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Featuring an international, multidisciplinary set of contributors,
this thought-provoking book reimagines established narratives of
the Anthropocene to allow differences in regions and contexts to be
taken seriously, emphasising the importance of localised and
situated knowledge. Envisaging a narrative of change that renders
visible the complex transformations taking place across the globe,
this book outlines new and radical ways to address the current
environmental crisis in a more sustainable and context-specific
manner. It presents empirical studies from various contexts,
highlighting the potentiality of non-Western knowledge, concepts
and categories as well as recognising the entanglement of humans
with other beings and ecosystems. In particular, it offers critical
engagement with the debates around the Anthropocene by challenging
the dominant techno-rational agenda that often prevails in
socio-political and academic discussions. This book will be crucial
reading for researchers and post-graduate students working in
fields from human geography and tourism studies to law, public
policy and administration, philosophy, politics and organisation
studies who are dealing with intersecting issues of environment,
sustainability, indigenous rights, space and ethics. It will also
be helpful for policy makers and research consultants in leveraging
localised solutions to the current ecological crisis.
Although historical research undertaken in different disciplines
often requires speculation and imagination, it remains relatively
rare for scholars to foreground these processes explicitly as a
knowing method. Historical Research, Creative Writing, and the Past
brings together researchers in a wide array of disciplines,
including literary studies and history, ethnography, design, film,
and sound studies, who employ imagination, creativity, or fiction
in their own historical scholarship or who analyze the use of
imagination, creativity, or fiction to make historical claims by
others. This volume is organized into four topical sections related
to representations of the past—textual and conceptual approaches;
material and emotional approaches; speculative and experiential
approaches; and embodied methodologies—and covers a variety of
temporal periods and geographical contexts. Reflecting on the
methodological, theoretical, and ethical underpinnings of writing
history creatively or speculatively, the essays situate themselves
within current debates over epistemology and interdisciplinarity.
They yield new insights into historical research methods, including
archival investigations and source criticisms, while offering
readers tangible examples of how to do history differently.
Mobility and travel have always been key characteristics of human
societies, having various cultural, social and religious aims and
purposes. Travels shaped religions and societies and were a way for
people to understand themselves, this world and the transcendent.
This book analyses travelling in its social context in ancient and
medieval societies. Why did people travel, how did they travel and
what kind of communal networks and negotiations were inherent in
their travels? Travel was not only the privilege of the wealthy or
the male, but people from all social groups, genders and physical
abilities travelled. Their reasons to travel varied from profane to
sacred, but often these two were intermingled in the reasons for
travelling. The chapters cover a long chronology from Antiquity to
the end of the Middle Ages, offering the reader insights into the
developments and continuities of travel and pilgrimage as a
phenomenon of vital importance.
Mobility and travel have always been key characteristics of human
societies, having various cultural, social and religious aims and
purposes. Travels shaped religions and societies and were a way for
people to understand themselves, this world and the transcendent.
This book analyses travelling in its social context in ancient and
medieval societies. Why did people travel, how did they travel and
what kind of communal networks and negotiations were inherent in
their travels? Travel was not only the privilege of the wealthy or
the male, but people from all social groups, genders and physical
abilities travelled. Their reasons to travel varied from profane to
sacred, but often these two were intermingled in the reasons for
travelling. The chapters cover a long chronology from Antiquity to
the end of the Middle Ages, offering the reader insights into the
developments and continuities of travel and pilgrimage as a
phenomenon of vital importance.
This open access book presents a series of speculative,
experimental modes of inquiry in the present times of environmental
damage that have come to be known as the age of the Anthropocene.
Throughout the book authors develop more nuanced ways of engaging
with the environmentally vulnerable Arctic. It counters distancing,
exoticising, and even apocalyptic imaginaries of the Arctic by
staying proximate with mundane places and beings of the north. The
volume engages and plays with familiar tourism concepts, such as
hospitality, visiting, difference, care, openness, and distance,
while expanding the focus from binary and human-centric approaches
of hosts and guests to questions of wellbeing among multispecies
communities. The transdisciplinary group of contributors share a
curiosity about how staying proximate may provide theoretical depth
and epistemological openings to attend to current tensions and to
diversify the ways we do and enact research. Thus, each chapter
provides a methodological experiment with proximity, developing
diverse ways of envisioning and storying more-than-human
worlds.  Â
This is the first monograph to examine in detail the Ludi
Saeculares (Secular Games) of Septimius Severus and argues that the
games represented a radical shift from Antonine imperial ideology.
