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Some Aspects of the Theology of the City in ANE Literature and Biblical Protology and Eschatology: A Comparative Study
The city is an essential accomplishment that is embedded in the foundations of human civilization. From its mature appearance in Sumer and its developed forms throughout the ANE world, the city held a high place in cosmology, cosmogony, and anthropogony. The ideology and theology of the city created by the ANE peoples were built around and presented through the interplay of the triangle of influences and dependencies formed by the city, the temple, and kingship in conjunction with the gods. The question is whether the same construct is ingeminated in the Bible. This dissertation strives to provide an appropriate context in order to critically assess the relatedness between the ANE and biblical views on the city, specifically from the perspective of the biblical protology (Genesis 1â11) and eschatology (Revelation 21â22). It also aims to understand the biblical attitudes towards the city, their coordination and complementarity in addressing the ANE views, their conceptual direction, as well as their theoretical and practical consequences
Displacement and the Humanities: Manifestos from the Ancient to the Present
This is the final version. Available on open access from MDPI via the DOI in this recordThis is a reprint of articles from the Special Issue published online in the open access journal Humanities (ISSN 2076-0787) (available at: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/humanities/special_issues/Manifestos Ancient Present)This volume brings together the work of practitioners, communities, artists and other researchers from multiple disciplines. Seeking to provoke a discourse around displacement within and beyond the field of Humanities, it positions historical cases and debates, some reaching into the ancient past, within diverse geo-chronological contexts and current world urgencies. In adopting an innovative dialogic structure, between practitioners on the ground - from architects and urban planners to artists - and academics working across subject areas, the volume is a proposition to: remap priorities for current research agendas; open up disciplines, critically analysing their approaches; address the socio-political responsibilities that we have as scholars and practitioners; and provide an alternative site of discourse for contemporary concerns about displacement. Ultimately, this volume aims to provoke future work and collaborations - hence, manifestos - not only in the historical and literary fields, but wider research concerned with human mobility and the challenges confronting people who are out of place of rights, protection and belonging
Ethnographies of Collaborative Economies across Europe: Understanding Sharing and Caring
"Sharing economy" and "collaborative economy" refer to a proliferation of initiatives, business models, digital platforms and forms of work that characterise contemporary life: from community-led initiatives and activist campaigns, to the impact of global sharing platforms in contexts such as network hospitality, transportation, etc. Sharing the common lens of ethnographic methods, this book presents in-depth examinations of collaborative economy phenomena. The book combines qualitative research and ethnographic methodology with a range of different collaborative economy case studies and topics across Europe. It uniquely offers a truly interdisciplinary approach. It emerges from a unique, long-term, multinational, cross-European collaboration between researchers from various disciplines (e.g., sociology, anthropology, geography, business studies, law, computing, information systems), career stages, and epistemological backgrounds, brought together by a shared research interest in the collaborative economy. This book is a further contribution to the in-depth qualitative understanding of the complexities of the collaborative economy phenomenon. These rich accounts contribute to the painting of a complex landscape that spans several countries and regions, and diverse political, cultural, and organisational backdrops. This book also offers important reflections on the role of ethnographic researchers, and on their stance and outlook, that are of paramount interest across the disciplines involved in collaborative economy research
âInner qualities versus inequalitiesâ: A case study of student change learning about Aboriginal health using sequential, explanatory mixed methods
Racism and lack of self-determination in health care perpetuate injury and injustice to Aboriginal people. To instil cultural safety at individual, organisational, community and systems levels, a key site of action has been health professional education that seeks to elicit reflexivity, cultural humility and a working understanding of Aboriginal health concepts.
Studies in Aboriginal community settings show Family Well Being (FWB) empowerment education is effective in supporting personal and collective reflexivity and transformation through empowering life skills development. Implementation of FWB within educational settings shows early signs of effectiveness among students. Yet knowledge of the steps and processes of student change is lacking.
This mixed methods explanatory case study sought to measure and understand change in postgraduate students of a leading Australian university learning about Aboriginal health and wellbeing through blended delivery, including through face-to-face immersion in FWB in an urban classroom. Three interrelated studies investigated fidelity and acceptability of the program, measured and analysed growth and empowerment in students, and explained processes of change observed, through thematic analysis of asynchronous online discussions using lenses based on transformative learning and empowerment. Researcher reflexivity was promoted by Aboriginal supervision.
Over six years, 194 students enrolled in two different Aboriginal public health courses, 85 of them in the FWB course. As well as achieving program fidelity and acceptability, pre/post-course change in students across a range of emotional empowerment, personal growth and life-long learning processes was measured in the FWB group. Thematic analysis revealed studentsâ fluid and recursive processes of transformative learning in their professional selves and capacities to act in domains important to Aboriginal health.
This case study contributes new knowledge critical to strengthening health professional capabilities for ever more complex, uncertain and emotionally demanding sites of practice, and to work in empowering waysâwith, not for, Aboriginal people and communities
Tradition and Innovation in Construction Project Management
This book is a reprint of the Special Issue 'Tradition and Innovation in Construction Project Management' that was published in the journal Buildings
In Their Surroundings: Localizing Modern Jewish Literatures in Eastern Europe
From the second half of the nineteenth century through to World War II, Eastern Europe, especially the territories that formerly made up the Pale of Settlement in the Tsarist Empire, witnessed a Jewish cultural flowering that went hand-in-hand with a multifaceted literary productivity in the Hebrew and Yiddish languages. Accompanied and sometimes directly affected by the dramatic political ruptures of the era, many authors experimented with various modernist poetics in the context of a culturally and literarily closely interwoven milieu. This book presents for the first time some of the key figures of the era, including in each case a portrait of the author and a close reading of selected texts, including Yosef កayim Brenner, Leah Goldberg, Moyshe Kulbak, and Deborah Vogel. Of particular interest here is the productive entanglement of cultures and literatures, of cultural contact and transfer, and the significance of space and place for the development of modern Jewish literatures
Understanding movement behaviour time-use in youth from different socioeconomic backgrounds
Understanding the associations of movement behaviour time-use (i.e., physical activity, sedentary behaviour, and sleep) and youthâs physical health, psychological health, and education-related outcomes has become increasingly popular in public health research.
