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Cauvin, Colette, Francisco Escobar, and Aziz Serradj. Thematic Cartography and Transformations. Hoboken, NJ, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118558133.
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Maria, Olivieri Luca, Bruneau Laurianne, Ferrandi Marco, Fondation Carlo Leone et Mariena Montandon, and Istituto italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente, eds. Pictures in transformation: Rock art research between central Asia and the subcontinent : thematic symposium (special sessions) XIX International Conference on South Asian Archaeology, Ravenna, 6 July 2007. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2010.
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Oldfield, Paul. Urban Panegyric and the Transformation of the Medieval City, 1100-1300. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198717737.001.0001.
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This study offers the first extensive analysis of the function and significance of urban panegyric in the Central Middle Ages, a flexible literary genre which enjoyed a marked and renewed popularity in the period 1100 to 1300. In doing so, it connects the production of urban panegyric to major underlying transformations in the medieval city and explores praise of cities primarily in England, Flanders, France, Germany, Iberia, and Italy (including the South and Sicily). The study demonstrates how laudatory ideas on the city appeared in extremely diverse textual formats which had the potential to interact with a wide audience via multiple textual and material sources. When contextualized within the developments of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries these ideas could reflect more than formulaic, rhetorical outputs for an educated elite, they were instead integral to the process of urbanization. This study assesses the generation of ideas on the Holy City, on counter-narratives associated with the Evil City, on the interrelationship between the city and abundance (primarily through discourses on commercial productivity, hinterlands, and population size), on landscapes and sites of power, and on knowledge generation and the construction of urban histories. Urban panegyric can enable us to comprehend more deeply material, functional, and ideological change associated with the city during a period of notable urbanization, and, importantly, how this change might have been experienced by contemporaries. This study therefore highlights the importance of urban panegyric as a product of, and witness to, a period of substantial urban change. In examining the laudatory depiction of medieval cities in a thematic analysis it can contribute to a deeper understanding of civic identity and its important connection to urban transformation.
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Nayyar, Deepak, ed. Asian Transformations. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198844938.001.0001.
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Gunnar Myrdal published his magnum opus, Asian Drama: An Inquiry into the Poverty of Nations, in 1968. He was deeply pessimistic about development prospects in Asia. The fifty years since then have witnessed a remarkable social and economic transformation in Asia – even if it has been uneven across countries and unequal between people – that would have been difficult to imagine, let alone predict at the time. This book analyses the fascinating story of economic development in Asia spanning half a century. The study is divided into three parts. The first part sets the stage by discussing the contribution of Gunnar Myrdal, the author, and Asian Drama, the book, to the debate on development then and now, and by providing a long-term historical perspective on Asia in the world. The second part comprises cross-country thematic studies on governments, economic openness, agricultural transformation, industrialization, macroeconomics, poverty and inequality, education and health, employment and unemployment, institutions and nationalisms, analysing processes of change while recognizing the diversity in paths and outcomes. The third part is constituted by country-studies on China, India, Indonesia and Vietnam, and sub-region studies on East Asia, Southeast Asia and South Asia, highlighting turning points in economic performance and analysing factors underlying success or failure. This book, with in-depth studies by eminent economists and social scientists, is the first to examine the phenomenal changes which are transforming economies in Asia and shifting the balance of economic power in the world, while reflecting on the future prospects in Asia over the next twenty-five years. It is a must-read.
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Neil, Andersen, Barker Sherri, Hunter Judith, Stubitsch Michael, and Toronto District School Board, eds. Heroic transformations: A sample thematic unit for ENG1P. [Toronto]: Toronto District School Board, 1999.
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Kintrea, Keith, and Rebecca Madgin, eds. Transforming Glasgow. Policy Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447349778.001.0001.
