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Encountering Race in Albania: An Ethnography of the Communist Afterlife
By Chelsi West Ohueri. 2025
Encountering Race in Albania is the first book to interrogate race and racial logics in Albania. Chelsi West Ohueri examines…
how race is made, remade, produced, and reproduced through constructions of whiteness, blackness, and otherness. She argues that while race is often limited to Western processes of modernity that exclude Eastern Europe, racialization processes are global, and the ethnography of everyday Albanian socialities makes visible how race operates. Historical and political science frameworks prevail in the study of post-Cold War East European societies, yet as West Ohueri shows, anthropological and ethnographic knowledge can equip scholars to ask questions that they might otherwise not consider, illustrating how racialization is ongoing and enduring in a period that she terms the communist afterlife. Encountering Race in Albania, through the unexpected optic of Albania, a small, formerly communist country in Southeast Europe, offers significant insights into into broader understandings of race in a global context.
In Life at a Distance, Vincent Duclos recounts the story of the Pan-African e-Network. Branded as "India's gift to the…
world," and as a "shining example of South-South cooperation," the Pan-African e-Network was an exceptionally ambitious project. Between 2009 and 2017 the network used satellite technology to connect hospitals across Africa with hospitals in India, providing medical education and delivering health care for patients at a distance. Duclos shows how, by accelerating the flow of expertise across continents, the network also created connected enclaves, at once commercial, infrastructural, and medical. Life at a Distance is the story of a project that, Duclos suggests, acted as a medium for speculation about the future—about medical markets, the nation, South-South relations, and a new world order beyond Western-centric scripts.
The Dutch World of Washington Irving tells an alternative origin story of American literary culture. In December of 1809, before…
finding fame with "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," Washington Irving published his satirical A History of New York, from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty under the pseudonym Diedrich Knickerbocker. Elisabeth Paling Funk explains that the History of New York and the Hudson Valley folktales that followed were part of an early trend of responding to the national desire for a historical record. Funk argues that these works uniquely describe this part of the American scene in the period of the Early Republic and bring forward the Dutch strain in its history and culture.Funk explores what the young Irving would have read, heard, and observed during his early life and career in New York City, once part of the former colony of New Netherland, where he was surrounded by Dutch-speaking neighbors and relatives and Dutch literature. Based on these sources, The Dutch World of Washington Irving argues that Irving's Knickerbocker works—not only his History but also his Hudson Valley stories—represent a crucial effort to preserve Dutch life and folk customs in the Hudson Valley in the face of Anglo-Americanization. Providing the first complete glossary of Irving's Dutch vocabulary and drawing on untranslated Dutch sources, Funk offers cultural historians, scholars of American folklore and literature, and the latest generation of Irving's readers unprecedented access into the Dutch world of Washington Irving and his American contemporaries.
Displays of Belonging: Polish Jewish Collecting and Museums, 1891–1941
By Sarah Ellen Zarrow. 2025
Displays of Belonging illuminates the lives and work of Polish Jewish collectors and museologists, who sought to preserve the treasures…
of the Jewish past while demonstrating Jewish belonging on Polish soil. As Jews comfortable in the Polish language and within Polish artistic and academic society, they saw themselves as intermediaries between less-integrated Jews and the Polish cultural elite.At the turn of the century, Jewish ethnographers and museum creators staked their claim to belonging to the civic nation though the display of Jewish folk art, fine art, and Judaica. After the First World War, the nearly three million Jews in the Second Polish Republic were suddenly challenged with finding a place for themselves in a state that increasingly defined itself as a creation of the ethnic Polish nation, to which Jews, by many accounts, did not belong.By tracing emergent documentation and display practices in partitioned Poland and in the interwar Second Polish Republic, Sarah Ellen Zarrow offers a better understanding of how integrated Jews identified with Polish culture and history and with non-Jewish Poles, and how they conceived of, negotiated, and argued their collective place within Poland. This is not a case of assimilation, nor of acculturation, but rather of displaying a parallel culture that was at once similar and yet distinctive.Displays of Belonging offers a nuanced understanding of the multiplicity of ways in which Jews in Poland saw their present and dreamed of their future. It places Jewish ethnographic practice and art collection within a Polish context, and sheds light on ways in which ideas about belonging and national identity were negotiated in the space of museums.
