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Immigrants are routinely seen as less "deserving" of access to social protection than natives. This experiment investigates whether inducing people to take the perspective of immigrants and empathize with their struggles - a form of de-biasing - can reduce the deservingness gap between immigrants and natives.

Welfare chauvnism is the attitude that immigrants are by default less "deserving" of access to social protection than natives. This experiment investigates whether welfare chauvnism is driven by ethnocentrist stereotypes: Beliefs that immigrants have more negative attributes (lazy, unintelligent,...) and fewer positive ones (hard-working, intelligent) than natives.

This pre-registered meta-analysis will pool data collected since 2000 from English-language published studies of self-reported child and adolescent friendship networks to provide a precise estimate of the average size of child and adolescent friendship networks. Additionally, the meta-analysis will examine the role of demographic, contextual, and methodological moderators in predicting variation in friendship network size.

This study will examine whether learning that money positively affects psychological well-being will increase support for income redistribution and for equality of outcomes. To test whether such information can have a causal effect on redistributive preferences, we plan to conduct an online experiment on a sample of US adults where participants will be exposed to findings from previous research on income/money and psychological well-being. Participants will be randomized into four experimental conditions (3 treatments and one control). In Treatment 1, participants will learn that money decreases unhappiness. In Treatment 2, participants will learn that money does not decrease unhappiness. Treatment 3 is identical to Treatment 1, except that it focuses on happiness rather than unhappiness. In the control group, participants will read a text of similar length on an unrelated topic. Participants will then be asked questions about their preferences for redistribution. The analysis will test whether participants in Treatment 1 have higher redistributive preference and whether they are more likely to support equality of outcomes than participants in each of the other experimental conditions. Specifically, the comparison of Treatment 1 vs. Control tests whether information exposure about a causal income-unhappiness link has an effect on redistributive preferences compared to the baseline. The comparison of Treatment 1 vs. Treatment 2 tests whether information exposure about a causal income-unhappiness link has an effect compared to being simply primed to think about income and unhappiness as unrelated constructs. Finally, comparing Treatment 1 vs. Treatment 3 allows us to learn whether a frame focused on amelioration of misery (negative well-being) is more impactful than an otherwise identical frame focused on increasing happiness (positive well-being).

An experimental study investigating the effect of explainable AI advice on peoples’ decision-making in an HR-related task

The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami caused extensive loss of life and disrupted family units, leaving large numbers of widows, widowers, and orphans. While it is common to identify disaster widows and orphans as potentially vulnerable groups, there has been limited research about how families are reconstructed after a major disaster. The main objective of this paper is to better understand what factors motivate persons who lost a spouse in a disaster to either re-marry or stay single. We use quantitative data from a statistically representative survey of tsunami-affected households in the Banda Aceh, Aceh Besar, and Aceh Jaya districts in the Aceh province of Indonesia conducted a decade after the tsunami to show that 18% of households reported the death of a spouse during the tsunami. Out of these, 66% of widows/widowers reported marrying again within a decade after the tsunami, with most remarried within the first three years after the disaster. We use qualitative data from in-depth interviews with 36 widows and widowers to identify motivations behind the decision to remarry or stay single. We found that widows were most likely to get remarried to provide economic security, support for their surviving children, and because of concerns about their reputation if they were unmarried. Widowers were more likely to remarry to secure domestic support and caregiving for themselves as they got older and to help them care for their surviving children. Some widows and widowers decided not to remarry because of concerns about assuming additional financial liabilities, distressing their surviving children, and (for women) giving up personal freedoms. Our research on the re-marriage decisions of tsunami widows and widowers shows that very personal decisions about family should be seen within the framework of household and community resilience., Progress in Disaster Science, 19

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Following the 2011 Arab Spring, autocrats have sought to limit citizens’ ability to publicize offline protests over social media. In this article, we explore how users adjust to these restrictions. To do so, we analyse 33 million tweets sent from Egypt during the “Day of Anger” protests in September 2020. We find evidence of online tactical evasion in a highly repressive context. Compared to neutral users, regime opponents are more likely to issue calls for offline protests using new or dedicated accounts that contain no personal information. Users are also more likely to delete tweets calling for mobilization ex-post in a bid to conceal their activism. We find weaker evidence suggesting that regime opponents try to evade laws targeting critical accounts with over 5000 followers. The findings illustrate how activists in autocracies use social media to mobilize street-level contention while attempting to mitigate the risk of state repression.

