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Jacobi, Lauren, and Daniel Zolli, eds. Contamination and Purity in Early Modern Art and Architecture. NL Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789462988699.
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The concepts of purity and contamination preoccupied early modern Europeans fundamentally, structuring virtually every aspect of their lives, not least how they created and experienced works of art and the built environment. In an era that saw a great number of objects and people in motion, the meteoric rise of new artistic and building technologies, and religious upheaval exert new pressures on art and its institutions, anxieties about the pure and the contaminated – distinctions between the clean and unclean, sameness and difference, self and other, organization and its absence – took on heightened importance. In this series of geographically and methodologically wide-ranging essays, thirteen leading historians of art and architecture grapple with the complex ways that early modern actors negotiated these concerns, covering topics as diverse as Michelangelo’s unfinished sculptures, Venetian plague hospitals, Spanish-Muslim tapestries, and emergency currency. The resulting volume offers surprising new insights into the period and into the modern disciplinary routines of art and architectural history.
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Ranasinghe, Jatila. Use of the exergy concept for design improvement of heat exchangers and heat exchanger networks. 1989.
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Hooghe, Liesbet, Gary Mark, Tobias Lenz, Jeanine Bezuijen, Besir Ceka, and Svet Derderyan. International Authority: From Concept to Measure. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198724490.003.0001.
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Chapter One discusses the theoretical-conceptual underpinnings of the Measure of International Authority (MIA). In what respects, and to what extent, do international organizations exert legal rational authority? What powers do non-state actors have in international decision making and dispute settlement? To what extent, when, and how do states sacrifice the national veto in collective decision making? The chapter is structured in a sequence of five steps from the abstract to the particular: conceptualize authority; specify the concept as formal authority of international organizations; unfold in the dimensions of delegation and pooling; operationalize international organization (IO) composition and decision making in indicators that describe institutional alternatives that can be reliably assessed; explicate principles for scoring and adjudicating cases.
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Yalçın-Heckmann, Lale, ed. Moral Economy at Work: Ethnographic Investigations in Eurasia. Berghahn Books, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/9781800732353.
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The idea of a moral economy has been explored and assessed in numerous disciplines. The anthropological studies in this volume provide a new perspective to this idea by showing how the relations of workers, employees and employers, and of firms, families and households are interwoven with local notions of moralities. From concepts of individual autonomy, kinship obligations, to ways of expressing mutuality or creativity, moral values exert an unrealized influence, and these often produce more consent than resistance or outrage.
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Mundt, Christoph. Impact of Karl Jaspers’ General Psychopathology: the range of appraisal. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199609253.003.0004.
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Growing unease in the scientific community has stimulated reception of classical authors as Karl Jaspers. By drawing on existential philosophy Jaspers has given GP a depth which allows reflecting the methodological premises of psychopathology. Anthropologic phenomenology of Edmund Husserl was received with scepticism by Jaspers as was V. v. Weizsäcker’s psychosomatic medicine and Mitscherlich`s psychoanalysis. Jaspers refined mainstream psychopathology by understanding their nature and defining precise criteria. Delusion and psychotic symptoms are examples. The observation of patient`s and psychiatrist`s “vicarious self-representations” gained acceptance although low reliability was expected. Substantial critique on GP is rare. Some authors consider Jaspers’ work as replica of French psychiatrists. However, Jaspers’ work is unique in getting in touch philosophy and psychiatry. The comprehensiveness of the material is one merit of GP. Amazing that in times when psychopathological concepts are short lived a book published one hundred years ago still exerts influence. This steady interest may be an indication that GP touches upon the very roots of mental life.
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Wilson Kimber, Marian. Making Elocution Musical. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252040719.003.0002.
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Poetic recitation was regularly heard at concerts and in “musical and literary entertainments.” Recitation anthologies designed for homes and schools provided sample programs. Music and elocution were combined outside of the conventions of notation: texts of songs were spoken to their accompaniments, and previously composed or improvised music was used to accompany speech. Contemporary speech pedagogy reveals that performed speech was characteristically musical due to highly-pitched practices, often notated with graphic symbols. The career of Jane Manner demonstrates the full range of melodramatic approaches available. Something between a musical composition and a genre of performed literature, accompanied recitation allowed women to exert their artistic power beyond the traditional boundaries of elocution and to usurp the place of the composer.
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Sorace, Christian P. Shaken Authority. Cornell University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501707537.001.0001.
