Chapter 10 Rethinking urban resettlement and displacement from the perspectiv…

This chapter reflects on contributions in this book, providing an outlook on displacement into a future rendered uncertain by the Covid-19 pandemic. The contemporary urban political economy has implications for housing. This justifies a focus on human needs articulated through the concepts of dwelling and home. These allow displacement to be explored as ‘un-homing’. The human right to adequ…

An Equal Burden : The Men of the Royal Army Medical Corps in the First World War

"An Equal Burden forms the first scholarly study of the Army Medical Services in the First World War to focus on the roles and experiences of the men of the ranks of the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC). These men, through their work as stretcher bearers and orderlies, provided a range of labour, both physical and emotional, in aid of the sick and wounded. They were not professional medical ca…

A Short Media History of English Literature

Karya ini menawarkan perspektif baru dalam mengeksplorasi sejarah sastra, bukan sekadar sebagai perkembangan narasi, melainkan sebagai sejarah transformasi media dan moda komunikasi dari era prasejarah hingga revolusi digital saat ini. Penulis berargumen bahwa evolusi sastra selalu berjalan selaras dengan perubahan format material yang secara aktif melibatkan indra manusia melalui berbagai cara…

Algorithms for Big Data

This open access book surveys the progress in addressing selected challenges related to the growth of big data in combination with increasingly complicated hardware. It emerged from a research program established by the German Research Foundation (DFG) as priority program SPP 1736 on Algorithmics for Big Data where researchers from theoretical computer science worked together with application e…

Remittances as Social Practices and Agents of Change

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Elisabeth Mann Borgese and the Law of the Sea

In the late twentieth century, as the United Nations struggled to come up with a new legal system for the oceans, one woman saw the opportunity to promote radical new ideas of justice and internationalism. Ocean governance expert Elisabeth Mann Borgese (1918–2002) spent decades working with the United Nations Law of the Sea Convention. Throughout this sprawling series of global conferences, s…

The Codes of the Street in Risky Neighborhoods = A Cross-Cultural Comparison …

This book presents a comparative look at the norms and attitudes related to youth violence. It aims to present a perspective outside of the typical Western context, through case studies comparing a developed / Western democracy (Germany), a country with a history of institutionalized violence (South Africa), and an emerging democracy that has experienced heavy terrorism (Pakistan). Building on …

From Trustworthiness to Secular Beliefs : Changing Concepts of xin 信 from T…

What does the Chinese term xin 信 mean? How does it relate to the concept of faith in a Western sense? How far does it still denote “being trustworthy” in its ancient Confucian sense? When did major shifts occur in its long history of semantics that allowed later Christian missionaries to use the term regularly as a translation for the concept of believing in gods or God?

Armenia through the Lens of Time: Multidisciplinary Studies in Honour of Theo…

The open access publication of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation. From pilgrimage sites in the far west of Europe to the Persian court; from mystic visions to a gruesome contemporary “dance”; from a mundane poem on wine to staggering religious art: thus far in space and time extends the world of the Armenians. A glimpse of the vast and …

Knowledge and Civil Society

This open access book focuses on the role of civil society in the creation, dissemination, and interpretation of knowledge in geographical contexts. It offers original, interdisciplinary and counterintuitive perspectives on civil society. The book includes reflections on civil and uncivil society, the role of civil society as a change agent, and on civil society perspectives of undone science. …