Books on the topic 'Alicja (2020)'

Unbegrenzter Zugang zu Informationen und neue Möglichkeiten für die Wirtschaft – die Chancen der Digitalisierung sind vielseitig. Gleichzeitig bestehen zahlreiche Herausforderungen wirtschaftlicher, politischer und sozialer Art, die nach Antworten verlangen. Diese digitale Transformation aus öffentlich-rechtlicher Perspektive zu vermessen, hatte sich die 60. Assistententagung, die im März 2020 an der Universität Trier stattfand, zum Ziel gesetzt. Der daraus hervorgegangene Tagungsband versammelt Antworten junger deutschsprachiger Wissenschaftler*innen auf die Frage, welche Chancen und Herausforderungen die Digitalisierung für moderne Staaten bereithält und wie unser Rechtsrahmen mit Blick auf den digitalen Wandel fortzuentwickeln ist. Mit Beiträgen von Dr. Wolfgang Abromeit, Dr. Ranjana Andrea Achleitner, Alice Bertram, Nikolas Eisentraut, Roman Friedrich, Matthias Haag, Eleonora Heim, Alexander Iben, Dirk Müllmann, Dorothea Mund, Elisabeth Paar, Dirk Pohl, Lasse Ramson, Sebastian Schwab, Dr. Rike Sinder, Julia Sinnig, Dr. Berit Völzmann und Dr. Stephan Wagner

This book is the first extended study into the politics of whiteness inherent within postfeminist popular cinema. It analyses a selection of Hollywood films dating from the turn of the millennium, arguing that the character of the ‘melancholic white woman’ operates as a trope through which to explore the excesses of late capitalism and a crisis of faith in the American dream. Melancholia can function as a form of social capital for these characters yet betrays its proximity to a gendered history of emotion and psychopathology. This figure is alternately idealised or scapegoated depending on how well she navigates the perils of postfeminist ideology. Furthermore, the book considers how performances of melancholia and mental distress can confer benefits for Hollywood actresses and female auteurs on the labour market, which in turn has contributed to the maintenance of white hegemony within the mainstream US film industry. Case studies in the book include Black Swan (Darren Aronofksy 2010), Gone Girl (David Fincher 2014) and Alice in Wonderland (Tim Burton 2010).

The yearbook on European integration, compiled by the Institute of European Politics in Berlin, has documented the process of European integration in an up-to-date and detailed way since 1980. The result is a unique record of contemporary European history over a 41 year period. The 2021 edition of the yearbook continues this tradition. In approximately 100 contributions related to their main research subjects, the book’s authors portray the events of European politics in the period 2020–21 and inform the reader about the work of European institutions, the development of the EU’s policy areas, Europe’s role in the world and European policy in the EU’s member states and candidate countries. With contributions by Petra Ahrens · Constanze Aka · Aljoscha Albrecht · Franco Algieri · Franz-Lothar Altmann · Katrin Auel · Heinz-Jürgen Axt · Julia Bachtrögler-Unger · Michael L. Bauer · Peter Becker · Matthias Belafi · Annegret Bendiek · Julian Bergmann · Sarah-Lena Böning · Katrin Böttger · Klaus Brummer · Birgit Bujard · Karlis Bukovskis · Hrvoje Butković · Thomas Christiansen · Agnieszka K. Cianciara · Anthony Costello · Alexandru Damian · Franziska Decker · Johanna Deimel · Doris Dialer · Thomas Diez · Roland Döhrn · Hans-Wilhelm Dünn · Tobias Etzold · Alina Felder · Eva Feldmann-Wojtachnia · Sabine Fischer · Tobias Flessenkemper · Christian Franck · Carsten Gerards · Gabriel Glöckler · Daniel Göler · Alexander Grasse · Anna Gussarova · Christoph Gusy · Björn Hacker · Simon Hartmann · Niklas Helwig · Andreas Hofmann · Bernd Hüttemann · Tuomas Iso-Markku · Klaus Jacob · Michael Kaeding · Niels Keijzer · Mariam Khotenashvili · Anna-Lena Kirch · Henning Klodt · Wim Kösters · Valentin Kreilinger · Tobias Kunstein · Jan Labitzke · Guido Lessing · Barbara Lippert · Christian Lippert · Marko Lovec · Siegfried Magiera · Remi Maier-Rigaud · Jean-Marie Majerus · Andreas Marchetti · Daniel Martínek · Dominic Maugeais · Andreas Maurer · Vittoria Meißner · Laia Mestres · Jürgen Mittag · Lucia Mokrá · Jan-Peter Möhle · Manuel Müller · Matthias Niedobitek · Thomas Petersen · Anne Pintz · Julian Plottka · Johannes Pollak · António Raimundo · Christian Raphael · Iris Rehklau · Florence Reiter · Darius Ribbe · Daniel Schade · Sebastian Schäffer · Joachim Schild · Ulrich Schlie · Otto Schmuck · Lucas Schramm · Tobias Schumacher · Oliver Schwarz · Martin Selmayr · Otto W. Singer · Eduard Soler i Lecha · Martin Stein · Burkard Steppacher · Tamás Szigetvári · Funda Tekin · Gabriel N. Toggenburg · Hans-Jörg Trenz · Jürgen Turek · Günther Unser · Mendeltje van Keulen · Nicolai von Ondarza · Thomas Walli · Volker Weichsel · Werner Weidenfeld · Michael Weigl · Wolfgang Weiß · Charlotte Wenner · Wolfgang Wessels · Moritz Wiesenthal · Sabine Willenberg · Laura Worsch · Wolfgang Zellner

