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LAS REPERCUSIONES URBANÍSTICAS Y TERRITORIALES DE UN MODELO AGOTADO DE CRECIMIENTO ECONÓMICO
Authors: ALONSO IBAÑEZ MARÍA ROSARIO
Published: May 2021

La ocupación del suelo refleja los cambios económicos y sociales que
ocurren en un territorio. El mantenimiento en el tiempo de un espacio territorial ordenado
por unos planes urbanísticos municipales sobredimensionados, sin ninguna o escasa planificación
territorial para el conjunto del territorio autonómico o para ámbitos de escala
subregional, unido a la incapacidad política y profesional de mantener un equilibrio en la
ocupación territorial, no podían ser un cóctel más explosivo sobre lo que ha acontecido en
las ciudades y sus periferias en las últimas décadas. En este trabajo se analizan las transformaciones
urbanísticas y territoriales a que ha conducido el modelo de desarrollo económico
que venimos manteniendo en el tiempo. El resultado de los procesos de crecimiento
urbano disperso ha situado el hecho urbano ante una nueva fase que ya empezamos a denominar
como la «urbanización del campo» o el «campo urbanizado», donde lo rural y lo urbano
se entrelazan sin posibilidad de supervivencia por separado.

Lurzoruaren okupazioan ikusten dira lurralde bateko aldaketa ekonomikoak
eta sozialak. Azken hamarkadetan, hirietako eta aldirietako hirigintza-planak neurriz
gainekoak izan dira, erkidego osoaren edo azpi-eskualdearen lurralde-plangintzarik gabe
edo oso gutxirekin, eta ez da gaitasun politiko eta profesionalik egon lurrak modu orekatuan
okupatzeko. Denboran zehar ezagutu dugun garapen ekonomikoaren eredutik sortu diren
hirigintza- eta lurralde-aldaketak aztertzen dira lan honetan. Hiri-hazkunde sakabanatuaren
ondorioz, «landa hiritartzea» esaten zaion fase berri baten aurrean gaude, non landa eta
hiria elkarri loturik dauden, zein bere aldetik bizitzeko modurik Gabe.

The occupation of land reflects the economic and social changes in a
territory. The maintenance in time of a territorial space organized according to oversized
municipal urban plans, without any or with poor territorial planning for the whole autonomic
territory or for areas with a subregional scale, together with the political and professional
incompetence to keep a balance in the territorial occupation could not be but the most
explosive cocktail regarding what has happened in cities and outskirts for the last decades.
We analyze the urban and territorial transformations to what the economic model of
development has driven us and that we are keeping on time. The result of the process of
dispersed urban growth has placed urban fact in front of a new phase which is being called
the «urbanization of the countryside» or the «urban countryside» where rural and urban
are intertwined not being possible for them to live apart.
PROBLEMAS PRÁCTICOS EN LA ADAPTACION DE LAS DIRECTIVAS COMUNITARIAS EN MATERIA TRIBUTARIA PARA LOS TERRITORIOS FORALES DE LA COMUNIDAD AUTÓNOMA DEL PAÍS VASCO: UN CASO CONCRETO
Authors: ARANA LANDIN SOFÍA
Published: May 2021

Es objeto del presente trabajo comprobar la forma en que se realiza la transposición de las Directivas por parte de España, como Estado Miembro, no sólo desde un punto de vista formal, sino sobre todo el grado de cumplimiento sustancial. Concretamente se trata de ver el grado de participación en el proceso de adaptación de la Directiva de los órganos que tienen la competencia en cuestión y en materia tributaria, destacando el caso particular de los Territorios Históricos.

Espainiak Zuzentarauen transposizioa nola egiten duen aztertu nahi izan da, formari ez ezik, batik bat betetze-mailari begira. Hain zuzen ere, zerga-arloko eskumena duten organoen Zuzentaraua moldatzeko prozesuan parte hartzeko maila ikusi nahi da, gehienbat Lurralde Historikoen kasuan.

The scope of this work is to chek how Directives are transposed in Spain as a member state not only from a formal point of view but above all as from the point of view of the degree of material compliance. Specifically, it deals with the degree of participation in the process of adaptation of Directives of the bodies that do have competence in the tax field, highlighting the particular case of Historical Territories.
Prevalencia de la Teoría de Unidad de Titulo de Imputación: Determinación de la Naturaleza Jurídica del Extraneus en el delito de Colusión
Authors: Pérez Livia Lorenzo , Manzaneda Cabala Peter , Aza Suaña Patty , Lujano Ortega Yolanda , Chura Sotomayor Wilfredo , Sucari Turpo Wilson , Pizarro Flores Guillermo
Published: May 2021

