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This essay approaches some of the literary features of the Qur’an in formal comparison with those of the Babylonian Talmud, the foundational text of rabbinic Judaism which consists of the foundational law code, called “Mishna” and its secondary commentary, called the “Gemara.”
The free movement of services, one of the four fundamental freedoms of the European Union's (EU) internal market, allows companies to post their employees to other EU Member States. In Slovenia, the concept of cross-border posting became relevant after the country joined the EU in 2004. The number of posted workers in Slovenia has been growing steadily since then and is among the highest in the…
The first feature that I examine is the collective, i.e. the popular element of Constant’s understanding of sovereign power. Even though Constant’s preoccupation with the individual and individual rights has often been emphasised in the secondary literature, except for the ‘constructivist’ rendition proposed by Garsten, his particular conception of the collective subject of popular s…
The chapter analyzes the cycle of the anti-nuclear movement that followed the Fukushima accident in March 2011. Employing functional typology, the chapter categorizes the movement’s organizations into seven types (direct action, research and education, policy advocacy, aid, watchdog, legal, and other) and shows that the post-Fukushima wave of protests was much broader in scope and more divers…
Anthropocene; Environment and sustainability; Environmental humanities; Environmental media; Indigenous; Media studies
A better question might be: “what is the aim of conservation biology?” We can consider the central purpose of conservation efforts to be the maintenance of the evolutionary potential of species and ecosystems. Evolutionary potential is being able to continue evolving, to be viable and to be sustainable
“Musicians often pay a high price for sharing their art with us. Underneath the glow of success can often lie loneliness and exhaustion, not to mention the basic struggles of paying the rent or buying food. Sally Anne Gross and George Musgrave raise important questions – and we need to listen to what the musicians have to tell us about their working conditions and their mental health.” Em…
A provocative analysis of market-based interventions into public problems and the consequences.Market-based interventions have been used in attempts to solve numerous public problems, from education to healthcare and from climate change to privacy. Scholars have responded persuasively through critiques of neoliberalism. In Can Markets Solve Problems? Daniel Neyland, Véra Ehrenstein, and Sveta …
This book is intended to serve several purposes: to demonstrate the need for a multidisciplinary approach to language planning, to awaken the interest of all the social sciences to the role of language in modernization, to interest social scientists in the theoretical gain to be had from the study of language planning, to help widen the field of sociolinguistics by interesting linguists in peop…