Chapter 1 Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Performing Arts Workforce

Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Performing Arts Workforce examines the systemic and institutional barriers and individual biases that continue to perpetuate a predominately White nonprofit performing arts workforce in the United States. Workforce diversity, for purposes of this book, is defined as racial and ethnic diversity among workforce participants and stakeholders in the performing art…

Chapter 1 Rachel Cusk

In The New Midlife Self-Writing, Wittman treats recent self-writing by Rachel Cusk, Roxane Gay, Sarah Manguso, and Maggie Nelson, carefully situating these vital midlife works within the history of self-writing. She argues that they renew and redirect the autobiographical trajectories characteristic of earlier self-writing by switching their orientation to face the future and by celebrating mid…

Chapter 1 Quarantine and territory in Spain during the second half of the nin…

This chapter provides a thorough investigation of the modes by which the sanitary administration coevolved coherently with and inseparably from the Spanish state’s modern transport-communication and economic-industrial infrastructures throughout the nineteenth century. It also investigates examines how quarantine institutions functioned as sanitary gateways or entry checkpoints at borders, ph…

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# This is an e-book. What is a book? How is it set to evolve in the digital age? In May 2018, researchers and practitioners from a wide range of fields (design, publishing, communication, literature, and more) gathered in Montreal for the ÉCRIDIL conference to assess the current state of affairs and propose possible solutions. The result of a publishing experiment conducted in parallel with th…

Learning Across the Lifespan

This is truly an important goal, and as regards its mentioning of lifelong learning, this specifi c aspect of the goal is, in fact, not a new topic in the fi eld of language learning. For example, already at the beginning of the 1980s, Holec (1981) proposed the idea of learner autonomy , a concept that basically refers to the teaching of L2s in ways that make students/ learners equipped to …

Introducing the systematic science mapping framework: an innovative and mixed…

The purpose of this chapter is to introduce a novel mixed-methods framework design for large-scale literature reviews which can encompass thousands of publications, including an entire scientific field, referred to as the Systematic Science Mapping (SSM) Framework. The SSM Framework establishes a “big picture” or macro view of a field of inquiry’s evolution, a thematic analysis of the…

Chapter 4 Forms of managing leisure time of European seniors of the 21st century

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Chapter 1 Principles of Mathematical Modeling

Mathematical Modeling describes a process and an object by use of the mathematical language. A process or an object is presented in a "pure form" in Mathematical Modeling when external perturbations disturbing the study are absent. Computer simulation is a natural continuation of the Mathematical Modeling. Computer simulation can be considered as a computer experiment which corresponds to an ex…

Chapter 1 Principles of ESR Adjudication

The book examines the potential models of incorporation (ways of embedding rights into domestic law) for economic and social rights (ESR) at the national and devolved level and the justiciability mechanisms (adjudication by a court) that enable access to effective remedies in court for violations of ESR. In so doing the book develops principles of ESR adjudication (the building blocks of good p…

Chapter 1 Presence, Museums, and Immersive Technologies

Recently there has been a re-articulation of the concept of ‘presence’, which has evolved into an important trend in the humanities. Despite the many cross-disciplinary endeavours to define what ‘presence’ is, it proves a rather elusive concept, with different conceptualisations of the term found across different disciplines. In museum studies, presence is associated with the type of ex…