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In der Migrationsforschung spielt die Frage nach den Veränderungsprozessen in der Aufnahmegesellschaft in Folge von Migration und gesellschaftlicher Diversifizierung eine zunehmend wichtige Rolle. Die Beiträge des Bandes widmen sich den Wandlungsprozessen in vier zivilgesellschaftlichen Organisationen, die sich als Interessenvertreter*innen von potenziell benachteiligten Bevölkerungsgruppen verstehen. Dabei zeigen sie auf, inwiefern und wie sie sich für Migrant*innen und migrationsbezogene Themen öffnen.

The increasing platformization of urban life needs critical perspectives to examine changing everyday practices and power shifts brought about by the expansion of digital platforms mediating care-services, housing, and mobility. This book addresses new modes of producing urban spaces and societies. It brings both platform researchers and activists from various fields related to critical urban studies and labour activism into dialogue. The contributors engage with the socio-spatial and normative implications of platform-mediated urban everyday life and urban futures, going beyond a rigid techno-dystopian stance in order to include an understanding of platforms as sites of social creativity and exchange.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. How Work Is Replacing Religion -- Chapter 1. Losing My Religion . . . and Finding It at Work -- Chapter 2. Corporate Maternalism: Nurturing Body and Soul -- Chapter 3. Managing Souls: The Spiritual Cultivation of Human Capital -- Chapter 4. The Dharma according to Google -- Chapter 5. Killing the Buddha -- Conclusion. Techtopia: Privatized Wholeness and Public Brokenness -- Appendix A. Finding the Sacred in a Secular Valley -- Appendix B. Studying the Souls of Tech Folk -- Notes -- Index

Looking at the cultural responses to death and dying, this collection explores the emotional aspects that death provokes in humans, whether it is disgust, fear, awe, sadness, anger, or even joy. Whereas most studies of death and dying treat the subject from an objective viewpoint, the scholars in this collection recognize their inherent connection with death which allows for a new and more personal form of study. More broadly, this collection suggests a new paradigm in the study of death and dying

Zwei empirische Feldstudien beschäftigen sich aus der Perspektive der Digitalen Ethik mit folgenden Leitfragstellungen: Wie gehen wir in der Digital­moderne mit dem Über­schuss an Zeit um? Haben wir Muße? Haben wir Lange­weile? Wie bewerten und was machen wir mit diesen zeit­basierten Phäno­menen? Inwieweit beein­flussen sie unsere Nutzung von digi­talen Geräten und Platt­formen?
Die erste Studie ("Langweilen wir uns noch? Nutzung von digitalen Medien zur unbewussten Prävention von Langeweile") beschäftigt sich mit der Nutzung digitaler Medien als Prävention von Langeweile. Dabei wird hinterfragt, ob die Mediennutzung die Langeweile tatsächlich verhindern kann oder ob dieser Erfolg ausbleibt. Zunächst wird ermittelt, auf welche Weise mit Langeweile umgegangen wird. Darauf aufbauend werden Motive herausgearbeitet, die hinter der digitalen Mediennutzung stehen. Aus dieser Kombination von Mediennutzung und Langeweile leitet sich die Frage nach der bewussten oder unbewussten präemptiven Nutzung von Medien zur Vermeidung von Langweile ab. Zur Beantwortung der Forschungsfragen dient eine qualitativ durchgeführte Gruppendiskussion.
Die zweite Studie ("Langeweile oder Muße: Gründe der Selbstdarstellung in den sozialen Medien") thematisiert potentielle Gründe der Selbstdarstellung in den sozialen Medien vor dem Hintergrund der modernen digitalen Gesellschaft. Dabei werden vorranging die Konstrukte der Muße und der Langeweile sowie deren Zusammenhänge als Gründe für das Posting selbstdarstellerischer Inhalte in Social Media theoretisch betrachtet und methodisch analysiert. Im Rahmen der Forschungsarbeit wird dabei Instagram als beispielhaftes Medium zum Gegenstandsbereich der Untersuchung gewählt. Zur Beantwortung der Forschungsfrage wird die Methode der narrativen Medienforschung angewandt. Basierend auf den Erkenntnissen von fünf qualitativ und narrativ durchgeführten Tiefeninterviews erfolgt mittels einer Inhaltsanalyse eine deduktive sowie induktive Kategorienbildung, die potentielle Gründe der Selbstdarstellung aufzeigt.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Terrain of Planning Theory -- 2. Two Centuries of Planning Theory: An Overview -- 3. Planning as Social Reform -- 4. Planning as Policy Analysis -- 5. Planning as Social Learning -- 6. Planning as Social Mobilization -- 7. Where Do We Stand? -- 8. From Critique to Reconstruction -- 9. The Recovery of Political Community -- 10. The Mediations of Radical Planning -- Epilogue -- Appendix A. Planning as a Form of Scientific Management -- Appendix B. The Professionalization of Policy Analysis -- Appendix C. Marxism and Planning Theory -- Bibliography -- Index