To garner popular support and to legitimise his power, Severus
conducted an intensive propaganda campaign, but how did he use the
ludi to strengthen his power, and what were the messages he
conveyed through them? The central theme is ritual, and the idea of
ritual as a process that builds collective identity. The games
symbolised the new Severan political and social vision and they
embodied the idea of Roman identity and the image of Roman society
which the emperor wished to promote. The programme of the games was
recorded in a stone inscription and this text is analysed in
detail, translated into English and contextualised in the
socio-political aims of Septimius Severus.
This is the first monograph to examine in detail the Ludi
Saeculares (Secular Games) of Septimius Severus and argues that the
games represented a radical shift from Antonine imperial ideology.
To garner popular support and to legitimise his power, Severus
conducted an intensive propaganda campaign, but how did he use the
ludi to strengthen his power, and what were the messages he
conveyed through them? The central theme is ritual, and the idea of
ritual as a process that builds collective identity. The games
symbolised the new Severan political and social vision and they
embodied the idea of Roman identity and the image of Roman society
which the emperor wished to promote. The programme of the games was
recorded in a stone inscription and this text is analysed in
detail, translated into English and contextualised in the
socio-political aims of Septimius Severus.
In this book, Veikko Rantala makes a systematic attempt to
understand cognitive characteristics of translation by bringing its
logical, pragmatic and hermeneutic features together and examining
a number of scientific, logical, and philosophical applications.
The notion of translation investigated here is called explanatory,
but it is not a translation in the standard sense of the word since
it admits of conceptual change. Such translations can take various
degrees of precision, and therefore they can occur in contexts of
different kinds: from everyday discourse to literary texts to
scientific change. The book generalizes some earlier approaches to
translation, especially the one presented in David Pearce's
monograph Roads to Commensurability. Rantala argues that the notion
has something in common with Thomas Kuhn's earlier conception of
scientific change and his views of language learning, but it can be
used to go beyond Kuhn's well-known ideas and challenge his
criticism concerning the import of the correspondence relation.
In this book, the author makes a systematic attempt to
understand cognitive characteristics of translation by bringing its
logical, pragmatic and hermeneutic features together and examining
a number of scientific, logical, and philosophical applications.
The book is for philosophers of science, linguists, logicians,
historians of science, and scientists interested in philosophical
questions of scientific change.
This open access book presents a series of speculative,
experimental modes of inquiry in the present times of environmental
damage that have come to be known as the age of the Anthropocene.
Throughout the book authors develop more nuanced ways of engaging
with the environmentally vulnerable Arctic. It counters distancing,
exoticising, and even apocalyptic imaginaries of the Arctic by
staying proximate with mundane places and beings of the north. The
volume engages and plays with familiar tourism concepts, such as
hospitality, visiting, difference, care, openness, and distance,
while expanding the focus from binary and human-centric approaches
of hosts and guests to questions of wellbeing among multispecies
communities. The transdisciplinary group of contributors share a
curiosity about how staying proximate may provide theoretical depth
and epistemological openings to attend to current tensions and to
diversify the ways we do and enact research. Thus, each chapter
provides a methodological experiment with proximity, developing
diverse ways of envisioning and storying more-than-human
worlds.  Â
This volume approaches three key concepts in Roman history -
gender, memory and identity - and demonstrates the significance of
their interaction in all social levels and during all periods of
Imperial Rome. When societies, as well as individuals, form their
identities, remembrance and references to the past play a
significant role. The aim of Gender, Memory, and Identity in the
Roman World is to cast light on the constructing and the
maintaining of both public and private identities in the Roman
Empire through memory, and to highlight, in particular, the role of
gender in that process. While approaching this subject, the
contributors to this volume scrutinise both the literature and
material sources, pointing out how widespread the close
relationship between gender, memory and identity was. A major aim
of Gender, Memory, and Identity in the Roman World as a whole is to
point out the significance of the interaction between these three
concepts in both the upper and lower levels of Roman society, and
how it remained an important question through the period from
Augustus right into Late Antiquity.
The announcement last spring that a lab in Scotland had
successfully cloned a mammal captured the attention of the media
and the imagination of the public. This culmination of decades of
research has profound scientific and ethical implications. If
applied to other species, cloning could further genetic engineering
and greatly improve animal husbandry. Now that a sheep has been
cloned, are humans next? Governments reacted swiftly with bans on
funding for human cloning research. Churches united in calling for
a complete ban on the cloning of higher animals. Critics
immediately alluded to Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" and the myth
of Icarus. Has scientific sophistication outpaced our social and
moral development? Can we "save" our society from this possible
evil by banning any attempts to expand the knowledge? Does cloning
really differ in spirit from the selective breeding that humankind
has performed for centuries? "Cloning: For and Against" comprises
30 articles by scientists, ethicists, religious leaders and legal
experts who explore the benefits and costs of cloning. Topics
include: playing God: is cloning against human nature?; is cloning
the salvation for endangered species?; no need for marriage: the
separation of reproduction from human relationships; can you xerox
a soul? and other theological issues; Brave New World: what's
possible and what isn't; clones in medicine; and a million Michael
Jacksons: eugenic/dysgenic and cultural consequences of human
cloning.