While Alice Oswald’s most famous response to the ancient world is her acclaimed Memorial, in which she revisits Homer’s Iliad, much of her earlier work betrays her deep engagement with the classical world, reminding us of the fact that she holds a degree in Classics from Oxford. In particular, her book-length poem Dart (2002) is both an evocation of the Devonian landscape through which the river Dart travels and a biography of the river. Oswald borrows Ovid’s device of personifying rivers and allowing them their own voice or voices, while also drawing on a series of Ovidian myths in her depiction of the region. In her musings on the life of the river today, Oswald examines what impact global warming, pollution, and cheap labour might have on the river’s future.

This chapter looks at a selection of post-2000 Asian American films that feature Asian American protagonists who are 1.5 or second-generation immigrants. The Debut (dir. Gene Cajayon), Red Doors (dir. Georgia Lee), Saving Face (dir. Alice Wu), and Charlotte Sometimes (dir. Eric Byler) question the professional and financial ambitions that were hallmarks of the model minority ideal of the economically successful Asian American established in the 1960s. The films depict protagonists who find themselves unable to fulfill what Sara Ahmed calls the "happiness duty" and experience melancholia and depression. A number of these independent Asian American filmmakers explore non-heteronormative and non-conjugal ways of expressing love and passion, revealing the shifting values, transcultural affiliations and desires that are now part of the multiplicity of Asian North American identity.

The third ‘Dialog Internationales Familienrecht’, a conference on international family law, was held in April 2021. Under the general theme ‘New Dynamics in European International Family Law‘, academics and practitioners dealt with the latest developments in European family law and family procedural law. In addition to focal points in child and maintenance law, the focus was placed on the new Brussels IIbis Regulation. The publication is a collection of the lectures held at the conference. The contributions deal with, inter alia, the cross-border enforcement of rights of access, consensual solutions in child abduction, the recognition of matters relating to the status of individuals, international maintenance law, and the consequences of the ECJ’s Mahnkopf decision. With contributions by Jennifer Antomo, Martina Erb-Klünemann, Wolfgang Hau, Frank Klinkhammer, Robert Magnus, Rembert Süß and Karsten Thorn.

Celestial Tapestry places mathematics within a vibrant cultural and historical context, highlighting links to the visual arts and design, and broader areas of artistic creativity. Threads are woven together telling of surprising influences that have passed between the arts and mathematics. The story involves many intriguing characters: Gaston Julia, who laid the foundations for fractals and computer art while recovering in hospital after suffering serious injury in the First World War; Charles Howard, Hinton who was imprisoned for bigamy but whose books had a huge influence on twentieth-century art; Michael Scott, the Scottish necromancer who was the dedicatee of Fibonacci’s Book of Calculation, the most important medieval book of mathematics; Richard of Wallingford, the pioneer clockmaker who suffered from leprosy and who never recovered from a lightning strike on his bedchamber; Alicia Stott Boole, the Victorian housewife who amazed mathematicians with her intuition for higher-dimensional space. The book includes more than 200 colour illustrations, puzzles to engage the reader, and many remarkable tales: the secret message in Hans Holbein’s The Ambassadors; the link between Viking runes, a Milanese banking dynasty, and modern sculpture; the connection between astrology, religion, and the Apocalypse; binary numbers and the I Ching. It also explains topics on the school mathematics curriculum: algorithms; arithmetic progressions; combinations and permutations; number sequences; the axiomatic method; geometrical proof; tessellations and polyhedra, as well as many essential topics for arts and humanities students: single-point perspective; fractals; computer art; the golden section; the higher-dimensional inspiration behind modern art.

