Tetlock et al. 2006). A r…
Creating Future People offers readers a fast-paced primer on how advances in genetics will enable parents to influence the traits of their children, including their children’s intelligence, moral capacities, physical appearance, and immune system. It explains the science of gene editing and embryo selection and motivates the moral questions it raises by thinking about the strategic aspects of…
How online affinity networks expand learning and opportunity for young people Boyband One Direction fanfiction writers, gamers who solve math problems together, Harry Potter fans who knit for a cause. Across subcultures and geographies, young fans have found each other and formed community online, learning from one another along the way. From these and other in-depth case studies of online affi…
Black Women’s Stories of Everyday Racism puts literary narrative theory to work on an urgent real-world problem. The book calls attention to African American women’s everyday experiences with systemic racism and demonstrates how four types of narrative theory can help generate strategies to explain and dismantle that racism. This volume presents fifteen stories told by eight midwestern Afri…
How can we learn to notice the signs of disability? We see indications of disability everywhere: yellow diamond-shaped “deaf person in area” road signs, the telltale shapes of hearing aids, or white-tipped canes sweeping across footpaths. But even though the signs are ubiquitous, Stephanie L. Kerschbaum argues that disability may still not be perceived due to a process she terms “dis-atte…
ood insecurity is a worldwide concern. Today, the quest for a world whereeveryone has access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food has never been socrucial. In 2021, around 2.3 billion people were food-insecure, seriously affectingaround 11.7% of the world’s population (FAO et al. 2022). Food insecurity has beenexacerbated by the social and health crises the world has been ex…
Algeria’s high petroleum revenues1 in the 2000s prompted massive food imports in a highly EU-dependent socioeconomic and political setting. The rapid changes in food consumption patterns that occurred in Algeria during this prosperous period partially involved greater sugar and fat intake to the detriment of vegetable proteins (Chikhi and Padella, 2014). They also reflect the polit…
The French incorporated Vietnam into the larger Southeast Asian colony of French Indochina, along with Cambodia and Laos. Cities flourished in the new colony and people of very different backgrounds jostled each other in the streets every day. Everyone in this colonial world—whether Vietnamese, French, Chinese, Indian, Cambodian, Hmong, Malay, Cham, or a mix of ethnici…
Agri-food is more than a strategically important economic sector. It is also crucial for society, because it provides affordable and sustainable nutrition for the population. An increasingly growing part of society, especially the young, are willing to pay more for sustainable food. This is important, as the sector is extremely sensitive to price changes. Crowdfunding can give more financing to…
One of the first questions that students have when they start reading Study Secrets is ‘what actions should I take first?’. This book is packed with so much helpful information that it can be difficult to know where to start. A student who can read, but doesn’t act upon their reading, is really the same as a student who never reads at all. Acting upon the secrets you learn is the only way…
If you buy a cup of coffee every day for $1.00 (an awfully good price for a decent cup of coffee, nowadays), that adds up to $365.00 a year. If you saved that $365.00 for just one year, and put it into a savings account or investment that earns 5% a year, it would grow to $465.84 by the end of 5 years, and by the end of 30 years, to $1,577.50. That’s the power of “compounding.” With compo…
Preparing a handbook on diplomacy nowadays reflects a major challenge that was not present during Satow’s times, and which lets us say a great deal more about diplomacy than Satow could. Specifically, a handbook today encounters and benefits from the development over the last 100 years of the academic discipline of International Relations and within it the rich and expanding field of Diplomat…
The idea to create this book was triggered by the feeling that the debate about public diplomacy after September 2001 had mainly taken place in the press and that the time was ripe for students of diplomacy to look at this phenomenon. In the early stages of the book it became clear how much confusion still surrounded public diplomacy (that is, the relationship between diplomats and the foreign …
In this second edition of A Dictionary of Diplomacy we have added a considerable number of entries, excluded some which no longer seemed significant, reworked others in the light of further reflection, and corrected a few errors. We would like to thank all of those who offered criticisms of the first edition and suggested new entries for inclusion in this one, notably Lorna Lloyd (who also gav…
The demographic make-up of populations at the time of disaster determines whois impacted and the extent of impacts on residents and others. Improving technolo-gies, improved warning systems, investments in disaster mitigating infrastructureand improving community preparedness and response in the face of disasters areexamples of attempts to reduce disaster impacts. While a range of studies havel…
Political demography, or the systematic study of population changeand politics, public policies and polities, sees population dynamics (struc-ture and change) as one of the main drivers of politics at the meso-and macro-level. As an approach, it can be defined as the study of thedynamics in the size, composition and distribution of populations andtheir effects on political and policy processes.…
Preferable Futures delves into the question of possible, probable, and desirable futures amidst the pressures of climate change and digitalization. Through a diverse range of perspectives, the book explores ways to negotiate and create desirable futures using the concept of transformation design in theory and practice, economic business simulations, and recent humanistic theories. This thought-…
Digitality is imposed upon us! To change this, we should not turn away from it, but look carefully into its transformative power and make operable alternatives such as counter-algorhythms and solidarity-oriented commoning. The aim is a world where profit and property no longer exist, but instead where a cooperative dance – between all the needs posed by our ecosystems, and all the needs of pe…
The touchscreen belongs to a century-long history of hands-on media practices and touchable art objects. This media-archaeological excavation examines the nature of our sensual involvement with media and invites the reader to think about the touchscreen beyond its technological implications. In six chapters, the book questions and historicizes both aspects of the touchscreen, considering “tou…
