As far as I know, no-one has lost their life directly in the pursuit of Improvised Music-making, but the story nonetheless suggests various important questions.
This chapter has reviewed research on media effects on sociotropic beliefs. After anchoring beliefs in cognitive schema theory, arguing that the significance of media effects depends on preexisting schema characteristics, research on three classic theories of media effects were discussed: agenda setting, cultivation and framing
The notion of Brazil as a ‘racial laboratory’ has fascinated and facilitated the interests of both foreign and Brazilian scientists since the mid-nineteenth century with the themes of race and racial mixture integral to thinking about the country’s historical formation (De Souza and Santos 2014). As a result Brazil has long been constituted as both a valuable site and source of geneti…
This final chapter aggregates experiences and findings from the other chapters of the book. The book’s overall research question is as follows: What are the basic structures of the concept of samhandling under risk and how can samhandling be created when the conditions are unpredictable?
Feminist EU governance is characterised by promoting women’s community-based participation in policymaking, with transnational women’s CSOs and institution-transcending feminist alliances as core features. Feminist actors have covered a wealth of issues and managed to put their footprint on EU treaties, legislation and policies
Acknowledging that supply chains are made up of two or more organisations, and that interaction describes relations between two or more actors, the purpose of this research is to explore whether the introduction of the concept of interaction (samhandling) to supply-chain thinking adds to our understanding of efficiency and the effectiveness of logistics preparedness.
It can be related to many elements of production: to the act of un-notated creation; to the manipulation and amplification of notated materials; to our observance of rigid rules and formulae; or to spontaneous freedom.
The energy transition is one of the latest sets of realities that comes with its own encoded messaging and nomenclatures. Citizens are increasingly expected to actively participate in the energy domain and play their part in transitioning to low-carbon energy systems
This collective volume offers an insight into the Bon and Naxi manuscript cultures and their possible interconnections. This is the first primarily object-based study to deal with Bon and Naxi cultural history, book technology, collections of Bon and Naxi manuscripts, the relationship between text and image, writing materials, and the historical and archaeological context of the manuscripts' pl…
Sometimes tragedies that have little to distinguish them from a wide range of similar events and which can make no claim to record numbers of casualties or destructive impact go down in history as fundamental and emblematic. This is the case of two of the airstrikes discussed in this volume: Barcelona and Dresden. Other tragedies, however, are sometimes obscured by circumstances elsewhere. This…