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“Transforming Glasgow is designed to become an essential book for academics, students, and urban practitioners. The book explores how the city of Glasgow is coming to terms with its post-industrial status and the challenges it still faces to reposition itself as an economically competitive and socially just modern city. The ways in which Glasgow is navigating its transition from a de-industrial to a post-industrial city and beyond will be critically examined through 14 thematic chapters along with an introduction and conclusion. The chapters cover the fundamental elements of urban transformation including health, housing, migration, transport, the built environment, culture, sustainability, community development, governance, and economic development, with attention to the transformation of Glasgow as a place and the impacts on people in the city. In so doing Transforming Glasgow seeks to question what comprises a post-industrial city and the extent to which Glasgow is moving beyond characterisation as a post-industrial city.”
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Vanaik, Anish. Possessing the City. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198848752.001.0001.
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This book is a social history of the property market in late-colonial Delhi; a period of much turbulence and transformation. It argues that historians of South Asian cities must connect transformations in urban space and Delhi’s economy. Utilizing a novel archive, it outlines the place of private property development in Delhi’s economy from 1911 to 1947. Rather than large-scale state initiatives, like the Delhi Improvement Trust, it was profit-oriented, decentralized, and market-based initiatives of urban construction that created the Delhi cityscape. A second thematic concern of Possessing the City is to carefully specify the emerging relationship between the state and urban space during this period. Rather than a narrow focus on urban planning ideas, it argues that the relationship be thought of in triangular fashion: the intermediation of the property market was crucial to emerging statecraft and urban form during this period. Finally, the book examines struggles and conflicts over the commodification of land. Rents and prices of urban property were directly at issue in the tussles over housing that are examined here. The question of commodification can, however, also be discerned in struggles that were not ostensibly about economic issues: clashes over religious sites in the city. Through careful attention to the historical interrelationships between state, space, and the economy, this book offers a novel intervention in the history of late-colonial Delhi.
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Oldfield, Paul. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198717737.003.0001.
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The introduction establishes the importance of works of urban panegyric as sources for understanding urban transformation in the period 1100 to 1300. It details how the study categorizes and identifies works of panegyric, demonstrating that praise of cities appears in many and diverse textual forms and does not conform to a formulaic template. The introduction also provides an overview of the scholarship on urban panegyric and establishes some of the study’s key criteria (definitions of a city, geographical and chronological coverage). It also provides a contextual overview of the sociopolitical development of the medieval city in the Central Middle Ages as initial background for the thematic analyses that will follow in subsequent chapters. Finally, it provides an overview plan of the arrangement of the book and the content of its chapters.
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Hennig, Benjamin. Rediscovering the World: Map Transformations of Human and Physical Space. Springer, 2012.
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Hennig, Benjamin. Rediscovering the World: Map Transformations of Human and Physical Space. Springer, 2012.
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Hennig, Benjamin. Rediscovering the World: Map Transformations of Human and Physical Space. Springer, 2016.
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Stanghellini, Giovanni. Emotions and the dialectic of narrative identity. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198792062.003.0014.
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This chapter argues that a significant part of a person’s self-experience and self-understanding is based on self-narratives—an ongoing process of establishing coherent formulations about who I am, who I was, and where I am going. Through self-narratives I seek to understand my actions and experiences as a semantically coherent pattern of chronologically ordered elements, and to grasp the way I relate myself to that understanding and to the world. The emotional experiences of moods and affects play a crucial role in the life and self-experience of the person. A given mood can develop itself into a character trait, that is, a permanent part of one’s sense of personal identity; this transformation occurs pre-reflectively and without a deliberate and thematic involvement of the person. Through narratives, moods can also be incorporated actively, reflectively, and thematically into a person’s identity. Moods are connected to self-understanding. My questioning about myself is often elicited by my mood before my identity becomes an explicit problem.
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Gilfoyle, Timothy J., ed. The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Urban History. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acref/9780190853860.001.0001.
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The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Urban History synthesizes three generations of urban historical scholarship, providing a thematic and chronological overview of American urban history from the pre-Columbian era until the beginning decades of the twenty-first century. The 92 articles collected here describe and analyze the transformation of the United States from a simple agrarian and small-town society to a complex urban and suburban nation. Each essay has been authored, peer-reviewed, and edited by scholars expert in the field, offering a reliable, historiographically informed examination of a specific subject in American urban history. The encyclopedia differs from previous publications by providing semi-structured, synoptic articles ranging from 6,000 to 8,000 words or more. The articles are divided into three parts: 1. an accessible narrative overview of an important issue in American urban history; 2. a brief historiographical summary of significant writers and publications on the subject; and 3. a short introduction to essential primary sources. This tri-part format allows each article to serve multiple audiences: those who simply want an informed an intelligent introduction to a given topic; those interested in identifying the leading publications on a specific subject; and those interested in performing detailed research on the topic at hand.
