Research in Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics has experienced a significant increase in contributions from varying fields of language studies, gaining the attention of scholars from all over the world. This volume aims to showcase the variety of topics relevant to the study of language(s) in colonial, postcolonial and decolonial contexts. A main reason of this variety is that the new paradigm invites and necessitates research on different subject matters such as language typology, grammar and cross-linguistics, meta-linguistics and research on language ideology, discourse analysis and pragmatics. The contributions of this volume are selected, peer-reviewed papers which were partly invited and partly given at the First Bremen Conference on Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics, held in September 2013.

This book summarises and critiques Extinction Rebellion (XR) as a social movement organisation, engaging with key issues surrounding its analysis, strategy and tactics. The authors suggest that XR have an underdeveloped and apolitical view of the kind of change necessary to address climate change, and that while this enables the building of broad movements, it is also an obstacle to achieving the systemic change that they are aiming for. The book analyses different forms of protest and the role of civil disobedience in their respective success or failure; democratic demands and practices; and activist engagement with the political economy of climate change. It engages with a range of theoretical perspectives that address law-breaking in protest and participatory forms of democracy including liberal political theory; anarchism and forms of historical materialism, and will be of interest to students and scholars across politics, international relations, sociology, policy studies and geography, as well as those interested in climate change politics and activism.

​In Beiträgen, die sich mit dem Bevölkerungsrückgang in der Bundesrepublik beschäftigen, liegt der Fokus regelmäßig auf Frauen und ihrer „Fertilität“, also der Potenz oder auch Entscheidung, Kinder (nicht) zu bekommen. Im Zusammenhang mit den sogenannten Neuen Bundesländern findet man in demografischen Debatten des ersten Jahrzehnts des 21. Jahrhunderts häufig noch ein anderes Narrativ: Vor allem junge, gut ausgebildete Frauen kehrten in großem Maßstab ihrer „Heimat“ den Rücken, um „im Westen“ ihr Glück zu suchen. Daniel Schmidt verortet diese Erzählung in ihren historischen, wissens- sowie bevölkerungspolitischen Kontexten und rekonstruiert die dahinterliegenden kategorialen Subjektivierungen. Schließlich skizziert er politische Konsequenzen dieses spezifischen Bevölkerungswissens.

This book summarises and critiques Extinction Rebellion (XR) as a social movement organisation, engaging with key issues surrounding its analysis, strategy and tactics. The authors suggest that XR have an underdeveloped and apolitical view of the kind of change necessary to address climate change, and that while this enables the building of broad movements, it is also an obstacle to achieving the systemic change that they are aiming for. The book analyses different forms of protest and the role of civil disobedience in their respective success or failure; democratic demands and practices; and activist engagement with the political economy of climate change. It engages with a range of theoretical perspectives that address law-breaking in protest and participatory forms of democracy including liberal political theory; anarchism and forms of historical materialism, and will be of interest to students and scholars across politics, international relations, sociology, policy studies and geography, as well as those interested in climate change politics and activism.

This volume focusses on contradiction as a key concept in the Humanities and Social Sciences. By bringing together theoretical and empirical contributions from a broad disciplinary spectrum, the volume advances research in contradiction and on contradictory phenomena, laying the foundations for a new interdisciplinary field of research: Contradiction Studies. Dealing with linguistic phenomena, urban geographies, business economy, literary writing practices, theory of the social sciences, and language education, the contributions show that contradiction, rather than being a logical exemption in the Aristotelian sense, provides a valuable approach to many fields of socially, culturally, and historically relevant fields of research.

Das Buch bietet einen Einstieg in die Informatik anhand von LEGO Mindstorms NXT-Robotern, mit deren Hilfe Informatik-Inhalte anschaulich vermittelt werden. Nach einer allgemein gehaltenen Einfuhrung in die Informatik und informationstechnische Prinzipien und Komponenten wie Computer und Compiler werden im zweiten Teil die verschiedenen Bauteile (Sensoren, Motoren, Rechner) des NXT-Bausatzes und die jeweiligen Funktionsweisen behandelt sowie die grafische Programmierumgebung von LEGO. Der dritte Teil enthalt eine Einfuhrung in die objektorientierte Programmiersprache JAVA und die Programmierung von LEGO-Robotern mit Hilfe von LeJOS.