Este tema tiene importancia didáctica para el estudio del Derecho Penal específicamente en el delito de Colusión, coadyuvando la formación de interpretación correcta de la norma de indicada disciplina, sirve de apoyo en el desempeño del trabajo práctico de operadores del Derecho. No obstante, esa relevancia, resulta poco significativa por los escasos trabajos científicos que hayan abordado esta cuestión. Dentro de esas delimitaciones, el presente busco establecer Fundamentos Jurídicos que sustentan la Prevalencia de la Teoría de la Unidad del Título de Imputación en la determinación de la naturaleza jurídica del extraneus en el delito de Colusión. Desde un modelo descriptivo, de análisis de conversación y de revisión doctrinaria, los principales resultados demuestran que el juzgamiento del extraneus bajo la Teoría de la Unidad del Título de Imputación en el delito de Colusión, garantiza el cumplimiento del fin público del proceso penal de manera íntegra, por cuanto determina la misma responsabilidad penal al intraneus y al extraneus; además permite reprimir la conducta bajo el enfoque de la teoría de la prevención general, así como garantiza la reparación del erario afectado al Estado.
Investment Perspectives in Human Resources Management and Its Contribution on Organizational Performance and Competitive Advantages
Authors: Roziq Mohammad , Reawaroe Harry Putri , Rosyidi Achmad Imron
Published: May 2021

Abstract

The dynamics of business environment signed by the volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity (VUCA) is urging organizations to rethink and redefine their business strategies and the source of their performance and competitive advantage. Human resources (human capital) hold the most important role in achieving organizational goals through the alignment of human capital investment and the organizational strategy. This article investigates on how the organization manage and align the investment in human resources (human capital) with the strategy of the organization and does investment in human capital have impact to the organizational performance and contribute to the creating value and competitive advantages of the organization. Based on the literature reviews and previous researches, we found that the alignment of investment in human resource (human capital) and organizational strategy is mediated by strategic performance management system namely Balanced Scorecard. The investment in human resources (human capital) has positive impact on organizational performance. Finally, The investment in human resources (human capital) has positive contribution to value creation and competitive advantages of the organizations.
Laparoscopic or classic splenectomy?
Authors: Zatloukal Aleš , Pelikán Anton , Ihnát Peter
Published: May 2021

Introduction: With current development of mini-invasive techniques, laparoscopic splenectomy also gained its place under the sun. The goal of this study is to compare the results of open and laparoscopic splenectomy performed at Clinic of Surgery of University Hospital Ostrava in the period 2010–2019. Materials and Methods: A retrospective cohort study during the period 2010–2019 were counted: an operation time, a need of blood transfusions, weight, complications and duration of hospital stay. A group of patients with laparoscopic operation was compared to a group with an open operation, using the t-test. Results: During the period 2010–2019, we performed 23 laparoscopic splenectomies and 15 classic operations. Unfortunately, the comparison of both groups is difficult. The splenic weight differs in both groups statistically significantly (P = 0.0001). The patients in the classic laparotomy group had much bigger spleens and in four cases, the splenectomy was performed together with metastasectomy of the liver, diaphragmatic resection and resection of the tale of pancreas. Even then the operative time was significantly shorter than the operative time of laparoscopic operation – the operative times differ in both groups statistically significantly (P = 0.0001). The need of blood transfusion and operative complications appear to be comparable in both techniques. The duration of hospital stay was shorter in the patients with laparoscopic operation. Conclusion: Laparoscopic splenectomy off ers all the general benefi ts of mini-invasive operative techniques and is suitable method for patients undergoing elective splenectomy especially for spleens smaller than 20 cm in diameter. We consider portal hypertension and severe comorbidities of the patient to be a contraindication. It seems to us that the main problem of this method lies in a very small number of operated patients and thus in a limited possibility to obtain sufficient surgical erudition, which is probably the case of some complications and insufficient use of this method in practice. It is highly desirable to concentrate these services in the centers.
Buscando a los desaparecidos de la “guerra sucia”: ontologías computacionales y la búsqueda de verdad
Authors: Mireles Chávez Víctor , Martínez Sánchez Mariana Esther , Yankelevich Winocur Javier , Sánchez Nateras Gerardo
Published: May 2021

La desaparición forzada es una grave violación a los derechos humanos con una larga historia. Entre 1964 y 1985, el Estado mexicano se enfrentó y reprimió a sus enemigos internos: opositores, movimientos sociales, organizaciones político-militares y sus simpatizantes. Para ello se valió sistemáticamente de la desaparición forzada como una herramienta para aterrorizar, desmovilizar y exterminar a adversarios reales o imaginados. Esclarecer el paradero de estas personas implica integrar y estructurar una gran cantidad de información dispersa en diversas fuentes documentales creadas por instituciones de seguridad del Estado, colectivos de búsqueda, academia, periodistas e instancias públicas que se propusieron, años después, investigar estos hechos. En este trabajo proponemos un enfoque interdisciplinario para generar una representación formal del conocimiento contenido en las fuentes, la cual pueda complementar el entendimiento histórico del problema. El resultado es una ontología computacional para representar las entidades que participaron en la “guerra sucia”, sus atributos y las relaciones entre ellas, con énfasis en las víctimas directas del circuito de la detención-desaparición, particularmente aquéllas que permanecen desaparecidas. Esta propuesta busca garantizar la trazabilidad del soporte documental, el mejor manejo de información incompleta, incierta y contradictoria, así como la posibilidad de realizar inferencias, reportes y visualizaciones útiles para esclarecer la suerte de los desaparecidos de la “guerra sucia” en México.
Filiaciones postsanguíneas: experiencias de afectación en la Agrupación por la Memoria Histórica Providencia de Antofagasta, Chile
Authors: Suárez Madariaga Rodrigo
Published: May 2021

Este artículo problematiza las formas de aglutinamiento político a partir del derecho sanguíneo o experiencial en agrupaciones de memoria relativas a la última dictadura chilena (1973-1990). Analizo las experiencias de afectación de integrantes de la Agrupación por la Memoria Histórica Providencia de Antofagasta —dedicada a la recuperación de un ex centro de detención y tortura— en relación con diversos registros de la violencia político estatal de la dictadura.