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Levin, Yael. Joseph Conrad. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198864370.001.0001.
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The book builds on current interventions in modernist scholarship in order to rethink Joseph Conrad’s contribution to literary history. It utilizes emerging critical modernisms, the work of Henri Bergson and Gilles Deleuze, and late modernist fiction, to stage an encounter between Conrad and a radically different literary tradition. It does so in order to uncover critical blind spots that have limited our appreciation of his poetics. The purpose of this investigation is threefold: first, to participate in recent critical attempts to correct a neglect of ontological preoccupations in Conrad’s writing and uncover the author’s exploration of a human subject beyond the Cartesian cogito. Second, to demonstrate the manner in which such an exploration is accompanied by the reconfiguration of the very building blocks of fiction: character, narration, focalization, language, and plot have to be rethought to accommodate a subject who is no longer conceived of as autonomous and whole but is rendered permeable and interdependent. Third, to show how this redrawing of the literary imaginary communicates with the projects of late modernist writers such as Samuel Beckett, writers whose literary endeavors have long been held separate from Conrad’s. In the spirit of current reexaminations of modernism and critical endeavors to think it anew outside the commonplaces that once defined it, this study returns to Conrad’s art with an eye to twentieth-century shifts in the way we process, understand, and evaluate information. Thematic, stylistic, and philosophical instantiations of the slow are offered here as a gauge for this meaningful transformation.
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Ziogas, Ioannis. Ovid’s Hesiodic Voices. Edited by Alexander C. Loney and Stephen Scully. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190209032.013.48.
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Ovid’s poetry opens a dialogue with the three major Hesiodic works: the Theogony, the Works and Days, and the Catalogue of Women. The ways in which these works complement or differ from each other are reflected in Ovid’s Ars Amatoria, Metamorphoses, and Fasti. Hesiod’s works are both diverse and integrated, a combination that appealed to Ovid’s versatile genius. Stylistic and thematic aspects of Hesiodic poetry, such as puns and transformations, further resonate with Ovidian poetics. Ovid engages with Hesiod’s text directly and indirectly through the tradition of Hesiodic reception, which includes philosophers such as Xenophanes and Philodemus, as well as Hellenistic poets such as Callimachus and Aratus.
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Rao, Koneru Ramakrishna. His Life Is His Message. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199477548.003.0002.
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This chapter is a thematic sketch of Gandhi’s life and the lessons we may learn from it. The chapter discusses his early life and his experiences in South Africa which had a profound transformative effect on him, and how subsequently he was pulled into the vortex of Indian politics and the freedom movement. While describing the life experience of Gandhi, the chapter brings into focus a number of key Gandhian concepts like satyagraha that underlie Gandhi’s philosophy and practices. More important is our attempt to make Gandhi’s life relevant to readers and to show how the Mahatma’s life is a splendid blend of thought and action.
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Yadlapati, Madhuri M. Faith and Transcendence in Hindu Traditions. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252037948.003.0005.
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This chapter explores several notes of ambiguity or self-correction in Hindu faith: the relationship between mystical certitude and discursive doubt in the Upanishads; bhakti (devotional faith) and the limitations of dharma in the epics; the questioning of assumptions about reality spurred by the doctrine of maya; and the paradoxical character of Hindu theism as reflected in the figure of Shiva. This fourfold examination illustrates ambiguities in a few of the very different strands of Hindu thought and practice. Behind all four thematic strands is a sense that beyond the worldly values of dharma teachings, the spiritual journey requires self-correction as part of the transformative experience of religious transcendence.
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Boden, Margaret A. 3. Language, creativity, emotion. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780199602919.003.0003.
