Kendzia, Victoria Bishop (2017), Visitors tot he House of Memory. Identity and the Political Education at the Jewish Museum Berlin. Col. “Museum and Collections”, 9. New York-Oxford: Berghahn, 174 pp. ISBN: 978-1-78533-639-3.

Kendzia, Victoria Bishop (2017), Visitors tot he House of Memory. Identity and the Political Education at the Jewish Museum Berlin. Col. “Museum and Collections”, 9. New York-Oxford: Berghahn, 174 pp. ISBN: 978-1-78533-639-3. 978-1-78533-640-9 (eBook)

Relational Ethics: Volunteering and the Responsibilities of the Good Muslim

This article explores the ways in which female Belgian Muslim volunteers experience responsibility. It argues that responsibility consists of multiple dynamics for the volunteers, for example, the duties that are embedded in the Islamic tradition and the duties that arise from being a good citizen in a liberal/secular context. While these are often emphasized as being contentious binaries—especially for Muslims living in the West—this paper suggests that volunteering allows the Muslim women to bring these worlds together. The ways in which volunteering enables this is by introducing a relational reading of ethics and ethical self-formation. Relationality is highly significant for the female Muslim volunteer. It signifies being in touch with both (non-liberal) Islamic ethics and liberal public norms, even when pursuing a pious lifestyle. Hence, the article explores the ways in which responsibility is actualized in this framework. Finally, the last section interrogates how this idea of responsibility and relationality re-articulates binaries of the good-Muslim and the bad-Muslim

Physical Internet-driven last mile delivery: Performance requirements across people, process, and technology

The concept of the physical internet (PI) is changing and reshaping the business environment of logistics along with the cutting-edge technologies and innovations and is rapidly evolving towards last mile delivery (LMD). Implementing new solutions in LMD are particularly essential to meet growing demand, respond to increased operational complexity and enhance efficiency and sustainability. The PI-driven LMD requires new features and capabilities to combat all these challenges. Therefore, there is a need to understand the performance requirements that contextualize the relationships among people, process, and technology (PPT). In this study, a PI-driven LMD framework based on PPT theory is proposed. First, a systematic literature review is conducted to explore the state of the art of academic and practitioner articles and projects on LMD and PI. Then, a thematic analysis is carried out to analyze the requirements of the PI-driven LMD from the perspective of PPT to interpret performance challenges and successes. The main contribution of this study is to investigate the performance related requirements of PI-driven LMD according to PPT perspectives. The findings show that PI-driven LMD improves delivery performance, security, privacy, transparency, and traceability performance as well as customer service performance

Islamic Ethics and Female Volunteering [electronic resource] : Committing to Society, Committing to God /

This book unpacks how the ethical is embodied through an examination of the lived experiences of female Muslim volunteers in Belgium. Kayikci draws on a wealth of interview material that sheds light on the ethical turn in the anthropology of Islam, exploring how volunteering enables the space and time for Muslim women to commit to both orthodox religious and civic social values. As volunteering and interacting (caring) with the society requires careful deliberation of their society and their position as Muslims, and as women in that society, this research unpacks how multiple belongings of Muslim women in Belgium are negotiated, balanced, and influenced. This analysis reveals how the everyday is informed by different epistemological traditions; both the liberal and the Islamic, and how these traditions make the life-worlds of the women. Islamic Ethics and Female Volunteering will be of interest to academics across religious studies, anthropology, sociology, gender studies and community studies, especially scholars working in the areas of ethics, migration, Muslims in Europe, volunteering and activism. Merve Reyhan Kayikci is Post-doctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Semitic Studies, University of Granada, Spain. She is also an affiliated staff member in the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Leuven, Belgium.Introduction -- 1. Getting Acquainted with the Volunteers -- 2. Caring is a Part of Believing and Why the Ethical is Relational -- 3. Reviving A Forgotten Tradition, Infaq -- 4. The Authority in Sisterhood -- 5. When Volunteering Touches the Experience of Time -- 6. The Adab of Da'wa -- 7. Transparency, Visibility and the Mahram -- 8. Conclusion: Further Thoughts on Volunteering -- Epilogue -- Glossary.This book unpacks how the ethical is embodied through an examination of the lived experiences of female Muslim volunteers in Belgium. Kayikci draws on a wealth of interview material that sheds light on the ethical turn in the anthropology of Islam, exploring how volunteering enables the space and time for Muslim women to commit to both orthodox religious and civic social values. As volunteering and interacting (caring) with the society requires careful deliberation of their society and their position as Muslims, and as women in that society, this research unpacks how multiple belongings of Muslim women in Belgium are negotiated, balanced, and influenced. This analysis reveals how the everyday is informed by different epistemological traditions; both the liberal and the Islamic, and how these traditions make the life-worlds of the women. Islamic Ethics and Female Volunteering will be of interest to academics across religious studies, anthropology, sociology, gender studies and community studies, especially scholars working in the areas of ethics, migration, Muslims in Europe, volunteering and activism. Merve Reyhan Kayikci is Post-doctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Semitic Studies, University of Granada, Spain. She is also an affiliated staff member in the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Leuven, Belgium