A través del análisis cualitativo de nueve entrevistas a miembros de la Agrupación nacidos a finales de la dictadura chilena, me pregunto por los motivos por los cuales personas que no vivieron la época dictatorial participan en un colectivo que tiene por objetivo disputar la instauración de un sitio de memoria en la ciudad.

El análisis evidencia formas relacionales postsanguíneas, no revictimizantes, que desestabilizan las relaciones clásicas de estas agrupaciones, en las que suele predominar lo testimonial. Esto abre nuevas posibilidades de organización en donde los registros de la violencia política operan como potenciales generadores de filiación en dichos colectivos.
THE CONTENT AND PROCESS OF NATURAL SCIENCES EDUCATION OF STUDENTS WITH SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS
Authors: Mačiukaitė Angelija
Published: May 2021

The transformation of the classical school into a humanistic one, which started in the last decade of the 20th century, has accelerated a lot in the present century. How did the content and the process of natural sciences education change for students with special educational needs (SEN)? The research reviews documents, research literature and textbooks for students with SEN; it deals with the issues of organizing the process and content of their education and self-education. Adapted natural science textbooks for primary and high school are suitable for students with learning difficulties, disorders or mild learning difficulties. Textbooks for students with SEN partly satisfy the needs of these students. However, it would be useful to write natural science textbooks of a lower degree of difficulty for the students whose SEN are big or very big due to the moderate learning difficulties. Research carried out in the process of natural sciences (self-) education enables to make images directly, while students understand and start using the concepts in various contexts through action during the experiment, through observation and performing practical tasks.
Keywords: students with special educational needs (SEN), natural sciences education, the process of (self-) education, textbooks.
WRITING CHEMICAL FORMULAS AND REACTION EQUATIONS: THE HISTORY AND PRACTICE OF BUILDING BLOCK METHOD
Authors: Sulcius Algirdas , Teleshov Sergey
Published: May 2021

One of the most difficult elements for students in chemistry is writing and balancing equations of chemical reactions. The aim of this research was to investigate the ability of the 8-9th grade students to write chemical formulas and equations of reactions. Verhovskij’s method, which involves using white and full-colour paper cards, was proposed as a chemistry teaching method for students. Some of the students suggested using non-paper-based cards, i.e. “domino sticks”. The obtained results proved that students who had participated in the building blocks activity showed significantly higher post-test scores than students who had not participated. The average grade of the students who used the cards for chemical formula formation and reaction equations increased respectively by 1.30 and 1.20. The average grade for writing and balancing of the reactions equations was lower because balancing requires strong knowledge in mathematics. The results have shown that the use of cards is a good method at an early stage of chemistry education.
Keywords: general chemistry, hands-on learning, domino-stick, graphical formula, reaction equation.
Effect of granular activated carbon particle sizes and depths in slow sand filter on water purification
Authors: Yusuf K. O. , Sadiku I. B. , Yusuff S. T. , Bukoye S. A.
Published: May 2021

Most rural dwellers in Nigeria depend on contaminated water from ponds, streams and wells for drinking water. Every household needs simple water purification device like Slow Sand Filter (SSF) to prevent water-borne diseases. This study was conducted to determine the effect of Granular Activated Carbon (GAC) particle sizes and depths in SSF on the purification of water. Two sets of SSF were fabricated using 6 inches (15.24cm) diameter PVC pipe, fine sand (0.25 mm grain size) with 35 cm depth. GAC for the first set SSFs (particle sizes 10 mm, 14 mm with 15 cm depth) and GAC for the second set of the SSFs has 15 and 25 cm depths with particle size 10 mm. The SSF has 50 litres storage tank from which raw water flows into the filter chamber (15.25 diameter and 110 cm long PVC). The filter was kept moist for 21 days for schmutzdecke to fully develop which is effective in trapping bacteria. Raw water was poured into the SSF, water samples were collected and analyzed using standard methods. The SSF has a capacity of producing 35 litres/h clean water. Percentage reduction of Lead, Manganese, Copper, Iron, Turbidity and Total Coliform Counts of the filtered water compared with the control were 91.35-99.88%, 90.00-98.33%, 42.00-100.00%, 46.67-100.00%, 13.04-99.15% and 16.67-57.69%, respectively. The SSF increased pH and Calcium by 7.14-27.71% and 83.65-98.21%, respectively. SSF with 10 mm and 25 cm depths GAC reduced the pollutants than the other two filters and it is recommended for purifying pond water.
Assessment of Antiviral Activity of Curcuma longa on Two RNA Viruses
Authors: Shenge Juliet A. , Obi Robert K. , Salawu Kayode M.
Published: May 2021

