Michelle Decker
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 642344 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Michelle Decker |
| NOMBRES | Michelle |
| APELLIDO | Decker |
| FIRMA | DECKER M |
| AFILIACIONES | University of South Florida |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5946-5791 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 38 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 57 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1969 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Robotik in allen Lebenslagen? Zur zunehmenden Relevanz und Problematik von Robotern in verschiedenen gesellschaftlichen Bereichen
Article Robotik in allen Lebenslagen? Zur zunehmenden Relevanz und Problematik von Robotern in verschiedenen gesellschaftlichen Bereichen was published on September 1, 2022 in the journal Soziologische Revue (volume 45, issue 2)
Tatamkhulu Afrika, Queer Heroism, Triangulated Forms
Tatamkhulu Afrika, lauded writer and South African activist, over the course of his life suffered imprisonments under the Nazis and the apartheid state; he also changed his name five times and won almost every literary award in South Africa. Afrika’s lifetime of moving among categories — whether racial, political, sexual, or religious — has garnered the majority of scholarly attention to his work. However, the form and content of Afrika’s poetry,…
Early Islamic North Africa
This volume proposes a new approach to the Arab conquests and the spread of Islam in North Africa. In recent years, those studying the Islamic world have shown that the coming of Islam was not marked by devastation or decline, but rather by considerable cultural and economic continuity. In North Africa, with continuity came significant change. Corisande Fenwick argues that the establishment of Muslim rule also coincided with a phase of intense ur…
The finger of God is here! Past, present, and future of digital history
Digital History is a relatively new sub-discipline within the academy. Understanding the nature of digital history, especially whence its core principles have evolved and how key practitioners have applied digital tools in generating historical knowledge, is the focus of this work. If Digital History is to grow into a more meaningful part of the historical discourse, we must make certain changes within academic culture and adapt to longer term te…
Cold war assemblages
The question undergirding Bhakti Shringarpure’s Cold War Assemblages is a deceptively simple one: why is theorization of the Cold War mostly absent from postcolonial studies? The reason for that ab
Personal aerial transportation systems (Pats) – A potential solution for the urban mobility challenges
The current state of Byzantine archeology
Byzantine archeology embraces the study of material culture in the Byzantine Empire (the continuation of the Roman Empire in the Eastern Mediterranean from the 4th through 15th centuries C.E.). This review examines current trends in Byzantine archeology, among which one finds new local and regional studies, and a decided move away from archeological excavation to archeological survey and other forms of noninvasive investigation. There is still a …
Imagined technology futures in demand-oriented technology assessment
Anticipation of the future use of innovative technologies and of their respective societal impact is at the core of technology assessment and responsible research and innovation. Stakeholder and user involvement is often thought to be important for broadening the design and specification of technology before its use; meanwhile, demand analysis is typically used to determine which type of already developed technology is best suited to adequately m…
Approaches to the environmental history of L ate A ntiquity, part 1
Since the 19th century, scholars have examined the end of the Classical world and the beginning of the medieval world, or “Late Antiquity” in the centuries from 300–900 C.E. through the lens of environmental history. Environmental determinism, based on the use of history by colonial historians, employed elements from geography, climate, and landscape studies to explain the fall of the Roman Empire, the rise of Islam in Arabia, and the destruction…
Approaches to the environmental history of Late Antiquity, part II
A growing body of scholarly literature on climate change from various disciplines has allowed historians to construct past possible climates and environments, as well as query climatological data in light of historical sources. This article presents important phenomena and environmental studies in light of the history of Late Antiquity and the ‘Dark Ages’ (fourth through ninth centuries C.E.) in the Roman and post‐Roman Mediterranean
David A. Graff. The Eurasian Way of War
At first glance, a monograph whose author compares Byzantium with China is surprising. But both civilizations shared centuries of political and cultural persistence, and both were states in the proper sense, with developed bureaucracies, standing armies, literate elite professional administrators, and durable institutions that survived chaotic periods when the head of state was either weak or entirely absent. Skeptics may reasonably posit that tw…
Entangled Poetics
The 1960s–80s saw the rise of a radical poetics in apartheid South Africa, referred to as Black Consciousness, and an equally conservative, formalist poetics, most often practiced by white South African poets. Black Consciousness poetry was characterized by its direct, conversational approaches to the everyday violence of apartheid; the “white lyric” followed the modern poetic practice of an abstracted, sublimated sensibility. South African criti…
Parenting influence on the development of life history strategy
The ‘Autobiography’ of Tippu Tip
This essay takes as its starting point an autobiography written in Kiswahili by the nineteenth-century Zanzibari slave trader Tippu Tip, and the genealogy of how it was initially read according to existing understandings of African geography and western genres. That manner of reading and interpretation has as its core the idea that Africa and Africans operate according to a historical logic fundamentally separate from that of the rest of the worl…
A new monitoring process of future topics for innovation and technological analysis
Technology assessment (TA) is defined as problem-oriented transdisciplinary research that aims at working out solutions for societal problems. It provides advice to those in politics, science and wider society on issues related to research, technology and innovation. There is widespread agreement that TA should start at an early phase in order to contribute to responsible strategic technology development. If we assume limited resources, the quest…
Persecution, religious, Byzantine
Unlike the religious bigotry and chauvinism ingrained in Byzantine society and formalized in its laws, Byzantium witnessed relatively few persecutions motivated by faith.
