ABSTRACT Large infrastructure projects are difficult for publics to challenge, scrutinise, or engage with. A well‐researched barrier to public engagement is the technical complexity of large projects, whether it be materially present, or discursively constructed by professional experts.
Anna Plyushteva
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Trading Zones Between Thick and Thin: Anthropological Description as Scaffold or Mosaic
ABSTRACT Referring to the work of historian of science Peter Galison, I argue that anthropology requires thin description as an essential counterpart for thick description. Thin accounts provide the scaffolding within which thick descriptions sit. Galison uses the idea of a “trading zone” connecting different communities who, despite their differences (
David Zeitlyn
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Liebessemantik zwischen Paradox und Autonomie: Jean-Jacques Rousseaus "Les Amours de Milord Edouard Bomston" im Anhang zur Nouvelle Héloïse. [PDF]
Nach dem Code der Liebessemantik, den Niklas Luhmann beschrieben hat, situiert sich die hier untersuchte Novelle in einem Zeitalter des Paradoxes, das seinerseits eine Zwischenstellung einnimmt in Hinsicht auf das Preziosentum des 17.
Weiand, Christof
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What Judges Need to Know: The Anti‐Factual Challenge and Judicial Review
Today, there is a ‘knowledge crisis’, informing ‘societies of doubt’. Looked at more closely, we are confronted with attacks on expertise and knowledge, on facts and truth, as one chapter in the autocratic playbook. This challenges the legal system in many ways, be it legislation and other types of regulation, or administration and governance, as well ...
Susanne Baer
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The Chilean Revolts and the Failure of the Constituent Process
This article aims to contextualise the recent constituent process in Chile and its subsequent failure, paying attention not only to the so‐called contingent nature of the revolts inaugurated in October 2019, but also to the reengineering process implemented by the Pinochet dictatorship.
Sergio Villalobos‐Ruminott
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Überlegungen zur Didaktik der Musiktheorie [PDF]
Nach einer methodisch orientierten Analyse von drei Lehrproben erfolgen Überlegungen zur Didaktik des Musiktheorieunterrichts sowie zum Methodikunterricht des Hauptfachs Musiktheorie.
Ulrich Kaiser
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Ökonomie der Gabe - Positivität der Gerechtigkeit: Gegenseitige Heimsuchungen von System und différance [PDF]
S.a. Englische Fassung: Economics of Gift - Positivity of Justice: The Mutual Paranoia of Jacques Derrida and Niklas Luhmann. Theory, Culture and Society 18, 2001, 29-47.
Teubner, Gunther
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Teoría de Sistemas y Deconstrucción [PDF]
The following article attempts to be a contribution to the reflection on the lines of continuity, proximity relations and possibles elements of differentiationon two theoretical fields of growing importance within the social sciences ...
Durán, Carlos
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Learning to Love Rats: A Postwar Ecology in a Cambodian Minefield
ABSTRACT This paper follows the implementation of landmine detection rats in Cambodia. Over the course of my ethnographic fieldwork with the team for the landmine detection rat technique training in Cambodia, I saw that the way the human landmine detectors (a.k.a.
Darcie DeAngelo
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Sistemas autopoiéticos y juegos de lenguaje : el aire de familia entre Ludwig Wittgenstein y Niklas Luhmann [PDF]
Este artículo realiza una comparación entre el pensamiento lingüístico de Wittgenstein y la teoría social de Luhmann. En especial, se centra en la importancia de la noción de autología en ambos autores.
Iriarte López, Iñaki
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