Un/German is a powerful intervention in the ongoing debates over national identity, migration, and collective memory in Europe. Against the…
backdrop of the 2015 "refugee crisis," Fatima El-Tayeb argues that Europe's internal fractures were deflected through recurring crises, casting racialized populations as the external menace against which the continent could unite. First published in German in 2016, the book critically examines how Germany's reaction to the arrival of nearly one million refugees—initially framed as a "culture of welcome" but one that rapidly turned to hostility—was not an anomaly but part of a broader European pattern.Drawing on public memory and its material expressions in post–1989 Germany, Un/German brings into sharp relief the disparities in how Europe remembers its fascist, socialist, and colonial pasts. El-Tayeb highlights Black, Muslim, and Roma artists and activists who disrupted public commemorations intended to reinforce dominant narratives, arguing that these disturbances brought to the fore unresolved tensions in German collective memory. In doing so, El-Tayeb reveals the limits of Europe's self-conception as pluralistic and progressive, while also opening the door to new, more inclusive ways of imagining European identity.
Criminalizing the Casbahs explores how French police officers in Marseille and Algiers associated the spaces they saw as North African—the…
"Casbahs"—with a particular form of criminality, one they insisted was inherently North African. Through local but connected histories of policing in these two cities, Danielle Beaujon traces how police practices mapped the racialization of North African colonial subjects onto urban space.By demarcating and racializing space, the French police created repressive methods for controlling North African bodies while proclaiming to uphold republican ideals of colorblind justice. The invasive, often violent, policing of North Africans in the French Mediterranean blurred the political and the personal, broadening the spectrum of police power with lasting consequences for post-colonial policing. Criminalizing the Casbahs shows how patterns of discrimination created in the daily interactions between police officers and North Africans continue to resonate in debates about police accountability in France today.
The Spirit of Socialism: Culture and Belief at the Soviet Collapse
By Joseph Kellner. 2025
The Spirit of Socialism is a cultural history of the Soviet collapse. It examines the millions of Soviet people who,…
during the cascading crises of the collapse and the post-Soviet transition, embarked on a spirited and highly visible search for new meaning. Amid profound disorientation, these seekers found direction in their horoscopes, or behind gurus in saffron robes or apocalyptic preachers, or by turning from the most basic premises of official science and history to orient themselves anew. The beliefs they seized on and, even more, the questions that guided their search reveal the essence of late-Soviet culture and its legacy in post-Soviet Russia.To skeptical outsiders, the seekers appeared eccentric, deviant, and above all un-Soviet. Yet they came to their ideas by Soviet sources and Soviet premises. As Joseph Kellner demonstrates, their motley beliefs reflect modern values that formed the spiritual core of Soviet ideology, among them a high regard for science, an informed and generous internationalism, and a confidence in humanity to chart its own course. Soviet ideology failed, however, to unite these values in an overarching vision that could withstand historical change.And so, as The Spirit of Socialism shows, the seekers asked questions raised but not resolved by the Russian Revolution and subsequent Soviet order—questions of epistemic authority, of cultural identity, and of history's ultimate meaning. Although the Soviet collapse was not the end of history, it was a rupture of epochal significance, whose fissures extend into our own uncertain era.
Gender and Authority in the Late Medieval Church asks a deceptively simple question: How did the governance of the medieval…
institutional church remain exclusively male, despite plentiful evidence of women being as capable and devout as men? The remarkable endurance of an all-male clergy is an important element of medieval church government—one that is frequently taken for granted in the historiography—and is connected to another overlooked feature of episcopal authority: the strategies that bishops used to secure the compliance of a relatively autonomous clergy. As Ian Forrest shows, bishops kept their clergy in check through normative standards of masculinity that necessarily disqualified women from leadership roles. Everywhere in the medieval church were women who had the capacity, the resources, and often the ambition to take part in governance, from abbesses to priests' servants, mothers, sisters, and unofficial wives. Bringing together evidence of female activity at the margins of the institutional church, Forrest argues that the male monopoly on formal power was haunted by female capability and aspiration at every turn. Drawing on case studies from the English diocesan clergy between the mid-thirteenth and early sixteenth centuries, he explores how women's involvement in governance was rendered unthinkable through the very discursive strategies that bishops used to control their male clergy. In doing so, Gender and Authority in the Late Medieval Church tells an integrated history that explains how both the exclusion of women and the inclusion of men underpin a rigidly gendered system of religious governance.
Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics: 19th International Meeting, CIBB 2024, Benevento, Italy, September 4–6, 2024, Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #15276)
By Luigi Cerulo, Francesco Napolitano, Francesco Bardozzo, Lu Cheng, Annalisa Occhipinti, Stefano M. Pagnotta. 2025
This volume LNCS 15276 constitutes the revised selected papers of the 19th International Meeting on Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics…
and Biostatistics, CIBB 2024, held in Benevento, Italy, during September 4–6, 2024. The 24 full papers and 3 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 28 submissions. They were organized in the following topical sections: Bioinformatics; Medical Informatics; Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Large Language Models (LLM) for Unstructured Data in Health Informatics; Modeling and Simulation Methods for Computational Biology and Systems Medicine; Machine Learning for Structured Data in Clinical Informatics and Medical Biology; Computational Intelligence in Personalized Medicine; and Computational Structural Bioinformatics.
Dynamics and Stability of Continuous-Time Switched Linear Systems (Progress in Nonlinear Differential Equations and Their Applications #105)
By Mario Sigalotti, Yacine Chitour, Paolo Mason. 2025
Linear switched systems are a fascinating field of research, with many theoretical questions arising from applications which require sophisticated mathematical tools…
for their resolution. This monograph presents a unified theoretical approach for the analysis of stability of continuous-time linear switched systems, organizing and optimizing results scattered throughout literature. Emphasis is placed on the development of a rigorous and complete mathematical theory. In addition to fundamental tools such as common Lyapunov functions, converse Lyapunov theorems, and maximal Lyapunov exponents, the concept of Barabanov norm is also discussed. While this is now well understood from a theoretical point of view, it has not received much attention in more application-focused settings, likely because this fundamental object was developed in the context of arbitrary switches but has no immediate equivalent for classes of switching signals subject to various constraints (dwell time, persistent excitation, etc.). One of the aims of this text is to bridge this gap as far as possible by explaining how the main features of Barabanov norms can be generalized for classes of constrained switchings. Throughout the text, the authors maintain a general point of view, rather than treating classes of switching signals separately, by developing an axiomatic approach and identifying structural properties of these classes that allow crucial aspects of the Barabanov norm to be extended. This monograph will be a valuable resource for mathematicians and control engineers interested in continuous-time switched linear systems, as well as a definitive reference for more experienced researchers.
Conscription as Subject of National Security: Comparative Perspective in Europe at the Beginning of the 21st Century (Militär und Sozialwissenschaften/The Military and Social Research #58)
By Vida Česnuitytė, Tibor Szvircsev Tresch, Teija Sederholm, Kairi Kasearu, Johan Österberg. 2025
The volume presents analysis of conscription models in six European countries, four of which continuously kept conscription (Estonia, Finland, Norway,…
and Switzerland), and two re-established conscriptions in recent years (Lithuania and Sweden). The first part of the book provides a description of country-specific aspects related to conscription. The second part is dedicated for an in-depth analysis of the following topics: attitudes towards defence forces; adaptation to conditions during conscription; motivation to do initial military service; unit cohesion during conscription; leadership in the context of conscription; intentions to move from conscription to military professionals. Empirical data was collected in 2021-2022 by 8783 recruits. The book is an outstanding source of knowledge and a practical tool for conscription models suitable for the certain country. The volume is of interest to defence practitioners and policy makers, researchers, teachers and students who focus on military sociology and defence politics.
Führung auf festem Grund – mit Sinn: 10 Impulse für eine wertebasierte Führung
By Bernd Ahrendt, Nina Bürklin, Paul M. Ostberg. 2025
Das Buch zeigt mittels 10 Impulsen die Grundlagen für eine wertebasierte und sinnzentrierte Führungsarbeit, die auf dem Menschenbild nach Viktor E.…
Frankl basiert. Diese Impulse sind als Gedanken- und Handlungsanstöße für eine aktive Gestaltung des eigenen Lebens wie auch der Gestaltung von Beziehungen im Führungskontext zu verstehen. Sie wirken stets in zwei Richtungen – einerseits auf die Beziehung zu sich selbst (Selbstführung) und andererseits auf dieBeziehung zu Dritten (so auch Führung von Mitarbeitenden). Das Buch ist als Praxisbuch konzipiert und verbindet wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse mit anschaulichen Darstellungen. Die 10 Impulse werden jeweils konzeptionell hergeleitet und mit praktischen Anregungen ergänzt. Auf dieser Basis kann Selbstführung als fester Grund voll Sinn und Werten für eine zeitgemäßeFührung von Mitarbeitenden gelingen.
