Dedication -- Preface -- Editors' Note -- Table of Contents -- About the Editors and Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1. Introduction: Opportunity in America – Setting the Stage -- PART I: Understanding Where We Are Today -- PART II: The Labor Market -- PART III: Education and Opportunity.-PART IV: Politics and the Road Ahead -- PART V: Seeking Inclusive Prosperity -- Appe…
Roadmap to Become a World-Class University -- International Advisory Boards in the World -- Excellence as Duty -- Excellence in Education -- Excellence in Research -- Excellence in Serving Society and Mankind -- Excellence in Strategic Planning -- Excellence in Innovation and Knowledge Economy -- Excellence in International Cooperation -- Change towards Excellence.Open AccessThis book written b…
On Norbert Elias: Becoming a Human Scientist – Prologue -- A long Life Has its Advantages – or: The Late Career of a Book -- On the Plan of this Academic Work -- In Front of the Mirror -- Childhood, Youth, Maturation -- Old Heidelberg, You Delicate -- The First Appearance at the Zurich ‘Soziologentag’ -- The End in Frankfurt -- The Great Book -- Hoping and Waiting.The book focuses on th…
Preface: Evaluation and governing in two quotes or When the arithmetician met the curator -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Understanding Evaluation in the UK -- Chapter 3: Disciplinary Measures -- Chapter 4: Transformative Possibilities.This book interrogates the role played by evaluation in 21st century governing. Using youth work in the UK as a case study, it challenges the narrative …
Exploring the Interaction of Space and Networks in the Creation of Knowledge: An Introduction: Johannes Glückler, Emmanuel Lazega, and Ingmar Hammer -- I: The Significance of Knowledge About Networks: The Relational Dimension as a Bridging Principle Between Economic, Social, and Geographic Issues: Reversing the Instrumentality of the Social for the Economic: A Critical Agenda for 21st-Century …
Chapter 1. Abstract -- Chapter 2. Introduction -- Chapter 3. Conceptual Context -- Chapter 4. Test Case: The Planning Process of Haifa’s Range Artery -- Chapter 5. Test Case: The Planning Process of Tel Aviv’s Shlavìm Artery -- Chapter 6. Evaluation of the Participation Methods’ Effectiveness -- Chapter 7. Discussion: Comparison of Methods of Public Participation -- Chapter 8. Public Par…
1. Knowledge, Action and Space: An Introduction: Peter Meusburger and Benno Werlen -- 2.Action, Knowledge, and Social Relations of Space: Geographies of the Digital Age: Benno Werlen -- 3. Rationality and Discursive Articulation in Place-Making: Huib Ernste -- 4. Thought-in-Action/Action-in-Thought: Gunnar Olsson -- 5. Perverse Expertise and the Social Unconscious in the Making of Crisis: Richa…
Novelty and technological objects -- Three articulations of novelty: identity, form, and difference -- The aesthetic reflexivity of material practice.Julian Stubbe aims at characterizing what novelty is in the becoming of objects and how the new becomes part of a shared reality. The study’s method is comparative and concerned with technological practice in science as well as in art. It draws …
Chapter 1: Problematising Self and Politics in Activist Discourse -- Chapter 2: Discourse Theory on the Logics of Articulation, Politics and Subjectivity -- Chapter 3: The Pragmatic Dimension of Discourse as Articulation -- Chapter 4: Articulating the Problematic Of Integration in a Minority Debate -- Chapter 5: Self and Politics in Activist Discourse -- Chapter 6: Conclusion.This book focuses …
Chapter 1 - Introduction -- Part I Action And Reflection: A Story Of Finrrage In 28 Voices -- Chapter 2 – Emergence -- Chapter 3 – Expansion -- Chapter 4 – Abeyance -- Part II Studying It Up: Finrrage As A Cognitive Praxis -- Chapter 5 – Writing The Resistance -- Chapter 6 – 'The Finrrage Position' As A Cognitive Praxis -- Chapter 7 - Final Words -- Chapter 8. The Women Of Finrr…