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Biopoethik des eugenetischen Romans
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Der eugenetische Roman ist als ein literarisches Genre zu begreifen, das biowissenschaftliche, bioethische und biopoetische Dimensionen miteinander verbindet, um Grenzen und Konstanten des Mensch(lich)en auszuhandeln. Mindestens seit Darwin und Galton sind die Modifizierung des menschlichen Individuums und die Optimierung der menschlichen Spezies diskutiert worden, spätestens seit den 1980er Jahren haben humangenetische und biotechnologische Entwicklungen den Diskurs neu perspektiviert. Literatur trägt zu diesem Diskurs bei, indem sie Erprobungs- und Reflexionsräume schafft: Sie modelliert menschliche Subjekte, die in eugenetische Zukunftsszenarien eingeschrieben sind, und entwickelt spezifische Erzählweisen, die diese Subjekte, ihre Lebensweisen und ihr Lebenswissen, narrativ erfahrbar machen. Fünf eugenetische Romane der englisch- und deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur werden in der Studie hinsichtlich Subjektmodellierungen und Narrationsweisen im Kontext der Eugenetik untersucht.
Biopoethik des eugenetischen Romans
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Der eugenetische Roman ist als ein literarisches Genre zu begreifen, das biowissenschaftliche, bioethische und biopoetische Dimensionen miteinander verbindet, um Grenzen und Konstanten des Mensch(lich)en auszuhandeln. Mindestens seit Darwin und Galton sind die Modifizierung des menschlichen Individuums und die Optimierung der menschlichen Spezies diskutiert worden, spätestens seit den 1980er Jahren haben humangenetische und biotechnologische Entwicklungen den Diskurs neu perspektiviert. Literatur trägt zu diesem Diskurs bei, indem sie Erprobungs- und Reflexionsräume schafft: Sie modelliert menschliche Subjekte, die in eugenetische Zukunftsszenarien eingeschrieben sind, und entwickelt spezifische Erzählweisen, die diese Subjekte, ihre Lebensweisen und ihr Lebenswissen, narrativ erfahrbar machen. Fünf eugenetische Romane der englisch- und deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur werden in der Studie hinsichtlich Subjektmodellierungen und Narrationsweisen im Kontext der Eugenetik untersucht.
Copyright and Human Rights in International and Domestic Law
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Unequal access to educational materials is a persistent structural problem in the global South. Barriers to access, including those posed by copyright, affect marginalised groups acutely. To what extent does law create the problem of unequal access, and how may law operate to mitigate it? To answer these questions, this book unpacks access norms in copyright law and human rights law and their interaction.
Part I provides the international law doctrinal framework, demonstrating that the right to education in international human rights law includes a right of access to educational materials imposing obligations on States. This overlaps substantially with provisions in copyright treaties that permit States to enact exceptions for educational access outside the market. However, States parties to both treaty regimes often legislate to prioritise market access, under-realising access for marginalised groups. Part II offers an explanation for this phenomenon, through a critical analysis of the tensions across access norms and the design of international adjudicatory and monitoring institutions in both treaty regimes. The book illustrates how the normative environment structures interpretive choices in resolving these tensions, impacting outcomes. Part III considers how access norms are adjudicated and legislated in India and South Africa, highlighting the interaction between international and domestic law.
Overall, the book provides an integrated way of thinking about how law creates, reifies and mitigates material and social realities.
Part I provides the international law doctrinal framework, demonstrating that the right to education in international human rights law includes a right of access to educational materials imposing obligations on States. This overlaps substantially with provisions in copyright treaties that permit States to enact exceptions for educational access outside the market. However, States parties to both treaty regimes often legislate to prioritise market access, under-realising access for marginalised groups. Part II offers an explanation for this phenomenon, through a critical analysis of the tensions across access norms and the design of international adjudicatory and monitoring institutions in both treaty regimes. The book illustrates how the normative environment structures interpretive choices in resolving these tensions, impacting outcomes. Part III considers how access norms are adjudicated and legislated in India and South Africa, highlighting the interaction between international and domestic law.
