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Die rasante ökonomische Entwicklung Kasachstans in den vergangenen Jahren hat sich neben der Rohstoffwirtschaft vor allem im Finanz- und Bausektor ausgewirkt. In den großen Städten des Landes investierte besonders der neue Mittelstand in den groß angelegten Bau von Eigentumswohnungen, dies nicht zuletzt auf Pump. Der vorliegende Beitrag zeichnet das Schicksal der von der jetzigen Krise hart getroffenen privaten Anteilszahler nach und fragt nach einer möglichen politischen Wirkung der von ihnen gegründeten Interessengemeinschaften.

The author builds on recent geographical approaches to the investigation of scientific experimentation. While a number of studies have explored the various sites of scientific practice and the role of space in the constitution of experimental matters of fact, far less attention has been directed toward the cultural geographies of experimental science and the extrascientific zones in which modes of experimental practice were themselves developed and contested. Drawing on the reception of professional psychiatry in interwar Berlin (1919–1933), the author traces an alternative set of 'experimental systems' which seized on and countered the credibility of psychiatric expertise. The focus is on a series of modernist experiments in interwar Germany which actively reconfigured psychiatric science as a series of critical aesthetic interventions themselves tasked with performing 'scientific experiments'. The paper is triangulated around three case studies, which chart the multiple traffickings between psychiatric experimentation and modernist art. The first revisits the traumatic reenactments of Berlin Dada in the broader context of mechanized war, rationalized work, and metropolitan life. The second explores the psychotechnical techniques that were crucial to the operations of Brechtian epic theatre, and the third case study explores the relationship between clinical therapy and modernist fiction as it came to characterize the work of Alfred Döblin during the 1920s. The paper concludes with further reflections on the significance of the 'modern experimental turn'.

Framed by the account of a transformative experience that jarred the author, after years of activism and peace work, into recognizing the underpinnings of an Israeli national consensus he himself had unconsciously shared, this essay is primarily a reflection on that consensus. Deeply internalized but largely unacknowledged, it is based on the assumption of a self-contained, Jewish-only space created and maintained by what the author calls a ""cognitive membrane"" that renders ""Arabs"" entirely irrelevant if not invisible. The mechanisms that make this mindset possible——exclusivity, displacement and replacement (Judaization), and segregation——are described and analyzed. The essay ends with an account of the creation of the Israeli Committee against House Demolitions (ICAHD) as marking a transition from mere protest to engaged resistance, and reflections on the requirements of a true peace.