Major pandemics and seasonal epidemics that have ravaged the world in the past and even at present, are mostly caused by RNA viruses. This has necessitated the need for continuous research to identify important natural products, with antiviral potentials, which can be harnessed for use in the prevention and treatment of viral infections. This study therefore, evaluated the antiviral property of Curcuma longa on two important RNA viruses of public health importance, namely polio and measles viruses. Extraction of active ingredients from turmeric rhizomes was done with the use of Analar grade methanol and concentrated using rotary evaporator. Polio and measles viruses were isolated from their respective vaccines using Reed-Muench method. Infective doses of the viruses and toxicity profile of extract were determined. Confluent Vero cells were inoculated with the viruses at different dilutions of the extract, incubated and observed for 7 days. Methanol extract of Curcuma longa inhibited polio virus at the maximum non-toxic concentration (MNTC) of 0.031μg μL-1 and inhibitory concentration (IC50) of 0.067 μg μL-1 with selectivity index of 2.16. Inhibition by the extract was observed prior to infection with the viruses. Phytochemical analysis of the extract showed presence of terpenes, saponins, alkaloids, flavonoids, tannins, cardiac glycosides and phenol as the bioactive phytochemicals. This study has shown that curcuma longa has potent inhibitory activity, hence can be harnessed in the development of an effective antiviral agent against polio and measles viruses.
Re-forming Texts, Music, and Church Art in the Early Modern North
Authors: Lehtonen Tuomas , Kaljundi Linda , Mostert Marco , Kallio Kati , Hannikainen Jorma , Grudule Mara , Pirinen Hanna , Kurisoo Merike , Donecker Stefan , Jarvinen Irma-Riitta
Published: May 2021

Our historical understanding of the Reformation in northern Europe has tended to privilege the idea of disruption and innovation over continuity - yet even the most powerful reformation movements drew on and exchanged ideas with earlier cultural and religious practices. This volume attempts to right the balance, bringing together a roster of experts to trace the continuities between the medieval and early modern period in the Nordic realm, while enabling us to see the Reformation and its changes in a new light.
The Culture of the Sound Image in Prewar Japan
Authors: Raine Michael , Nordström Johan , Sasagawa Keiko , Hosokawa Shuhei , Niita Chie , Ueda Manabu , Nagato Yohei , Itakura Fumiaki
Published: May 2021

This collection of essays explores the development of electronic sound recording in Japanese cinema, radio, and popular music to illuminate the interrelationship of aesthetics, technology, and cultural modernity in prewar Japan. Putting the cinema at the center of a ‘culture of the sound image’, it restores complexity to a media transition that is often described simply as slow and reluctant. In that vibrant sound culture, the talkie was introduced on the radio before it could be heard in the cinema, and pop music adaptations substituted for musicals even as cinema musicians and live narrators resisted the introduction of recorded sound. Taken together, the essays show that the development of sound technology shaped the economic structure of the film industry and its labour practices, the intermedial relation between cinema, radio, and popular music, as well as the architecture of cinemas and the visual style of individual Japanese films and filmmakers.
Church and Belief in the Middle Ages
Authors: Salonen Kirsi , Katajala-Peltomaa Sari , Villads Jensen Kurt , Schmugge Ludwig , Hanska Jussi , Ingesman Per , Klaniczay Gabor , Golinelli Paolo , Kuuliala Jenni , Kivimae Juri , Oelsen Jens
Published: May 2021

The roles of popes, saints, and crusaders were inextricably intertwined in the Middle Ages: papal administration was fundamental in the making and promulgating of new saints and in financing crusades, while crusaders used saints as propaganda to back up the authority of popes, and even occasionally ended up being sanctified themselves. Yet, current scholarship rarely treats these three components of medieval faith together. This book remedies that by bringing together scholars to consider the links among the three and the ways that understanding them can help us build a more complete picture of the working of the church and Christianity in the Middle Ages.
Foreign Cultural Policy in the Interbellum
Authors: Kessel Tamara
Published: May 2021

This book considers the growing awareness in the wake of World War I that culture could play an effective political role in international relations. Tamara van Kessel shows how the British created the British Council in support of those cultural aims, which took on particular urgency in light of the rise of fascist dictatorships in Europe. Van Kessel focuses in particular on the activities of the British Council and the Italian Dante Alighieri Society in the Mediterranean area, where their respective country's strategic and ideological interests most evidently clashed.
Unpopular Culture
Authors: Luthe Martin , Pohlmann Sascha , Bouko Catherine , Butler Martin , Kloet Jeroen , Dorson James , Ferens Dominika , Ferrero Paola , Harju Bärbel , Hermann Sebastian , King C. , Kooijman Jaap , Leikam Susanne , Meinel Dietmar , Schmidt Christian , Senkbeil Karsten , Shank Barry , Zappe Florian
Published: May 2021

This volume introduces a new concept that boldly breaks through the traditional dichotomy of high and low culture while offering a fresh approach to both: unpopular culture. From the works of David Foster Wallace and Ernest Hemingway to fanfiction and The Simpsons, from natural disasters to 9/11 and beyond, the essays find the unpopular across media and genres, analysing the politics and aesthetics of a side to culture that has been overlooked by previous theories and methods in cultural studies.
Trust and Mistrust in the Economies of the China-Russia Borderlands
Authors: Humphrey Caroline , Schendel Willem , Harris Tina , Namsaraeva Sayana , Holzlehner Tobias , Bayar Nasan , Park Hyun-Gw , Peshkov Ivan , Martin Dominic , Humphrey Caroline , Safonova Tatiana , Sántha István , Sulyandziga Pavel , Ryzhova Natalia
Published: May 2021