Enhancing wellbeing in educational settings is a challenging endeavour as wellbeing education is inherently complex. This interdisciplinary conceptual paper aims to bridge the gap between psychological interventions and educational contexts by adopting a complexity lens to consider the puzzle of wellbeing in educational settings. We draw on the fields of positive psychology, educational theory, complexity thinking, and indigenous worldviews to conceptualise wellbeing education and illustrate the need to weave approaches together. Embracing a complexity lens, we offer ways of prompting emergent wellbeing change: incorporating diverse perspectives, trialling nudges, and attending to interactions across the system. We argue that complexity-informed approaches to wellbeing education have the potential to create emergent change in and across complex educational systems.

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This thesis consists of three self-contained articles studying whether and how different social contexts shape population and family dynamics. In the first article, I retest the Trivers–Willard hypothesis, which argues for a negative correlation between maternal stress and sex ratio at birth (SRB), with 243 years of time series data from Sweden. I find no supportive evidence for the hypothesis because the associations of SRB with most of the covariates used as proxies for maternal stress are not statistically significant, and in many cases the level of maternal stress is indeed positively correlated with SRB. In the second article, I exploit quasi-experimental variations in the duration of exposure to a school stipend project to identify the effect of maternal education on child mortality in Bangladesh. Using birth history data from the Demographic and Health Surveys, I find that an additional year of maternal schooling reduces both under-five and infant mortality by about 20%. I also document a number of mechanisms, including greater wealth and literacy, positive assortative mating, lower fertility, delayed marriage and childbearing, greater health-related knowledge, better health-seeking behaviours, and female empowerment, but not female employment. In the third article, I combine individual-level data from the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey and province-level data on wartime bombing to assess the long-term impact of the Vietnam War on Vietnamese women's attitudes towards intimate partner violence (IPV). To establish a causal link, I use a province's distance to the arbitrarily drawn border between North Vietnam and South Vietnam as an instrument for bombing intensity in that province. I find that women living in provinces that were heavily bombed during the Vietnam War are more likely to accept IPV, reflecting the normalisation of and desensitisation to violence in the private sphere among those who were exposed to conflict violence.

Poster presented at the Conference “The future of Ethnographic Museums”, Pitt Rivers Museum and Keble College, University of Oxford, 19-21July 2013

Overview This questionnaire serves as the Swiss (German version)research instrument in theresearch project entitled "The engagement in policy practice of social workers in Germany, Israel, and Switzerland. A trinational study and comparison (PP:GIS)".The aim of this international collaborative research project is to examine the level, forms, and factors of policy practice engagement among social workers in Germany, Israel, and Switzerland. Background of the Research Project Social workers’ engagement in the policy arena has gained much attention in the professional, ethical, and research discourse of social work. According to the global definition of social work and the international code of ethics, social workers are obliged to advocate for social justice and for more just policies. One of the accepted ways to do so is to engage in policy practice. As service providers, social workers translate (social) policy into professional practice and thus experience how policy affects the well-being of service users. Due to this position, social workers are often depicted as “street-level bureaucrats”, working as public servants, routinely interacting with citizens, and having to deal with changes in public policy, including austerity measures. Therefore, social workers observe, can anticipate, and are often one of the first to detect unjust or inefficient policies and recognize their effects on the lives of service users. In such cases, social workers can use their expertise and their professional position to advocate for more suitable policies towards service users through policy practice engagement. Research concerning social workers’ policy engagement has primarily used the Civic Voluntarism Model and the Policy Practice Engagement (PPE) framework to explain social workers’ levels of PPE. These studies have examined a limited set of predictors at the social worker, organizational, and institutional levels. As a result, other explanatory mechanisms, such as the relationship between personality, job-related, worker, organization, and state-level predictors, have rarely been examined. Aims and Significance of the Research Project This study aims to elucidate the multi-layered mechanisms that determine social workers’ engagement in policy practice by utilizing a holistic approach to job-related behavior and professional decision-making. Therefore, the study addresses the following research questions: What forms and strategies of policy practice do social workers use to influence policymaking processes? Which factors and mechanisms associate with social workers’ policy practice engagement? What differences and similarities exist between the engagement of German, Israeli, and Swiss social workers in policy practice?

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This contribution argues to describe the discussions within the digital humanities (DH) discipline as a subjectivation discourse following the contention of Michel Foucault. This allows us to reframe the negotiation processes within the DH as a means to formally establish its disciplinary in/dependence, and as such provides and creates agency for the subjects of the discourse(s).

Digital access to social sciences and humanities (SSH) research resources is necessary to enable broad use. For this purpose, a discovery platform for SSH resources was created. This paper describes its development, based on user, economic, and computer science research methods, and illustrates how such a platform supports social exchange.