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This book examines the political mechanisms at work in the aftermath of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake and the broader ideological energies that drove them. The book takes Chinese Communist Party ideas and discourse as central to how that organization formulates policies, defines legitimacy, and exerts its power. It argues that the Communist Party has never abandoned its conviction that discourse can shape the world and the people who inhabit it. It demonstrates how the Communist Party's planning apparatus continues to play a crucial role in engineering the Chinese economy and market construction, especially in the countryside. It takes a distinctive and original interpretive approach to understanding Chinese politics, and demonstrates how Communist Party discourse and ideology influenced the official decisions and responses to the Sichuan earthquake. The book provides a clear view of the lived outcomes of Communist Party plans, rationalities, and discourses in the earthquake zone. The three case studies presented each demonstrates a different type of reconstruction and model of development: urban–rural integration, tourism, and ecological civilization. The book emphasizes the need for a grounded literacy in the political concepts, discourses, and vocabularies of the Communist Party itself.
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Eatwell, Roger. Charisma and the Radical Right. Edited by Jens Rydgren. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190274559.013.13.
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Although the concept of “charismatic” leaders is commonplace in political discourse, many academics hold that the notion is vague and these leaders’ alleged appeal to voters untestable. This chapter sets out a conceptualization of such leaders, focusing on radical mission, personal presence, symbiotic hierarchy, and Manichean demonization. It then considers four broad theories about why charismatic leaders have notable effects (and why the radical right gathers support): socioeconomic change and crisis, political opportunity structures, cultural legitimation, and psychological affinities. While it is important not to overstate the powers of most leaders, the chapter concludes by arguing that we need to appreciate the role of “coterie” charisma over an inner core, helping to keep parties together. Moreover, charismatic leaders exert a centripetal appeal, particularly to authoritarians and/or those least interested in politics, creating a more differentiated following than the affective bond stressed in the classic Weberian model.
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Martin, Jeffrey J. Self-Esteem. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190638054.003.0024.
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Self-esteem has a long history in psychological research and sport psychology researchers are often interested in whether sport builds self-esteem. This chapter traces the history of self-esteem research in sport and provides definitions of and distinguishes between self-esteem and self-concept, and unidimensional and multidimensional models of self-esteem. The reciprocal effects model of self-esteem is examined, which suggests mastery experiences and self-esteem both exert influences on each other and can be viewed as causes and effects of each other. Antecedents of self-esteem, such as feelings of mastery and favorable judgments of worth from significant others, are also discussed, along with developmental aspects of self-esteem. Related areas of research that might be relevant to disability and disability sport are also discussed, such as terror management theory, the role of discounting and devaluing in psychological disengagement, how self-esteem might act as a mediator, and metacognitive properties of self-esteem.
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Guthrie, Graeme. Separating the wheat from the chaff. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190641184.003.0007.
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Past pay generates incentives via the ownership stake that it creates; present pay generates incentives via the link between firm performance and the level of pay; future pay generates incentives via executives’ career concerns. This chapter explains how uncertainty about an executive’s ability and effort generates incentives for the executive to exert effort on behalf of shareholders. These incentives stem from the links between labor-market perceptions of an executive’s ability and the likelihood that he is promoted or fired from his current job, able to gain employment at another firm, and able to find post-retirement work as an independent director. Strong boards can use these links to design compensation schemes that benefit shareholders. This chapter describes career-based incentives using the story of Carl Yankowski, the high-profile CEO of Palm who endured a series of career disappointments.
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Abraham, Sunil. First Among Equals? The Role of the State in Facilitating Internet Access and Protecting the Freedom of Expression Online in the Global South. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198805373.003.0014.
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This chapter addresses the twin challenges of facilitating access to the Internet and protecting freedom of expression online, in the Global South. Thus far, Internet regulation has been a multi-stakeholder enterprise, driven primarily by the private sector in the Global North. But this chapter contends that states exert considerable influence over whether and how the Internet is leveraged for the provision of security and justice, especially in the Global South, where the state may retain a monopoly over information flows. The chapter seeks to delineate the appropriate scope of state involvement in facilitating access to the Internet and protecting freedom of expression online in the Global South, finding that states play an important role, in concert with the private sector, regarding access and a preponderant role with respect to protecting the freedom of expression online.
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Reusser-Elzingre, Aurélie. Contes et légendes du Jura. Transmission d’un patrimoine linguistique et culturel. Éditions Alphil-Presses universitaires suisses, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.33055/alphil.03155.
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« Il était une fois une vieille femme, vérolée par l’âge, qui vivait seule dans une masure délabrée à l’orée du village. Un jour on la vit arriver au bal de la Saint-Martin. Personne ne voulait danser avec elle. Un jeune homme pourtant l’invita. À mesure qu’elle tournait, la danseuse rajeunissait. Tout le monde se demandait qui était cette belle personne aux longs cheveux noirs et au tablier bleu qui voletait autour d’elle… » Voici une des nombreuses légendes qui constituent le corpus de base de cet ouvrage. Celui-ci met en exergue une collecte de contes en patois récoltés par Jules Surdez au début du xxe siècle. Ces textes, en édition bilingue, permettent à l’auteure de discuter de manière approfondie de concepts-clés tels que « patrimoine », « tradition », « authenticité », et de développer des réflexions sur le rôle du dialectologue dans le processus de patrimonialisation linguistique et culturel. Des enquêtes sociolinguistiques réalisées dans le Jura viennent nourrir le débat autour de la disparition et de la valorisation des parlers franc-comtois. Ces développements imposent une distance entre le chercheur et son objet, tout en inscrivant la recherche dans une histoire des dialectes et de leur transmission. À ce titre, ils sont exemplaires et devraient être médités par plus d’un historien et d’un philologue. Un riche glossaire expliquant le sens et l’origine de termes spécifiques renforce cette édition et cette réflexion épistémologique.