Theophilos of Edessa
Theophilos was born in Edessa, northern Syria (now Sanliurfa, Turkey) ca. 695 CE and died in 785.
Ghassanids
The Ghassanids migrated from South Arabia to Syria in the late fifth century CE and in the early sixth century became Byzantium's principal Arab allies.
Factories, Late Roman and Byzantine
Diocletian (r. 284–305 CE ) and the emperors of the Tetrarchy (r. 293–313) created imperial arms factories, the fabricate (singular, fabrica ), throughout the empire by moving skilled specialists from legionary foundries and civilian artisans into urban compounds that contained workshops, warehouses, and barracks housing hundreds of workers.
Agriculture, Byzantine
Byzantine agriculture inherited traditions from the Hellenistic and Roman worlds and built substantially upon them.
Yarmuk, battle of
The Battle of Yarmuk, or Jabiya‐Yarmuk – Jabiya being an encampment where some sources place some phases of the battle – is widely considered the decisive encounter between the Byzantine and Arab armies of Islam for dominance over Syria–Palestine. Full reconstruction is impossible due to source problems. There is no contemporary Greek account of the battle and only cursory references in Syriac and Armenian histories. No contemporary Muslim accoun…
Mines, mining, Greek and Roman
The earliest mining activities began in the Neolithic (9000 BCE onwards) and were small‐scale affairs, generally confined to tapping flint for tool‐making.
Transport, Byzantine
Transport in Byzantium was generally terrestrial and inevitably involved local transit over distances easily covered by human porters or ox‐carts in the space of a day (30–50 km).
Markets, Byzantine
Byzantium inherited concepts of commercial space from the Greek and Roman worlds.
Trade, Byzantine
In the early imperial period (fourth through seventh centuries ce ), local, regional, and long‐distance trade was flourishing throughout most of the Byzantine Empire.
Plants and Progress
Since it was first proposed in the 1970s, the concept of an Islamic agricultural revolution, in which new plants and techniques spread rapidly from east to west and transformed agriculture in the Mediterranean basin, has gained widespread acceptance. Based on an investigation of a sample of plants, the present article argues that changes in farming attributed to the era of classical Islam were far more complex and distended than previously acknow…
Personal aerial transportation systems (Pats) – A potential solution for the urban mobility challenges
The current state of Byzantine archeology
Byzantine archeology embraces the study of material culture in the Byzantine Empire (the continuation of the Roman Empire in the Eastern Mediterranean from the 4th through 15th centuries C.E.). This review examines current trends in Byzantine archeology, among which one finds new local and regional studies, and a decided move away from archeological excavation to archeological survey and other forms of noninvasive investigation. There is still a …
Approaches to the environmental history of Late Antiquity, part II
A growing body of scholarly literature on climate change from various disciplines has allowed historians to construct past possible climates and environments, as well as query climatological data in light of historical sources. This article presents important phenomena and environmental studies in light of the history of Late Antiquity and the ‘Dark Ages’ (fourth through ninth centuries C.E.) in the Roman and post‐Roman Mediterranean
Entangled Poetics
The 1960s–80s saw the rise of a radical poetics in apartheid South Africa, referred to as Black Consciousness, and an equally conservative, formalist poetics, most often practiced by white South African poets. Black Consciousness poetry was characterized by its direct, conversational approaches to the everyday violence of apartheid; the “white lyric” followed the modern poetic practice of an abstracted, sublimated sensibility. South African criti…
A new monitoring process of future topics for innovation and technological analysis
Technology assessment (TA) is defined as problem-oriented transdisciplinary research that aims at working out solutions for societal problems. It provides advice to those in politics, science and wider society on issues related to research, technology and innovation. There is widespread agreement that TA should start at an early phase in order to contribute to responsible strategic technology development. If we assume limited resources, the quest…
Representing the Educational Policy-Making Process
Caregiving robots and ethical reflection
Water Into Wine
Wine production in the late antique Levant depended on the existence of large internal and overseas markets. Estate owners and farmers reacted to the flourishing late antique wine market by investing heavily in the land. This input included the widespread adoption of, hitherto under-utilised, more efficient wine presses. Accompanying the use of the screw press in wine production was the simultaneous spread of the saqiya. This technology required …
The Petra Papyri III . Antti Arjava, Matias Buchholz, and Traianos Gagos
Tilling the Hateful Earth
This work examines the mechanisms of cultivation of the three major crops of the ‘Mediterranean triad’ (grain, wine, and olive oil) during the 4th through 7th centuries AD along the coastlands of the eastern Mediterranean. This book examines the production of crops vital to subsistence, and also argues that the late antique Levant witnessed a period of demographic growth, a rising market in the demand for commodities, and competitive elite that i…
The Countryside in Late Antiquity
Chapter 2 explores the built landscape of Oriens, and deals with the important question of land tenure. Although it appears that wealthy elites were important landholders in the region, and that the salaried bureaucratic classes of the empire were both aggressive and successful at gaining control over large land areas, The chapter argues that a large number of free-holding farmers persisted and that their ranks were joined by numerous less-holder…
Plants and Progress
Since it was first proposed in the 1970s, the concept of an Islamic agricultural revolution, in which new plants and techniques spread rapidly from east to west and transformed agriculture in the Mediterranean basin, has gained widespread acceptance. Based on an investigation of a sample of plants, the present article argues that changes in farming attributed to the era of classical Islam were far more complex and distended than previously acknow…
Persecution, religious, Byzantine
Unlike the religious bigotry and chauvinism ingrained in Byzantine society and formalized in its laws, Byzantium witnessed relatively few persecutions motivated by faith.