In 2023, Digital Humanities Research Institute at Siberian Federal University starts a working prototype of a research digital infrastructure for the aggregation, preservation, dissemination of Siberian historical and cultural heritage for historical, literary, ethnographic, art history and other kinds of research at the intersection of the humanities and computer sciences — Siberiana.online. The aim of the project is to launch a long-term initiative for digitization, analysis, and curation of the different collections of historical, cultural, and natural heritage of the Central Siberia (so-called Angara-Yenisei macro-region). The project is designed for research and education needs of the digital humanists at Siberian Federal University and world over, because Siberian artifacts and collections evoke a steady interest in the current literature.

OpenAtlas (https://openatlas.eu/) is an open source database software used to acquire, edit, and manage research data from various fields of humanities. By using OpenAtlas, information entered is mapped to CIDOC CRM in the background. Types can be added dynamically and make OpenAtlas usable for different projects.

We analyze changes in the business network of Interwar Yugoslavia using computational network analysis. We extract data from Compass, a yearly directory of directors in Central European companies. We combine qualitative and quantitative methods to give insight into the evolution of the Yugoslavian business in a significant historical context.

The paper presents the implementation of various anthropological analyses such as sex, age at death, and body height estimations within the open source database application OpenAtlas and their usages as well as visualisations in thanatoarchaeological and Digital Humanities research projects.

In this paper we track some social mechanisms of incrimination through social network analysis of depositions in the inquisitorial trials in Bologna at the turn of the fourteenth century.

The paper develops a formal model of community resilience based on the notion of socio-cognitive grammars and the analogy relations that rules of different grammars maintain at different levels. Examples are given based on our fieldwork on the Penghu archipelago.

Harold Garfinkel's unique style of language is considered central to his unconventional approach and continues to be used by members of ethnomethodology. In the context of digitizing the sub-collection "Occasion Maps" of the Garfinkel Archive, an attempt is being made to break down the structure of concepts using graph-based methods.

This dissertation has three intertwined aims. First, to elucidate (and defend) Weberian modernity as drastic transformations in peoples’ conceptions of normativity, which radically breaks with the past (Chapter 1), thereby illuminating how contemporary moral educational focuses in China function as a “pre-modernist” response to the effects of modernity (Chapter 2). Second, to understand how historical developments of Chinese modernity motivated mass educational migration (Chapter 3), thus identifying how top-down decisions to modernise inspired and sustained perhaps unexpected pluralistic perspectives on the Chinese nation-state (Chapter 4). Third, to examine the lived experiences of pupils within the Chinese schooling system, motivating anthropologists to rethink the “individual subject” in practical and theoretical contexts as actor (Chapter 5) and knower (Chapter 6) alike. The title of the dissertation, “norms” and “reasons,” derive from these three related aims. I propose to understand modernity as a reversal in the direction of normative fit; while I hope to reconceptualise what it means for the individual to be the locus of both practical and theoretical reasoning qua actor and knower respectively. To these ends, I undertook ethnographic investigations of the educational paradigm within China, as well as into the effects of studying abroad on informants from China who have since left. I relied heavily on historical arguments regarding China’s transformation and development—both material and abstract—since its encounter with Western powers in the mid-1800s. Throughout this dissertation, I drew generously from philosophical discussions in epistemology, action theory, and moral philosophy to make sense of the ethnography.

This hands-on half-day tutorial aims to explore the potential of the ParlaMint corpora – openly available collections of parliamentary records, which are uniformly sampled, annotated and rich in individual speaker and institutional group metadata. We show how the resource facilitates research into specific European parliaments and allows for transnational comparisons.

The proposed paper will discuss collaboration between various stakeholders in the open access publishing ecosystem in Poland and the current challenges in developing new sustainability models for publishing digital research outputs, particularly monographs, in OA.

