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Democracy in Crisis
This is the annual edited volume in the Austrian Study Center for Peace and Conflict Resolution (ASPR) publication series, which addresses urgent issues surrounding the current crisis of democracy and the potential consequences and possibilities for civic protest and civic resistance. This latest volume has two novelties: for the first time, it is published in English, and it is edited by the ASPR in cooperation with the partner institutions of the recently formed Conflict Peace and Democracy Cluster (CPDC) - the Center for Peace Research and Peace Education at the Alps-Adriatic University of Klagenfurt/Celovec, the Institute of Conflict Research Vienna, and the Democracy Center Vienna. (Series: Dialog: Contributions to Peace Research -- Vol. 65)
Revolution as a Process
As Egyptian society stands at a point of extreme polarization, this book about the Egyptian Revolution makes an important contribution to current debates about the Arab uprisings by bringing together theoretical and practitioner’s perspectives. The clear aim of this edited volume of the series Contemporary Studies on the MENA Region is not to construct a singular narrative about the revolution but rather to highlight the multiplicity and complexity of perspectives and theoretical lenses. Consequently, this book brings together authors from diverse academic and cultural backgrounds, from the Middle East and the Global North, to raise their voices. This publication addresses scholars of the ...
Why Occupy a Square?
On 25 January 2011, tens of thousands of Egyptians came out on the streets to protest against emergency rule and police brutality. Eighteen days later, Mubarak, one of the longest sitting dictators in the region, had gone. How are we to make sense of these events? Was this a revolution, a revolutionary moment? How did the protests come about? How were they able to outmaneuver the police? Was this really a 'leaderless revolution,' as so many pundits claimed, or were the demonstrations an outgrowth of the protest networks that had developed over the past decade? Why did so many people with no history of activism participate? What role did economic and systemic crises play in creating the condi...
Natural Laws as Dispositions
The book provides a novel account of laws of nature via dispositions. Laws of nature play a paramount role in philosophy, science and everyday life. Understanding laws of nature is philosophically interesting on its own right but also many important notions belonging to philosophy of science, like causation, prediction and explanation, are intimately related to the laws of nature. The book outlines the alleged characteristics of the laws of nature and introduces the main families of theories of laws of nature – neo-humean, ADT and dispositional theories. It then develops an account of dispositions the `triadic process picture of dispositions’ (TPD) and applies it to the debate about laws of nature. Finally, the (TPD) account of the necessity of the laws of nature is presented: laws of nature are naturally necessary and metaphysically contingent. Thus the book provides an introduction to the debates about laws of nature as well as dispositions, while at the same time developing a novel theory and thus is interesting for the beginner as well as expert in these fields.
Social Functions in Philosophy
Social functions and functional explanations play a prominent role not only in our everyday reasoning but also in classical as well as contemporary social theory and empirical social research. This volume explores metaphysical, normative, and methodological perspectives on social functions and functional explanations in the social sciences. It aims to push the philosophical debate on social functions forward along new investigative lines by including up-to-date discussions of the metaphysics of social functions, questions concerning the nature of functional explanations within the social domain, and various applications of functionalist theorising. As such, this is one of the first collections to exclusively address a variety of philosophical questions concerning the nature and relevance of social functions.
European Thought and Culture, 1350-1992
This book explores the main currents of European thought between 1350 and 1992, which it approaches in two principal ways: culture as produced by place and the progressive unmooring of thought from previously set religious and philosophical boundaries. The book reads the period against spatial thought’s history (spatial sciences such as geography or Euclidean geometry) to argue that Europe cannot be understood as a continent in intellectual terms or its history organized with respect to traditional spatial-geographic categories. Instead we need to understand European intellectual history in terms of a culture that defined its own place, as opposed to a place that produced a given culture. ...
穆巴拉克时期的埃及
穆巴拉克時期(1981―2011)長達30年，是埃及當代歷史的重要時期。穆巴拉克政權的迅速垮臺，成為學界和靠前社會關注的熱點話題。本著旨在對穆巴拉克時期的埃及做全面、系統而深入的研究，闡釋該穆巴拉克時期埃及的經濟狀況、軍隊的狀況及其在埃及政治與社會中的角色、埃及的非政府組織狀況及影響、埃及少數民族與教派的狀況與影響、埃及的對外關係等。本著有助於客觀認識和評價穆巴拉克時期，揭示2011年埃及劇變的深層次原因。
Heilige Berge
Eine ca. 5000 Jahre zurückreichende problemorientierte Religionsgeschichte ist notwendigerweise eine ausgewählte transkulturelle Geschichte: Jürgen Stillig nimmt Leser/innen mit auf eine empirische Weltreise zu «Heiligen Bergen». Der Jerusalemer Tempelberg veranschaulicht seine historische Beziehung zum «Exodus» der Israeliten aus Ägypten um 1200 v. Chr. Diesem normativ geordneten Raum von Vergangenheit und Erinnerung, den dann Expansionen jüdisch-christlicher Orientierungen in Europa, Amerika und Asien porträtieren, widerfährt ein Wechsel vom biblischen Zauber des Anfangs in die selbstgewisse Fiktion eines begriffenen Konstruktionssystems. Modernisierungstheoretiker präformieren...
Protestchöre
Protestformen haben sich im globalen Maßstab und über kulturelle wie politische Grenzen hinweg verändert. Die sozial- und politikwissenschaftliche Protestforschung verfolgt dies aufmerksam, wobei die ästhetischen Dimensionen oft unterbelichtet bleiben. Stefan Donath beschreibt am Beispiel einer der ältesten Ausdrucksformen des europäischen Theaters - dem Chor - den Wandel in den Darstellungsformen von Protest. Er zeigt: Im Rahmen von Stuttgart 21, des Arabischen Frühlings und der Occupy-Bewegung verweisen Protestchöre auf eine neue Ästhetik des Widerstands.
Wachen, kontrollieren, patrouillieren
Das Konzept der Kustodialisierung versucht einen neuen Zugriff auf die Veränderungen im Bereich der Inneren Sicherheit vorzunehmen. Anhand von mehreren Beispielen werden nicht nur aktuelle Entwicklungen untersucht. Hierunter fallen u.a. neue Formen der staatlichen Kontrolle, Veränderungen im Sicherheitsgefühl, Umstrukturierungen in der Bereitstellung von Sicherheit im kommunalen Sektor, aber auch die Rolle der Inklusion des Bürgers in Sicherheitsaufgaben. Am Ende soll geklärt werden, ob mit Hilfe der Kustodialisierung der "neue" Zugriff auf alte Probleme im Sicherheitsbereich gelungen ist oder in welche Richtung gezielte Forschung ansetzen müsste.