Bis zum Jahr 2050 wird es etwa 23 Millionen über 65-Jährige in Deutschland geben. Dadurch wird es gesellschaftlich wie individuell zunehmend notwendig, gute Voraussetzungen für das Rentenalter als Lebensphase zu schaffen. Um es bei guter Gesundheit und Lebensqualität zu verbringen, sollte bereits die Zeit vor dem Übergang zur Vorbereitung genutzt werden. Insbesondere Männer, die sich oft stark mit ihrer Berufstätigkeit identifizieren, sind gefordert, ein hohes Gesundheitspotenzial und gute soziale Bedingungen verantwortungsbewusst aufzubauen. Der Vierte Deutsche Männergesundheitsbericht setzt bei einer fundierten Bestandsaufnahme der Situation der Männer zwischen 55 und 74 Jahren an. Aus ihr ergeben sich wichtige Themen für die Politik, für die Soziale Arbeit und für den gesellschaftlichen Diskurs insgesamt: die Situation der Erwerbsarbeit zehn Jahre vor der Berentung, die Übergangsphase sowie gesundheitsfördernde Projekte für Männer vor und nach dem Renteneintritt. Mit Beiträgen von Doris Bardehle, Eric Bonsang, Daniela Borchart, Martina Brandt, Jennifer Burchardi, Christian Deindl, Dina Frommert, Freya Geishecker, Siegfried Geyer, Stefan Gruber, Felizia Hanemann, Hans Martin Hasselhorn, Moritz Hess, Jens Hoebel, Hanno Hoven, Rainer Jordan, Hendrik Jürges, Theo Klotz, Adèle Lemoine, Michal Levinsky, Howard Litwin, Peggy Looks, Thorsten Lunau, Ingrid Mayer-Dörfler, Anne Maria Möller-Leimkühler, Niels Michalski, Bernhard Mühlbrecht, Laura Naegele, Nikola Ornig, Kathleen Pöge, Jean-Baptist du Prel, Gregor Sand, Alina Schmitz, Johannes Siegrist, Stefanie Sperlich, Anne Starker, Matthias Stiehler und Morten Wahrendorf

O livro que o leitor tem em mãos traz uma contribuição plural para as questões ligadas a internação compulsória do passado, presente e futuro, importante reflexão para a vida social contemporânea no mundo e não apenas no Brasil. O amplo tema das políticas públicas de isolamento, assume nos dias hoje uma vasta e complexa corrente de pensamentos, sejam embasadas pela ciência ou apenas pelas experiências individuais provocadas pela pandemia de Covid-19 que se faz presente no mundo desde o ano de 2020. O autor alinha sua experiência de militante social do Movimento de Reintegração das Pessoas Atingidas pela Hanseníase – MORHAN, com os ensinamentos acadêmicos do Mestrado em Ciências Sociais e nos brinda com uma etnografia realizada no antigo Sanatório São Francisco de Assis, localizado na cidade de Bambuí, Minas Gerais. O antigo Sanatório hoje Comunidade São Francisco de Assis, foi inaugurado em 1943 para promover a política pública de internação compulsória para pacientes de hanseníase, tal política foi reconhecida como crime de Estado pela Lei 11.520 em 2007. O autor mergulha no universo daqueles que sofreram a internação compulsória e nos mostra os efeitos do isolamento compulsório na atualidade na vida das pessoas e na vida de seus familiares. Os danos causados, por estas ações, estão marcados não apenas na história da humanidade, mas nas memórias e nos corpos de cada pessoa por ela atingida. A temática Direitos Humanos e Hanseníase reflete a necessidade de pensarmos sobre estigma, discriminação, violação de direitos e estratégias promotoras de inclusão social propostas como mecanismo de reparação e reintegração das pessoas atingidas e suas famílias. Marco mundial das políticas higienistas, esses espaços físicos e o patrimônio imaterial deve ser preservado para que “nunca se esqueça e nunca mais aconteça”. Desta sobre o aspecto da garantia direito humano a memória, essa etnografia nos demonstra a importância destas memórias e colabora intensamente para esse resgate, reforçando a busca dos tombamentos desses sitio de patrimônio sensível. As pessoas atingidas pela hanseníase e suas famílias foram negligenciadas e tiveram seus direitos violados desde os primeiros registros sobre a enfermidade. Ao longo da história, os modelos aplicados sobre o processo saúde-doença-cuidado, relacionado a estes indivíduos, sofreram transformações produtoras de estigma e discriminação, por parte da sociedade e das políticas implementadas por diferentes governos.