The first English-language book to focus on northeast Sino-Russian border economies, Trust and Mistrust in the Economies of the China-Russia Borderlands examines how trans-border economies function in practice. The authors offer an anthropological understanding of trust in juxtaposition to the economy and the state. They argue that the history of suspicion and the securitised character of the Sino-Russian border mean that trust is at a premium. The chapters show how diverse kinds of cross-border business manage to operate, often across great distances, despite widespread mistrust.
Creating Memories in Late 8th-century Byzantium
Authors: Marjanovic Dragoljub
Published: May 2021

The Short History of Nikephoros of Constantinople is one of the key sources for our understanding of Byzantine history in the eighth century. This book offers a close look at that volume and its manner of representing the historical role of Byzantine emperors and ecclesiology, with particular attention to the use of images, an issue of central importance amid the period's first outburst of iconoclasm. When seen through this lens, the Short History is revealed to be more engaged with and burdened by contemporary political and ecclesiastical strife than has previously been thought.
French as Language of Intimacy in the Modern Age
Authors: Strien-Chardonneau Madeleine , Kok Escalle Marie-Christine , Reinders Sophie , Piselli Francesca , Isenberg Nancy , Debrenne Michèle , Güven Hanife , Güven Devrim , Öztürk Banu
Published: May 2021

For centuries, French was the language of international commercial and diplomatic relations, a near-dominant language in literature and poetry, and was widely used in teaching. It even became the fashionable language of choice in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries for upper class Dutch, Russians, Italians, Egyptians, and others for personal correspondence, travel journals, and memoirs. This book is the first to take a close look at how French was used in that latter context: outside of France, in personal and private life. It gathers contributions from historians, literary scholars, and linguists and covers a wide range of geographical areas.
Multilingualism, Nationhood, and Cultural Identity
Authors: Frijhoff Willem , Kok Escalle Marie-Christine , Sanchez-Summerer Karène , Swiggers Pierre , Schröder Konrad , Leerssen Joep
Published: May 2021

Before the modern nation-state became a stable, widespread phenomenon throughout northern Europe, multilingualism-the use of multiple languages in one geographical area-was common throughout the region. This book brings together historians and linguists, who apply their respective analytic tools to offer an interdisciplinary interpretation of the functions of multilingualism in identity-building in the period, and, from that, draw valuable lessons for understanding today's cosmopolitan societies.
Consuming Life in Post-Bubble Japan
Authors: Cwiertka Katarzyna J. , Machotka Ewa , Meyer-Ohle Hendrik , Assmann Stephanie , Whitelaw Gavin H. , Goldstein-Gidoni Ofra , Gygi Fabio , Robertson Jennifer , Borggreen Gunhild , Michio Hayashi , Akiko Kasuya
Published: May 2021

This multidisciplinary book analyses the contradictory coexistence of consumerism and environmentalism in contemporary Japan. It focuses on the dilemma that the diffusion of the concepts of sustainability and recycling has posed for everyday consumption practices, and on how these concepts have affected, and were affected by, the production and consumption of art. Special attention is paid to the changes in consumption practices and environmental consciousness among the Japanese public that have occurred since the 1990s and in the aftermath of the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disasters of March 2011.
Turkey's 'Self' and 'Other' Definitions in the Course of the EU Accession Process
Authors: Saral Melek
Published: May 2021

While Turkey in recent years has experienced an exhaustive accession process to join the EU -a long desired aim-, at the same time it has been increasing its involvement across the Middle East, leading to a debate over whether it is altering its focus from West to East. This book reveals that a shift in focus can be seen through analysis of the Turkish political elites' definitions of "self" and "other" that were established as part of the EU accession process. Melek Saral uses these definitions to help us better understand the shift that Turkey is currently undergoing.
Three Months in Mao's China
Authors: Zürcher Erik-Jan , Zouw Kim , Collingwood Vivien
Published: May 2021

In the fall of 1964, sinologist Erik Zürcher travelled to China for the first time, a country he had been studying since 1947. A collection of Zürcher's personal writings from his trip, including letters and diary entries, Three Months in Mao's China offers not only new insights about the great scholar, but also a rich picture of communist China, which was in those days still almost completely inaccessible to Westerners.

During a tumultuous time in world politics, as Nikita Khrushchev was deposed, Lyndon Johnson won the US presidential election against Barry Goldwater, and China became a nuclear power, Zürcher experienced the reality of China under Mao Zedong. Only recently discovered, these documents portray, viewed through an expert's eye, a land in the midst of its own massive political, social, and economic change. Both a fascinating account by an informed outsider and a reminder of just how much China and the rest of the world have changed over the last fifty years, this is essential reading for anyone interested in East Asia and Asian history as a whole.
Fatwa in Indonesia
Authors: Pradana Boy ZTF Pradana
Published: May 2021

This book looks at fatwa in Indonesia during the period following the fall of President Suharto. It is an in-depth exploration of three fatwa-making agencies-Majelis Ulama Indonesia, Lajnah Bahth al-Masail Nahdlatul Ulama, and Majelis Tarjih Muhammadiyah-all of which are highly influential in shaping religious thought and the lives of Muslims in Indonesia. Rather than look at all the fatwa that have emerged in the period, Pradana Boy ZTF focuses on those that have strong repercussions for intra-community relations and the development of Indonesian Muslims more generally, including fatwa pertaining to sectarianism, pluralism, secularism and liberalism.
The Tesla Revolution
Authors: Koppelaar Rembrandt , Middelkoop Willem
Published: May 2021

Though oil prices have been on a downward trajectory in recent months, that doesn't obscure the fact that fossil fuels are finite, and we will eventually have to grapple with the end of their dominance. At the same time, however, skepticism about the alternatives remains: we've never quite achieved the promised 'too cheap to meter' power of the future, be it nuclear, solar, or wind. And hydrogen and bio-based fuels are thus far a disappointment. So what does the future of energy look like? The Tesla Revolution has the answers.

