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Olympism and Human Rights
Olympic Education is tasked by both Olympism (Olympic Movement’s underlying philosophy) and the United Nations to educate on human rights. This study explores how present this call is in contemporary European Olympic Education. National Olympic Education programmes from twelve countries are examined and compared: Armenia, Austria, Belarus, Croatia, Hungary, Israel, Germany, Lithuania, Portugal, Russia, Slovenia, and Spain. Responses by individuals with NOAs’ leadership positions to a semi-standardized research questionnaire as well as written information by NOAs on implemented national Olympic Education programmes, collected during February-May 2021, are subjected to a content analysis. Results indicate that human rights are explicitly and implicitly included as an educational theme in contemporary Olympic Education programmes. Parallels between human rights education and Olympic Education can be drawn.
En la senda del amor
El cirujano Clay Sotheby lo tenía todo en la vida o, al menos, eso creía. Con una buena vida social y un probable ascenso a Jefe de Cirugía en un futuro cercano, ¿qué más podía pedir? Pero cuando se fue acercando el momento del ascenso, Clay se sintió extrañamente agitado. Conocer a la enfermera Sophie Dunhill había hecho que se cuestionara sus prioridades. Además, descubrió que no podía quitársela de la cabeza...
Mediated Bordering
The external border of the EU remains under permanent construction. Sabrina Ellebrecht engages with two of its primary building sites--the European Border Surveillance System (Eurosur) and the Refugee Boat. She analyzes how the function and quality of the EU's current political border is crafted, shaped, produced and eventually stabilized through these two mediators. Eurosur and the Refugee Boat catalyze and craft a level of Europeanization that has hitherto--and would otherwise have been--impossible. While Eurosur mobilizes the limits of border policing in various ways, the Refugee Boat functions as the vacillating European Other to legitimize both control and humanitarian interventions. The study shows the specific, if not constitutive, ambivalences of EU border policies, and explores the emergence of "viapolitics."
German and Dutch in Contrast
Designed as a contribution to contrastive linguistics, the present volume brings up-to-date the comparison of German with its closest neighbour, Dutch, and other Germanic relatives like English, Afrikaans, and the Scandinavian languages. It takes its inspiration from the idea of a "Germanic Sandwich", i.e. the hypothesis that sets of genetically related languages diverge in systematic ways in diverse domains of the linguistic system. Its contributions set out to test this approach against new phenomena or data from synchronic, diachronic and, for the first time in a Sandwich-related volume, psycholinguistic perspectives. With topics ranging from nickname formation to the IPP (aka 'Ersatzinfi...
Historical Disaster Experiences
Historical disaster research is still a young field. This book discusses the experiences of natural disasters in different cultures, from Europe across the Near East to Asia. It focuses on the pre-industrial era and on the question of similarities, differences and transcultural dynamics in the cultural handling of natural disasters. Which long-lasting cultural patterns of perception, interpretation and handling of disasters can be determined? Have specific types of disasters changed the affected societies? What have people learned from disasters and what not? What adaptation and coping strategies existed? Which natural, societal and economic parameters play a part? The book not only reveals the historical depth of present practices, but also reveals possible comparisons that show globalization processes, entanglements and exchanges of ideas and practices in pre-modern times.
Indigene Sprachen in Mexiko
Im Zuge fortschreitender Globalisierung und daraus resultierender Dynamiken geraten indigene Sprachen immer stärker in Konkurrenz zu ‚dominanten‘ Kontaktsprachen. Mexiko ist in diesem Zusammenhang ein besonders markantes Beispiel: Genuin mehrsprachig, ist es gleichzeitig weltweit das Land mit den meisten Spanischsprechern. Die Situation ist von einer jahrhundertelangen Tradition der Unterdrückung und Ausgrenzung der indigenen Völker geprägt. Dies hat sich in einer Sprach- und Bildungspolitik niedergeschlagen, die erst sehr spät überhaupt die Existenz indigener Völker in der Verfassung anerkannt hat. In dieser Arbeit stehen die Vitalität des Maya sowie die Situation seiner Spreche...
Grenzräume und Grenzüberschreitungen im Vergleich
In diesem Band werden erstmals zwei europäische Großregionen vergleichend in den Blick genommen, so dass neue Sichtweisen auf Grenzen und ihre spezifischen Ausprägungen eröffnet werden. Die paarweise Anordnung der in diesem Band versammelten Beiträge gewährleistet in besonderer Weise den Vergleich und verdeutlicht Affinitäten wie Unterschiede zweier geographisch weit voneinander entfernter Räume. Denn beide Bereiche, die Iberische Halbinsel und Ostmitteleuropa, waren zwar in sich einzig, doch in vielem strukturell ähnlich. Diese Randzonen Europas eignen sich aus drei Gründen besonders für eine komparatistische Untersuchung der Grenzenräume und Grenzüberschreitungen im vormoderne...
The Oxford Handbook of European Legal History
European law, including both civil law and common law, has gone through several major phases of expansion in the world. European legal history thus also is a history of legal transplants and cultural borrowings, which national legal histories as products of nineteenth-century historicism have until recently largely left unconsidered. The Handbook of European Legal History supplies its readers with an overview of the different phases of European legal history in the light of today's state-of-the-art research, by offering cutting-edge views on research questions currently emerging in international discussions. The Handbook takes a broad approach to its subject matter both nationally and system...
Postcommunist Belarus
Belarus is one of the least studied European states to emerge from the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. In fact, few Western specialists paid much attention to its affairs during the Soviet era. Nevertheless, Belarus constitutes an important and sensitive border region between Russia and the western part of the continent. In Postcommunist Belarus, a stellar group of contributors examines the issues and the search for identity that Belarus has confronted in the period leading up to and following independence. The country is run in an authoritarian fashion by President Alexander Lukashenko and many observers, both inside and outside Belarus, would use the term "dictatorship" to describe h...