Antidiskriminierungspadagogik ist eine relativ junge Strategie, die sich zum einen fur einen respektvollen Umgang mit Vielfalt einsetzt und zum anderen ein entschiedenes Eintreten gegen Diskriminierung und Herabwurdigung befordert. Das Konzept will junge Menschen befahigen mit Differenzen umgehen zu lernen, die aus sozialen Unterschieden resultieren und uber die gesellschaftlichen Bedingungen, die die Konstruktion dieser Differenzen ergeben, aufklaren. Der Band bietet Padagoginnen und Padagogen praxisorientiertes und umfassendes Werkzeug, um im beruflichen Handeln Ausgrenzung und Exklusion zu thematisieren und gegen diese vorzugehen."

Die amtliche Statistik etablierte sich im 19. Jahrhundert als essentielle Wissenstechnik moderner Staatlichkeit: Einerseits konstitutierte sie das Regierungs-Objekt, die "Bevolkerung", uber die sie andererseits ein umfangreiches Regierungs-Wissen bereit stellte. Mit der statistischen Erfassung und Prasentation wurden die politischen Probleme der Armut, der Delinquenz und der Krankheit als Massenphanomene erkennbar, die eine rational abgesicherte gouvernementalistische Intervention erreichten. Zugleich mussten die Statistiker aber auch die individualistischen und politischen Grenzen ihres Zugriffs auf das Leben der Menschen erkennen.

The study extends the literature on venture capital by examining whether entrepreneur's choice for an external investor and certain firm characteristics have an impact on venture success or not. The focus is set on the differences in value creation by venture capitalists and business angels for ventures of the high- and low-technology sector. The assessment of a data set including 252 Series A financing rounds by venture capitalist firms, business angels and collaborative investments of both investors conducted between 2005 and 2012 unveils value enhancing aspects for all three financing solutions. Overall, start-ups initially financed by venture capitalist firms perform best with regard to general venture success, whereas start-ups collaboratively supported by venture capitalists and business angels have the highest chances to exit successfully through a trade sale. It becomes further apparent that ventures located in one of the high-technology industries 'internet', 'pharmaceuticals' and 'high-tech', ventures that are longer established in the market and ventures whose Series A financing round was executed more recently indicate an enhanced likelihood of success.

Master's Thesis from the year 2013 in the subject Economics - Finance, grade: 8,0 (Top-Thesis), Maastricht University (Finance), language: English, abstract: The study extends the literature on venture capital by examining whether entrepreneur's choice for an external investor and certain firm characteristics have an impact on venture success or not. The focus is set on the differences in value creation by venture capitalists and business angels for ventures of the high- and low-technology sector. The assessment of a data set including 252 Series A financing rounds by venture capitalist firms, business angels and collaborative investments of both investors conducted between 2005 and 2012 unveils value enhancing aspects for all three financing solutions. Overall, start-ups initially financed by venture capitalist firms perform best with regard to general venture success (exit and survival rates), whereas start-ups collaboratively supported by venture capitalists and business angels have the highest chances to exit successfully through a trade sale. It becomes further apparent that ventures located in one of the high-technology industries 'internet', 'pharmaceuticals' and 'high-tech', ventures that are longer established in the market and ventures whose Series A financing round was executed more recently indicate an enhanced likelihood of success.

