Kulturhauptstadt Chemnitz 2025

Chemnitz ist Europas Kulturhauptstadt des Jahres 2025. Seit den Ausschreitungen von 2018 wird sie allerdings vor allem mit dem Erstarken des Rechtsextremismus assoziiert. Die Auszeichnung bietet Chemnitz eine große Chance, das eigene Image zu korrigieren und bestehende Probleme zu bearbeiten. Vor diesem Hintergrund versammeln die Beiträger*innen vielfältige sozial- und kulturwissenschaftliche Analysen zu Chemnitz als Sozialraum. Daraus ergibt sich das Portrait einer oftmals unbekannten, aber nicht zuletzt symbolisch bedeutsamen und nun europaweit im Rampenlicht stehenden Stadt, die vielfältige Perspektiven jenseits bestehender Klischees vereint

Challenges in Research Policy

This open access volume addresses major challenges in research policy and provides advice on how to approach them. With chapters designed as accessible policy briefs, the book serves as an essential resource for new actors in research policy. It offers evidence-based recommendations on approaching research governance, funding, and evaluation challenges by covering these topics: Identifying and facilitating high quality research Evaluating transdisciplinary research quality Evaluating societal impact The dilemmas of grant peer review How citations relate to research quality Reforming research assessment The use of metrics in academic recruitment Quality criteria and concentration of research funding Balancing basic and external research funding Designing performance-based research funding systems Strategic steering of research at universities The consequences of paying to publish Each chapter combines research with practical advice and provides an overview of the state-of-the-art in research on the specific topic, as well as references for further reading

Intelligence Practices in High-Trust Societies

This book examines the dynamics of intelligence practices in the Scandinavian culture of high social cohesion and high trust. Situated within the new body of scholarly literature, the book emphasizes critical empirical investigations of intelligence practices, highlighting the specific cultural settings of such practices. By providing Scandinavian perspectives on intelligence studies, the work distinguishes Scandinavian intelligence studies from the predominant Anglo-American perspectives. Throughout the Western world, the past two decades have generated a rapid expansion of the legal mandate, funding, and capabilities of intelligence agencies which, simultaneously, have been pushed to renegotiate and renew their legitimacy and democratic mandate in response to a recurrent pattern of scandals, leaks, and failures. While these tendencies are also evident in Scandinavia, the book argues that it is important to emphasize the unique context of cohesion and trust in state agencies that differentiates Scandinavian welfare states from the American (and to a lesser extent British) contexts. This book brings together scholars from Norway, Sweden, and Denmark to address the continuous renegotiation of the legitimacy of state intelligence as it plays out in a Scandinavian setting. This book will be of interest to students of intelligence studies, Nordic politics, security studies, and International Relations

Development and Application of Starter Cultures

This Special Issue explores the evolving field of starter cultures, essential for improving raw material processing and the production of fermented foods. As industrial food production grows, the need for effective fermentation solutions becomes critical. This collection highlights two primary approaches for developing starter cultures: using well-defined species and strains for consistency and standardization or replicating biodiverse, autochthonous natural cultures to preserve unique sensory qualities and local microbial diversity. While selected starters offer ease of use and industrial scalability, natural starters maintain the distinctive flavors tied to their place of origin. This Special Issue gathers innovative research aimed at creating starter cultures that balance safety, quality, and biodiversity preservation, applicable to artisanal, pilot, and industrial production scales

Chapter 7 Rapture, rupture, reconstruction

Drawing from empirically grounded studies, the volume Situated Mixedness sheds light on the state of migration-related “intimate diversity”, that is, the simultaneous formation and existence of various configurations of conjugal mixedness. It examines this phenomenon in Belgium, a country in the European Union with a long history of immigration and where an important percentage of registered marriages are international. Through the optic of “situated mixedness”, the volume pays attention to the (dis-)connections between intimate diversity and its surrounding environment. Bringing together mutually reinforcing or often contradicting emic and etic perspectives, it illuminates how specific context/s (socio-legal, cultural, temporal, etc.) not only can influence, stem from, or trigger a social phenomenon but also remain standstill without a particular impact on individual’s lived experiences. It brings out in subtle ways the agency and subjectivities of individuals, nuancing thereby common-held views on socially Othered couples. Focusing on the intimate sphere of individuals’ life at the crossroads of anthropology and sociology, the volume contributes fresh insights not only to the study of migration and intermarriage but also to the literature on super- and hyper-diversity. It will be of interest to scholars, students, and social actors working on family-related migration, state policies, and social cohesion