Nationalism: Past as Prologue began as a single volume being compiled by Ad Akande, a scholar from South Africa, who proposed it to me as co-author about two years ago. The original idea was to examine how the damaging roots of nationalism have been corroding political systems around the world, and creating dangerous obstacles for necessary international cooperation. Since I (Bruce E. Johansen) has written profusely about climate change (global warming, a.k.a. infrared forcing), I suggested a concerted effort in that direction. This is a worldwide existential threat that affects every living thing on Earth. It often compounds upon itself, so delays in reducing emissions of fossil fuels are shortening the amount of time remaining to eliminate the use of fossil fuels to preserve a livable planet. Nationalism often impedes solutions to this problem (among many others), as nations place their singular needs above the common good. Our initial proposal got around, and abstracts on many subjects arrived. Within a few weeks, we had enough good material for a 100,000-word book. The book then fattened to two moderate volumes and then to four two very hefty tomes. We tried several different titles as good submissions swelled. We also discovered that our best contributors were experts in their fields, which ranged the world. We settled on three stand-alone books:” 1/ nationalism and racial justice. Our first volume grew as the growth of Black Lives Matter following the brutal killing of George Floyd ignited protests over police brutality and other issues during 2020, following the police assassination of Floyd in Minneapolis. It is estimated that more people took part in protests of police brutality during the summer of 2020 than any other series of marches in United States history. This includes upheavals during the 1960s over racial issues and against the war in Southeast Asia (notably Vietnam). We choose a volume on racism because it is one of nationalism’s main motive forces. This volume provides a worldwide array of work on nationalism’s growth in various countries, usually by authors residing in them, or in the United States with ethnic ties to the nation being examined, often recent immigrants to the United States from them. Our roster of contributors comprises a small United Nations of insightful, well-written research and commentary from Indonesia, New Zealand, Australia, China, India, South Africa, France, Portugal, Estonia, Hungary, Russia, Poland, Kazakhstan, Georgia, and the United States. Volume 2 (this one) describes and analyzes nationalism, by country, around the world, except for the United States; and 3/material directly related to President Donald Trump, and the United States. The first volume is under consideration at the Texas A & M University Press. The other two are under contract to Nova Science Publishers (which includes social sciences). These three volumes may be used individually or as a set. Environmental material is taken up in appropriate places in each of the three books. * * * * * What became the United States of America has been strongly nationalist since the English of present-day Massachusetts and Jamestown first hit North America’s eastern shores. The country propelled itself across North America with the self-serving ideology of “manifest destiny” for four centuries before Donald Trump came along. Anyone who believes that a Trumpian affection for deportation of “illegals” is a new thing ought to take a look at immigration and deportation statistics in Adam Goodman’s The Deportation Machine: America’s Long History of Deporting Immigrants (Princeton University Press, 2020). Between 1920 and 2018, the United States deported 56.3 million people, compared with 51.7 million who were granted legal immigration status during the same dates. Nearly nine of ten deportees were Mexican (Nolan, 2020, 83). This kind of nationalism, has become an assassin of democracy as well as an impediment to solving global problems. Paul Krugman wrote in the New York Times (2019:A-25): that “In their 2018 book, How Democracies Die, the political scientists Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt documented how this process has played out in many countries, from Vladimir Putin’s Russia, to Recep Erdogan’s Turkey, to Viktor Orban’s Hungary. Add to these India’s Narendra Modi, China’s Xi Jinping, and the United States’ Donald Trump, among others. Bit by bit, the guardrails of democracy have been torn down, as institutions meant to serve the public became tools of ruling parties and self-serving ideologies, weaponized to punish and intimidate opposition parties’ opponents. On paper, these countries are still democracies; in practice, they have become one-party regimes….And it’s happening here [the United States] as we speak. If you are not worried about the future of American democracy, you aren’t paying attention” (Krugmam, 2019, A-25). We are reminded continuously that the late Carl Sagan, one of our most insightful scientific public intellectuals, had an interesting theory about highly developed civilizations. Given the number of stars and planets that must exist in the vast reaches of the universe, he said, there must be other highly developed and organized forms of life. Distance may keep us from making physical contact, but Sagan said that another reason we may never be on speaking terms