Overall, the book provides an integrated way of thinking about how law creates, reifies and mitigates material and social realities.
Copyright and Human Rights in International and Domestic Law
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Unequal access to educational materials is a persistent structural problem in the global South. Barriers to access, including those posed by copyright, affect marginalised groups acutely. To what extent does law create the problem of unequal access, and how may law operate to mitigate it? To answer these questions, this book unpacks access norms in copyright law and human rights law and their interaction.
Part I provides the international law doctrinal framework, demonstrating that the right to education in international human rights law includes a right of access to educational materials imposing obligations on States. This overlaps substantially with provisions in copyright treaties that permit States to enact exceptions for educational access outside the market. However, States parties to both treaty regimes often legislate to prioritise market access, under-realising access for marginalised groups. Part II offers an explanation for this phenomenon, through a critical analysis of the tensions across access norms and the design of international adjudicatory and monitoring institutions in both treaty regimes. The book illustrates how the normative environment structures interpretive choices in resolving these tensions, impacting outcomes. Part III considers how access norms are adjudicated and legislated in India and South Africa, highlighting the interaction between international and domestic law.
Overall, the book provides an integrated way of thinking about how law creates, reifies and mitigates material and social realities.
Part I provides the international law doctrinal framework, demonstrating that the right to education in international human rights law includes a right of access to educational materials imposing obligations on States. This overlaps substantially with provisions in copyright treaties that permit States to enact exceptions for educational access outside the market. However, States parties to both treaty regimes often legislate to prioritise market access, under-realising access for marginalised groups. Part II offers an explanation for this phenomenon, through a critical analysis of the tensions across access norms and the design of international adjudicatory and monitoring institutions in both treaty regimes. The book illustrates how the normative environment structures interpretive choices in resolving these tensions, impacting outcomes. Part III considers how access norms are adjudicated and legislated in India and South Africa, highlighting the interaction between international and domestic law.
Overall, the book provides an integrated way of thinking about how law creates, reifies and mitigates material and social realities.
The Imjin War – Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s invasions of Korea – was one of the largest conflicts of the sixteenth century world, entangling Korea, Japan, and China between 1592 and 1598. This is the first volume-length study to address the long-term significance of the war by focusing on the social, technological, environmental, demographic, and administrative implications of the conflict in the seventeenth century and beyond. Heretofore, studies have mainly looked at diplomatic, political, and literary impacts, but this volume raises world historical comparative questions about the nature of “early modernity” and advances debates on war legacy in the East Asian context.
The Imjin War – Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s invasions of Korea – was one of the largest conflicts of the sixteenth century world, entangling Korea, Japan, and China between 1592 and 1598. This is the first volume-length study to address the long-term significance of the war by focusing on the social, technological, environmental, demographic, and administrative implications of the conflict in the seventeenth century and beyond. Heretofore, studies have mainly looked at diplomatic, political, and literary impacts, but this volume raises world historical comparative questions about the nature of “early modernity” and advances debates on war legacy in the East Asian context.
Flavius Josephus’ Jewish War between the Latin On the Destruction of Jerusalem and the Hebrew Book of Yosippon
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The open access publication of this book was funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.
On the Destruction of Jerusalem, an anonymous Latin Christian text from Late Antiquity (c. 375 CE), paraphrased Flavius Josephus’ Greek Jewish War (ca. 75 CE) to reinterpret the Roman-Jewish War (66-70 CE) and the destruction of Jerusalem and its Temple (70 CE) as proof that God had abandoned the Jews (because they had rejected Jesus Christ). No Jewish alternative to this supersessionist historiography existed for hundreds of years. Then, around 900 CE, the anonymous Hebrew Book of Yosippon rewrote this history anew, based on the narrative of On the Destruction Jerusalem. This monograph provides the first extensive comparison of these texts, showing how the Book of Yosippon biblicized, theologized, and Judaized its Latin source, overwriting the Christian narrative of late-Second Temple Judaism and underwriting a new version of that story. In so doing, the Book of Yosippon resurrected the spirit of Hellenistic Judaism, reclaiming Jewish history for the Jews in the Early Middle Ages.
