Scholarship on adult education has fueled a high level of methodological creativity and innovation in order to tackle a diverse range of issues in a wide range of settings and locations in a critical and participatory manner. Adult education research is marked by the desire to do research differently and to conduct critical research with rather than about people which requires theoretical and m…
Composed of original articles from academics and policy notes from practitioners, this book attempts to draw up the state of multilateralism through the UN model and identify potential ways to address its challenges and shortcomings. The contributors question the role of multilateralism, sometimes accused of being fragmented, inefficient and unrepresentative, and its impact on global governance…
What is money? What is capital? The Spectre of Capital tackles such fundamental questions at a deep philosophical level. It argues that the modern world is ruled by a ‘spectre’, the spectre of capital. This insight is rooted in an original combination of the ideas of Marx and Hegel. It presents the most sophisticated argument to date for ‘the homology thesis’, namely that the order of H…
Francisco A. Eissa-Barroso’s The Spanish Monarchy and the Creation of the Viceroyalty of New Granada (1717-1739) argues that the pace and character of the most salient Bourbon reform introduced in Spanish America in the early eighteenth century were determined by relations between New Granadan elites and authorities in Spain, reflected changes in European geopolitical configurations, and echo…
The Societal Unconscious presents an innovative development of theory and methodology for adult education and learning research, recognizing psychodynamic dimensions of learning processes. With few exceptions the unconscious has been neglected in critical adult education research. The psychosocial approach in this book seeks to re-integrate the societal and the psychodynamic dimensions in analy…
The First Crusade (1096 – 1099) was an extraordinary undertaking. Because the repercussions of that expedition have rippled on down the centuries, there has been an enormous literature on the subject. Yet, unlike so many other areas of medieval history, until now the First Crusade has failed to attract the attention of historians interested in social dynamics. This book is the first to examin…
The Skandapurāṇa offers an unprecedented glimpse into the development of Śiva worship and his mythology. This Sanskrit Purāṇa, long considered lost, was known only obliquely from testimonia in digests of Brahminical customs and social regulations. Transmitted to us in several palm leaf manuscripts from Nepal—including the oldest known dated Purāṇa manuscript (810 CE)—as well as pa…
Proceeding akses terbuka ini mencakup makalah penelitian asli, yang belum diterbitkan, dan telah melalui tinjauan sejawat dari Konferensi Internasional tentang Komunikasi Nirkabel, Jaringan, dan Aplikasi (WCNA – Wireless Communication, Networking and Applications 2021), yang diadakan di Berlin, Jerman pada 17-19 Desember 2021. Topik yang dibahas mencakup namun tidak terbatas pada komunikasi n…
Buku akses terbuka ini melaporkan solusi rekayasa listrik dan mikroelektronika terkini untuk mendorong dan mendukung digitalisasi di industri semikonduktor. Berdasarkan hasil dari proyek Eropa iDev40, yang dipresentasikan pada dua edisi konferensi pertama dari Konferensi Pusat Transformasi Digital Canggih Eropa (EADCT 2018 dan EADTC 2019), buku ini mencakup berbagai aspek multidisipliner yang t…
Buku akses terbuka ini terdiri dari 10 makalah tingkat tinggi tentang penelitian dan inovasi dalam Proyek Flexitranstore yang dipresentasikan pada sesi khusus FLEXITRANSTORE yang diselenggarakan sebagai bagian dari Simposium Internasional Ke-21 tentang Teknik Tegangan Tinggi. FLEXITRANSTORE (Sebuah Platform Terintegrasi untuk Meningkatkan FLEXIbility dalam jaringan TRANSmisi cerdas dengan Entit…