However, little is known about the differences in movement behaviour time-use across youth from different socioeconomic positions and how these differences may affect specific outcomes. This thesis furthers our knowledge of movement behaviour time-use and socioeconomic position through three studies. In the first study, a systematic review, I found that the combination of âhighâ levels of physical activity and sleep with âlowâ sedentary behaviour provided children and adolescents are generally associated with the best outcomes. In the second study I aimed to identify general and domain-specific movement trajectory profiles and whether socioeconomic position could predict profile membership. For general movement behaviours, males from different socioeconomic positions did not differ in their movement trajectory profiles, but females from lower socioeconomic position were a combination of being less physically active and more sedentary than their higher socioeconomic peers. For domain-specific movement behaviours those from lower socioeconomic backgrounds, regardless of sex, tended to spend a combination of more time in recreational screen activities and less time in education-related sedentary behaviour than their higher socioeconomic peers. In the final study I aimed to test if combinations of domain-specific movement behaviours mediated the relationship between socioeconomic position and socio- emotional outcomes in youth. Recreational screen activities had a mediating effect but combinations of domain-specific movement behaviours did not. These findings will help us better cater programs and guidelines to children from different socioeconomic backgrounds
Publishing the Pan-Jewish: The First Hebrew Newspaper and its Modernities
Publishing the Pan-Jewish emerges from a question about sites of synthesis between claims of sacred continuity and novel forms of communication. It centers on the first ten years of Hamagid (1856-1866), acknowledged within the historiography as historyâs first Hebrew-language newspaper. Eliezer Lipman Silberman, an Orthodox butcher founded Hamagid in East Prussia as a bulwark of his vision of traditional Judaism. The first chapter of this dissertation examines the formal elements of the newspaper as a medium, demonstrating the myriad ways in which it presented novel experiences for its reading public. Chapter two narrates an untold history of the newspaperâs early readers and writers. These individuals formed an expansive network that eventually spanned much of the globe, uniting Jews in new ways. With the geographical distance between readers, and the far-flung subjects of news stories,many of Hamagidâs early readers confronted truth claims with dubious credibility. The third chapter traces a modernizing epistemology, in which standards of credibility gradually came to align with those of the empirical sciences, replacing credibility that relied on the reputation of individual religious authorities. Chapter four turns to depictions of the world outside of East Prussia, demonstrating Hamagidâs reliance on British sources for its foreign news. In the aggregate, using these sources engendered a narration of space skeptical of Ottoman rule abroad and sympathetic to the policy goals of the British Empire. The final chapter examines Hamagidâs style of Hebrew, in particular its use of allusions to the Hebrew Bible. Hamagidâs allusive style gestured back to the eighteenth century masklim and created for readers a sacred sense of contemporaneity. This Hebrew was distinct from contemporary publications, which by the 1850s were moving the language towards a new lexicon separate from the canon. Like its other features, Hamagidâs Hebrew was in the service of moderation, it was a tool to bring together novelty and conservativism. By way of conclusion, Publishing the Pan-Jewish interrogates the category of âmoderateâ and builds a new vocabulary by which historians can understand cultural products in the nineteenth century
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Alternative Power: The Politics of Denmark\u27s Renewable Energy Transition
Global climate change is one of the defining political challenges and opportunities of the current era. Experts widely agree that technical means already exist for making the necessary transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy; the obstacles to doing so are primarily political. Careful observers also recognize that this period of transition creates an opening for political innovation and development. How can the political will be generated to take action to prevent climate catastrophe? And what will the process of transitioning mean for the political systems that have been built on cheap and abundant oil? Political scientists have largely ignored technological development as a lever for political development, or feared that technology could only be a force of domination. Yet renewable energy enthusiasts have often seen democratizing potential in these technologies. What can be accomplished politically by building a wind turbine? As countries like Denmark accumulate decades of experience with renewable energy, it is becoming possible to give such questions close empirical consideration. Denmark generates more of its electricity from renewable sources, and has been doing so longer, than any other industrialized nation, making it a uniquely valuable case for studying an advanced renewable energy transition in progress. This dissertation draws on novel qualitative and quantitative data to present the first comprehensive history of Denmarkâs energy transition from its roots in the 1970s until the present, aiming to explain how this tiny nation emerged as the worldâs leading wind power producer, and assess whether this process has yielded any democratic dividends. The multi-method analysis sheds new light on internal dynamics of Denmarkâs energy transition, and, more generally, on late-stage evolutionary processes in mature technological systems. Many studies have shown an interest in the Danish case, which is usually presented as a relatively unqualified success story, but few have provided the empirical resolution to identify these complicating factors. This dissertation employs an explanatory strategy adapted from the ecological sciences to construct a more holistic and integrative portrait, resulting in a more thorough and accurate account of how Denmark jumped out to such a significant lead in the energy transition, and why that momentum might be flagging today, with implications for other countries hoping to chart a path toward a sustainable future
Arctic Art & Culture
The popular science review includes the materials about educational,
research, scientific and practical activity of the team from the Arctic State
Institute of Culture and Arts, their partners, and the Northern Forum
regions facilitating the modern image-making of the North and Arctic
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