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Diplomarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich Sport - Sportsoziologie, Note: 2,0, Eberhard-Karls-Universitat Tubingen (Institut fur Sportwissenschaft), 42 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Anmerkungen: Sportsoziologische Arbeit, Abstract: Slacklinen, eine junge, aufstrebende Bewegungsform, erfreut sich zunehmender Beliebtheit. In letzter Zeit erschienen verstarkt Berichte in elektronischen Medien, Printmedien und Fernsehberichterstattungen, welche sich mit diesem bisher relativ unbekannten Trend auseinandersetzen. Was genau zeichnet nun Slacklinen aus und rechtfertigt eine...

This collection of articles aims to stimulate the exploration of African initiative and creativity and to go beyond immediate socio-economic and political circumstances by analyzing those initiatives that offer alternatives to the prevailing paradigms. It moves away from African 'victimhood' by stressing African 'agency' and by demonstrating that societies in Africa have always showed the ability to negotiate whatever constraining ecological, economic and political circumstances they faced. This is further detailed in the context of the literary contest between local and global; of issues of...

This volume brings together a wide range of international experts to analyse the causes of violent conflict in Africa, to review the various approaches to conflict prevention and conflict resolution and to discuss some of the practical difficulties in ending violence.

What is truth? What value should we see in or attribute to it?

The war over the meaning and utility of truth is at the center of contemporary philosophical debate, and its arguments have rocked the foundations of philosophical practice. In this book, the American pragmatist Richard Rorty and the French analytic philosopher Pascal Engel present their radically different perspectives on truth and its correspondence to reality.

Rorty doubts that the notion of truth can be of any practical use and points to the preconceptions that lie behind truth in both the intellectual and social...