On the Destruction of Jerusalem, an anonymous Latin Christian text from Late Antiquity (c. 375 CE), paraphrased Flavius Josephus’ Greek Jewish War (ca. 75 CE) to reinterpret the Roman-Jewish War (66-70 CE) and the destruction of Jerusalem and its Temple (70 CE) as proof that God had abandoned the Jews (because they had rejected Jesus Christ). No Jewish alternative to this supersessionist historiography existed for hundreds of years. Then, around 900 CE, the anonymous Hebrew Book of Yosippon rewrote this history anew, based on the narrative of On the Destruction Jerusalem. This monograph provides the first extensive comparison of these texts, showing how the Book of Yosippon biblicized, theologized, and Judaized its Latin source, overwriting the Christian narrative of late-Second Temple Judaism and underwriting a new version of that story. In so doing, the Book of Yosippon resurrected the spirit of Hellenistic Judaism, reclaiming Jewish history for the Jews in the Early Middle Ages.
Flavius Josephus’ Jewish War between the Latin On the Destruction of Jerusalem and the Hebrew Book of Yosippon
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The open access publication of this book was funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.
On the Destruction of Jerusalem, an anonymous Latin Christian text from Late Antiquity (c. 375 CE), paraphrased Flavius Josephus’ Greek Jewish War (ca. 75 CE) to reinterpret the Roman-Jewish War (66-70 CE) and the destruction of Jerusalem and its Temple (70 CE) as proof that God had abandoned the Jews (because they had rejected Jesus Christ). No Jewish alternative to this supersessionist historiography existed for hundreds of years. Then, around 900 CE, the anonymous Hebrew Book of Yosippon rewrote this history anew, based on the narrative of On the Destruction Jerusalem. This monograph provides the first extensive comparison of these texts, showing how the Book of Yosippon biblicized, theologized, and Judaized its Latin source, overwriting the Christian narrative of late-Second Temple Judaism and underwriting a new version of that story. In so doing, the Book of Yosippon resurrected the spirit of Hellenistic Judaism, reclaiming Jewish history for the Jews in the Early Middle Ages.
On the Destruction of Jerusalem, an anonymous Latin Christian text from Late Antiquity (c. 375 CE), paraphrased Flavius Josephus’ Greek Jewish War (ca. 75 CE) to reinterpret the Roman-Jewish War (66-70 CE) and the destruction of Jerusalem and its Temple (70 CE) as proof that God had abandoned the Jews (because they had rejected Jesus Christ). No Jewish alternative to this supersessionist historiography existed for hundreds of years. Then, around 900 CE, the anonymous Hebrew Book of Yosippon rewrote this history anew, based on the narrative of On the Destruction Jerusalem. This monograph provides the first extensive comparison of these texts, showing how the Book of Yosippon biblicized, theologized, and Judaized its Latin source, overwriting the Christian narrative of late-Second Temple Judaism and underwriting a new version of that story. In so doing, the Book of Yosippon resurrected the spirit of Hellenistic Judaism, reclaiming Jewish history for the Jews in the Early Middle Ages.
This book is the result of the final conference to the project Human Rights, Corporate Social Responsibility, and Interacting Markets in Africa. It provides a detailed overview of the challenges and opportunities related to corporate social responsibility by bringing together multiple perspectives on the interconnected issues of human rights and environmental justice in Africa. Emphasising the link between corporate social responsibility and the promotion and protection of these rights in Africa, authors analyse related challenges, such as the impact of companies on the rights of indigenous peoples.
Contributors are Jörg Gundel, Thoko Kaime, Bernd Kannowski, Elifuraha Laltaika, Hamudi Ismail Majamba, Scholastica Joseph Mality, Felisah Mitambo, Cecilia Ngaiza, Bahame Tom Mukirya Nyanduga, Richard Frimpong Oppong, Nelson Otieno, Omondi R. Owino, Daniel Shayo, Veronika Thalhammer.
