Many athletes strategically adopt a deliberate ‘look’—a ‘game face’, in sport parlance—for the purpose of gaining an edge in competition. Indeed, individual athletes in many sports often intentionally ‘stare down’ opponents, or, conversely, seek to appear carefree, even smiling at an opponent.
This essay approaches some of the literary features of the Qur’an in formal comparison with those of the Babylonian Talmud, the foundational text of rabbinic Judaism which consists of the foundational law code, called “Mishna” and its secondary commentary, called the “Gemara.”
The free movement of services, one of the four fundamental freedoms of the European Union's (EU) internal market, allows companies to post their employees to other EU Member States. In Slovenia, the concept of cross-border posting became relevant after the country joined the EU in 2004. The number of posted workers in Slovenia has been growing steadily since then and is among the highest in the…
The first feature that I examine is the collective, i.e. the popular element of Constant’s understanding of sovereign power. Even though Constant’s preoccupation with the individual and individual rights has often been emphasised in the secondary literature, except for the ‘constructivist’ rendition proposed by Garsten, his particular conception of the collective subject of popular s…
The chapter analyzes the cycle of the anti-nuclear movement that followed the Fukushima accident in March 2011. Employing functional typology, the chapter categorizes the movement’s organizations into seven types (direct action, research and education, policy advocacy, aid, watchdog, legal, and other) and shows that the post-Fukushima wave of protests was much broader in scope and more divers…
Anthropocene; Environment and sustainability; Environmental humanities; Environmental media; Indigenous; Media studies
A better question might be: “what is the aim of conservation biology?” We can consider the central purpose of conservation efforts to be the maintenance of the evolutionary potential of species and ecosystems. Evolutionary potential is being able to continue evolving, to be viable and to be sustainable
The students were sounding out their own bodies; practicing the technique while also feeling “dull” or “resonant” on their own body.
The question, therefore, is no longer whether the turn to automation in shipping takes place, but rather at what pace and in what form it will occur. The view that autonomous ships are not “technologies of passing interest”3 receives strong support from the fact that the International Maritime Organization (IMO) has invested significant resources in better understanding the legal impli…
While the pragmatic character of an expanded research definition obviously reflects policy efficiencies, the intellectual justification for this tendency in “liberalization” owes much of its origin to the academic disciplines of education and psychology