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Mirchandani, Sharon. Expansion. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252037313.003.0005.
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This chapter focuses on Marga Richter's compositions during the 1980s. Hoping to build on her 1970s success, Richter wrote primarily symphonic and chamber music but also returned to writing vocal and choral music. In 1980 she completed her Spectral Chimes/Enshrouded Hills for three orchestral quintets and orchestra. The initial working title was “Music for Three Quintets and Orchestra,” but was expanded to Music for Three Orchestral Quintets and Orchestra. This chapter begins with a discussion of English and Irish influences on Richter's works before turning to some of her compositions of the period, including Exequy and Lament for Art O'Leary. It also examines Richter's Arizona-inspired pieces and her all-Richter concert in New York City; her visit to Germany and her works while in Düsselfdorf; her visit to China and Tibet that led her to write Qhanri (snow mountain): Tibetan Variations for cello and piano; and her 1985 piece Out of Shadows and Solitude for full orchestra. The chapter concludes with an overview of Richter's activities after the death of her husband Alan Skelly.
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Page, Jamie. Prostitution and Subjectivity in Late Medieval Germany. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198862789.001.0001.
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Prostitution played a major role in structuring medieval gender relations. Prostitutes were seen to be an example of extreme female sinfulness which all women risked falling into, while at the same time prostitutes themselves were seen to play a vital social role in many towns by providing a sexual outlet to unmarried men. This book is the first full-length study of medieval prostitution to focus primarily upon how gender discourse shaped the lives of prostitutes themselves. It is based on three legal case studies from the late medieval empire which examine constructions of subjectivity between the period c.1400–1500. This period saw the rapid rise of tolerated prostitution across much of western Europe and the emergence of the public brothel as a central institution in the regulation of social order, followed by its equally rapid suppression from the early 1500s. By analysing how individuals interacted with cultural discourses surrounding the body, sexuality, and sin, the book explores how the concepts that defined prostitution in the Middle Ages shaped individual lives, and how individuals were able—or not—to exert agency, both within the circumstances of their own lives, and in response to official attempts to regulate sexual behaviour.
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Rohlfing-Dijoux, Stephanie, and Uwe Hellmann, eds. Perspectives of law and culture on the end-of-life legislations in France, Germany, India, Italy and United Kingdom. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/9783845296777.
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The interactions between law and culture in addressing the legal problems at the end of a life are currently being discussed in many countries. The discourse on this issue should be multidisciplinary, taking into account its legal, medical, ethical, philosophical and anthropological aspects. The concepts designed to manage the legal problems that occur when a life comes to an end are closely linked to the culture of each country. For this reason, countries with different cultural backgrounds have been selected for this comparative end-of-life study. In France, Germany and Italy, which have a continental legal system, the United Kingdom, which has a common law system, and India, the various religions and cultures exert an important influence on the modernisation of the legislation in this respect. The book deals with recent legislative changes and developments in the countries surveyed. With contributions by Soazick Kerneis, Guillaume Le Blanc, Jeanne Mesmin d’Estienne, Louis-Charles Viossat, Christophe Pacific, Volker Lipp, Christine Laquitaine, Philippe Poulain, Stephanie Rohlfing-Dijoux, Stefano Canestrari, Kartina A. Choong, Richard Law, Sabine Boussard, Prasannanshu Prasannanshu, Pierre Rosario Domingue, Arvin Halkhoree, Kerstin Peglow, Jörg Luther, Uwe Hellmann, Géraldine Demme, Sabir Kadel, Anja van Bernum, Marie Rossier, Victoria Roux, Charles Walleit, Berquis Bestvater
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Browner, Tara, and Thomas L. Riis, eds. Rethinking American Music. University of Illinois Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252042324.001.0001.