Contributors are Jörg Gundel, Thoko Kaime, Bernd Kannowski, Elifuraha Laltaika, Hamudi Ismail Majamba, Scholastica Joseph Mality, Felisah Mitambo, Cecilia Ngaiza, Bahame Tom Mukirya Nyanduga, Richard Frimpong Oppong, Nelson Otieno, Omondi R. Owino, Daniel Shayo, Veronika Thalhammer.
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Africa Multiple, Volume: 7
This book is the result of the final conference to the project Human Rights, Corporate Social Responsibility, and Interacting Markets in Africa. It provides a detailed overview of the challenges and opportunities related to corporate social responsibility by bringing together multiple perspectives on the interconnected issues of human rights and environmental justice in Africa. Emphasising the link between corporate social responsibility and the promotion and protection of these rights in Africa, authors analyse related challenges, such as the impact of companies on the rights of indigenous peoples.
Contributors are Jörg Gundel, Thoko Kaime, Bernd Kannowski, Elifuraha Laltaika, Hamudi Ismail Majamba, Scholastica Joseph Mality, Felisah Mitambo, Cecilia Ngaiza, Bahame Tom Mukirya Nyanduga, Richard Frimpong Oppong, Nelson Otieno, Omondi R. Owino, Daniel Shayo, Veronika Thalhammer.
Contributors are Jörg Gundel, Thoko Kaime, Bernd Kannowski, Elifuraha Laltaika, Hamudi Ismail Majamba, Scholastica Joseph Mality, Felisah Mitambo, Cecilia Ngaiza, Bahame Tom Mukirya Nyanduga, Richard Frimpong Oppong, Nelson Otieno, Omondi R. Owino, Daniel Shayo, Veronika Thalhammer.
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This book examines the lawfulness of the forced return of irregular migrants. Its central concern is the practice of sending individuals by force to countries of which they are not nationals and with which they often lack a meaningful connection. In addition to transit-country returns, the book analyses so-called “returns” to fourth countries, a misnomer used here to describe removals to states where the individual has never previously been present. Transit- and fourth-country arrangements are increasingly promoted by states in Europe and beyond as a response to unwanted migration, raising fundamental and unresolved questions under international and European law.
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This book examines the lawfulness of the forced return of irregular migrants. Its central concern is the practice of sending individuals by force to countries of which they are not nationals and with which they often lack a meaningful connection. In addition to transit-country returns, the book analyses so-called “returns” to fourth countries, a misnomer used here to describe removals to states where the individual has never previously been present. Transit- and fourth-country arrangements are increasingly promoted by states in Europe and beyond as a response to unwanted migration, raising fundamental and unresolved questions under international and European law.
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Imagine a Black lawyer, once enslaved, standing in a 19th-century Brazilian courtroom and defeating slaveholders with their own laws. Luiz Gama v. Slavery tells the extraordinary story of Luiz Gama, a fearless abolitionist who used the legal system to free hundreds of enslaved people and redefine justice in a slaveholding society. Drawing on hundreds of rare court records, petitions, and long-forgotten legal writings, this volume highlights Gama’s legal genius and political courage.
The award-winning research behind this volume offers more than a biography—this work provides a new history of law, race, and freedom in Brazil. It traces Gama’s odyssey from bondage to liberation, and his transformation of the courtroom into a battlefield for emancipation.
The award-winning research behind this volume offers more than a biography—this work provides a new history of law, race, and freedom in Brazil. It traces Gama’s odyssey from bondage to liberation, and his transformation of the courtroom into a battlefield for emancipation.
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Imagine a Black lawyer, once enslaved, standing in a 19th-century Brazilian courtroom and defeating slaveholders with their own laws. Luiz Gama v. Slavery tells the extraordinary story of Luiz Gama, a fearless abolitionist who used the legal system to free hundreds of enslaved people and redefine justice in a slaveholding society. Drawing on hundreds of rare court records, petitions, and long-forgotten legal writings, this volume highlights Gama’s legal genius and political courage.