A collaboration between the Linked Art II project and Participatory Knowledge Practices in Analogue and Digital Image Archives (PIA) has led to a reconfigurable Python-based workflow to transform cultural heritage data, initially photographic collections, into Linked Open Usable Data (LOUD), as a foundation for varied participatory interfaces supporting scholarship and beyond. Motivation PIA, led by the University of Basel and the Bern Academy of the Arts, aims to encourage participation from scholars and the wider public through three collections from the photographic archives of the Swiss Society for Folklore Studies (SSFS): The Atlas of Swiss Folklore, Ernst Brunner, and Kreis Family. PIA aims to create multiple interfaces reflecting diverse perspectives by deploying community-developed LOUD specifications such as the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) and Linked Art, an RDF application profile (JSON-LD) based on CIDOC-CRM to describe object-based cultural heritage. In collaboration with the University of Oxford via the Linked Art II project, PIA has transformed their cultural heritage collection data into Linked Art using templates, which encapsulate the data characteristics and cataloguing practices. A Linked Art API will provide an additional entry point, as a means of conveying semantically enriched events and as a benchmark against other collections leveraging this model. Python-based Workflow To generate Linked Art files for the combined PIA collection a data transformation workflow has been created through which PIA templates were encoded in Python for a given Linked Art API entity endpoint, currently: DigitalObject HumanMadeObject and Set. The workflow, described in a use case example with a photograph from the Ernst Brunner collection, provides a three-step software process for transforming data into Linked Art. Query: The first Python script extracts collection data from the (legacy) PIA JSON API. YAML front matters are used for script variables. The filepath for the relevant .yaml file is specified as a script argument throughout the workflow. For our example, the script queried data for all images looking for DigitalObject entities (one of the variables) and the object's metadata that are stored come specifically from https://json.participatory-archives.ch/api/v1/images/12033} Map: Templates are used to map collection data to an intermediate JSON data format. The intermediate JSON data format means that the later transformation script that creates Linked Art JSON-LD does not necessarily need to be modified if a new data source is introduced. Transform: The intermediate JSON data format is transformed to Linked Art with Python functions that define ‘patterns’ (for example classified_as) for representing different aspects of photographic collection data as Linked Art. Future Work The SSFS will migrate its database into the DaSCH Service Platform (DSP) and amend their data model which will affect PIA, requiring an upgrade of its infrastructure and APIs. The workflow for creating Linked Art representations will have to be reconfigured and repurposed with different data sources. After the migration of the SSFS database, the PIA team will investigate remaining issues in the GitHub repository regarding the correct mapping of Linked Art entities and attribution of IDs. The team will work to ensure that the appropriate Linked Art modelling is achieved through the workflow. Conclusion The reconfigurable Python-based workflow is able to transform cultural heritage data, initially photographic collections, into LOUD, as a foundation for varied participatory interfaces supporting scholarship and beyond. The adaptability and extensibility of the workflow allows for potential future transformations of data from other collections to Linked Art. Acknowledgements This work has been supported by the PIA research project which is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) as part of the Sinergia funding scheme (contract no. CRSII5_193788) and by the Linked Art II project at the University of Oxford (Principal Investigator: Dr. Kevin R. Page, Oxford e-Research Centre) funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC project reference AH/T013117/1)., This poster is related to the extended abstract that is published as part of the DH2023 Book of Abstracts. All versions are identical, only the malfunctioning QR code was replaced., {"references":["Newbury, David (2018): 'LOUD: Linked Open Usable Data and linked.art', in 2018 CIDOC Conference. CIDOC Annual Conference, Heraklion, Greece: International Council of Museums, pp. 1–11. [01.04.2023].","Page, Kevin R. / Delmas-Glass, Emmanuelle / Beaudet, David / Norling, Samantha / Rother, Lynn / Hänsli, Thomas (2020): 'Linked Art: Networking Digital Collections and Scholarship', in DH2020 Book of Abstracts. Digital Humanities 2020, Online, pp. 504–509. [01.04.2023].","Raemy, Julien Antoine / Demleitner, Adrian (2023): 'Implementation of the IIIF Presentation API 3.0 based on Software Support: Use Case of an Incremental IIIF Deployment within a Citizen Science Project', in Digital Heritage. Progress in Cultural Heritage: Documentation, Preservation, and Protection. Cham: Springer International Publishing (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). Unpublished paper presented at the International Conference on Digital Heritage, Limassol, Cyprus, November 7-11, 2022.","Sanderson, Robert (2018): 'Shout it Out: LOUD'. EuropeanaTech Conference 2018, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, 15 May. [01.04.2023].","Sanderson, Robert (2019): 'Keynote: Standards and Communities: Connected People, Consistent Data, Usable Applications', in 2019 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL). 2019 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA: IEEE, p. 28. DOI: 10.1109/JCDL.2019.00009."]}

Based on a network analysis of publications in Romanian-German literary journals of the interwar period, the journalistic cooperation of the different German-speaking regions in Romania as well as with other literary fields is illuminated. Likewise, it serves as an indication of the position of the individual magazines in fieldinternal conflicts.

In this paper, we present Computer-Assisted Semantic Text Modelling (CASTEMO), a novel but now well-developed approach to transformation of textual resources into rich, structured data stored in JSON-based document databases, and the related InkVisitor research environment.

This paper explores the Critical Digital Humanities from the perspective of the methods applied in an integrative collaboration between Science and Technology Studies (STS) and the Digital Humanities (DH). It brings together analysis of existing work under this rubric with a comparative taxonomy of practices and two illustrative 'thought experiments'.

