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Competitive Pressures and Labour Rights
(Rainer Hampp Verlag, 2020)
While the link between trade liberalisation and labour rights has been mostly studied at a national level, this book analyses this relation at a sectoral level. It draws on case studies of oil palm plantations and the automobile sector in Indonesia. Two main research questions guide the book:
1. How do labour- and capital-intensive sectors in Indonesia respond to competitive pressures brought about by trade liberalisation?
2. What are the implications of such responses on labour rights in the two sectors?
Employing ...
Working paper
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Fintech, Philanthropy, and Development: Is KYC the core problem or solution for Digital Inclusion?
(2022-04)
This paper explores the relationship between digital identity data and fintech, showing that security, and not just financialisation, is the appropriate lens to examine technologies for financial access. These technologies are supported by the nexus of finance, development, and philanthropy, ostensibly to facilitate welfare policies. But they are also part of a global security imperative. This is because the need for digital identity databases emerges from regulations to counter terror finance. Examples from India ...
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Assessing the Level of Self-Reliance and Livelihood of Encamped Refugees
(Rainer Hampp Verlag, 2020)
Achieving self-reliance among refugees is favoured by many international organisations, though hardly achieved for refugee camps. In many cases, deprived of their human rights, located in remote areas and without access to the local labour market, encamped refugees have no other opportunity than turning to negative coping mechanisms to survive, including sex work, child labour, crime and dangerous work in the informal sector. This book concentrates on measuring self-reliance and identifying factors influencing it in ...
Studienarbeit
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Ein Platz an der virtuellen Sonne
(2021)
Diese Arbeit möchte untersuchen, wie die Kolonialzeit im digitalen Spiel „Anno 1800“ verhandelt wird, wie ludischer Imperialismus An-wendung findet und wie mit diesem gebrochen wird sowie welche Geschichtskulturen dadurch gestiftet werden.
Um dem zuvor formulierten Forschungsinteresse nachzugehen, kann die Arbeit auf geschichtswissenschaftliche Forschung zurückgreifen. Sie untersucht, wie sich die spezifischen Besonderheiten des Mediums auf dessen Konstruktion und Verhandlung von Geschichte auswirken. Daher kommt ...
Aufsatz
20 Jahre Kumulieren und Panaschieren
(2021-04)
Alle fünf Jahre werden in Hessen die Kreistage, Gemeindevertretungen und Ortsbeiräte gewählt. Während sich manche Bürgerinnen und Bürger fragen, was Kumulieren und Panaschieren ist, wird pünktlich zum Wahltermin über das Wahlsystem debattiert: Überfordern die großen Stimmzettel und vielen Stimmen die Bürgerinnen und Bürger? Mitunter wird dann behauptet, das komplexe Wahlsystem sei gar die Ursache für die sinkende Wahlbeteiligung. Aus Anlass des 20-jährigen Bestehens werden im vorliegenden Aufsatz die demokratietheoretischen ...
Aufsatz
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Assessing African Energy Transitions: Renewable Energy Policies, Energy Justice, and SDG 7
(2021-02-26)
Renewable energy has made significant inroads in addressing growing energy demands on the African continent. However, progress towards SDG 7 is still limited and difficult to trace. Furthermore, the results-oriented rationale of the SDGs means that both policy change and the dimension of environmental justice are not covered properly. We argue that the energy justice concept may provide a powerful tool to offset looming trade-offs and enhance the co-benefits of SDG 7 within broader transition endeavours. In doing so, ...
Rezension
[Rezension zu:] Axelle Chassagnette, Savoir Géographique et Cartographie Dans l'Espace Germanique Protestant (1520-1620). (Travaux d’Humanisme et Renaissance, 583.) 620 pp., bibl., index. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2018. €89 (paper). ISBN 9782600047685.
(2020)
Rezension von Ingrid Baumgärtner zu: Axelle Chassagnette, Savoir Géographique et Cartographie Dans l'Espace Germanique Protestant (1520-1620). (Travaux d’Humanisme et Renaissance, 583.) 620 pp., bibl., index. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2018. €89 (paper). ISBN 9782600047685.
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
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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
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[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.