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Working paper
Weiterbildung: Institutionelle Grundlagen und Handlungsfelder
(2022-03)
Aus zwei Gründen gewinnt die Weiterbildung an Bedeutung: Einerseits entsteht im Zuge der digitalen und ökologischen Transformation der Arbeitswelt ein großer Qualifizierungsbedarf, weil sie zu einem Wandel von Berufsfeldern und -tätigkeiten führt. Andererseits spielt Weiterbildung auch mit Blick auf benachteiligte Gruppen am Arbeitsmarkt eine zentrale Rolle für deren Verbleib bzw. erfolgreiche Integration in Erwerbsarbeit. Allerdings ist die Ausgestaltung der Weiterbildung durch institutionelle Komplexität geprägt. ...
Dissertation
Peasants, Protests and Litigation: Struggles over land and institutions in Colombia
(2022)
The past decade has observed a resurgence of peasant politics in Colombia. After the most intense period of armed conflict-related violence against the rural population (1985 – 2006), and amid the enforcement of the land restitution policy and the peace negotiation between the Colombian Government and the former FARC-EP guerrilla movement, the country observed a revival of social mobilization from the countryside. While the motives of this new cycle of peasant mobilization varied at different levels – from local to ...
Working paper
Striking for the Common Good
(2022-08)
The re-emergence of massive strikes in the public education sector, predominantly in the more conservative, union-weak American South, has brought seismic change to the industry and its workers. Solving the puzzle as to why these strikes were so successful against massive obstacles could beget better methods for organizing strikes in a period when neo-liberal reforms threaten public services around the world. Furthermore, an understanding of why these strikes were successful can contribute to the contemporary discourse ...
Dissertation
Automatic affective processes toward different types of exercise and physical activity in adults and children
(2022-03)
Taking a closer look at affective responses to exercise- and physical activity (PA)-related stimuli (regardless of whether they are automatic or deliberative in nature) still represents an area of research on exercise or PA motivation that involves many open questions. From this starting point, the central question is, why so many individuals feel uncomfortable while exercising and further, is this perhaps fundamental to why so many people fail to be sufficiently physically active although they know, that it would ...
Rezension
[Rezension zu:] Katharina N. Piechocki, Cartographic Humanism. The Making of Early Modern Europe, Chicago (The University of Chicago Press) 2019, XII–311 p., 23 b/w fig., ISBN 978-0-226-64118-8, USD 45,00.
(2022-06-29)
Rezension von Ingrid Baumgärtner zu: Katharina N. Piechocki, Cartographic Humanism. The Making of Early Modern Europe, Chicago (The University of Chicago Press) 2019, XII–311 p., 23 b/w fig., ISBN 978-0-226-64118-8, USD 45,00.
Working paper
How can the concept of gender knowledge explain the gendered nature of the European Recovery Fund “NextGenerationEU”?
(2022-08)
The Covid-19-pandemic reproduced many long-existing gender inequalities and created new ones: women are over-represented in underpaid sectors such as the health care sector and were faced with the double burden of paid and reproductive work in the household, when kindergartens closed. As an answer to the global pandemic, the European Union (EU) implemented a recovery package, the #NextGenerationEU (NGEU) Fund. However, this fund reproduces existing gender inequalities, as most of the money is directed to male-dominated ...
Working paper
Langzeitpflege in Deutschland
(2022-08)
Deutschland ist eine der am schnellsten alternden Gesellschaften der Welt. Bereits im Jahr 2020 waren 24,1 Millionen Deutsche 60 Jahre oder älter (Statistisches Bundesamt 2022) und es wird prognostiziert, dass diese Gruppe bis 2030 auf 30 Millionen anwachsen könnte. Allein die Bevölkerung ab 80 Jahren wird sich im gleichen Zeitraum von 5,4 Millionen auf rund 10,5 Millionen verdoppeln. Im Jahr 2050 könnten in der Bundesrepublik somit fast doppelt so viele Ältere Menschen wie Kinder und Jugendliche leben (Statistisches ...
Rezension
[Rezension zu:] Colin Dupont, Cartographie et pouvoir au XVIe siècle. L’atlas de Jacques de Deventer. (TERRARVM ORBIS. Histoire des répresentations de l’espace: textes, images, vol. 16.) Turnhout, Brepols 2019. 351 S., 89 Abb., € 120,–. // doi 10.1515/hzhz-2022-1044
(2022-02-01)
Rezension von Ingrid Baumgärtner zu: Colin Dupont, Cartographie et pouvoir au XVIe siècle. L’atlas de Jacques de Deventer. (TERRARVM ORBIS. Histoire des répresentations de l’espace: textes, images, vol. 16.) Turnhout, Brepols 2019. 351 S., 89 Abb., € 120,–.
Working paper
Natural Resources, Raw Materials, and Extractivism: The Dark Side of Sustainability
(2022)
• Extractivism is the dark side of sustainability
• raw materials and primary commodities are the backbones of the global economy
• extraction and export of raw materials lead to Extractivism understood as a development model
• Extractivism is persistent, prone to crisis, and affects domestic and international constellations
Dissertation
Community-Based Associations and Rural Development in Rwanda: A Local Perspective on the Contribution of Social Capital to Human Capabilities
(2022)
The post-World War II political discourse around development has stimulated academic debates in recent decades. While some of these debates simply aim to transform the development mainstream, many others among the post-colonial thinkers are more critical of and even reject mainstream development ideologies. Despite the valuable academic debates, most development practitioners seem to have remained unresponsive to some of the allegations. Their concept is incorporated in much of the contemporary political narratives ...