with another intelligent race is (judging from our own example) could be their penchant for destroying themselves in relatively short order after reaching technological complexity. This book’s chapters, introduction, and conclusion examine the worldwide rise of partisan nationalism and the damage it has wrought on the worldwide pursuit of solutions for issues requiring worldwide scope, such scientific co-operation public health and others, mixing analysis of both. We use both historical description and analysis. This analysis concludes with a description of why we must avoid the isolating nature of nationalism that isolates people and encourages separation if we are to deal with issues of world-wide concern, and to maintain a sustainable, survivable Earth, placing the dominant political movement of our time against the Earth’s existential crises. Our contributors, all experts in their fields, each have assumed responsibility for a country, or two if they are related. This work entwines themes of worldwide concern with the political growth of nationalism because leaders with such a worldview are disinclined to co-operate internationally at a time when nations must find ways to solve common problems, such as the climate crisis. Inability to cooperate at this stage may doom everyone, eventually, to an overheated, stormy future plagued by droughts and deluges portending shortages of food and other essential commodities, meanwhile destroying large coastal urban areas because of rising sea levels. Future historians may look back at our time and wonder why as well as how our world succumbed to isolating nationalism at a time when time was so short for cooperative intervention which is crucial for survival of a sustainable earth. Pride in language and culture is salubrious to individuals’ sense of history and identity. Excess nationalism that prevents international co-operation on harmful worldwide maladies is quite another. As Pope Francis has pointed out: For all of our connectivity due to expansion of social media, ability to communicate can breed contempt as well as mutual trust. “For all our hyper-connectivity,” said Francis, “We witnessed a fragmentation that made it more difficult to resolve problems that affect us all” (Horowitz, 2020, A-12). The pope’s encyclical, titled “Brothers All,” also said: “The forces of myopic, extremist, resentful, and aggressive nationalism are on the rise.” The pope’s document also advocates support for migrants, as well as resistance to nationalist and tribal populism. Francis broadened his critique to the role of market capitalism, as well as nationalism has failed the peoples of the world when they need co-operation and solidarity in the face of the world-wide corona virus pandemic. Humankind needs to unite into “a new sense of the human family [Fratelli Tutti, “Brothers All”], that rejects war at all costs” (Pope, 2020, 6-A). Our journey takes us first to Russia, with the able eye and honed expertise of Richard D. Anderson, Jr. who teaches as UCLA and publishes on the subject of his chapter: “Putin, Russian identity, and Russia’s conduct at home and abroad.” Readers should find Dr. Anderson’s analysis fascinating because Vladimir Putin, the singular leader of Russian foreign and domestic policy these days (and perhaps for the rest of his life, given how malleable Russia’s Constitution has become) may be a short man physically, but has high ambitions. One of these involves restoring the old Russian (and Soviet) empire, which would involve re-subjugating a number of nations that broke off as the old order dissolved about 30 years ago. President (shall we say czar?) Putin also has international ambitions, notably by destabilizing the United States, where election meddling has become a specialty. The sight of Putin and U.S. president Donald Trump, two very rich men (Putin $70-$200 billion; Trump $2.5 billion), nuzzling in friendship would probably set Thomas Jefferson and Vladimir Lenin spinning in their graves. The road of history can take some unanticipated twists and turns. Consider Poland, from which we have an expert native analysis in chapter 2, Bartosz Hlebowicz, who is a Polish anthropologist and journalist. His piece is titled “Lawless and Unjust: How to Quickly Make Your Own Country a Puppet State Run by a Group of Hoodlums – the Hopeless Case of Poland (2015–2020).” When I visited Poland to teach and lecture twice between 2006 and 2008, most people seemed to be walking on air induced by freedom to conduct their own affairs to an unusual degree for a state usually squeezed between nationalists in Germany and Russia. What did the Poles then do in a couple of decades? Read Hlebowicz’ chapter and decide. It certainly isn’t soft-bellied liberalism. In Chapter 3, with Bruce E. Johansen, we visit China’s western provinces, the lands of Tibet as well as the Uighurs and other Muslims in the Xinjiang region, who would most assuredly resent being characterized as being possessed by the Chinese of the Han to the east. As a student of Native American history, I had never before thought of the Tibetans and Uighurs as Native peoples struggling against the Independence-minded peoples of a land that is called an adjunct of China on most of our maps. The random act of sitting next to a young woman on an Air India flight out of Hyderabad, bound for New Delhi taught me that the