Theophilos of Edessa
Theophilos was born in Edessa, northern Syria (now Sanliurfa, Turkey) ca. 695 CE and died in 785.
Ghassanids
The Ghassanids migrated from South Arabia to Syria in the late fifth century CE and in the early sixth century became Byzantium's principal Arab allies.
Factories, Late Roman and Byzantine
Diocletian (r. 284–305 CE ) and the emperors of the Tetrarchy (r. 293–313) created imperial arms factories, the fabricate (singular, fabrica ), throughout the empire by moving skilled specialists from legionary foundries and civilian artisans into urban compounds that contained workshops, warehouses, and barracks housing hundreds of workers.
Agriculture, Byzantine
Byzantine agriculture inherited traditions from the Hellenistic and Roman worlds and built substantially upon them.
Yarmuk, battle of
The Battle of Yarmuk, or Jabiya‐Yarmuk – Jabiya being an encampment where some sources place some phases of the battle – is widely considered the decisive encounter between the Byzantine and Arab armies of Islam for dominance over Syria–Palestine. Full reconstruction is impossible due to source problems. There is no contemporary Greek account of the battle and only cursory references in Syriac and Armenian histories. No contemporary Muslim accoun…
Mines, mining, Greek and Roman
The earliest mining activities began in the Neolithic (9000 BCE onwards) and were small‐scale affairs, generally confined to tapping flint for tool‐making.
Transport, Byzantine
Transport in Byzantium was generally terrestrial and inevitably involved local transit over distances easily covered by human porters or ox‐carts in the space of a day (30–50 km).
Markets, Byzantine
Byzantium inherited concepts of commercial space from the Greek and Roman worlds.
Trade, Byzantine
In the early imperial period (fourth through seventh centuries ce ), local, regional, and long‐distance trade was flourishing throughout most of the Byzantine Empire.
Qasr ibn Wardan
An enigmatic complex situated 50 km northeast of Hama and 20 km southwest of al‐Andarin (ancient Androna) in north‐central Syria, Qasr ibn Wardan (ancient name unknown) comprises a palace, church, and a 50 × 50 m quadrangular edifice.
Harun al‐Rashid
Harun al‐Rashid was born in Ray in northern Iran around 766 CE ; he was the third son of the ‘Abb asid caliph al‐Mahdi (775–85) and a Yemeni slave, Khaizuran.
Life and Society in Byzantine Cappadocia
Land of Beautiful Horses
Well before the Byzantine era, Cappadocia was famous for its horses. So much so, in fact, that the name Cappadocia may be traced to the ancient Persian Katpaktukya , meaning ‘land of beautiful horses’. Tradition holds that the custom of giving horses as tribute originated here, although this is almost certainly untrue, and ancient sources mention gifts (or tribute, depending on one’s perspective) of horses presented to kings such as the Assyrian …
Biocybernetic adaptation and privacy
Biocybernetic adaptation is a new approach to optimizing human–computer interfaces and human–computer interaction. Bio-signals and, more broadly, vital data of a person are collected and interpreted in real time by a computer in order to trigger its own adaptive processes. The collection of highly sensitive data is thus a necessary condition for the purpose of making the application more user-friendly. Therefore, the most obvious and important so…
Peasant and Empire in Christian North Africa - By Leslie Dossey
A new monitoring process of future topics for innovation and technological analysis
Technology assessment (TA) is defined as problem-oriented transdisciplinary research that aims at working out solutions for societal problems. It provides advice to those in politics, science and wider society on issues related to research, technology and innovation. There is widespread agreement that TA should start at an early phase in order to contribute to responsible strategic technology development. If we assume limited resources, the quest…
The ‘Autobiography’ of Tippu Tip
This essay takes as its starting point an autobiography written in Kiswahili by the nineteenth-century Zanzibari slave trader Tippu Tip, and the genealogy of how it was initially read according to existing understandings of African geography and western genres. That manner of reading and interpretation has as its core the idea that Africa and Africans operate according to a historical logic fundamentally separate from that of the rest of the worl…
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