Presentations given at the webinar held on 12 June 2023, to launch the IUSSP-CODATA Report on FAIR Vocabularies in Population Researchhttps://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7818157. &nbsp

Forest conservation is a very important concept across the world. It is not only crucial for climate change but also very critical for the survival of humanity. In Africa, forests have always been an important aspect of nature that is regarded with uttermost reverence and care. Importantly, discussions on health, healthcare, culture, economics and other factors have been associated with forests. Part of this benefit is the use of herbs from the forests for local medicinal purposes. The current study sought to ascertain the value of conserving forests resources for indigenous herbal medicine among the Akyem Abuakwa people of Ghana. Among other things, it aimed at exploring the indigenous means or methods of conserving forests in Africa. The study adopted a purely qualitative research approach, with a blend of interviews and secondary materials. From the current discourse, it was revealed that African traditional medicine, both spiritual and physical, make very good use of the forests. From earliest times, several strategies and indigenous knowledge systems were deployed to ensure a proper means for the protection of herbal plants, trees and animal parts to enhance the practice of traditional medicine in Akyem Abuakwa. Based on the findings and discussions arising from the research, we argue that rigorous education and orientation programmes toward the protection and sustenance of the forest environment should suffice. Howbeit, the discussions and debates surrounding African indigenous forest conservation and its contribution to African medicinal resources appear to be complex. Such puzzlement must be resolved with continuous research beyond this current contribution.&nbsp

For the majority of Muslims, faith plays a vital role in their lives. Specific forms of religiosity are significant as a resource, or coping mechanisms, in adverse life situations, which also applies to Muslim refugees fleeing to Germany. However, Germany, as well as German social work – which offers an important point of contact for refugees – are both very secular. This article explores the current role of religiosity of Muslim refugees for social work in Germany – and what role it could, and should, play. Qualitative interviews with nine social workers in Lower Franconia working in refugee settings were conducted. They showed that, for various reasons, the religiosity of Muslim refugees only plays a very minor role in the reality of social work. Still, occasionally it surfaces – especially in difficult life situations of the refugees. More frequently than theological issues, practical or organizational religious topics were addressed. Social workers who brought up spiritual matters on their own initiative were either persons whose own faith was vital to them, or they were aware of the importance of religion to Muslim clients. While the primarily supportive effect of religiosity and spirituality in adverse life situations is undisputed, social workers tend to only address it on their own initiative if faith is of concern for themselves or if they know about its supportive function for their Muslim clients. Thus, social workers should be sensitized, background knowledge provided, social work attitude shaped, and action competencies trained., Quarterly on Refugee Problems - AWR Bulletin, Vol. 62 No. 2 (2023): Quarterly on Refugee Problems - AWR Bulletin (QRP)

In Thinking Against Empire: Anticolonial Thought as Social Theory, Julian Go continues his vital work on rethinking and redirecting the discipline of sociology. Go's piece relates to his wider oeuvre of postcolonial sociology - found in works such as his Postcolonial Thought and Social Theory (2016) as well as multiple journal articles on epistemic exclusion (Go 2020), Southern theory (Go 2016), metrocentrism (Go 2014), and the history of sociology (Go 2009). In this response article, my aim is to think alongside some of the central themes outlined in Go's paper rather than offering a rebuttal of any sorts. In particular, I want to think through how the recent work on 'decoloniality' may play more of a central role in Go's vision of sociology and social theory than he acknowledges. In doing so, I hope to engage in Go's prodigious scholarship through centering discussions of the geopolitics of knowledge, double translation, and border thinking. Before proceeding to this discussion, I will offer a brief review of my reading of Go's paper.

BACKGROUND: The declining fertility trends in Western countries during the 2010s is puzzling, not least for the Nordic countries. OBJECTIVE: In order to better understand the driving forces of the decline, we examine whether it is driven by differential behavior across socio-demographic population subgroups. We study Sweden, which is a particularly puzzling case.METHODS: Event-history techniques are applied to register data of the Swedish-born population to provide an in-depth analysis of the socio-demographic profile of the country���s decade-long fertility decline.RESULTS: The decline is confined to first births, with no apparent differences between individuals living in different types of municipalities or between those with a full Swedish or non-Swedish background. The first-birth decline is notable across labor-market activity groups, but is somewhat more pronounced among those with the weakest labor-market positions. The share of men and women who were active in the labor market increased, however, and among them a growing part had high earnings. The findings are strikingly similar for men and women.CONCLUSIONS: Little of structural factors seem to be at play in shaping the Swedish fertility decline, and other, perhaps global factors, may be at play in the general tendency to increasingly forego or postpone having children. The polarization in childbearing across labor-market positions is an area of future attention.

