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We Are All Astronauts
"We are all astronauts", the American architect and thinker Richard Buckminster Fuller wrote in 1968 in his book Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, where he compared Earth to a spaceship, provided only with exhaustible resources while flying through space. These words show the presence the phenomenon of the astronaut and the cosmonaut had in the public mind from the second half of the twentieth century on: Buckminster Fuller was able to drive his point home by asking his audience to identify with one of the most prominent figures in the public sphere then: the space traveler. At the same time, Buckminster Fuller's words themselves seem to have played a significant role in further shaping the space-exploring human as a symbol and an image of humankind in general. The twelve contributions in this book by authors from the fields of literature, music, politics, history, the visual arts, film, computer games, comics, social sciences, and media theory track the development, changes and dynamics of this symbol by analyzing the various images of the astronaut and the cosmonaut as constructed throughout the different decades of space exploration, from its beginning to the present day.
Crisis, Austerity and Transnational Party Cooperation in Southern Europe
The most internationalist of all party families, the radical left has paradoxically always lagged behind in its cooperation at the EU level. The previous decade, however, the transnational character of the Eurozone crisis and its austerity-centred management provided a strong incentive to remedy that. By focusing on the relations between three prominent members of this party family at the time (SYRIZA, Podemos, Left Bloc), this book shows how and why the transnational cooperation on the radical left largely failed to deliver in a propitious context. With implications for the study of other party families, the book lays out the key factors that prevented the European radical left from coming together to provide an alternative to the neoliberal status quo in the EU.
Die Wahrheit über Griechenland, die Eurokrise und die Zukunft Europas
Wir sind Griechenland! "Griechenland braucht endlich eine Chance auf Wachstum und nicht neue Kredite, um alte Schulden bedienen zu können." Das sagt Giorgos Chondros, Mitglied im Syriza-Zentralkomitee und enger Vertrauter des griechischen Ministerpräsidenten Alexis Tsipras. Aus erster Hand berichtet er, was in den wochenlangen Verhandlungen mit der EU und der sogenannten Troika tatsächlich besprochen wurde und wie dabei gerade in den deutschen Medien eine Art Propagandakrieg gegen Griechenland und die Politik der Syriza geführt wurde. Es ist aber genau diese Politik, die systematisch diskreditiert wird, den meisten Menschen in Europa aber aus der Seele spricht - sofern sie hier offen und richtig dargestellt werden würde. Das leistet nun Giorgos Chondros.
Social and Community Psychiatry
This book presents the basic theoretical and historical concepts and it describes current perspectives and data, focusing on good practices in community psychiatry in Greece and in other parts of Europe. Concepts such as the biopsychosocial model, psychiatric reform, psychosocial rehabilitation and the recovery model, as well as new case management models are approached from a critical, anthropocentric perspective. The current socioeconomic crisis in Europe brings with it new realities in mental health systems. New forms of social suffering are forcing the psychiatric community to re-examine what is considered normal. In order to respond to the complexity of the newly emerging needs, social and community psychiatry has been compelled to broaden the objectives of intervention and research alike, developing new and dynamic relations with complementary scientific fields such as social anthropology, psychoanalysis and microeconomics. The present work is the result of collaboration between professionals from across these different fields.
Philistor
Contributions by 37 scholars are brought together here to create a volume in honor of the long and fruitful career of Costis Davaras, former Ephor of Crete and Professor Emeritus of Minoan Archaeology at the University of Athens. Articles pertain to Bronze Age Crete and include mortuary studies, experimental archaeology, numerous artifactual studies, and discussions on the greater Minoan civilization.
Die griechische Tragödie
Die Autoren Nikos Chilas und Winfried Wolf stellen die aktuelle griechische Tragödie, die mit der Durchsetzung des EU- und IWF-diktierten Austeritätsprogramms noch lange nicht beendet ist, in einen historischen Kontext. Sie spüren den deutsch-griechischen Beziehungen bis ins Jahr 1941 nach, als die Wehrmacht das Land besetzte. Griechischen Forderungen nach Reparationszahlungen und Wiedergutmachung wichen Bonn und Berlin beharrlich aus; und als 2001 eine Athener Gerichtsvollzieherin mit einem höchstgerichtlich bestätigten Urteil vor dem griechischen Goethe-Institut auftauchte und die Einrichtung konfiszieren wollte, intervenierte Deutschland politisch dagegen. Deutsche Knute und deutscher Druck ziehen sich als braun-schwarzer Faden durch die griechische Zeitgeschichte. Ohne ihre Kenntnis ist die heutige Situation in Griechenland nicht erklärbar. Chilas und Wolf erzählen darüber faktenreich und stellen die Bezüge zu heute dar.
Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International ICST Conference on Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare, MobiHealth 2011, held on Kos Island, Greece, in October 2011. The 60 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from more than 80 submissions. The papers are organized in 10 sessions and two workshops with topics covering intrabody communications, chronic disease monitoring and management, ambient assistive technologies, implantable and wearable sensors, emergency and disaster applications.
Mediale Störungen
Sondersendungen des öffentlich-rechtlichen Fernsehens sind eine zentrale Institution der politischen Medienöffentlichkeit in Deutschland. Sie werden unter hohem Zeitdruck und mit Aufbietung geballter journalistischer Kompetenz produziert. Die Medienakteure sehen sie voller Stolz als imagebildende ‚Premiumprodukte‘ an. Für das Publikum markieren die Formate relevante Störungen gesellschaftlicher Normalität. Sie bieten zudem Einordnungen, Lösungsperspektiven sowie Vergemeinschaftung und Trost. Für politische Akteure sind die Sendungen eine relevante Bühne politischer Krisenkommunikation.
STEGA
This volume presents the papers of an international colloquium on the archaeology of houses and households in ancient Crete held in Ierapetra in May 2005. The 38 papers presented here range from a discussion of household activities at Final Neolithic Phaistos to the domestic correlates of "globalization" during the early Roman Empire. These studies demonstrate a variety of methodological approaches currently employed for understanding houses and household activities. Key themes include understanding the built environment in all of its manifestations, the variability of domestic organization, the role of houses and households in mediating social (and perhaps even ethnic) identity within a community or region, household composition, and of course, household activities of all types, ranging from basic subsistence needs to production and consumption at a suprahousehold level.