In clear, unsensational style, Willem Middelkoop and Rembrandt Koppelaar offer a layman's tour of the energy landscape, now and to come. They show how rapid technological advances in batteries and solar technologies are already driving large-scale transformations in power supply, while economic and geopolitical changes, combined with a growing political awareness that there are alternatives to fossil fuels will combine in the coming years to bring an energy revolution ever closer. Within in our lifetimes, the authors argue, we will see changes that will reshape economics, the balance of political power, and even the most mundane aspects of our daily lives.

Determinedly forward-looking and optimistic, though never straying from hard facts, The Tesla Revolution paints a striking picture of our global energy future.
Memory in Motion
Authors: Blom Ina , Lundemo Trond , Røssaak Eivind , Ernst Wolfgang , Matos Sónia , Fuller Matthew , Goffey Andrew , Mackenzie Adrian , Mills Richard , Sharples Stuart , Berry David , Parikka Jussi , Väliaho Pasi , Hausken Liv , Terranova Tiziana , Hui Yuk
Published: May 2021

How do new media affect the question of social memory? Social memory is usually described as enacted through ritual, language, art, architecture, and institutions ? phenomena whose persistence over time and capacity for a shared storage of the past was set in contrast to fleeting individual memory. But the question of how social memory should be understood in an age of digital computing, instant updating, and interconnection in real time, is very much up in the air. The essays in this collection discuss the new technologies of memory from a variety of perspectives that explicitly investigate their impact on the very concept of the social.

Contributors: David Berry, Ina Blom, Wolfgang Ernst, Matthew Fuller, Andrew Goffey, Liv Hausken, Yuk Hui, Trond Lundemo, Adrian Mackenzie, Sónia Matos, Richard Mills, Jussi Parikka, Eivind Røssaak, Stuart Sharples, Tiziana Terranova, Pasi Väliaho.
From Media Hype to Twitter Storm
Authors: Vasterman Peter , Auch Adam , Beyer Audun , Brin Colette , Carlsson Pernille , Cerase Andrea , Chung Ik , Elmelund-Præstekær Christian , Figenschou Tine , Geiß Stefan , Giasson Thierry , Hardy Anne , Harro-Loit Halliki , Jacobi Carina , Kepplinger Hans , Bernadette Joy , Limsico Jeremiah , Lishan Phong , Low Sim , Maneri Marcello , Paimre Marianne , Pang Augustine , Pereira Rosa Gonçalo , Roese Vivian , Ruigrok Nel , Santoro Claudia , Sauvageau Marie-Michèle , Atteveldt Wouter , Waldherr Annie , Welbers Kasper , Wien Charlotte
Published: May 2021

The word media hype is often used as rhetorical argument to dismiss waves of media attention as overblown, disproportional and exaggerated. But these explosive news waves, as well as - nowadays - the twitter storms, are object of scientific research, because they are an important phenomenon in the public area. Sometimes it is indeed 'much ado about nothing' but in many cases these media storms have play an important role in political issues, scandals and crises. Twitter storms sometimes ruin reputations within hours. Although different concepts are used, such as media hypes, news waves, media storms, information cascades or risk amplification, all the studies in this book refer to the same process in which key events trigger a chain of reactions and interactions, building up huge news waves in the media or rapidly spreading social epidemics in the social media. This book offers the first comprehensive overview of this important topic. It is not only interesting for scholars and students in media and journalism, but also for professionals in PR and communication, crisis communication and reputation management.
Medieval Saints and Modern Screens
Authors: Spencer-Hall Alicia
Published: May 2021

This ground-breaking book brings theoretical perspectives from twenty-first century media, film, and cultural studies to medieval hagiography. Medieval Saints and Modern Screens stakes the claim for a provocative new methodological intervention: consideration of hagiography as media. More precisely, hagiography is most productively understood as cinematic media. Medieval mystical episodes are made intelligible to modern audiences through reference to the filmic - the language, form, and lived experience of cinema. Similarly, reference to the realm of the mystical affords a means to express the disconcerting physical and emotional effects of watching cinema. Moreover, cinematic spectatorship affords, at times, a (more or less) secular experience of visionary transcendence: an 'agape-ic encounter'. The medieval saint's visions of God are but one pole of a spectrum of visual experience which extends into our present multi-media moment. We too conjure godly visions: on our smartphones, on the silver screen, and on our TVs and laptops. This book places contemporary pop-culture media - such as blockbuster movie The Dark Knight, Kim Kardashian West's social media feeds, and the outputs of online role-players in Second Life - in dialogue with a corpus of thirteenth-century Latin biographies, 'Holy Women of Liège'. In these texts, holy women see God, and see God often. Their experiences fundamentally orient their life, and offer the women new routes to knowledge, agency, and belonging. For the holy visionaries of Liège, as with us modern 'seers', visions are physically intimate, ideologically overloaded spaces. Through theoretically informed close readings, Medieval Saints and Modern Screens reveals the interconnection of decidedly 'old' media - medieval textualities - and artefacts of our 'new media' ecology, which all serve as spaces in which altogether human concerns are brought before the contemporary culture's eyes.
Queer Festivals
Authors: Eleftheriadis Konstantinos
Published: May 2021

