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The chapter extends the concept of the uncanny to conceptualize the affective experience which arises when our most intimate space, the home, is permeated with connected sensors and new machine vision technologies. This range of experience, we argue, which is intimately linked to the current age of ubiquitous computing and smart technologies, can be understood through the category of the technolog
This chapter explores moral and ethical discussions that emerged in Sweden when the number of artificial grass pitches rose substantially. Based on research in the Swedish top-tier football league, named Allsvenskan, I shall present conflicting discourses that appear whenever grass is considered. The grass discussions often take a wider, political turn and reflect attitudes towards developments in
We investigate the situation of heritage speakers in Italian language classes in a federal state in Germany, taking three perspectives: (i) the micro-perspective of heritage speakers, mostly fluent in Italian but often bidialectal, (ii) the meso-perspective of the teachers who must interact adequately with them, (iii) the macro-perspective of the education policies that determine the curriculum. T
Economic research emphasises the role of increasing returns to scale and critical mass in research and technology development. This suggests that countries benefit from specialising in certain technologies and can thereby bundle available resources. Using the example of the Exzellenzstrategie and the Zukunftsstrategie, we argue that German RTI policy lacks strategic prioritisation. The lack of foc
Based on published missionary reports and two conversion stories the missionary tactics and the used arguments from the Bible are presented alongside the Christian use of the conversion stories
This article treats the establishment and development of freemasonry and fraternal societies in Swedish-Pomerania between the 1740-ies to 1816
Artikeln bygger på gästföreläsningar i Heidelberg och Helsingfors. Den är en förstudie till ett av Vetenskapsrådet stött projekt om tillämpningen av de tyska raslagarna vid hindersprövning på pastorsämbetena i Sverige. Tillämpningen byggde på en internationell privaträttslig konvention från 1902. I Nederländerna, med samma rättsläge, tillämpades raslagarna endast på tyska medborgare, men i Sverige