"When over 150 women testified in 2018 to the sexual abuse inflicted on them by Dr. Larry Nassar when they were young competitive gymnasts, they exposed and transformed the conditions that shielded their violation, including the testimonial disadvantages that cluster at the site of gender, youth, and race. In Witnessing Girlhood, Leigh Gilmore and Elizabeth Marshall argue that they also joined a long tradition of autobiographical writing lead by women of color in which adults use the figure and narrative of child witness to expose harm and seek justice. Witnessing Girlhood charts a history of how women use life narrative to transform conditions of suffering, silencing, and injustice into accounts that enjoin ethical response. Drawing on a deep and diverse archive of self-representational forms-slave narratives, testimonio, memoir, comics, and picture books- Gilmore and Marshall attend to how authors return to a narrative of traumatized and silenced girlhood and the figure of the child witness in order to offer public testimony. Emerging within these accounts are key scenes and figures that link a range of texts and forms from the mid nineteenth century to the contemporary period. Gilmore and Marshall offer a genealogy of the reverberations across timelines, self-representational acts, and jurisdictions of the child witness in life writing. Reconstructing these historical and theoretical trajectories restores an intersectional testimonial history of writing by women of color about sexual and racist violence to the center of life writing, and, in so doing, furthers our capacity to engage ethically with representations of vulnerability, childhood, and collective witness"--

Kann die Armuts- und Reichtumsberichterstattung der Verfestigung von Armut oder Reichtum im Lebensverlauf mehr Gewicht geben? Wie kann sie die Weitergabe von Armuts- oder Reichtums-Lebenslagen von einer Generation zur nächsten aussagekräftiger als bisher erfassen? Wie kann die Subjektperspektive stärker einbezogen werden? Angeregt durch Empfehlungen, die Analysen im Sechsten Armuts- und Reichtumsbericht der Bundesregierung in diese Richtung weiterzuentwickeln, diskutierten am 9. März 2018 im Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Soziales in Berlin fachlich einschlägige Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler zum Thema "Soziale Lagen in multidimensionaler Perspektive und Längsschnittbetrachtung". Dieser Bericht dokumentiert Verlauf und Ergebnisse des Workshops.

As global economic and population growth continues to skyrocket, increasingly strained resources have made one thing clear: the desperate need for an alternative to capitalism. In Democratic Eco-Socialism as a Real Utopia, Hans Baer outlines the urgent need to reevaluate historical definitions of socialism, commit to social equality and justice, and prioritize environmental sustainability. Democatic eco-socialism, as he terms it, is a system capable of mobilizing people around the world, albeit in different ways, to prevent on-going human socio-economic and environmental degradation, and anthropogenic climate change

This ethnography of personhood in post-genocide Rwanda investigates how residents of a small town grapple with what kinds of persons they ought to become in the wake of violence. Based on fieldwork carried out over the course of a decade, it uncovers how conflicting moral demands emerge from the 1994 genocide, from cultural contradictions around "good" personhood, and from both state and popular visions for the future. What emerges is a profound dissonance in town residents' selfhood. While they strive to be agents of change who can catalyze a new era of modern Rwandan nationhood, they are also devastated by the genocide and struggle to recover a sense of selfhood and belonging in the absence of kin, friends, and neighbors. In drawing out the contradictions at the heart of self-making and social life in contemporary Rwanda, this book asserts a novel argument about the ordinary lives caught in global post-conflict imperatives to remember and to forget, to mourn and to prosper

Reindeer-herding Ewenki hunters have lived in the forests of China's Greater Khingan Range for over three hundred years. They have sustained their livelihoods by collecting plants and herbs, hunting animals and herding reindeer. This ethnography details changing Ewenki ways of life brought first by China's modernization and development policies and more recently by ecological policies that aim to preserve and restore the badly damaged ecologies of western China. Xie reflects on modernization and urbanization in China through this study of ecological migration policies and their effects on relocated Aoluguya Ewenki hunters

"Republicanism and imperialism are typically understood to be located at opposite ends of the political spectrum. In Imperial Republics, Edward G. Andrew challenges the supposed incompatibility of these theories with regard to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century revolutions in England, the United States, and France. Many scholars have noted the influence of the Roman state on the ideology of republican revolutionaries, especially in the model it provided for transforming subordinate subjects into autonomous citizens. Andrew finds an equally important parallel between Rome's expansionary dynamic - in contrast to that of Athens, Sparta, or Carthage - and the imperial rivalries that emerged between the United States, France, and England in the age of revolutions. Imperial Republics is a sophisticated, wide-ranging examination of the intellectual origins of republican movements, and explains why revolutionaries felt the need to 'don the toga' in laying the foundation for their own uprisings." --

In The Hadza, Frank Marlowe provides a quantitative ethnography of one of the last remaining societies of hunter-gatherers in the world. The Hadza, who inhabit an area of East Africa near the Serengeti and Olduvai Gorge, have long drawn the attention of anthropologists and archaeologists for maintaining a foraging lifestyle in a region that is key to understanding human origins. Marlowe ably applies his years of research with the Hadza to cover the traditional topics in ethnography—subsistence, material culture, religion, and social structure. But the book's unique contribution is to introduce readers to the more contemporary field of behavioral ecology, which attempts to understand human behavior from an evolutionary perspective. To that end, The Hadza also articulates the necessary background for readers whose exposure to human evolutionary theory is minimal

Suffering and Sentiment examines the cultural and personal experiences of chronic and acute pain sufferers in a richly described account of everyday beliefs, values, and practices on the island of Yap (Waqab), Federated States of Micronesia. C. Jason Throop provides a vivid sense of Yapese life as he explores the local systems of knowledge, morality, and practice that pertain to experiencing and expressing pain. In so doing, Throop investigates the ways in which sensory experiences like pain can be given meaningful coherence in the context of an individual's culturally constituted existence. In addition to examining the extent to which local understandings of pain's characteristics are personalized by individual sufferers, the book sheds important new light on how pain is implicated in the fashioning of particular Yapese understandings of ethical subjectivity and right action