To what extent is queer anti-identitarian? And how is it experienced by activists at the European level? At queer festivals, activists, artists and participants come together to build new forms of sociability and practice their ideals through anti-binary and inclusive idioms of gender and sexuality. These ideals are moreover channelled through a series of organisational and cultural practices that aim at the emergence of queer as a collective identity. Through the study of festivals in Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Copenhagen, and Oslo, Queer Festivals: Challenging Collective Identities in a Transnational Europe thoughtfully analyses the role of activist practices in the building of collective identities for social movement studies as well as the role of festivals as significant repertoires of collective action and sites of identitarian explorations in contemporary Europe.
The State, Ulama and Islam in Malaysia and Indonesia
Authors: Saat Norshahril ,   ISEAS Publishing
Published: May 2021

The Suharto (1966-98) government of Indonesia and the Mahathir (1981-2003) government of Malaysia both launched Islamisation programmes, upgrading and creating religious institutions. The author argues that, while generally ulamas, or religious teachers, had to support state ideologies, they sometimes succeeded in ŸcapturingŒ the state by influencing policies in their favour. The author builds his argument on strong fieldwork data, especially interviews, and he engages in critical discussion of comparative politics paradigms and the concept of capture.
Fascism, Liberalism and Europeanism in the Political Thought of Bertrand de Jouvenel and Alfred Fabre-Luce
Authors: Knegt Daniel
Published: May 2021

Despite the recent rise in studies that approach fascism as a transnational phenomenon, the links between fascism and internationalist intellectual currents have only received scant attention. This book explores the political thought of Bertrand de Jouvenel and Alfred Fabre-Luce, two French intellectuals, journalists and political writers who, from 1930 to the mid-1950s, moved between liberalism, fascism and Europeanism. Daniel Knegt argues that their longing for a united Europe was the driving force behind this ideological transformation-and that we can see in their thought the earliest stages of what would become neoliberalism.
Jolted Images
Authors: Levi Pavle
Published: May 2021

Jolted Images brings together a large cast of mainstream and avant-garde cineastes, artists, photographers, comics creators, poets, and more, to reflect on a wide range of phenomena from the realms of cinema and visual culture in the Yugoslav region, broader Europe, and North America. Far from a staid monograph, the book takes a cue from filmmaker Du¿an Makavejev, who once wrote that there are times when it is necessary "to jolt art, no matter what the outcome"; to that end, the book infuses its analysis with playful, creative transfiguration of the material at hand.
Cinematic Vitalism
Authors: Pollmann Inga
Published: May 2021

This book argues that there are constitutive links between early twentieth-century German and French film theory and practice, on the one hand, and vitalist conceptions of life in biology and philosophy, on the other. By considering classical film-theoretical texts and their filmic objects in the light of vitalist ideas percolating in scientific and philosophical texts of the time, Cinematic Vitalism reveals the formation of a modernist, experimental and cinematic strand of vitalism in and around the movie theater. The book focuses on the key concepts including rhythm, environment, mood, and development to show how the cinematic vitalism articulated by film theorists and filmmakers maps out connections among human beings, milieus, and technologies that continue to structure our understanding of film.
Adaptation in the Age of Media Convergence
Authors: Fehrle Johannes , Schäfke-Zell Werner , Constandinides Costas , Goggin Joyce , Heinze Rüdiger , Poore Benjamin , Schober Regina , Soller Bettina , Voigts Eckart
Published: May 2021

This collection considers new phenomena emerging in a convergence environment from the perspective of adaptation studies. The contributions take the most prominent methods within the field to offer reconsiderations of theoretical concepts and practices in participatory culture, transmedia franchises, and new media adaptations. The authors discuss phenomena ranging from mash-ups of novels and YouTube cover songs to negotiations of authorial control and interpretative authority between media producers and fan communities to perspectives on the fictional and legal framework of brands and franchises. In this fashion, the collection expands the horizons of both adaptation and transmedia studies and provides reassessments of frequently discussed (BBC’s Sherlock or the LEGO franchise) and previously largely ignored phenomena (self-censorship in transnational franchises, mash-up novels, or YouTube cover videos).
Chinese Heritage in the Making
Authors: Maags Christina , Svensson Marina , Svenssen Marina , Maags Christina , Cooke Susette , Zhang Hong , Graezer Bideau Florence , Yan Haiming , Chan Selina , Laukkenen Sonja , Blumenfield Tami , Tam Lui , Cui Jinze
Published: May 2021

The Chinese state uses cultural heritage as a source of power by linking it to political and economic goals, but heritage discourse has at the same time encouraged new actors to appropriate the discourse to protect their own traditions. This book focuses on that contested nature of heritage, especially through the lens of individuals, local communities, religious groups, and heritage experts. It examines the effect of the internet on heritage-isation, as well as how that process affects different groups of people.
Neighbourhoods for the City in Pacific Asia
Authors: Ho Kong Chong
Published: May 2021

