This book summarises and critiques Extinction Rebellion (XR) as a social movement organisation, engaging with key issues surrounding its analysis, strategy and tactics. The authors suggest that XR have an underdeveloped and apolitical view of the kind of change necessary to address climate change, and that while this enables the building of broad movements, it is also an obstacle to achieving the systemic change that they are aiming for.The book analyses different forms of protest ...

El autor supone que el lector tiene conocimientos básicos de electrónica y lógica digital para abordar el contenido de este libro y poder construir los circuitos electrónicos de los ejemplos propuestos.Encontrará en las siguientes páginas una colección de programas simples y otros no tanto, para ser ejecutados con la arquitectura Arduino, algunos para ESP32 también ejemplos con Python 3.x para el manejo de sockets de red, servidores web embebidos, sensores de distinto tipo, etc.

Sex Work Matters brings together sex workers, scholars and activists to present pioneering essays on the economics and sociology of sex work. From insights by sex workers on how they handle money, intimate relationships and daily harassment by the police, to the experience of male and transgender sex work, this fascinating and original book offers new theoretical frameworks for understanding the sex industry.The result is a vital new contribution to sex-worker rights that explores ...

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2007 in the subject Politics - Topic: European Union, grade: 1,0, University of Twente (Political Institute ), language: English, abstract: [...] Nonetheless, important changes happened on the club level. On the 6th of April 2001 Energie Cottbus was the first club in the Bundesliga that played with 11 non-German players (Kicker, 8th April 2001). This extreme case shows that significant changes have taken place after the ruling. Clubs require more players from ...

Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject Politics - Topic: Globalization, Political Economics, grade: 1,0, University of Twente (Political Institute ), course: European Economic Governance, language: English, abstract: Unemployment is a problem for every member state in the EU, even though the numbers of unemployed people vary from country to country. Especially for the countries which are grouped into the continental system (France or Germany) the problem is severe. On the other ha...

Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject Politics - Topic: European Union, grade: 2,0, University of Twente (Political Institute ), language: English, abstract: 1. Introduction The European Union (EU) has been a very heterogeneous building since the start. The difficult task is forming a party system which fits the different national parties in coalitions that are able to produce results. With the now 25 members this seems even more problematic, since the states of Eastern Europe ha...

Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject Politics - Region: Africa, grade: 1,7, University of Tubingen (Politikwissenschaftliches Institut), language: English, abstract: The Millennium Development goals (MDGs) were set in 2000 as an ambitious goal to improve the situation in developing countries in fields such as education, reducing poverty or improving the health situation for the poor. Those goals shall be achieved until the year 2015, which means that halve of the time between th...

This volume focusses on contradiction as a key concept in the Humanities and Social Sciences. By bringing together theoretical and empirical contributions from a broad disciplinary spectrum, the volume advances research in contradiction and on contradictory phenomena, laying the foundations for a new interdisciplinary field of research: Contradiction Studies. Dealing with linguistic phenomena, urban geographies, business economy, literary writing practices, theory of the social sciences, a...

Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject Business economics - Miscellaneous, grade: 1,5, European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) (Economics), language: English, abstract: Der Grundgedanke Europäischer Kohäsionspolitik ist es, wirtschaftliche und strukturelle Differenzen auf nationaler und regionaler Ebene zu harmonisieren. Um diese Defizite perspektivisch und gezielt zu beheben, hat die EU Kommission Fonds aufgesetzt. Die verschiedenen Arten der finanziellen Unterstützung und ...

George Louis Beer Prize WinnerWallace K. Ferguson Prize FinalistA Marginal Revolution Book of the Year“A groundbreaking contribution…Intellectual history at its best.”—Stephen Wertheim, Foreign AffairsNeoliberals hate the state. Or do they? In the first intellectual history of neoliberal globalism, Quinn Slobodian follows a group of thinkers from the ashes of the Habsburg Empire to the creation of the ...

Hundreds of thousands of euros from alleged bribes stashed in a suitcase. Deleted text messages setting out deals worth billions of euros. There's no shortage of drama in the EU's unofficial capital. How is this possible? And how do we keep 'Brussels' under control? These are crucial questions for the fledgling democracy that is the European Union - especially now that leaders with little interest in democratic values are coming to power in a growing number of member states. And the gap be...

The euro crisis is tearing Europe apart. But the heart of the matter is that, as the crisis unfolds, the basic rules of European democracy are being subverted or turned into their opposite, bypassing parliaments, governments and EU institutions. Multilateralism is turning into unilateralism, equality into hegemony, sovereignty into the dependency and recognition into disrespect for the dignity of other nations. Even France, which long dominated European integration, must submit to Berlin’s...