The award-winning research behind this volume offers more than a biography—this work provides a new history of law, race, and freedom in Brazil. It traces Gama’s odyssey from bondage to liberation, and his transformation of the courtroom into a battlefield for emancipation.
The award-winning research behind this volume offers more than a biography—this work provides a new history of law, race, and freedom in Brazil. It traces Gama’s odyssey from bondage to liberation, and his transformation of the courtroom into a battlefield for emancipation.
From the Carnation Revolution to Popular Education Today
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To help understand the relationship between Popular Education in the Carnation Revolution in Portugal in 1974 and contemporary popular movements embracing creative forms of protest for human flourishing and ecological justice, twenty-nine leading adult education researchers consider the significance of pedagogies of possibility over fifty years in changing contexts and across three continents. After looking back over experiences of radical popular learning and forward across experiments with new knowledge construction and creative new pedagogies for social change, their unanimous answer is that the narrative of popular education must commit to that which is yet to be imagined and move forward.
From the Carnation Revolution to Popular Education Today
Volume Editor:
To help understand the relationship between Popular Education in the Carnation Revolution in Portugal in 1974 and contemporary popular movements embracing creative forms of protest for human flourishing and ecological justice, twenty-nine leading adult education researchers consider the significance of pedagogies of possibility over fifty years in changing contexts and across three continents. After looking back over experiences of radical popular learning and forward across experiments with new knowledge construction and creative new pedagogies for social change, their unanimous answer is that the narrative of popular education must commit to that which is yet to be imagined and move forward.
The History of Religions Revisited by the School of Rome
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Numen Book Series, Volume: 184
The ‘Roman School’ of History of Religions developed a historicist approach grounded in historical and social contextualization, differential comparison and critical reflection over their own concepts. In this book, Historians of Religions and Anthropologists demonstrate the relevance of this legacy for contemporary research, at a time when the History of Religions, rightly focusing on its own discursive critique, tends nonetheless to give up any comparison. The editors and contributors of this volume defend the possibility of more complex questions, and open up new insights in historiographical issues as well as historico-cultural analysis.
The History of Religions Revisited by the School of Rome
Series:
Numen Book Series, Volume: 184
The ‘Roman School’ of History of Religions developed a historicist approach grounded in historical and social contextualization, differential comparison and critical reflection over their own concepts. In this book, Historians of Religions and Anthropologists demonstrate the relevance of this legacy for contemporary research, at a time when the History of Religions, rightly focusing on its own discursive critique, tends nonetheless to give up any comparison. The editors and contributors of this volume defend the possibility of more complex questions, and open up new insights in historiographical issues as well as historico-cultural analysis.
A Selection of Latin Writings from Fascist Italy and National Socialist Germany
This collection offers a range of Latin texts in both prose and poetry written under Italian Fascism and German National Socialism. These texts actively engage with the political realities of their time. Many served as instruments of propaganda and indoctrination that spread and reinforced harmful ideological positions. Others can be considered documents of resistance or inner emigration, sometimes composed in the face of grave personal danger. This book presents the Latin texts alongside English translations, with notes and introductions that provide historical context and illuminate the relationships between the authors. It demonstrates how the language of ancient Rome was politicised under these two totalitarian regimes.
A Selection of Latin Writings from Fascist Italy and National Socialist Germany
This collection offers a range of Latin texts in both prose and poetry written under Italian Fascism and German National Socialism. These texts actively engage with the political realities of their time. Many served as instruments of propaganda and indoctrination that spread and reinforced harmful ideological positions. Others can be considered documents of resistance or inner emigration, sometimes composed in the face of grave personal danger. This book presents the Latin texts alongside English translations, with notes and introductions that provide historical context and illuminate the relationships between the authors. It demonstrates how the language of ancient Rome was politicised under these two totalitarian regimes.