Transforming Agriculture through Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Food Systems
By Pradeep Mishra, Priyanka Lal. 2025
This book aims to explore the groundbreaking intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and agriculture, focusing on how innovative technologies can…
be harnessed to create sustainable and resilient food systems. As global challenges such as climate change, population growth, and resource scarcity intensify, this book seeks to provide a comprehensive guide to leveraging AI for optimizing agricultural practices, enhancing productivity, and promoting environmental stewardship. The final chapter summarizes key findings, highlighting the overarching themes, and providing insights into the future of AI in agriculture. Emphasis is placed on the importance of collaboration, ethical considerations, and responsible deployment of AI technologies to ensure a sustainable and equitable food future. This book is intended for a diverse audience, including researchers, academics, policymakers, agri-tech professionals, farmers, and students interested in the future of agriculture, sustainability, and emerging technologies.
Nanomaterial Green Synthesis (Nanotechnology in Plant Sciences #2)
By Shri Mohan Jain, Jameel M. Al-Khayri, T. R. Anju. 2025
This book discusses the convergence between nanotechnology and sustainability detailing the advances in addressing global challenges in achieving technological advancement…
in nanoscience. It delves into eco-friendly advancements in agricultural nanotechnology, highlighting the transformative potential and challenges. The core of the book emphasizes green chemistry approaches, detailing the biological routes for synthesizing nanomaterials, alongside non-biological methods that minimize environmental impact. It investigates the biocompatibility of green nanomaterials for safer applications and assesses their recyclability and reusability. Chapters on life cycle assessment provide insights into the environmental footprints of nanomaterials. The book contrasts top-down and bottom-up approaches while comparing chemical and green synthesis. Special attention is given to nanomaterials derived from lignocellulosic biomass, underlining the role of waste valorization. In addition, it offers a critical analysis of challenges and perspectives in green nanotechnology, setting a roadmap for sustainable advancements. The book consists of 18 chapters that explore various aspects of green synthesis of nanomaterials. Chapters are contributed by 64 recognized scientists from 7 countries and subjected to a rigorous review process to ensure quality presentation and scientific precision. Chapters begin with an introduction providing background followed by a detailed discussion of the topic accompanied by 129 high-quality color figures and 24 tables. Each chapter concludes with recommendations for future study directions. The book is an excellent reference source for graduate students engaged in nanotechnology and for professional researchers working on translational research on nanomaterial biological and physiochemical aspects.
Licht und Farbe in Natur und Alltag: Faszinierende optische Phänomene entdecken
By Hans Joachim Schlichting. 2025
Wir sind umgeben von faszinierenden optischen Phänomenen, die im Alltag meist unbemerkt bleiben. Doch was verbirgt sich hinter den strahlenförmigen…
Heiligenscheinen, die um den Schatten unseres Kopfes erscheinen, wenn wir in ein trübes Gewässer blicken? Haben Sie jemals die geheimnisvollen Lichtkreuze in Lichtkreisen wahrgenommen, die insbesondere am Morgen oder Abend an Häuserfronten zu sehen sind? Selbst verzerrte Mehrfachspiegelungen auf glänzenden Autokarosserien entgehen den meisten von uns. In diesem Sachbuch nehmen wir Sie mit auf eine Reise durch die Welt der verborgenen Lichterscheinungen. Entdecken Sie Phänomene wie die Quételetschen Ringe, die leuchtenden Glorien im Nebel oder die faszinierenden Strukturfarben von Spinnennetzen, die sich nur aus der passenden Perspektive offenbaren. Selbst bekannte Erscheinungen wie der Regenbogen, der eigene Schatten oder der Heiligenschein im feuchten Gras enthüllen bei genauer Betrachtung völlig neue Details und eröffnen ungeahnte Einsichten. Diese alltäglichen Phänomene werden ohne Formeln physikalisch beschrieben. Dabei erfährt vor allem die ästhetische und erlebnisorientierte Dimension durch reiche Bebilderung und Diktion eine besondere Wertschätzung.
Proceedings of the 19th Latin American Conference on Learning Technologies (Lecture Notes in Educational Technology)
By Antonio Silva Sprock, Vanessa Agredo-Delgado, Alejandra Beatriz Lliteras. 2025
This book presents the proceedings of the XIX Latin American Conference on Learning Technologies-LACLO 2024. It showcases advances in learning…
science research, learning resources, and challenges and solutions in various Latin American countries, bringing together and disseminating emerging innovations and studies that are transforming the educational field in this region. This book presents case studies, comparative analyses, and methodological proposals that have proven effective in diverse educational contexts. In addition, it features detailed illustrations and tables to facilitate the understanding and application of the concepts included. It serves as a valuable tool and source of information for researchers, educators, and industry professionals on recent advances in educational technologies in Latin America.