Research on face impressions has often focused on a fixed, universal architecture, treating regional variability as noise. Here, we demonstrated a crucial yet neglected role of cultural learning processes in forming face impressions. In Study 1, we found that variability in the structure of adult perceivers’ face impressions across 42 world regions ( N = 287,178) could be explained by variability in the actual personality structure of people living in those regions. In Study 2, data from 232 world regions ( N = 307,136) revealed that adult perceivers use the actual personality structure learned from their local environment to form lay beliefs about personality, and these beliefs in turn support the structure of perceivers’ face impressions. Together, these results suggest that people form face impressions on the basis of a conceptual understanding of personality structure that they have come to learn from their regional environment. The findings suggest a need for greater attention to the regional and cultural specificity of face impressions.

For approximately the last 45 years, researchers have examined a standardized pathway for an individual’s life course, involving leaving the parents’ home, building a stable career, getting married, having children, followed by retirement and death. Contrary to what was been previously discovered, the life course is no longer considered as linear as it was once thought to be. This statement has been further investigated and proven more specifically among families of children with special needs. This Master’s thesis reviews the perspective of 11 (eleven) fathers of children with cerebral palsy located in Canada and in the United States. Fathers voluntarily participated in a qualitative 90-minute qualitative structured interview, followed by the construction of a historical timeline of key events pertaining to their journey to becoming a father. Qualitative analyses consisted of a content analysis to investigate how fatherhood is constructed and the experiences of being a father to a child with cerebral palsy consist of. In essence, becoming a father to a child with cerebral palsy is an extremely emotional experience as complex and continuous feelings emerge in those transitioning into fatherhood.

Final conference poster of aresearch that follows the story of the personal library of Bahaʾ al-Din Muhammad al- Amili (953-1030/1547-1621), well-known as Shaykh Bahaʾi, in Safavid Iran.

Final conference posterof aresearch project that seeks to interrogate the relationship between digital technologies and religion by focusing on one religious community (Moroccan Muslims) in a specific ‘diasporic’ context (Germany).

Final conference poster ona research that aims to isolate and identify a number of exchange arenas that brought together European Arabists and their modernist philology together in direct contact with Arab scholars representing local scholarly traditions and struggling to establish new ones.

In this thesis I examine how strategically situated energy industry professionals conceptualise and act upon energy transitions in Norway. Analytically I refer to interlocutors as ‘energy elites’. This allows me to highlight their shared socio-economic, educational, and professional positionalities while showing key distinctions in their perceptions of energy. I draw on 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Oslo between 2018-2020 where I engaged with over 100 industry leaders and experts. I conducted fieldwork at the formal office spaces of Norway’s major energy corporations and in the private spaces that interlocutors inhabited. This allows me to make three main contributions: Firstly, I use my detailed ethnographic insights to counter dominant scholarly presumptions that see elites as resisting socio-economic changes in order to preserve their own status. I demonstrate that the way my interlocutors engaged with energy transitions involved personal, societal, and ethical considerations of how energy production can ensure a ‘good life’. Thus, I argue that strategic pursuits alone cannot account for the varied ways in which industry professionals engaged with energy transitions. Secondly, I expand on the regional literature by critically examining dominant narratives of a ‘successful’ Norwegian energy model. I analyse how increasingly industry professionals scrutinised the socio-environmental sustainability of their hydrocarbon and renewable energy production in light of growing climate change concerns. Lastly, I contribute to the study of energy transitions, as I analyse them as liminal, in-between processes marked by contestation and ambiguity. I suggest that various energy imaginaries make energy transitions uncertain ‘rites of passages’ without clearly defined end goals or pathways. By advancing scholarship on elites, energy, and transitions, my study demonstrates that contested visions of energy futures are united in their desires for a ‘good life’. "This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 715146. This work was also supported by the Russell Trust Award from the University of St. Andrews to carry out fieldwork travel."--Acknowledgements

This research project depics the definition of modeling of social processes, its' objectives, current problems and solutions. Furthermore, research workalso includes research on awareness of local people on topic, also analysis of data gathered.

Die Darstellung von Muttersein in Filmen orientiert sich oft an Konfliktlagen: ungeplante Schwangerschaft, Minderjährige, Abtreibung, Alleinerziehende, Probleme in der Beziehung mit den Partner:innen, eine Geschichte entwickelt sich zwischen den Personen und die Zuschauer:innen nehmen daran Anteil. Anders geht die Regisseurin und Filmemacherin Carolin Schmitz in ihrem Film mit dem Universalität beanspruchenden Ein-Wort-Titel MUTTER um: sie versammelt acht Berichte zu den alltäglichen Lebenslagen, Wünschen und Belastungen im Leben mit Kindern und dem Muttersein; sie lässt diese O-Töne durch eine einzige Schauspielerin, Anke Engelke, auf der Leinwand darstellen und zeigt sie in äquivalenten Situationen des Alltagslebens – vom Abfallbeseitigen bis zum Wäschefalten.

