Genetik

Andere Juden - Texte der westlichen Diaspora (ca. 400–800) und ihre christliche Rezeption (ca. 700–1200), 2024

I am happy to announce my forthcoming book on Western Jews and their texts in late antiquity early middle Ages, to appear Oct. 2024 https://www.winter-verlag.de/de/detail/978-3-8253-9575-9/Heil_Andere_Juden/ Here is a preview with cover, table of contents and a section from the introduction. An abbrviated English version is under preparation for 2025

Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Sri Lanka, 2024

The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Sri Lanka offers a comprehensive survey of issues facing the island country and an overview delineating some key moments in the country’s contemporary polity, economy, and sociality. This book outlines aspects and influences foundational to understanding a country defined by its economic and political turmoil, and rift with public distrust in today’s shifting geopolitics. Chapters by various established scholars highlight this book’s pivotal contribution in situating Sri Lanka’s turmoil and deprivation in this current conjuncture. The handbook is structured in seven parts: Nations and Nationalism Politics, State and Institutions Economy and Political Economy Work and Life Environment and Environmental Politics Society, Social Systems, and Culture Moment of Flux, Looking Ahead Each part includes on average six chapters covering the social sciences and humanities to survey emerging and cutting-edge areas of the study of Sri Lanka. Multi-disciplinary in focus, the book also includes an introductory section and concluding section, which creates the space and platform for senior, mid-ranking, and junior academics to engage in dynamic conversation with each other about contemporary Sri Lanka. Including scholarship from Sri Lankan experts, the handbook creates academic output, which chimes with broader calls in academia on decolonising the academic landscape. An important reference work, this handbook will be of interest to scholars and students from wideranging academic disciplines and a focus on Sri Lanka, Asian and South Asian studies, sociology, environmental politics, development, labour, management, political economy and anthropology.

O editorial da Tribuna (24/04/24 A2), assim como as reportagens, tratam da valorização patrimonial e turística do Centro de Santos. Oportunidade única de favorecer uma ocupação proveitosa do Centro, em favor tanto da comunidade local, como da cidade, da região e de todo todos mais. Para isso, a experiência internacional indica a importância da inclusão das pessoas, comunidades, grupos de interesse na gestão desse tesouro cultural, econômico e social. Se bem conduzido, esse processo pode incluir e integrar, fazer com que forasteiros apreciem e aprendam e que os locais também o façam. Nada mais importante.

This paper focuses on two developments in nineteenth-century (philosophy of) social science: Moritz Lazarus’ and Heymann Steinthal’s Völkerpsychologie, and Georg Simmel’s early sociology of knowledge. The paper defends the following theses. First, Lazarus and Steinthal wavered between a “strong” and a “weak” programme for Völkerpsychologie. Ingredients for the strong programme included: methodological neutrality and symmetry; causal explanation of beliefs based on causal laws; a focus on groups, interests, tradition, culture, or materiality; determinism; and a self-referential model of social institutions. Second, elements of the weak programme were: the blurring of explanatory and normative interests; an emphasis on freedom of the will; anti-relativism and anti-materialism. Third, later research projects keeping the label “Völkerpsychologie” followed the weak programme. Fourth, in the 1880s and ‘90s, Simmel tried to build on some of the elements of the strong programme. Finally, and fifth, part of the explanation for why Simmel did not succeed in his attempt had to do with the social-political situation of German academia around 1900.