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God and greed : money and meditation in Karachi’s marketplace
textThe dissertation focuses on the shaping of merchants’ subjectivity in Karachi’s contemporary marketplace. It does this by placing human experience within the matrix of the cosmological value system, driven to a large extent by Islamic moral and ethical principles, as well as everyday material conditions, determined by economic activity. In doing so, it brings together the material and spiritual in conversation with each other. This dissertation particularly focuses on the convergence of Sufi moral discourse and meditative practices of zikr/dhikr with globalized technologies of finance capitalism. It seeks to answer: How do the two seemingly different practices converge? Modern financial practices aim to discipline merchants into becoming economic subjects accumulating capital. In contrast, the spiritual tradition of Sufi techniques shapes this excessive desire for accumulating, through the meditation (zikr/dhikr), molding the merchants into charitable subjects. Being a self-maximizing as well as a self-annihilating individual in the market, the merchant is able to contain the larger structuring of money and moral universes in everyday life. The experience generated at the threshold of accumulation and charity, I argue, gives rise to an affirmative subjectivity, which perceives the unity of existence the way it is.Anthropolog
The State of Law
This book is the result of the first interdisciplinary conference in Vietnam which took place on “the Rule of Law.” Instead of beginning immediately with a highly specialized debate from the perspective of one single academic discipline, we started to discuss numerous facets of the subject arising from a multidisciplinary dialogue. For this reason, the contributions for this publication come from various scientific disciplines in Vietnam and Germany: political, historical, social, economic and legal sciences, but also members of Vietnamese governmental and non-governmental organizations. The aim of the volume is to open up a dialogue about the Rule of Law between two very different legal cultures, the German-European and the Vietnamese-Southeast Asian
The State of Law
This book is the result of the first interdisciplinary conference in Vietnam which took place on “the Rule of Law.” Instead of beginning immediately with a highly specialized debate from the perspective of one single academic discipline, we started to discuss numerous facets of the subject arising from a multidisciplinary dialogue. For this reason, the contributions for this publication come from various scientific disciplines in Vietnam and Germany: political, historical, social, economic and legal sciences, but also members of Vietnamese governmental and non-governmental organizations. The aim of the volume is to open up a dialogue about the Rule of Law between two very different legal cultures, the German-European and the Vietnamese-Southeast Asian
Change and Persistence, Proceedings of the International Conference, Tunis, 12-13 November 2013
This publication is based on the proceedings of an international conference
entitled ‘Arab Revolutions and Beyond: Change and Persistence’, which was held
in the framework of a multilateral project called ‘Challenges and
Transformations in the Wake of the Arab Spring’ (2012-2014). The project is
funded by the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) and based upon the
longstanding partnership between Cairo University in Egypt and Freie
Universität Berlin in Germany, specifically between the EuroMed Study Program
at the Faculty of Economics and Political Sciences (FEPS) and the Centre for
Middle Eastern and North African Politics at Otto-Suhr-Institute, Department
for Political and Social Sciences. Dieser Sammelband ist ein Ergebnis der
internationalen Tunis-Konferenz "Arab Revolutions and Beyond: Change and
Persistence", die im Rahmen des multinationalen DAAD-Projekts "Challenges and
Transformations in the Wake of the Arab Spring" im November 2013 stattfand.