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If AI cannot model language, creativity, and emotion, hopes of artificial general intelligence (AGI) are illusory. These quintessentially ‘human’ areas have been modeled, but only up to a point. ‘Language, creativity, emotion’ questions whether AI systems could ever appear to possess these areas. It first considers natural language processing (NLP). NLP generation is more difficult than NLP acceptance due to both thematic content and grammatical form. On the creativity front, AI technology has generated many ideas that are historically new, surprising, and valuable. AI concepts also help to explain human creativity by distinguishing three types: combinational, exploratory, and transformational. It concludes that if we are ever to achieve AGI, emotions such as anxiety must be included—and used.
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Dyrna, Jonathan, Jana Riedel, Sylvia Schulze-Achatz, and Thomas Köhler, eds. Selbstgesteuertes Lernen in der beruflichen Weiterbildung. Ein Handbuch für Theorie und Praxis. Waxmann Verlag GmbH, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.31244/9783830993643.
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Die digitale Transformation rückt selbstgesteuertes Lernen wieder in den Blickpunkt. Dabei verändert es sich nicht grundlegend, erhält aber viele neue Impulse und eine Stärkung seiner Notwendigkeit. Dieses Handbuch führt Akteurinnen und Akteure der beruflichen Weiterbildung in strukturierter und anschaulicher Form in diese ebenso komplexe wie vielversprechende Thematik ein. Es enthält theoretische Betrachtungen und empirische Untersuchungen zur didaktisch-methodischen Umsetzung, zu digitalen Unterstützungsformen, zur Kompetenzentwicklung sowie zu institutionellen Rahmenbedingungen des selbstgesteuerten Lernens und stellt Leitfäden für dessen praktische Umsetzung bereit. Diese Beiträge sollen Forschende und Studierende ebenso wie Leitungspersonen, Lehrende und Lernende der beruflichen Weiterbildung dazu anregen, diese Lernform weiterführend zu untersuchen, einzusetzen und weiterzuentwickeln und somit die im 21. Jahrhundert unabdingbaren Lernkompetenzen nachhaltig zu fördern.
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Duckworth, Douglas S. Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy of Mind and Nature. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190883959.001.0001.
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This book offers an engaging philosophical overview of Tibetan Buddhist thought. It shows the way that Buddhist theory informs Buddhist practice across various Tibetan traditions in ways that integrate competing and complimentary perspectives on the nature of mind and reality. The book draws upon a contrast between phenomenology and ontology to highlight distinct starting points of inquiries into mind and nature in Buddhism and to illuminate central issues confronted in Tibetan Buddhist philosophy. It argues that these starting points share a common ground and can be seen to be actually inseparable. This thematic study raises some of the most difficult and critical topics in Buddhist thought, such as the nature of mind and the meaning of emptiness, across a wide range of philosophical traditions, including the “Middle Way” of Madhyamaka, Yogācāra (a.k.a. “Mind-Only”), and tantra. This book provides a richly textured overview that explores the intersecting nature of mind, language, and world depicted across Tibetan Buddhist traditions. It also puts Tibetan philosophy into conversation with texts and traditions from India, Europe, and America, exemplifying the possibility and potential for a transformative conversation in global philosophy.
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Boyd, Barbara. Ovid's Homer. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190680046.001.0001.
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This book is the first extended modern study of the Latin poet Ovid’s Homeric intertextuality. Ovid’s relationship with the Homeric poems is shown to be neither occasional nor simply incidental; rather, careful and creative readings of the abundant evidence of Ovid’s career-long engagement with the Iliad and the Odyssey demonstrate a coherent and profound pattern of animated intertextuality and transformative reception. Passages and poems from throughout Ovid’s major works offer a vivid picture of the ways in which Ovid styles himself as a worthy successor to Homer. Central to the discussion throughout the book are two central tropes, articulated on both the thematic and metatexual levels: paternity and desire. For Ovid, the poetics of paternity is a way of reading the Homeric poems, as well as a way of positioning himself as a legitimate heir to Homer’s poetic authority; and the poetics of desire, expressed especially strongly through repetition, allows Ovid to characterize himself as a devoted reader and editor of Homer, whose emulation of his model is grounded in an intimate appreciation for and knowledge of the text. Through a sustained reading sensitive to the dynamics of reception, this book puts forward a new perspective on Ovid, and offers a fertile model for the analysis of Latin poetry.
