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The Revival of the Left in the Balkans
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 512

The Revival of the Left in the Balkans

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2024-12-02
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This book explores how the critical discursive breakthrough of social movements in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Croatia disrupted the post-socialist status quo. It will appeal to postgraduate students and scholars in social sciences, particularly those studying social movements and Eastern and South-Eastern European politics.

文化研究年度报告(2016)
  • Language: zh-CN
  • Pages: 414

文化研究年度报告(2016)

《文化研究年度報告》是首都師範大學文藝學學科與社會科學文獻出版社聯合主辦的學術輯刊,旨在充分展示國內文化研究的學術成果,促進國內外文化研究的交流,成為文化研究的另一個重要平臺和品牌。《文化研究年度報告》推崇有獨特新銳的聲音、見解、觀點、智慧的有原創性的文化研究成果,常設欄目有:“年度論文”“文化熱點評述”“文化研究年度重要論著評述”“文化研究大事記” “文化研究工作坊”。本書是2016年度的報告。

The Revival of the Left in the Balkans
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 177

The Revival of the Left in the Balkans

This book explores how the critical discursive breakthrough of social movements in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Croatia disrupted the post-socialist transitional status quo. While critical ideas have long fueled social and political actions, the specifics of their relationship with activism have received limited scholarly attention. This book discusses the emergence of new left actors through the lens of a maturation of consciousness, rather than the opening of structural or other “windows of opportunity,” suggesting the potential for such actors to emerge stemmed from the exposure of a segment of the populace to critical ideas. Questions surrounding the relevance of different typ...

A New Fascism?
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 56

A New Fascism?

The contributions in this book are based on, A New Fascism - a symposium held at Fridericianum, Kassel (2016), in conjunction with the exhibition, Two A.M. by Loretta Fahrenholz. The texts follow the questions: Is there a new fascism emerging? And how can we form a counter-acting power?In her novel entitled Nach Mitternacht (After Midnight, 1937), Irmgard Keun describes everyday life in Nazi Germany in the late 1930s under the dominant influences of fear, government control and despotism. In her exhibition at the Fridericianum, artist Loretta Fahrenholz called attention to similar contemporary phenomena. Based loosely on Keun's exile novel, her Two A.M. was a socio-fiction film in which she ...

Rooms for Manoeuvre
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 309

Rooms for Manoeuvre

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-09-06
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  • Publisher: V&R Unipress

The volume focuses on emerging "rooms for manoeuvre" in the socialist societies of Central and Eastern Europe after the Second World War. Unlike in other works, these areas of activity are not viewed as isolated spheres where citizens could act independently from political and societal constraints. They are rather conceptualized here as geographical, social or institutional spaces whose existence was either outside of political control or more or less intentionally allowed by authorities and other decision-makers. The contributions investigate how East Germans, Poles, Romanians, Slovaks and Czechs coped with the limitations of socialist reality. How did they adopt and successfully adapt given norms to their own specific interests? To what extent were the resulting "rooms for manoeuvre" not only essential aspects of the state socialist system, but even necessary to stabilize it?

PROCEEDINGS OF THE 21ST CONFERENCE ON FORMAL METHODS IN COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN – FMCAD 2021
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 297

PROCEEDINGS OF THE 21ST CONFERENCE ON FORMAL METHODS IN COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN – FMCAD 2021

Our life is dominated by hardware: a USB stick, the processor in our laptops or the SIM card in our smart phone. But who or what makes sure that these systems work stably, safely and securely from the word go? The computer - with a little help from humans. The overall name for this is CAD (computer-aided design), and it’s become hard to imagine our modern industrial world without it. So how can we be sure that the hardware and computer systems we use are reliable? By using formal methods: these are techniques and tools to calculate whether a system description is in itself consistent or whether requirements have been developed and implemented correctly. Or to put it another way: they can b...

Rafael Moneo
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 487

Rafael Moneo

Rafael Moneo is a courageous architect, one who for decades has defined his own style of architecture. With a sensitivity to materials and context unmatched by any living architect, Moneo has created a series of important works, including the Audrey Jones Beck Building at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Our Lady of the Angels Cathedral in Los Angeles, and, perhaps most notably, the extension to the Prado Museum in Madrid. A teacher and critic, Moneo now turns his analytical eye to his own work. Twenty-one carefully selected projects are presented in detail, from the initial idea and through construction to the completed work and illustrated by a spectacular suite of new color images by architectural photographer Michael Moran. These are combined with Moneo’s own drawings as well as informal documentary material from the design of each of the projects.

Social Movements and Networks
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 369

Social Movements and Networks

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2003-02-13
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  • Publisher: OUP Oxford

Social Movements and Networks examines the extent to which a network approach should inform research on collective action. For the first time in a single volume, leading social movements researchers systematically map out and assess the contribution of social network approaches to their field of enquiry in light of broader theoretical perspective. By exploring how networks affect individual contributions to collective action in both democratic and non-democratic organizations, and how patterns of inter-organizational linkages affect the circulation of resources within and between movements, the authors show how network concepts improve our grasp of the relationship between social movements and elites and of the dynamics of the political processes.

Frontiers in Social Movement Theory
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 400

Frontiers in Social Movement Theory

Scholars in the area of social action present new theories about this process, fashioning a social psychology of social movements that goes beyond theories currently in use.

Graph Representation Learning
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 141

Graph Representation Learning

Graph-structured data is ubiquitous throughout the natural and social sciences, from telecommunication networks to quantum chemistry. Building relational inductive biases into deep learning architectures is crucial for creating systems that can learn, reason, and generalize from this kind of data. Recent years have seen a surge in research on graph representation learning, including techniques for deep graph embeddings, generalizations of convolutional neural networks to graph-structured data, and neural message-passing approaches inspired by belief propagation. These advances in graph representation learning have led to new state-of-the-art results in numerous domains, including chemical sy...