Internship Report from the year 2007 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: Africa, grade: 1,0, University of Twente (Political Institute ), 86 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: ...] In Kenya secondary education is still very problematic, as it is cost school fees and this money is often too much for the low-earning families. Therefore only 30% of the eligible studets are going to secondary schools in Kenya (Aduda, Daily Nation, 14.06.2007). ...]During a three-month stay in Kenya I had the chance to conduct an interview with parents, who send their girls to a secondary school in Mabungo, a village next to the city of Ukunda. My aim was to find out, why parents decided to send the girls to school and what they expect from those investments in the future. Four leading hypotheses were established before the interviews took place, namely: 1.Families that have the choice of sending boys or girls to school prefer the boys. ...] 2.Only parents who are educated themselves also care about education for their children. 3.The work that has to be done around the house prevents parents from sending their children to school, since their working skills are needed in order to feed the family 4.Parents see the investing in their children as a step into a secure future for themselves, which is often the main reason why they send their children to school. In order to find out whether those hypotheses apply, the interview was constructed around those questions. ...] The set-up of the paper will reconstruct the approach, which was taken in order to find answers to the hypotheses. In the first part the methodology, which was chosen in order to construct and implement the interview, will be described. After this the answers will be described and it will be shown that especially the fourth hypothesis is true and of crucial importance for parents that send their girls to secondary schools. In the following section it will be checked if the resul

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2007 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: European Union, grade: 1,0, University of Twente (Political Institute ), language: English, abstract: ...] Nonetheless, important changes happened on the club level. On the 6th of April 2001 Energie Cottbus was the first club in the Bundesliga that played with 11 non-German players (Kicker, 8th April 2001). This extreme case shows that significant changes have taken place after the ruling. Clubs require more players from other countries, and competition for the superstars of sport has become enormous. The aim of this paper is to identify the changes, which have come up for soccer due to the Bosman case. Therefore the main question will be the following: How did the Bosman-case affect the European football leagues, and especially the top-five leagues (England, Italy, Spain, Germany and France)? In order to answer this question many different dimension have to be taken into consideration, since the Bosman case revolutionized football in more than one way. Thus aspects, which have to be mentioned here, include the changed number of foreign football players in the European leagues, the new transfer system, the new competitiveness situation as well as the financial development of the clubs. Sub-questions, which need to be answered in order to support the main questions, are: What is the historical relation between the EU law and sport law? What exactly is the content of the Bosman case? Which additional sport cases where decided by the ECJ after the Bosman ruling? How did the clubs react to the changed rules? Where the players able to benefit from the Bosman ruling, and if so how exactly? Has the competitive balance situation changed after Bosman? Are there also other reasons that can explain a changed situation? In the first part the question about the exact relation between the EU and the sport law will be answered. Sport still enjoys a certain freedom and can implement ru

Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: European Union, grade: 2,0, University of Twente (Political Institute ), 26 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: 1. Introduction The European Union (EU) has been a very heterogeneous building since the start. The difficult task is forming a party system which fits the different national parties in coalitions that are able to produce results. With the now 25 members this seems even more problematic, since the states of Eastern Europe have a tradition that differs significantly from the countries in Northern and Western Europe. It is, therefore, necessary to prove if party cohesion on the European level exists. If members of European Parliament (EP) would only vote on national interest, party coalitions would not serve their purpose. There needs to be cohesion towards the coalition in order to establish real European elections instead of second order national elections. In order to achieve this it is also necessary to be able to have a public opinion that can be organized into majorities (Beetham/Lord, 2001:77). The questions, therefore, remain if the EU is able to establish even more members in its middle. It might be the case that new members would decline the party cohesion even further and that would make It even more difficult to establish true European elections. In this paper, special emphasis will be on the role of Turkey and the adoptability into the party system. The leading hypotheses will be that the cleavages lines which are important for Turkish voters are too different in order to adopt to leading European ideas. A sup-question is also if the Eastern European countries have yet performed this step. The paper will start with a normative frame that points out how an ideal democracy could work on the European level. Because of shortage of space this can not be discussed in total depth, but the presented ideas will serve as a framework. After

Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Globalization, Political Economics, grade: 1,0, University of Twente (Political Institute ), course: European Economic Governance, 25 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Unemployment is a problem for every member state in the EU, even though the numbers of unemployed people vary from country to country. Especially for the countries which are grouped into the continental system (France or Germany) the problem is severe. On the other hand other countries have improved their markets and now have less unemployment than in the 1980th, for example Great Britain or Spain. However, in every country one group is seen as especially problematic and those are the low skilled workers. Persons without good education or professional training run a high risk of becoming unemployed. Compared to academics in Germany their number unemployment is four times as high in this group. This is partly due to the fact that the global competition has become stronger during the last years. Since the wages in other countries are lower this leads to cheaper production cost for the companies in those places. Especially for labour intensive industries this is a problem, and those industries normally provide the jobs for low skill workers. Thus all countries have taken measures to integrate this group better into the world market. The leading question for this paper is why Great Britain has been more successful in integrating this group in the work market than for example Germany. One program that will be introduced is an earned income tax. This means that low skill workers become additional money, for the case that they have a job that pays only little money. With this program the British government motivated people to take jobs, even though the hourly wage is not high. This program worked well and got extended in April 2003. In the end of the paper the question will get discussed if

Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: Africa, grade: 1,7, University of Tubingen (Politikwissenschaftliches Institut), 50 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The Millennium Development goals (MDGs) were set in 2000 as an ambitious goal to improve the situation in developing countries in fields such as education, reducing poverty or improving the health situation for the poor. Those goals shall be achieved until the year 2015, which means that halve of the time between the settings of the goals and the supposed reaching of those has passed. Thus it is time to ask how successful the tries have been until now, and if it is still realistic to achieve those goals. This paper will place special emphasis on Africa and especially Sub-Sahara Africa. In this region the smallest progress can be seen, and in certain areas no success as all can be witnessed. The main question, which will be answered in this paper, is therefore: "What are the problems that prevent the countries in Sub-Sahara Africa to achieve the Millennium Development goals?" In the first section of the paper the Millennium Declaration, which was signed in September 2000, will be introduced, and the growing international acceptation of those goals will be mentioned. (Qureshi, 2004) After that the present situation will be described. When all developing countries are seen together, the data suggest that improvement has taken place and that the implemented strategies have been at least partly successful. But this is a very limited view, as there are different categories of developing countries. The situation in the two biggest countries of the world China and India has improved significantly, and Asia in general has made some progress, especially the regions East and South-East Asia show significant improvement during the last years. The next section will analyse the poor performance of African countries and why this is the case. Two ma

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Musikwissenschaft, Note: 1,0, Justus-Liebig-Universitat Giessen, Veranstaltung: Musik im Radio, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Das Recht fur geistiges Eigentum oder auch Urheberrecht bildete sich zwischen Spatmittelalter und dem Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts in Europa. In der Antike bis zum Hochmittelalter existierte kein Schutz fur geistiges Eigentum, sondern vielmehr Regelungen fur Sachbesitz als Eigentum (vgl. Schickert 2005: 52), jedoch war der Begriff bereits bekannt. Wichtige Werke wurden in der Antike ununterbrochen von Monchen von Hand kopiert, in verschiedene Sprachen ubersetzt und somit ohne Einwilligung des Urhebers vervielfaltigt. Lediglich das Stehlen oder Zerstoren von Besitzgegenstanden wurde bestraft. Der Urheber eines Buches konnte sich allerdings mit Fluchen vor ungewollten Kopien schutzen. So schreibt Markus Junker, dass Eike Repgow im Sachsenspiegel denjenigen, die sein Werk verfalschten" (Junker 2002), schriftlich mit Aussatz und Holle" drohte. Das Wort Plagiat stammt von dem lateinischen Wort plagium ab und bedeutet die Entfuhrung freier Menschen in die Sklaverei" (Schickert 2005: 69). Marcus Valerius Martialis pragte diesen Begriff, da er diesen mir einer Person namens Fidentius in Verbindung brachte, der Martials Gedichte unter eigenem Namen vorlas und somit diese bildlich gesehen versklavte