Tibetans had something to share with the Lakota, the Iroquois, and hundreds of other Native American states and nations in North America. Active resistance to Chinese rule lasted into the mid-nineteenth century, and continues today in a subversive manner, even in song, as I learned in 2018 when I acted as a foreign adjudicator on a Ph.D. dissertation by a Tibetan student at the University of Madras (in what is now in a city called Chennai), in southwestern India on resistance in song during Tibet’s recent history. Tibet is one of very few places on Earth where a young dissident can get shot to death for singing a song that troubles China’s Quest for Lebensraum. The situation in Xinjiang region, where close to a million Muslims have been interned in “reeducation” camps surrounded with brick walls and barbed wire. They sing, too. Come with us and hear the music. Back to Europe now, in Chapter 4, to Portugal and Spain, we find a break in the general pattern of nationalism. Portugal has been more progressive governmentally than most. Spain varies from a liberal majority to military coups, a pattern which has been exported to Latin America. A situation such as this can make use of the term “populism” problematic, because general usage in our time usually ties the word into a right-wing connotative straightjacket. “Populism” can be used to describe progressive (left-wing) insurgencies as well. José Pinto, who is native to Portugal and also researches and writes in Spanish as well as English, in “Populism in Portugal and Spain: a Real Neighbourhood?” provides insight into these historical paradoxes. Hungary shares some historical inclinations with Poland (above). Both emerged from Soviet dominance in an air of developing freedom and multicultural diversity after the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union collapsed. Then, gradually at first, right wing-forces began to tighten up, stripping structures supporting popular freedom, from the courts, mass media, and other institutions. In Chapter 5, Bernard Tamas, in “From Youth Movement to Right-Liberal Wing Authoritarianism: The Rise of Fidesz and the Decline of Hungarian Democracy” puts the renewed growth of political and social repression into a context of worldwide nationalism. Tamas, an associate professor of political science at Valdosta State University, has been a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University and a Fulbright scholar at the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. His books include From Dissident to Party Politics: The Struggle for Democracy in Post-Communist Hungary (2007). Bear in mind that not everyone shares Orbán’s vision of what will make this nation great, again. On graffiti-covered walls in Budapest, Runes (traditional Hungarian script) has been found that read “Orbán is a motherfucker” (Mikanowski, 2019, 58). Also in Europe, in Chapter 6, Professor Ronan Le Coadic, of the University of Rennes, Rennes, France, in “Is There a Revival of French Nationalism?” Stating this title in the form of a question is quite appropriate because France’s nationalistic shift has built and ebbed several times during the last few decades. For a time after 2000, it came close to assuming the role of a substantial minority, only to ebb after that. In 2017, the candidate of the National Front reached the second round of the French presidential election. This was the second time this nationalist party reached the second round of the presidential election in the history of the Fifth Republic. In 2002, however, Jean-Marie Le Pen had only obtained 17.79% of the votes, while fifteen years later his daughter, Marine Le Pen, almost doubled her father's record, reaching 33.90% of the votes cast. Moreover, in the 2019 European elections, re-named Rassemblement National obtained the largest number of votes of all French political formations and can therefore boast of being "the leading party in France.” The brutality of oppressive nationalism may be expressed in personal relationships, such as child abuse. While Indonesia and Aotearoa [the Maoris’ name for New Zealand] hold very different ranks in the United Nations Human Development Programme assessments, where Indonesia is classified as a medium development country and Aotearoa New Zealand as a very high development country. In Chapter 7, “Domestic Violence Against Women in Indonesia and Aotearoa New Zealand: Making Sense of Differences and Similarities” co-authors, in Chapter 8, Mandy Morgan and Dr. Elli N. Hayati, from New Zealand and Indonesia respectively, found that despite their socio-economic differences, one in three women in each country experience physical or sexual intimate partner violence over their lifetime. In this chapter ther authors aim to deepen understandings of domestic violence through discussion of the socio-economic and demographic characteristics of theit countries to address domestic violence alongside studies of women’s attitudes to gender norms and experiences of intimate partner violence. One of the most surprising and upsetting scholarly journeys that a North American student may take involves Adolf Hitler’s comments on oppression of American Indians and Blacks as he imagined the construction of the Nazi state, a genesis of nationalism that is all but unknown in the United States of America, traced in this volume (Chapter 8) by co-editor