Frontiers in Pelvic Floor Medicine

Frontiers in Pelvic Floor Medicine - Translating Science into Practice is a compendium of state-of-the-art papers providing an up-to-date approach to the emerging and captivating topic of pelvic floor medicine. Taken as a whole, these papers cover a range of different pathologies and clinical situations that combine the authors’ personal experiences with current scientific knowledge in the field. Each chapter outlines the links between basic physiology and objective measures and relates them to important clinical issues related to pelvic floor health. Throughout, the importance of the pathophysiologic mechanisms underlying pelvic floor dysfunction is emphasized and how this knowledge can be translated into better ways to diagnose, treat, and prevent clinical consequences of pelvic floor pathology. The content of the book spans different approaches to investigation, diagnosis, and treatment of the pelvic floor, including magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS), sacral neuromodulation, pelvic floor exercise, the relevance of the microbiome, the role of novel technologies, minimally invasive surgery, integrative medicine strategies, and inflammatory markers and diagnostic protocols

Dekoloniales Denken in der Lehrer:innenbildung

Wie können Lehrer:innenbildung und Bildung gerechter gestaltet werden? Dieses Buch macht auf die Kontinuität kolonialen Denkens in Lehrer:innenbildung und Unterricht aufmerksam und nimmt gegenüber Machtstrukturen, epistemischen Hegemonien und kulturellen Legitimationen post- oder dekoloniale Perspektiven ein. Beiträge aus Sprachbildung, Philosophie-, Geschichts- und Geographiedidaktik und anderen Disziplinen bieten vielfältige Ansätze, um Agency und Perspektivenvielfalt in der Lehrer:innenbildung zu stärken. Der Band zeigt, wie eine Transformation der Professionalisierung gelingen kann, die Diversität anerkennt und hegemoniale Strukturen aufbricht – notwendig um Professionalisierung neu zu denke

Advances in Earthquake Research and Engineering

Earthquakes have been a topic of great interest for years, particularly in understanding their causes, characteristics, and the role of seismic waves in studying them. Seismic data are also integrated with other information to investigate the plate tectonic processes that cause earthquakes. This book covers a wide range of topics, including earthquake disasters by computational gravimetry, seismic resistant buildings, statistical seismology, geomagnetic and ionospheric anomalies as earthquake precursors, crustal Velocity and source rupture models, ground motion amplification, socio-economic impacts of earthquakes, SAR differential interferometry and paleoseismic zones of the earth’s crust

Socialist Subjectivities

Socialist Subjectivities works within the logics of queer time to reanimate East German subjectivities in the 1970s and 1980s beyond the narrative of the German Democratic Republic’s long march towards demise. While East Germany certainly ended in dissolution, not all East Germans experienced late socialism in a singular manner. Rather, even after a generation of building socialism, East Germans under Honecker continued to pursue a range of socialist presents and a multiplicity of socialist futures up to and beyond 1989. This edited volume utilizes queer temporalities to interrogate how individuals lived non-normative possibilities in a highly normative world. Whether one was an apparatchik, artist, or alcoholic, the everyday interactions, experiences, and rituals of late socialism proved crucial to establishing the conditions around which subjecthood was constructed. Despite stereotypes of apathy and inertia, East Germans lent a considerable dynamism to their society, and by generating a cacophony of opinions and a heterogeneity of ideas, they constantly transformed state socialism. By foregrounding socialist subjects and the iterative nature of socialism during these decades, this volume paints a richer portrait of East Germany—one that illuminates how East Germans imagined their futures in a society whose collapse they could not foresee

Gas Explosion and Its Protection Technology in Process Industries

This open access book first introduces the explosive characteristics of combustible gas in the process industrial device, and then introduces the influence law of structural effect on gas explosion characteristics and deflagration to detonation process, and finally introduces the suppression mechanism and protection technology of gas explosion. This book takes the process industrial gas explosion characteristics and its protection as the research object, and discusses the gas explosion characteristics and its protection theory in details. This book can be used as the undergraduate and graduate textbook of safety engineering and related engineering majors in universities, and also as a reference for scientific research staff in safety science and engineering and related disciplines, and also for the reference of safety technology and management personnels