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Non-Performing Loans, Non-Performing People tells the previously untoldstories of those living with mortgage debt in times of precarity and exploreshow individualized indebtedness can unite resistance in the struggle towardhousing justice. The book builds on several years of Melissa García-Lamarca’sactivist research engagement in Barcelona’s housing movement, in particularwith its most prominent c

Popular Abstract in Swedish Under en termin vid universitetet i Lausanne skrev jag det som kom att bli en forskarförberedande uppsats i religionsfilosofi om John Hick (f. 1922) och hans religiösa pluralism. Hicks religiösa pluralism handlar om att kristendomen inte kan eller bör betrakta sig som "den enda sanna religionen". Det blev allt klarare för mig under arbetets gång att frågor om religiös pHow to judge religions other than one's own when the means are lacking due to linguistic mobility? In the present thesis this question is mainly analysed in a Christian setting through a reading of the theologians Paul Knitter and Harold Netland. It is, however, claimed that the same question could be asked in other religious settings, also with regard to one's own tradition, and could be treated

A theory of viscoplasticity is formulated within a thermodynamic concept. The key point is the postulate of a dynamic yield surface, which allows us to take advantage of the postulate of maximum dissipation to derive an associated formulation of the evolutions laws for the internal variables without using penalty techniques that only hold in the limit it when viscoplasticity degenerates to invisci

Various studies have highlighted older persons' problems in potentially failing to keep pace with developments in information technology and the latest technologies that prevent physical and social loss. In contrast to such studies that treat users as static and technology as changing, it's important to understand the use of technology can change over time. For example, older persons have used tec

The starting point of my analysis will be Reinhard Koselleck’s hypothesis of historical asymmetrical counterconcepts. His belief in a conceptual and ideological global dualism (Hellene/Barbarian, Christian/Heathen, Superman/Subhuman), in which a collective Self is contrasted to a generic Other of negation, will be tested on Linnaeus’ 18th-century classifications of human varieties (races). Though

The role of the craftsman, in specific the smith, in the social structure of the Aegean Late Bronze Age

Rhetoric is a teaching tradition. The rhetorical exercises in the progymnasmata are the foundation for the teaching culture of rhetoric. The exercises combine theory and practice, but the surviving texts by Hermogenes, Aphthonius and Nicolaus do not tell us how the exercises were used in teaching. In the preface to Theon’s progymnasmata 1.61-64 he gives a short description of his pedagogical meth