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This volume considers the Prabodhacandrodaya Nāṭaka (c. 1760 CE), an allegorical drama composed by Brajvāsīdās in Brajbhāṣā. It contributes to the study of vernacular nāṭakas with its first complete English translation. Moreover, the critical analysis shows that the foundational Sanskrit texts for Vedānta and those for Bhakti play a part in the Prabodhacandrodaya Nāṭaka's philosophical and religious edifice. At the same time, the investigation demonstrates that Brajvāsīdās expresses several philosophical ideas by adaptively reusing the Rāmcaritmānas by Tulsīdās (c. 1574 CE). Brajvāsīdās composes a dohā by combining one line of his invention with a line from the Mānas. This method is employed throughout all the personified metaphysical concepts. That Brajvāsī not only read Bhakti but also Vedānta through the Rāmcaritmānas highlights the philosophical and literary creativity in 18th c. North India. It points to the necessity to rethink the sources of Vedānta philosophies, by including works non-conventional for language and genre, because not in Sanskrit and not śāstras. Such sources may not be original in their contribution per se but are essential to understand how early modern philosophy was done, conceived and transmitted.

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies. --- Bhakti. --- Early Modern. --- Vedānta. --- Vernacular.

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Die Frage nach dem Wesen des Raumes stellt eine der zentralen ontologischen und erkenntnistheoretischen Herausforderungen dar, die in verschiedenen historischen Kontexten unterschiedliche Deutungen und Modelle hervorgebracht hat. Die vorliegende Arbeit widmet sich der Untersuchung der Raumproblematik, basierend auf chinesischen philosophischen und kunsttheoretischen Texten aus der Übergangsperiode von der Ming- zur Qing-Dynastie. Durch die Analyse der Reflexionen von Gelehrten über Kognition, Wirklichkeit und Tradition werden die kulturellen und erkenntnistheoretischen Grundlagen der Raumauffassungen dieser Epoche systematisch rekonstruiert. Diese Herangehensweise ermöglicht es, die in einer Vielzahl von Quellen beschriebenen Raumkonzepte und -erfahrungen sowie die damit verbundenen Begrifflichkeiten in verschiedenen Wissensgebieten - kosmologisch-metaphysischen, bewusstseinstheoretischen und bildgestalterischen - fundiert zu interpretieren. Die Untersuchung bietet nicht nur eine tiefgehende Kontrastierung der Raumkonzeptualisierungen im Vergleich zum europäischen neuzeitlichen Wissenssystem, sondern knüpft auch an bedeutende Strömungen in der gegenwärtigen Forschung in Philosophie, Soziologie, Anthropologie und Kognitionswissenschaft an. Darüber hinaus etabliert die Arbeit Verbindungen zu nicht-klassischen Raumvorstellungen und assoziierten Kulturtypologien in Europa, wodurch sie einen bedeutenden Beitrag zum Verständnis interkultureller Perspektiven auf Raum leistet. This volume presents an investigation of the category of the spatial based on Chinese philosophical and art theoretical texts of the 17th century. The epistemological reconstructions and analyses of source examples present the conceptions of space at the intersections of Chinese scholars' reflections on reality, the universe, human cognition, and linguistic and visual expressive capacities.

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies. --- Premodern Chinese philosophy and art. --- theory of space.

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A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Almost 68.5 million refugees in the world today live in a protection gap, the chasm between protections stipulated in the Geneva Convention and the abrogation of those responsibilities by states and aid agencies. With dwindling humanitarian aid, how do refugee communities solve collective dilemmas, like raising funds for funeral services, or securing other critical goods and services? In Networked Refugees, Nadya Hajj finds that Palestinian refugees utilize Information Communication Technology platforms to motivate reciprocity-a cooperative action marked by the mutual exchange of favors and services-and informally seek aid and connection with their transnational diaspora community. Using surveys conducted with Palestinians throughout the diaspora, interviews with those inside the Nahr al Bared Refugee camp in Lebanon, and data pulled from online community spaces, these findings push back against the cynical idea that online organizing is fruitless, emphasizing instead the productivity of these digital networks.

Social Science / Refugees --- Technology & Engineering / Social Aspects --- Social Science / Regional Studies --- Social sciences --- Behavioral sciences --- Human sciences --- Sciences, Social --- Social science --- Social studies --- Civilization

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This book provides an overview of the current epidemiology of the HIV epidemic among young people in Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA) and examines the efforts to confront and reduce the high level of new HIV infections amongst young people. Taking a multi-dimensional approach to prevention, the contributors discuss the many challenges facing these efforts, in view of the slow progress in curbing the incidence of HIV amongst young people, focusing particularly on the structural and social drivers of HIV. Through an examination of these issues, chapters in this book provide valuable insights on how to mitigate HIV risk among young people and what can be regarded as the catalysts to mounting credible policy and programmatic responses required to achieve epidemic control in the region. The contributors draw on examples from a range of primary and secondary data sources to illustrate promising practices and challenges in HIV prevention, demonstrating links between conceptual approaches to prevention and lessons learnt from implementation projects in the region. Bringing together social scientists and public health experts who are actively engaged in finding effective solutions, the book discusses 'which interventions works', 'why they work', and the limitations and gaps in our knowledge to curb the pandemic amongst young people. As such it is an important read for researchers focusing on HIV/AIDS and public health.

Social Science / Regional Studies --- Social Science --- Social sciences --- Behavioral sciences --- Human sciences --- Sciences, Social --- Social science --- Social studies --- Civilization --- Geographical Subject Heading. --- HIV africa --- HIV policy --- HIV prevention --- HIV youth --- HIV/AIDS africa

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"Nationalism and Multiple Modernities: Europe and Beyond explores new horizons in the study of nationalism by examining the modernity of nationalism with the theory of multiple modernities. The theory of multiple modernities has triggered a renewed debate on modernity by proposing a non-Western centric approach to the study of modernity. The volume applies the concept of multiple modernities to the study of nationalism and proposes a reformulation of nationalism as a form of cultural programmes that reflects enhanced human reflexivity. Three cases - Anglo-British, Finnish and Japanese - are investigated to examine the ways in which nationalism embodies an exercise of human agency. The volume commends the human-agency centred approach to nationalism as a way of avoiding Western-centricity in a social scientific investigation. Based on its examination of the three cases the volume suggests new directions in research into the relationship between nationalism and religion, non-Western cases of nationalism and 'Europe' as a cosmopolitan orientation."

Nationalism. --- Nationalism --- International relations --- Patriotism --- Political science --- Autonomy and independence movements --- Internationalism --- Political messianism --- Consciousness, National --- Identity, National --- National consciousness --- National identity --- Group identity --- Collective identity --- Community identity --- Cultural identity --- Social identity --- Identity (Psychology) --- Social psychology --- Collective memory --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General. --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Nationalism. --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies.