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Chapter 12 The “Neighbourhood” as a Pivotal Element of the Infrastructure of a Flourishing Society
(2022)
This paper examines the vital contribution of neighbourhoods to the flourishing of individuals and families. Our analysis complements that of some other essays in this volume, which consider the contribution of the life ...
Chapter Introduction
(2024)
In this extended introduction, Noyale Colin offers a rationale for the need to re-evaluate the concept of ‘technique’ and associated systems of training in contemporary dance. Colin proposes the concept of ethical agility ...
Shadow Education in the Middle East
(2023)
This volume offers insights into the role of private supplementary tutoring in the Middle East, and its far-reaching implications for social structures and mainstream education. Around the world, increasing numbers of ...
Didactic Audiovisual Translation and Foreign Language Education
(2024)
Didactic AVT; AVT; audiovisual translation; didactic audiovisual translation; Foreign language education; Media accessibility; Language and education; Noa Talaván; Jennifer Lertola; Alberto Fernández-Costales
Chapter 1 Digital technologies and women's empowerment
(2021)
"The near-ubiquitous spread of ICT offers unprecedented opportunities for social and economic agents, reshapes social and economic structures and drives the emergence of socio-economic networks. This book contributes to ...
Chapter 7 From Appropriation to Dialogic Exploration
(2018)
In recent years there has been a huge amount of both popular and academic interest in storytelling as something that is an essential part of not only literature and art but also our everyday lives as well as our dreams, ...
Sinicization and the Rise of China
(2017)
China’s rise and processes of Sinicization suggest that recombination of new and old elements rather than a total rupture with or return to the past is China’s likely future. In both space and time, civilizational politics ...
Chapter 5 Fixed-line broadband
(2019)
Japan's high-speed Internet access services such as ADSL, CATV Internet and FTTH are considered the cheapest and fastest state-of-the-art services drawing international attention. In this book the author introduces the ...
The Philosophy of Online Manipulation
(2022)
Are we being manipulated online? If so, is being manipulated by online technologies and algorithmic systems notably different from human forms of manipulation? And what is under threat exactly when people are manipulated ...
Chapter 1 From Quantum Physics to Classical Metaphysics
(2022)
"In this chapter, I argue that Aristotle's doctrine of hylomorphism, which con-
ceived the natural world as consisting of substances which are metaphysically
composed of matter and form, is ripe for rehabilitation in the ...