This book argues that Freud&’s theory of the traumatic neuroses can provide a &‘conceptual bridge&’ between the Lacanian idea of…
an &‘inaugural&’ or &‘founding&’ trauma that constitutes the human subject and the more popular idea that trauma is brought about by external events, for example, war or sexual violence. It proposes a new reading of Freud&’s theory which draws on Lacanian concepts, including the Real, jouissance, the idea of &‘suture&’, and Lacan&’s &‘deconstruction&’ of Freud&’s drive theory. It also argues for a &‘cybernetic&’ reading of Lacan&’s theory of language, which he outlined in his second Seminar; and for a reappraisal of Freud&’s concept of Nachträglichkeit as a way to facilitate a better understanding of the retroactive nature of trauma and its relation to language and the drive. In doing so, it offers a challenge to key assumptions underpinning the dominant discourse of trauma, which is exemplified in what the author terms &‘the PTSD paradigm&’. In particular it challenges the idea that trauma is something that simply &‘happens&’ to human beings and that its effects that can be eradicated through the construction of various forms of trauma narrative, for example, in psychotherapy and different types of collective histories. In the development of this argument the author also draws on the work of Jean Laplanche, which has previously been under-utilised in mainstream Lacanian theory and practice. This book sheds new light on the relationship between the traumatic effects of the signifier and the impact of the &‘external&’ world. It will be of interest to practitioners, as well as to students and scholars of psychoanalysis and philosophy.
GeoPractices Towards Sustainable Infrastructure, Volume 2: Proceedings of GeoPractices 2024, Ground Improvement (Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering #592)
By Sireesh Saride, Hariprasad Chennarapu, V. Padmavathi. 2025
This book discusses the proceedings of the National Conference on GeoPractices for Sustainable Infrastructure (GeoPractices 2024), focusing on the sustainable…
aspects of geotechnical engineering practices, particularly in highway construction and related ground improvement techniques. It covers topics such as alternative and sustainable construction materials, processes, and design considerations for pavement construction and enhancing weak soils. The publication highlights advanced practices and developments, including the use of geosynthetics, bioremediation, and incorporating industrial byproducts to lower carbon footprint, preserve natural resources, and minimize waste generation. The book is intended to be a valuable resource for emerging researchers and industry professionals interested in advancing sustainable infrastructure.
Chord Transformations in Higher-Dimensional Networks
By Rafael Cubarsi. 2025
Chord Transformations in Higher-Dimensional Networks proposes an in-depth formal framework for generalized Tonnetze. It takes an algebraic approach and studies…
systems of k-chords in n-TET scales derived from a given k-mode (array of step intervals) through mode permutations and chord root translations, by combining key ideas of the neo-Riemannian Tonnetz theories with serial approaches to chordal structures. In particular, it provides the generalization of the neo-Riemannian P, R, L transformations via the notion of ‘drift’ operator, which is the main novelty of the approach. At the same time, the book is thorough in building the formal framework covering many moments and details, with special attention to trichords and tetrachords, which allow the geometric visualization of their structure helping to understand the more abstract transformations in higher-dimensional networks.Features Chord transformations are explained from a new approach, by considering the chord as a two-component entity (root and mode), which is simpler than that of the neo-Riemannian theory The chords transformations presented can be easily converted to computational algorithms to deal with higher-dimensional Tonnetze Presents the study of chords with a scope that goes from scratch up to higher levels, about to develop research works
Redeemed: Devotions for the Longing Soul
By Will Graham. 1982
The legacy of Billy Graham's ministry continues.This first-ever devotional book from Will Graham, grandson of renowned preacher Billy Graham, includes…
devotions that lead a longing soul to understand God's message of love and redemption. Each devotion includes stories centering on the life-changing power of a relationship with God, including themes such as prayer, sharing your faith, the willingness to obey God's promptings, and many other important topics.Each entry will include a scripture selection, a personal story, a corresponding quote from Billy Graham, and Will's teaching, a prayer, and a question to ponder. There are Graham family photos and photos of important events in Billy's ministry included throughout the book.Redeemed will appeal to anyone young or old who loves Billy Graham and who is looking to continue his legacy of faith.