Chapter 5 Female agency, resourceful victimhood and heroines in migrant narra…

With a focus on migrant narratives, or the storytelling about migration, this volume considers the ways in which migration is and has been shaped by individual and collective experiences of agency, belonging and community. Driven by an agenda of deep listening, each chapter presents a narrative directly derived from qualitative research, an outline of the methodological framing as well as narra…

Chapter 5 Female agency, resourceful victimhood and heroines in migrant narra…

With a focus on migrant narratives, or the storytelling about migration, this volume considers the ways in which migration is and has been shaped by individual and collective experiences of agency, belonging and community. Driven by an agenda of deep listening, each chapter presents a narrative directly derived from qualitative research, an outline of the methodological framing as well as narra…

Boom - Crisis - Heritage

Boom - Crisis - Heritage, these terms aptly outline the history of global coal mining after 1945. The essays collected in this volume explore this history with different emphases and questions. The range of topics also reflects this broad approach. The first section contains contributions on political, social and economic history. They address the European energy system in the globalised world …

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 …