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Only since the 1970s have the variety of American musical styles and sounds have been allowed to stand on their own two feet in the academic world. Recent efforts to place American music-making within new or heretofore neglected contexts are diverse and inevitably shift our consciousness about music’s meaning and impact in culture. This volume contains a series of commentaries or glosses, chapters about American music broadly understood that seek especially to explore four critical factors beyond the the familiar categories defined by repertory or biography alone: the impact of performance; the role of patronage in the creation of musical objects and events; personal identity; and how larger cultural/ethnographic contexts (community values, ethnic markers, and social relations) determine certain musical results. A related concern in many of the chapters is the way music is disseminated within listening communities—how it was made “popular”—and how it continues to exert a lasting influence across the rest of the globe. The topics to be found here are wide ranging and include many genres and perspectives (hymnody, concert music, jazz, country music, hip-hop, Tin Pan Alley, and Broadway song and dance, among other types), but each chapter is focused on specific performers, patrons, works, conditions, or institutions within its cultural context.
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Buss, Paulo Marchiori, and Sebastián Tobar, eds. Diplomacia em saúde e saúde global: perspectivas latino-americanas. Editora Fiocruz, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.7476/9786557080665.
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Do encontro entre saúde e relações internacionais se originam os conceitos e práticas contemporâneos da saúde global e da diplomacia da saúde. Mas tal encontro só se estabeleceu em função do processo de globalização. A crise econômica sistêmica e global, expondo as brechas estruturais do capitalismo global, aprofundou as desigualdades preexistentes e, desde então, só vem se ampliando, com consequências sociais, econômicas e sanitárias gravíssimas, particularmente para os países pobres e para os pobres de todos os países. A crise abateu-se sobre os países da América Latina, e muitos progressos alcançados estão agora ameaçados, inclusive as conquistas no campo da saúde, que vem sendo profundamente afetada. Este livro procura explicar a saúde no cenário global; o que a molda social e economicamente; como o global dialoga com o regional e o local; como a governança global exerce impacto sobre a saúde; como transcorre a governança da saúde global; e que papel desempenha a diplomacia aplicada em prol de uma situação de saúde mais equitativa. A complexidade internacional tem colocado novos objetos e desafios sobre os quais os autores desta coletânea buscam refletir, na perspectiva da América Latina e Caribe: as desigualdades sociais e sanitárias profundas entre países e no interior destes; as crises humanitárias relacionadas com conflitos armados em diversas partes do mundo; as correntes migratórias na América Latina; as transformações nos padrões culturais que desafiam a visão do ‘normal’ em medicina e saúde pública; o comprometimento ambiental em escala planetária; e a proliferação de instituições multilaterais que incluem os problemas de saúde entre seus programas de cooperação, sem entretanto solucioná-los.
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Mariniello, Mario. Digital Economic Policy. Oxford University PressOxford, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198831471.001.0001.
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Abstract The emergence of new technologies and business models such as data analytics, online platforms, and artificial intelligence has shaken the economy and society at their foundations. Recently, it has become apparent that public authorities must take a pro-active role to define the rules of the newly emerged markets before potential issues and concerns cement. How rules are currently written determines who will exert a stronger influence on the economy and society in the coming years. This is a key reason why digital policymakers are currently exposed to tremendous pressure by stakeholders. This book takes a journey through all the main areas in the digital economy that beg for policy action. Readers may learn about the general features of a digital economy and the EU long-term strategic plans to govern it. They may learn about telecom markets, the data economy, the digitization of the public sector, cybersecurity, the platform economy, liability for online content, e-commerce, the sharing economy, the impact of technology on labour markets, digital inequality, disinformation, and artificial intelligence. This book primarily aims to provide students with the background knowledge and analytical tools necessary to understand, analyse, and assess the impact of EU digital policies on the European economy and society. The approach is both theoretical and applied. The main goal is to prepare students to give informed and economically sound advice to an EU policymaker for digital affairs.
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Abdelaaty, Lamis Elmy. Discrimination and Delegation. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197530061.001.0001.
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What explains state responses to the refugees they receive? This book identifies two puzzling patterns: states open their borders to some refugee groups while blocking others (discrimination), and a number of countries have given the United Nations (UN) control of asylum procedures and refugee camps on their territory (delegation). To explain this selective exercise of sovereignty, the book develops a two-part theoretical framework in which policymakers in refugee-receiving countries weigh international and domestic concerns. Internationally, leaders use refugees to reassure allies and exert pressure on rivals. Domestically, policymakers have incentives to favor those refugee groups with whom they share an ethnic identity. When these international and domestic incentives conflict, shifting responsibility to the UN allows policymakers to placate both refugee-sending countries and domestic constituencies. The book then carries out a “three-stage, multi-level” research design in which each successive step corroborates and elaborates the findings of the preceding stage. The first stage involves statistical analysis of asylum admissions worldwide. The second stage presents two country case studies: Egypt (a country that is broadly representative of most refugee recipients) and Turkey (an outlier that has limited the geographic application of the Refugee Convention). The third stage zooms in on sub- or within-country dynamics in Kenya (home to one of the largest refugee populations in the world) through content analysis of parliamentary proceedings. Studying state responses to refugees is instructive because it can help explain why states sometimes assert, and at other times cede, their sovereignty in the face of refugee rights.