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Martin-Fiorino, Víctor, Carlos Arturo Ospina Hernández, María Victoria Cadavid-Claussen, Sandra Ligia Ramírez-Orozco, Diana Constanza Nossa-Ramos, Francesco Ferrari, Darwin Arturo Muñoz Buitrago, et al. Persona y felicidad: aportes desde la educación, la filosofía, la historia, la ética, la política, el derecho y la bioética. Edited by Dalia Jaqueline Santa Cruz-Vera. Editorial Universidad Católica de Colombia, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.14718/9789585133679.2021.
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The book includes a collection of articles resulting from research carried out by teachers of the Department of Humanities and whose thematic center is the relationship between people and happiness. Each chapter provides answers from a specific disciplinary field, through a qualitative methodology, the anthropological and ethical problem of achievement of happiness or personal human fulfillment. From education and ethics, the transition from some informative humanities to other performative ones is proposed, which integrate moral formation and values that advocate empathy and solidarity as a human path to happiness. From the anthropological keys of Leonardo Polo, the person can give meaning to their presence in the world, beyond the satisfaction of happiness itself, since human beings has a personal sense capable of manifesting themselves in the hopeful task. Likewise, from the personalistic anthropology, happiness is studied as a life project, moving from the conflict towards spirituality and proposing chose political educational transformations. In the field of historical sciences, the use of the concepts of person and happiness in the Magisterium of John xxiii underlines the perspectives suggested by the Pope and collected by successive pontiffs. From the law, the relationship is analyzed between justice and happiness, applied to the so-called “right to die with dignity”; and from the bioethics, reflections on procreation and happiness are raised based on the current debate on surrogacy.
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Matusiewicz, David, and Stefan Heinemann, eds. Digitalisierung und Ethik in Medizin und Gesundheitswesen. Medizinisch Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.32745/9783954664764.
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Wenn digitale Technologien wie künstliche Intelligenz, Blockchain und Robotik auf die Medizin treffen, entstehen zwangsläufig ethische Fragestellungen. Diese lassen sich nicht ohne Weiteres mit medizinisch-technologischen, rechtlichen oder ökonomischen Argumenten allein beantworten. Neue Themenfelder wie die sich wandelnde Rolle der Patienten, die neue Verantwortung von Ärzten und Pflegenden, neue digitale Möglichkeiten in der Medizin, Smart Hospitals im Klinikalltag, die gesellschaftliche Legitimität eines möglichen dritten Datengesundheitsmarktes, eine zukunftsfeste Ausbildungslandschaft für den Gesundheits-/Medizinbereich sowie die Grenzen der digitalen Forschung bedürfen einer kritischen und gleichzeitig thematisch breiten Auseinandersetzung mit ethischen Aspekten in der digitalen Gesundheitswirtschaft und Medizin. Dies ist nicht nur inhaltlich wichtig, sondern auch zeitkritisch, denn gerade dieser Sektor hat eine erhebliche globale Marktdynamik. Längst ist „eHealth“ i.w.S. keine Kerninnovation von klassischen Gesundheitsakteuren mehr. Es gehört vielmehr zum Tagesgeschäft der großen US-amerikanischen und chinesischen Game Changer wie Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, Alibaba und Tencent. Die verantwortbare, aber auch wettbewerbsfähige Partizipation an diesen Entwicklungen ist vielleicht die drängendste Aufgabe für die Akteure in Wissenschaft, Krankenversorgung, Gesundheitswirtschaft und Politik. Ausgewiesene Experten aus diesen Bereichen stellen sich daher im vorliegenden Werk den oft schwierigen Fragen, die sich auf dem Weg der Transformation zu einem B2B2C-Markt im Gesundheitswesen, der einer ethischen Betrachtung standhält, ergeben.