Lesben und queere Menschen sind weltweit mit Hate Crime konfrontiert. Die Bundesregierung will Diskriminierung und steigende Hassgewalt national und international stoppen. Welchen Stellenwert aber haben Menschenrechte für sexuelle Minderheiten in der feministischen Außenpolitik der derzeitigen Bundesregierung? Der Beitrag ergründet die Relevanz anhand erster Einschätzungen von Wissenschaftler*innen und zivilgesellschaftlichen Organisationen.

Diese Dissertation nutzt die Heterogenität der Geschlechterrolleneinstellungen in der deutschen Bevölkerung, um zu untersuchen, ob individuelle Geschlechterrolleneinstellungen den allmählichen Bedeutungsverlust der Ehe erklären können. Mit Hilfe der Event-History-Analysis von Daten der PAIRFAM-Umfrage wird in drei empirischen Studien untersucht, ob und wie Geschlechterrolleneinstellungen die Heiratswahrscheinlichkeit beeinflussen. Eine Querschnittsbetrachtung des Zusammenhangs zwischen Geschlechtsrolleneinstellungen und Heiratsverhalten zeigt, dass Geschlechterrolleneinstellungen in der Stichprobe mit Zeitpunkt und Wahrscheinlichkeit einer Heirat korreliert. Befragte, die traditionalistische oder konservative Einstellungen vertreten, heiraten eher als Liberale und Egalitäre. In einer Längsschnittbetrachtung werden die Auswirkungen von Einstellungsänderungen im Laufe der Zeit erforscht, wobei häufige Änderungen der Geschlechtsrolleneinstellungen mit späteren und weniger wahrscheinlichen Übergängen zur Ehe korrelieren. Eine Betrachtung beider Partner untersucht, wie sich Paare mit kohärenten Geschlechterrolleneinstellungen von nicht übereinstimmenden Paaren unterscheiden, wobei eine gemeinsame Einstellung nicht mit einer höheren Heiratswahrscheinlichkeit korreliert ist. Paare, die mit unterschiedlichen Einstellungen beginnen und zu einer gemeinsamen Einstellung gelangen, heiraten jedoch mit höherer Wahrscheinlichkeit. Diese Dissertation trägt zur aktuellen Literatur bei, indem sie den Zusammenhang zwischen Geschlechterrolleneinstellungen und Heirat untersucht. Durch die Anwendung von Handlungstheorien auf Mikroebene und die Übertragung von Makro-Theorien des demografischen Wandels auf die Einzel- und Paarebene zeige ich, dass Geschlechterrolleneinstellungen eine potenzielle Triebkraft des demografischen Wandels sind. Sie beeinflussen die Wahrscheinlichkeit einer Heirat und stellen einen potenziellen Übertragungsmechanismus für Theorien des Wandels auf Makroebene dar., This dissertation leverages the heterogeneity in gender role attitudes in the German population to investigate if individual attitudes towards gender roles can explain the gradual loss of relevance of marriage. Using event history analysis on data from the PAIRFAM survey, I test if and how gender role attitudes influence the likelihood of marrying in three empirical studies. Chapter 3 offers a cross-sectional assessment of the empirical relationship between gender role attitudes and marital behavior. Gender role attitudes are in the sample correlated with the timing and likelihood of marriage. Respondents expressing traditionalist or conservative attitudes are more likely to marry than liberals and egalitarians. Chapter 4 investigates the relationship with a longitudinal outlook, exploring the effect of attitude change over time. Here I show that respondents whose attitudes are more stable over time tend to be more likely to marry, while frequent changes in gender role attitudes correlate with later and less likely transitions to marriage. Chapter 5 focuses on both partners, investigating how couples with gender attitudes that are coherent differ from mismatched couples. I show that sharing a common attitude is uncorrelated to more likely marriages. However, couples who start with different attitudes and reach a shared one are more likely to marry. This dissertation contributes to the current literature by exploring the connection between attitudes and marriage. By applying micro-level theories of action and transposing macro-level theories of demographic change at the individual and couple level, I show that gender role attitudes are indeed a potential driver of demographic change through their role in shaping the likelihood of marriage, offering a potential mechanism of transmission for macro-level theories of change.