Digitization carries the utopian promise of archival access unlimited by constraints of space and time, and with it, of new forms of research and historiographies. In reality, digital image archives pose a complex set of technical, legal, ethical and methodological challenges, particularly for film and media studies and adjacent fields. In a series of studies and interviews with practitioners, …
At the same time, there has been a growing interest in the analysis of this phenomenon by academics which have conceptualised and drawn attention to different dynamics of volunteer tourism (Salvador, 2019). However, despite the multiple definitions of the concept, there is still a lack of consensus of the critical components of voluntourism (Gofrey et al., 2019). Meanwhile, it is also argued th…
The U.S. Navy is ready to execute the Nation’s tasks at sea, from prompt and sustained combat operations to every-day forward-presence, diplomacy and relief efforts. We operate worldwide, in space, cyberspace, and throughout the maritime domain. The United States is and will remain a maritime nation, and our security and prosperity are inextricably linked to our ability to operate naval force…
Money, as the saying goes, makes the world go round. Everybody uses it; ourmodern societies would not function without it. Credit is just as crucial, as borrowingallows businesses to invest and consumers to buy goods and services today againsttheir income tomorrow. But although money and debt are central in our societies andto our welfare, how they actually function is not easily understood.The…
The purpose of this chapter is to identify remaining research interests in money in the age of digitalization and put my past research topics in perspective. I have no intention to conduct a comprehensive review of the history of money,1 nor to search for the origin of money. n my research, I started the choice of optimal currency denominatio…
Landscape, Religion, and the Supernatural presents a summa of current and classic theorizing on religion and the supernatural in relationship to the land and develops this theorizing further by confronting it with a rich set of folkloristic and historical data. Focusing on the themes of “time and memory,” “repeating patterns,” “identity formation,” “morality,” “labor,” “pl…
Money facilitates the billions of transactions that take place every day across the globe. Using ‘need to know’ boxes, step-by-step diagrams, and other eye-catching visuals, How Money Works shows you how this is possible. It explains economic theories, how governments raise and control money, what goes on in the stock exchange, how analysts predict where shares are heading, and many other i…
The book examines the power of young people’s social relationships in schools to transform, or more often, to continue, differences that pervade societies: mind-body-emotional diff erences or Special Educational Needs and Disability, gender, poverty, race/ethnicity, sexuality and their intersections. The book details extensive qualitative research with young people, foregrounding their accoun…
Science communication aims at the successful sharing and explanation of sciencerelated topics to a wider audience. In order to enhance communication between science and society, a better understanding of citizens’ habits and perceptions is needed. Therefore, it is vital to understand how citizens acquire knowledge about science- related issues, how this knowledge affects their beliefs, opinio…
Comparing the Worth of the While in Fiji and Finland presents comparative case studies of clock time from Fiji and Finland in order to ask what other values is time capable of expressing besides monetary worth – what “else” can time be besides money? Time is a highly particular vehicle for different considerations of what is good or important, but it is also one which is deployed at diffe…
Teaching Myself to See deals with Tito’s struggles to participate in a world full of visual details. As a person with autism, Tito is visually selective, processing the myriad of details seeping in through the eye rather than the whole. Tracing Tito’s experiences to learn to see in his own, “hyper-visual” way, through art, through magazines, through everyday life, Teaching Myself to See…
Video games permeate our everyday existence. They immerse players in fascinating gameworlds and exciting experiences, often inviting them in various ways to reflect on the enacted events. Gerald Farca explores the genre of dystopian video games and the player's aesthetic response to their nightmarish gameworlds. Players, he argues, will gradually come to see similarities between the virtual dys…
In late October 2012, almost a year after the eviction of the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) encampment at Zuccotti Park, Hurricane Sandy hit New York, with first landfall near Brigantine, New Jersey, with winds of 80 mph. At the time, Sandy was the second costliest storm in US history, costing around US $73.5 billion, second only to Hurricane Katrina. The human cost was significant: more t…
What exactly is rape? And how is it embedded in society? Hilkje Charlotte Hänel offers a philosophical exploration of the often misrepresented concept of rape in everyday life, systematically mapping out and elucidating this atrocious phenomenon. Hänel proposes a theory of rape as a social practice facilitated by ubiquitous sexist ideologies. Arguing for a normative cluster model for the conc…
he CUIDAR project began as a response to a timely call by the European Commission’s Secure Societies theme within its Horizon 2020 programme for culturally sensitive disaster management plans. So we argued that children and young people should be considered as a cultural group whose perspectives and insights were overlooked in the adultist cultural worlds of emergency planning and disaster ri…
Wildlife trafficking includes the taking, trading, importing, exporting,processing, possessing, obtaining, and purchasing of wild animals, animalparts, and plants in contravention of international or national law. Wildlifetrafficking threatens the existence of many animal and plant species. Themore endangered a species becomes, the greater is the value of theremaining specime…
Price stability is low and stable (non-volatile) changes in the general price level, generally referred to as the inflation rate. History has shown that when inflation is low, it tends to be non-volatile. What is low inflation? The majority of the world tends to subscribe 2-3% pa. Why 2-3% pa and not 0% pa? The jury is out on this one, but present economic lore holds that 0% pa is too close to …
Monetary economics investigates the relationship between real economic variables at the aggregate level (such as real output, real rates of interest, employment, and real exchange rates) and nominal variables (such as the inflation rate, nominal interest rates, nominal exchange rates, and the supply of money). So defined, monetary economics has considerable overlap with macroeconomics more gene…