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UNINA9910459780403321 |
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Autore |
Geltner Guy <1974-> |
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Titolo |
Flogging others : corporal punishment and cultural identity from antiquity to the present / / G. Geltner [[electronic resource]] |
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Amsterdam : , : Amsterdam University Press, , 2014 |
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90-485-2595-0 |
90-485-2594-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (112 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Disciplina |
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Corporal punishment - History |
Flagellation - History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 14 Dec 2020). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Machine generated contents note: 1. Historical and Anthropological Approaches -- Problems of Definition -- Problems of Interpretation -- 2. Punishing Bodies -- Antiquity -- Later Antiquity: Greece, Rome, and the Sassanian Empire -- Religion and Corporal Punishment -- Judaism -- Islam -- Christianity -- Medieval and Early Modern Europe -- Modernity to the Present. |
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Corporal punishment is often seen as a litmus test for a society's degree of civilization. Its licit use purports to separate modernity from premodernity, enlightened from barbaric cultures. As Geltner argues, however, neither did the infliction of bodily pain typify earlier societies nor did it vanish from penal theory, policy, or practice. Far from displaying a steady decline that accelerated with the Enlightenment, physical punishment was contested throughout Antiquity and the Middle Ages, its application expanding and contracting under diverse pressures. Moreover, despite the integration of penal incarceration into criminal justice systems since the nineteenth century, modern nation states and colonial regimes increased rather than limited the use of corporal punishment. Flogging Others thus challenges a common understanding of modernization and Western identity and underscores earlier civilizations' nuanced approaches to punishment, deviance, and the human body. Today as in the past, corporal punishment thrives due to its capacity to define otherness efficiently and unambiguously, either |
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as a measure acting upon a deviant's body or as a practice that epitomizes - in the eyes of external observers - a culture's backwardness. |
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UNINA9910557467403321 |
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Autore |
Tvaronavičienė Manuela |
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Titolo |
Innovation in Energy Security and Long-Term Energy Efficiency |
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Basel, Switzerland, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2020 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (138 p.) |
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Research and information: general |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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The sustainable development of our planet depends on the use of energy. The growing population of the world inevitably causes an increase in the demand for energy, which, on the one hand, threatens the potential for shortages of energy supply, and, on the other hand, causes the deterioration of the environment.Therefore, our task is to reduce this demand through different innovative solutions (i.e., both technological and social). Social marketing and economic policies can also play a role in affecting the behavior of households and companies, by causing behavioral change oriented to energy stewardship, and an overall switch to renewable energy resources. This book provides a platform for the exchange of a wide range of ideas, which, ultimately, would facilitate the driving of societies to long-term energy efficiency. |
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