Gender is a hot topic in the field of human-computer interaction (HCI). Work has run the gamut, from assessing how we embed gender in our computational creations to correcting systemic sexism, online and off. While gender is often framed around women and femininities, we must recognize the genderful nature of humanity, acknowledge the evasiveness of men and masculinities, and avoid burdening women and genderful folk as the central actors and targets of change. Indeed, critical voices have called for a shift in focus to masculinities, not only in terms of privilege, power, and patriarchal harms, but also participation, plurality, and transformation. To this end, I present a 30-year history of masculinities in HCI work through a scoping review of 126 papers published to the ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) conference proceedings. I offer a primer and agenda grounded in the CHI and extant literatures to direct future work., 12 pages

Variously described as the “metaverse,” “Web 3,” or the “spatial web,” the future of the internet is being designed to immerse us in augmented and virtual realities at an unprecedented scale. This ethnographic study considers how 30 new media artists and activists use augmented reality (AR), an emerging Web 3 technology, as an experimental form of new media activism to advance a diverse range of social, political, and global causes. For over a decade, artists and creators have leveraged augmented reality technology to protest and reimagine their physical worlds through socially and politically engaged augmented reality art (ARt). This critical corpus of works is an important, though underexplored, dimension of the ARtistic canon, and of the genealogy of augmented reality technology. Though Web 2 activist repertoires routinely leveraged social media sites like Twitter and Facebook, AR activists’ emerging repertoires operate beyond the two-dimensional version of cyberspace where most digital activism has occurred. Instead, they draw on a more immersive form of embodied knowledge to intervene at the intersection of the human sensorium, the real world, and the virtual realm in novel ways. Against the backdrop of extant repertoires available to today’s activist, the ARtists in this study seek to prepare the activists of tomorrow as our relationship to the metaverse evolves. Thus, augmented reality activist works of art serve as socially and politically conscious interventions that anticipate a critical version of the metaverse that does not yet exist, but can be glimpsed episodically with each ARt encounter.

This thesis looks at the different ways in which anthropology and literature interact, focussing particularly on the works of Italian writers between the 1960s and the 1980s as an example of a moment of especially fruitful and intense exchange between the perspectives and epistemological frameworks of the two disciplines. The Introduction starts with a brief historical reconstruction of the relationship between anthropology and literature, followed by a discussion of a set of shared epistemological problems. The Introduction goes on to propose that the decades in the period spanning from the immediate post-war years to the 1980s, which were characterised by a sharp rise in the publication and translation of anthropological books as well as transformative changes in Italian literature, can be defined as the “anthropological moment” of Italian culture. The following chapters (2-5) are dedicated to the close reading through an anthropological lens of the works of the three authors considered in this thesis as case studies: Italo Calvino, Primo Levi and Gianni Celati. They reconstruct how each of the three authors first came into contact with anthropological studies and retrace the readings in this field that had a major impact on their ideas of literature and their writing choices. Each chapter is devoted to the close reading of key works written between the 1970s and the 1980s, compared with the anthropological sources and perspectives from which writers took inspiration. These include, among others, Calvino’s ‘La Poubelle agréée’ and Sotto il sole giaguaro, Levi’s ‘Gli stregoni’, ‘Verso Occidente and I sommersi e i salvati, and Celati’s Fata morgana and Verso la foce. They show how Calvino, Levi and Celati do not simply consider anthropological books as a repertoire of sources, but engage closely with their methodology, borrowing the tools of the anthropologist and applying them to their analyses of different cultural aspects of reality. This thesis aims to demonstrate the existence of profound connections at the level of epistemology and literary invention between anthropologists and writers, and to hypothesise the presence of an anthropological-literary eye in the literary and ethnographical works compared in its chapters., Cambridge Trust

IUSSP and CODATA co-sponsored a working group to study how population research can benefit from the rapidly developing standards and technologies associated with theFAIR principles that all data should be “Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable” by both humans and machines (Wilkinson et al., 2016). Demography is an empirically focused field with a long tradition of widely shared, easily accessible, data collections. FAIR vocabularies, which allow machines to associate data with concepts, can save researchers hours of tedious work by automating processes of data discovery and harmonization. The report introduces readers to international standards for documenting data (metadata) that underlie international infrastructures for producing and disseminating demographic data, and it recommends enhancing these services through application of the FAIR principles. The report builds on the “Ten Simple Rules for making a vocabulary FAIR” (Cox et al., 2021), prepared by a group formed at a workshop convened by CODATA and DDI to describe how a FAIR vocabulary will work with international standards for documenting and sharing social science data. The working group calls for IUSSP to create a FAIR Vocabulary of Demography. Online vocabularies including demographic terms already exist, and most of them define key terms in ways incompatible with demography. Population research will be at a disadvantage without an authoritative FAIR vocabulary of its own. Fortunately, a new FAIR Vocabulary of Demography can build upon IUSSP’s long history of support for dictionaries of demography in multiple languages. &nbsp