The largest cities in Pacific Asia are the engines of their countries’ economic growth, seats of national and regional political power, and repositories of the nation’s culture and heritage. The economic changes impacting large cities interact with political forces along with social cultural concerns, and in the process also impact the neighbourhoods of the city. Neighbourhoods for the City in Pacific Asia looks at local collective action and city government responses and its impact on the neighbourhood and the city. A multi-sited comparative approach is taken in studying local action in five important cities (Bangkok, Hong Kong, Seoul, Singapore and Taipei) in Pacific Asia. With site selection in these five cities guided by local experts, neighbourhood issues associated with the fieldsites are explored through interviews with a variety of stakeholders involved in neighourhood building and change. The book enables comparisons across a number of key issues confronting the city: heritage (Bangkok and Taipei), local community involved provisioning of amenities (Seoul and Singapore), placemaking versus place marketing (Bangkok and Hong Kong). Cities are becoming increasingly important as centers for politics, citizen engagement and governance. The collaborative efforts city governments establish with local communities become an important way to address the liveability of cities.
Visualizing the Street
Authors: Dibazar Pedram , Naeff Judith , Lee Wing-Ki , Hicks Megan , Munteán László , Duru Aslı , Verhoeff Nanna , Es Karin , Ferdinand Simon , Coley Rob , Verstraete Ginette , Ampatzidou Cristina , Cross Karen , Kalkman Simone
Published: May 2021

From user-generated images of streets to professional architectural renderings, and from digital maps and drone footages to representations of invisible digital ecologies, this collection of essays analyses the emergent practices of visualizing the street. Today, advancements in digital technologies of the image have given rise to the production and dissemination of imagery of streets and urban realities in multiple forms. The ubiquitous presence of digital visualizations has in turn created new forms of urban practice and modes of spatial encounter. Everyone who carries a smartphone not only plays an increasingly significant role in the production, editing and circulation of images of the street, but also relies on those images to experience urban worlds and to navigate in them. Such entangled forms of image-making and image-sharing have constructed new imaginaries of the street and have had a significant impact on the ways in which contemporary and future streets are understood, imagined, documented, navigated, mediated and visualized. Visualizing the Street investigates the social and cultural significance of these new developments at the intersection of visual culture and urban space. The interdisciplinary essays provide new concepts, theories and research methods that combine close analyses of street images and imaginaries with the study of the practices of their production and circulation. The book covers a wide range of visible and invisible geographies — From Hong Kong’s streets to Rio’s favelas, from Sydney’s suburbs to London’s street markets, and from Damascus’ war-torn streets to Istanbul’s sidewalks — and engages with multiple ways in which visualizations of the street function to document street protests and urban change, to build imaginaries of urban communities and alternate worlds, and to help navigate streetscapes.
The Umbrella Movement
Authors: Ma Ngok , Cheng Edmund W. , Cheng Edmund W.
Published: May 2021

This volume examines the most spectacular struggle for democracy in post-handover Hong Kong. Bringing together scholars with different disciplinary focuses and comparative perspectives from mainland China, Taiwan and Macau, one common thread that stitches the chapters is the use of first-hand data collected through on-site fieldwork. This study unearths how trajectories can create favourable conditions for the spontaneous civil resistance despite the absence of political opportunities and surveys the dynamics through which the protestors, the regime and the wider public responses differently to the prolonged contentious space. The Umbrella Movement: Civil Resistance and Contentious Space in Hong Kong offers an informed analysis of the political future of Hong Kong and its relations with the authoritarian sovereignty as well as sheds light on the methodological challenges and promises in studying modern-day protests.
Religious Materiality in the Early Modern World
Authors: Ivanic Suzanna , Laven Mary , Morrall Andrew , Chessa Alessandra , Diemberger Hildegard , Goldstein Gabriel , Wallach Miriam , Ghobrial John-Paul , Bamji Alex , Ramos Gabriela , Kuehn Sara , King Rachel , Balbale Abigail , Holohan Kate , Caroline Prof. , Rosendale Larissa
Published: May 2021

This collection of essays offers a comparative perspective on religious materiality across the early modern world. Setting out from the premise that artefacts can provide material evidence of the nature of early modern religious practices and beliefs, the volume tests and challenges conventional narratives of change based on textual sources. Religious Materiality in the Early Modern World brings together scholars of Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Islamic and Buddhist practices from a range of fields, including history, art history, museum curatorship and social anthropology. The result is an unprecedented account of the wealth and diversity of devotional objects and environments, with a strong emphasis on cultural encounters, connections and exchanges.
Flagellant Confraternities and Italian Art, 1260-1610
Authors: Chen Andrew
Published: May 2021

This book examines the art and ritual of flagellant confraternities in Italy from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries. Meeting regularly to beat themselves with whips, members of these confraternities concentrated on the suffering of Christ in the most extreme and committed way, and the images around them provided visual prompts of the Passion and the model suffering body. This study presents new findings related to a variety of artworks including altarpieces, banners, wall paintings, illuminated manuscripts, and paintings for the condemned, many from outside the Florence-Rome-Venice triangle.