Exploring Data Production in Motion facilitates the use of feminist
critical qualitative methodologies. With open-ended methods and
poststructuralist theory and analysis, this book will offer tools
to approach and to examine challenging and controversial topics
ethically. This book will argue that to examine data of
"individual" experience and aspirations requires examining the
process of the data production in which these were "produced".
Therefore, this book will form an understanding of a data
production as a process, which in its fluidity enables us also to
form an understanding of difference and change as inevitable parts
of social processes. Movement expresses here the dynamic forces in
the data production (including its analysis), which produce "the
life" to the lines of the data. It welcomes change and uncertainty
by allowing the data production processes, its intensities and
fluctuations, to take the lead in the inquiry. This compels the
methods to adjust to the requirements of the data production
processes. The book demonstrates the use of feminist methodology
and illuminates how the feminist critical inquiry is essential in
examining issues of minority and difference. In this the focus is
in the differences. As a feminist inquiry this book contributes to
recognizing differences within while examining minority worldviews
and perceiving difference as essential force in striving for
sustainable ethics in the times of political polarization.
Exploring Data Production in Motion facilitates the use of feminist
critical qualitative methodologies. With open-ended methods and
poststructuralist theory and analysis, this book will offer tools
to approach and to examine challenging and controversial topics
ethically. This book will argue that to examine data of
"individual" experience and aspirations requires examining the
process of the data production in which these were "produced".
Therefore, this book will form an understanding of a data
production as a process, which in its fluidity enables us also to
form an understanding of difference and change as inevitable parts
of social processes. Movement expresses here the dynamic forces in
the data production (including its analysis), which produce "the
life" to the lines of the data. It welcomes change and uncertainty
by allowing the data production processes, its intensities and
fluctuations, to take the lead in the inquiry. This compels the
methods to adjust to the requirements of the data production
processes. The book demonstrates the use of feminist methodology
and illuminates how the feminist critical inquiry is essential in
examining issues of minority and difference. In this the focus is
in the differences. As a feminist inquiry this book contributes to
recognizing differences within while examining minority worldviews
and perceiving difference as essential force in striving for
sustainable ethics in the times of political polarization.
Bazaar of Opportunities for New Business Development goes beyond
the paradigm of open innovation and underlines the variety of
opportunities that firms may have in innovation and new business
development with external actors. This book shows readers that
firms can interact, innovate, and do business with different known
and unknown actors, both formally and informally, and use different
levels of openness within interorganizational innovation processes.
External actors, however, also mean additional risks for the firm
that they should manage. The subtitle of book, Bridging Networked
Innovation, Intellectual Property and Business, addresses the
guidance and perspectives that the book will provide in order to
better prepare the reader for innovation with external
actors.Bazaar of Opportunities has a multidisciplinary approach to
the subject, bringing innovation, business, legal and network
management perspectives together. The findings are based on
state-of-the-art practices of innovative firms in Europe, empirical
data collected through interviews and case studies. Through this
multidisciplinary approach and the empirical findings, the reader
may gain insight on how to be successful in open and networked
innovation.
The announcement last spring that a lab in Scotland had
successfully cloned a mammal captured the attention of the media
and the imagination of the public. This culmination of decades of
research has profound scientific and ethical implications. If
applied to other species, cloning could further genetic engineering
and greatly improve animal husbandry. Now that a sheep has been
cloned, are humans next? Governments reacted swiftly with bans on
funding for human cloning research. Churches united in calling for
a complete ban on the cloning of higher animals. Critics
immediately alluded to Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" and the myth
of Icarus. Has scientific sophistication outpaced our social and
moral development? Can we "save" our society from this possible
evil by banning any attempts to expand the knowledge? Does cloning
really differ in spirit from the selective breeding that humankind
has performed for centuries? "Cloning: For and Against" comprises
30 articles by scientists, ethicists, religious leaders and legal
experts who explore the benefits and costs of cloning. Topics
include: playing God: is cloning against human nature?; is cloning
the salvation for endangered species?; no need for marriage: the
separation of reproduction from human relationships; can you xerox
a soul? and other theological issues; Brave New World: what's
possible and what isn't; clones in medicine; and a million Michael
Jacksons: eugenic/dysgenic and cultural consequences of human
cloning.
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