Neben Kolleg_innen der Universität Kairo, mit der bereits eine langjährige
Partnerschaft besteht, sind auch Nachwuchsforscher_innen aus Tunesien, Libyen,
Jordanien und weiteren Arabischen Staaten beteiligt. Das Projekt stellt sich
den Herausforderungen, welche sich durch die politischen und sozialen Umbrüche
in der Region für die akademische Bildung, v.a. in den Sozialwissenschaften
ergeben haben. Hieraus soll ein produktiver Dialog über theoretische,
methodische und thematische Felder der Sozialwissenschaften eröffnet werden,
um die Strukturen von Forschung und Lehre dauerhaft zu verbessern.This publication is based on the proceedings of an international conference
entitled ‘Arab Revolutions and Beyond: Change and Persistence’, which was held
in the framework of a multilateral project called ‘Challenges and
Transformations in the Wake of the Arab Spring’ (2012-2014). The project is
funded by the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) and based upon the
longstanding partnership between Cairo University in Egypt and Freie
Universität Berlin in Germany, specifically between the EuroMed Study Program
at the Faculty of Economics and Political Sciences (FEPS) and the Centre for
Middle Eastern and North African Politics at Otto-Suhr-Institute, Department
for Political and Social Sciences. The project addresses the challenges of
current political and social transformations and their ramifications for
higher education and the social sciences in Egypt and the region. The
overarching objective of the project is to enter a productive dialogue on
theories, methodologies and topics in social science research among Arab and
German researchers. At the same time, we aim to improve teaching and research
structures in the social sciences in a sustainable and efficient way. This
will build students’ and teachers’ capacities on both shores of the
Mediterranean and at the same time strengthen institutional efforts to promote
the role of social sciences in the current transformations
Emotion and Stress Recognition Related Sensors and Machine Learning Technologies
This book includes impactful chapters which present scientific concepts, frameworks, architectures and ideas on sensing technologies and machine learning techniques. These are relevant in tackling the following challenges: (i) the field readiness and use of intrusive sensor systems and devices for capturing biosignals, including EEG sensor systems, ECG sensor systems and electrodermal activity sensor systems; (ii) the quality assessment and management of sensor data; (iii) data preprocessing, noise filtering and calibration concepts for biosignals; (iv) the field readiness and use of nonintrusive sensor technologies, including visual sensors, acoustic sensors, vibration sensors and piezoelectric sensors; (v) emotion recognition using mobile phones and smartwatches; (vi) body area sensor networks for emotion and stress studies; (vii) the use of experimental datasets in emotion recognition, including dataset generation principles and concepts, quality insurance and emotion elicitation material and concepts; (viii) machine learning techniques for robust emotion recognition, including graphical models, neural network methods, deep learning methods, statistical learning and multivariate empirical mode decomposition; (ix) subject-independent emotion and stress recognition concepts and systems, including facial expression-based systems, speech-based systems, EEG-based systems, ECG-based systems, electrodermal activity-based systems, multimodal recognition systems and sensor fusion concepts and (x) emotion and stress estimation and forecasting from a nonlinear dynamical system perspective
Mappae Mundi: humans and their habitats in a long-term socio-ecological perspective ; myths, maps and models
Never before in history was the interaction between people and their natural environment as complex and problematic as it is today. A proliferation of scientific research has yielded valuable insights into various aspects of this interaction from the angle of many disciplines - the natural sciences, the social sciences, archaeology and history, ecological studies. The diversity of approaches has created a need for synthesis, for a study that transcends the boundaries of traditional fields of study. In this volume, authors from various academic backgrounds discuss the relations between human society and its physical environment in the course of history, highlighting a number of significant periods, throughout the world. The last chapter assesses our present situation and prospects for the future in the light of theoretical reflections based on the evidence from the past
Nursing and Society
The year 2020 is considered by the World Health Organization to be the International Year of the Nurse and Midwife. This book supports the visibility of the contribution of nurses to society. We have included 30 articles on high-quality original research or reviews that provide solid new discoveries that expand current knowledge
Narrating Time in the Twelfth Century
The essays that make up this special issue of Interfaces share a common interest in the narration and representation of time in twelfth-century texts. The volume focuses primarily on works that we would now regard as 'literary:' writing that prompts an affective response in its audience through the tactical use of rhetoric and form. The issue is primarily concerned with writers operating in England, France and Germany, a cultural zone bound together in the central Middle Ages by the relatively fluid circulation of people, books and ideas across territorial boundaries. While the focus is on the literatures and languages of these regions (vernacular and Latin), the contributors have worked up their essays with an awareness that this is an editorial choice with respect to scope and scale, a choice that brings certain patterns into view at the expense of others. England, France and Germany are conceived of here as a cultural zone nested within a series of larger spaces, with graduations including, but not limited to, western Christendom (overlaying the world of Roman antiquity), eastern Christendom (overlaying the ancient Greek world), and a larger Afro-Eurasian frame.
In the broadest terms, what brings these essays together is a common interest in the representation of time and temporal structures in twelfth-century narrative. All concern the way in which different kinds of texts, written in different languages yet in the same period, organize and structure their content so as to depict temporal process, order or change. Across these essays, the authors explore how twelfth-century writers employed literary techniques (be they rhetorical, allegorical or narratological) with the aim of organizing time or engaging creatively and intellectually with theories of time and eternity.
Cover image: Robert Hardy, Engel, 2023, oil on canvas, 20 x 20 cm – https://roberthardyartist.co