Johansen. Beginning in Mein Kampf, during the 1920s, Hitler explicitly used the westward expansion of the United States across North America as a model and justification for Nazi conquest and anticipated colonization by Germans of what the Nazis called the “wild East” – the Slavic nations of Poland, the Baltic states, Ukraine, and Russia, most of which were under control of the Soviet Union. The Volga River (in Russia) was styled by Hitler as the Germans’ Mississippi, and covered wagons were readied for the German “manifest destiny” of imprisoning, eradicating, and replacing peoples the Nazis deemed inferior, all with direct references to events in North America during the previous century. At the same time, with no sense of contradiction, the Nazis partook of a long-standing German romanticism of Native Americans. One of Goebbels’ less propitious schemes was to confer honorary Aryan status on Native American tribes, in the hope that they would rise up against their oppressors. U.S. racial attitudes were “evidence [to the Nazis] that America was evolving in the right direction, despite its specious rhetoric about equality.” Ming Xie, originally from Beijing, in the People’s Republic of China, in Chapter 9, “News Coverage and Public Perceptions of the Social Credit System in China,” writes that The State Council of China in 2014 announced “that a nationwide social credit system would be established” in China. “Under this system, individuals, private companies, social organizations, and governmental agencies are assigned a score which will be calculated based on their trustworthiness and daily actions such as transaction history, professional conduct, obedience to law, corruption, tax evasion, and academic plagiarism.” The “nationalism” in this case is that of the state over the individual. China has 1.4 billion people; this system takes their measure for the purpose of state control. Once fully operational, control will be more subtle. People who are subject to it, through modern technology (most often smart phones) will prompt many people to self-censor. Orwell, modernized, might write: “Your smart phone is watching you.” Ming Xie holds two Ph.Ds, one in Public Administration from University of Nebraska at Omaha and another in Cultural Anthropology from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, where she also worked for more than 10 years at a national think tank in the same institution. While there she summarized news from non-Chinese sources for senior members of the Chinese Communist Party. Ming is presently an assistant professor at the Department of Political Science and Criminal Justice, West Texas A&M University. In Chapter 10, analyzing native peoples and nationhood, Barbara Alice Mann, Professor of Honours at the University of Toledo, in “Divide, et Impera: The Self-Genocide Game” details ways in which European-American invaders deprive the conquered of their sense of nationhood as part of a subjugation system that amounts to genocide, rubbing out their languages and cultures -- and ultimately forcing the native peoples to assimilate on their own, for survival in a culture that is foreign to them. Mann is one of Native American Studies’ most acute critics of conquests’ contradictions, and an author who retrieves Native history with a powerful sense of voice and purpose, having authored roughly a dozen books and numerous book chapters, among many other works, who has traveled around the world lecturing and publishing on many subjects. Nalanda Roy and S. Mae Pedron in Chapter 11, “Understanding the Face of Humanity: The Rohingya Genocide.” describe one of the largest forced migrations in the history of the human race, the removal of 700,000 to 800,000 Muslims from Buddhist Myanmar to Bangladesh, which itself is already one of the most crowded and impoverished nations on Earth. With about 150 million people packed into an area the size of Nebraska and Iowa (population less than a tenth that of Bangladesh, a country that is losing land steadily to rising sea levels and erosion of the Ganges river delta. The Rohingyas’ refugee camp has been squeezed onto a gigantic, eroding, muddy slope that contains nearly no vegetation. However, Bangladesh is majority Muslim, so while the Rohingya may starve, they won’t be shot to death by marauding armies. Both authors of this exquisite (and excruciating) account teach at Georgia Southern University in Savannah, Georgia, Roy as an associate professor of International Studies and Asian politics, and Pedron as a graduate student; Roy originally hails from very eastern India, close to both Myanmar and Bangladesh, so he has special insight into the context of one of the most brutal genocides of our time, or any other. This is our case describing the problems that nationalism has and will pose for the sustainability of the Earth as our little blue-and-green orb becomes more crowded over time. The old ways, in which national arguments often end in devastating wars, are obsolete, given that the Earth and all the people, plants, and other animals that it sustains are faced with the existential threat of a climate crisis that within two centuries, more or less, will flood large parts of coastal cities, and endanger many species of plants and animals. To survive, we must listen to the Earth, and observe her travails, because they are increasingly our own.

