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The Local Configuration of New Research Fields
This new Yearbook addresses the question of how policy, place, and organization are made to matter for a new research field to emerge. Bringing together leading historians, sociologists, and organizational researchers on science and technology, the volume answers this question by offering in-depth case studies and comparative perspectives on multiple research fields in their nascent stage, including molecular biology and materials science, nanotechnology, and synthetic biology. The Yearbook brings to bear the lessons of constructivist ethnography and the “practice turn” in Science and Technology Studies (STS) more broadly on the qualitative, comparative, and critical inquiry of new research fields. In doing so, it offers unprecedented insights into the complex interplay of national research policies, regional clusters, particular research institutions, and novel research practices in and for any emerging field of (techno-)science. It systematically investigates national and regional differences, including the variable mobilization of such differences, and probes them for organizational topicality and policy relevance.
Towards a New Research Era
The book is focused on distorted research and university education in recent decades, and on alternatives for a new research era. It deals with the critique, explanation and normativity of bureaucratically, commercially and ideologically shaped humanities and social sciences. The authors analyse it in a ground-breaking way, putting the West in a global comparison with the non-Western world. Particularly, they pay special attention to Central Europe and the major countries and macro-regions: Latin America, China, Russia, Africa and India. This is an illuminating book for readers interested in philosophy, sociology, global studies, education studies and related disciplines.
Evaluating Academic Legal Research in Europe
Legal academics in Europe publish a wide variety of materials including books, articles and essays, in an assortment of languages, and for a diverse readership. As a consequence, this variety can pose a problem for the evaluation of academic legal research. This thought-provoking book offers an overview of the legal and policy norms, methods and criteria applied in the evaluation of academic legal research, from a comparative perspective.
The Last Caribbean Frontier, 1795-1815
The Southern Caribbean was the last frontier in the Atlantic world and the most contested region in the Caribbean during the Age of Revolution. As well as illuminating this little-understood region, the book seeks to complicate our understanding of the Caribbean, the role of 'free people of colour' and the nature of slavery.
Higher Education in the UK and the US
Higher Education in the UK and the US: Converging University Models in a Global Academic World? edited by Sarah Pickard addresses the key similarities and differences in higher education between the two countries over the last thirty years, in order to ascertain whether there exists a specific ‘Anglo-Saxon model’. This interdisciplinary book is divided into three thematic parts dealing with current fundamental issues in higher education within neoliberal Great Britain and the United States: economics and marketisation of higher education; access and admittance to universities; and the student experience of higher education. The contributors are all higher education specialists in diverse...
Value and the Humanities
Tracing the shift from liberal to neoliberal education from the nineteenth century to the present day, this open access book provides a rich and previously underdeveloped narrative of value in higher education in England. Value and the Humanities draws upon historical, financial, and critical debates concerning educational and cultural policy. Rather than writing a singular defence of the humanities against economic rationalism, Zoe Hope Bulaitis constructs a nuanced map of the intersections of value in the humanities, encompassing an exploration of policy engagement, scientific discourses, fictional representation, and the humanities in public life. The book articulates a kaleidoscopic range of humanities practices which demonstrate that although recent policy encourages higher education to be entirely motivated by outcomes, fiscal targets, and the acquisition of employability skills, the humanities continue to inspire and aspire beyond these limits. This book is a historically-grounded and theoretically-informed analysis of the value of the humanities within the context of the market.
Historical Social Research
International journal for the application of formal methods to history.
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Die Exzellenzinitiative
Die Exzellenzinitiative hat seit ihrem Einsetzen 2005 auch international große Aufmerksamkeit gefunden. Da sie einschneidende Veränderungen der nationalen Wissenschaftslandschaft bewirkt, ist es nicht verwunderlich, dass sie bei Beobachtern entschiedene Urteile hervorruft. Der Band präsentiert die auf Anhörungen und Analysen beruhende Zwischenbilanz einer interdisziplinären Arbeitsgruppe, die die Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften Ende 2008 eingesetzt hat. Über die Bestandsaufnahme hinaus geben die Autoren Empfehlungen zur Durchführung der im Herbst 2010 bevorstehenden Exzellenzinitiative 2.0.
Die zweite Lebenshälfte
Verlässliche Informationen über die alternde Gesellschaft sind bisher dünn gesät. Der Alters-Survey - gefördert vom Bundesministerium für Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend - schafft hier Abhilfe. Er basiert auf einer großen, anspruchsvoll angelegten Repräsentativuntersuchung der deutschen Bevölkerung im Alter von 40 bis 85 Jahren. Diese kann sowohl im Sinne einer Sozialberichterstattung wie auch zur Klärung zentraler Theoretischer Fragen genutzt werden. Das Buch bietet eine umfassende Darstellung der soziologischen Befunde des Alters-Survey.