Los acuerdos firmados por el gobierno con las FARC-EP, movimiento insurgente que ha tenido como una de sus banderas de lucha la reivindicación campesina en materia de tierras, ha puesto el principal énfasis en el campo. Como simples académicos de la juridicidad colombiana, pensamos que la negativa plebiscitaria solo ha sido un traspié transitorio que podrá ser enderezado, y que –esa es nuestra esperanza–, Colombia se alista a pasar la página de la infame guerra interna que durante los últimos cincuenta años ha asolado nuestros campos y ciudades. Es esta una guerra que, además, ha venido suscitando numerosos conflictos de orden jurídico relacionados con el dominio de bienes inmuebles, motivo por el cual, en el caso de que finalmente prospere la paz, deberán ser tratados y resueltos en el posconflicto, dentro de una macropolítica para su formalización, que deberá brindar los espacios jurídicos adecuados para incrementar la riqueza de vastos sectores poblacionales, pues la realidad es que la propiedad, como medio primario generador de riqueza, deberá representar entre 50% y 60% del patrimonio de las familias para asegurar su prosperidad o al menos su estabilidad económica. Así, la búsqueda de un proceso judicial, que brinde trámite expedito para declarar la pertenencia y sanear títulos con falsa tradición, deber tener firmes efectos positivos colaterales en la reducción de la pobreza. Confiamos, entonces, en que bajo el esquema del nuevo procedimiento oral que acoge el C.G.P. se logre este sentido propósito nacional. De otro lado, en cuanto a los predios rurales, la certeza de titularidad de su dominio resulta ser piedra angular para el desarrollo del sector agropecuario, pues ello apareja sustanciales mejoras en la calidad de vida de los campesinos, puesto que, al incrementarse su patrimonio, tendrán mayores posibilidades de acceder a créditos para financiar inversiones a largo plazo. Todo ello resulta imprescindible si se quiere promover efectivos proyectos productivos y se pretende su verdadera ejecución; con ello, sin duda, se logrará una mayor y más eficiente explotación agrícola, como también la implementación y desarrollo de los necesarios planes y programas de sustitución de cultivos. Teniendo en cuenta todo lo anterior, esto es, pensando en el marco de una Colombia del posconflicto, hoy la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad Libre de Bogotá se complace en entregar a la comunidad jurídica la presente obra, en donde se recoge el pensamiento y posición jurídica de los docentes del área de Derecho Procesal. El libro que se titula La prescripción adquisitiva consta de siete capítulos, cuya autoría corresponde a sendos docentes del área de Derecho Procesal de la Facultad de Derecho, y en cada uno de ellos se abordan diferentes temáticas relacionas con el proceso de pertenencia. En el primer capítulo, denominado “Introducción al proceso de declaración de pertenencia”, cuyo autor es el Dr. León José Jaramillo Zuleta, se desarrolla el concepto de los derechos reales, sus características, la posibilidad de ser adquiridos a través del proceso de pertenencia y los efectos de dicha declaración; además, se profundiza sobre el alcance social del derecho de propiedad, la función social de la declaración de pertenencia, la declaración de pertenencia vía de acción y de excepción, oponiéndose el autor a esta última forma procesal, considerando que el poseedor demandado en el proceso, por ejemplo, el reivindicatorio, deberá necesariamente hacer uso de la demanda de reconvención para ser declarado propietario del bien por prescripción adquisitiva. El autor igualmente diserta y enfatiza acerca de la necesidad de unificar el proceso de pertenencia, y siguiendo esta línea de pensamiento, toma partido por la derogatoria tácita de la Ley 1561 de 2012, aunque deja a salvo la vigencia de las normas sustanciales de dicha ley, dentro de las cuales incluye las normas sustanciales de la prescripción adquisitiva de las viviendas de interés social contenidas en la Ley 9 de 1989 y las referidas a los predios agrarios. Por último, en dicho trabajo se señala de manera muy precisa cuáles son los bienes que pueden ser objeto de prescripción, quedando absolutamente claro, según su punto de vista, que apoya en referencias históricas, que quedan excluidos los que pertenecen a entidades de derecho público. En el segundo capítulo, denominado “Aspectos sustanciales de la prescripción adquisitiva”, cuyo autor es el suscrito, como indica el título del capítulo, se desarrollan los aspectos sustanciales que regulan este modo particular de adquisición de derechos reales respecto de cosas ajenas, como lo es la prescripción adquisitiva; en él se precisa que los derechos reales, salvo excepciones, son objeto de prescripción adquisitiva respecto de bienes muebles o inmuebles; se indica cuáles son los requisitos para la prosperidad de la pretensión de pertenencia; se hace un estudio acerca de la agregación de posesiones, la interversión del título, la posesión regular y la irregular, la suspensión, interrupción y renuncia de la prescripción adquisitiva, el enfrentamiento legal entre la prescripción adquisitiva y la pretensión de reivindicación, y por último, se hace un estudio de la más importantes reformas al derecho sustancial, en las leyes 9 de 1989, 791 de 2002, 1183 de 2008, 1561 de 2012 y 1564 de 2012.