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Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd (1958–1966) is widely regarded as the mastermind of apartheid in South Africa. This study examines how he developed the ideology of racial separation into a comprehensive system. It also looks into Verwoerd's intellectual development and his academic career before he entered politics. Apartheid was to Verwoerd less a defense of colonialism but a policy for the future, he was an authoritarian modernizer and a true representative of the Age of Extremes

The U.S. government, military, and industry once saw ocean incineration as the safest and most efficient way to dispose of hazardous chemical waste. Beginning in the late 1960s, toxic chemicals such as PCBs and other harmful industrial byproducts were taken out to sea to be destroyed in specially designed ships equipped with high-temperature combustion chambers and smokestacks. But public outcry arose after the environmental and health risks of ocean incineration were exposed, and the practice was banned in the early 1990s.Smoke on the Water traces the rise and fall of ocean incineration, showing how a transnational environmental movement tested the limits of U.S. political and economic power. Dario Fazzi examines the anti-ocean-incineration movement that emerged on both sides of the Atlantic, arguing that it succeeded by merging local advocacy with international mobilization. He emphasizes the role played at the grassroots level by women, migrant workers, and other underrepresented groups who were at greatest risk. Environmental groups, for their part, gathered and shared evidence about the harms of at-sea incineration, building scientific consensus and influencing international debates.Smoke on the Water tells the compelling story of a campaign against environmental degradation in which people from marginalized communities took on the might of the U.S. military-industrial complex. It offers new insights into the transnational dimensions of environmental regulation, the significance of nonstate actors in international history, and the making of environmental justice movements

Rassismus ist ein unerledigtes Problem moderner Gesellschaften. Das Ineinander von Rationalität und Irrationalität prädestiniert Rassismus zum Gegenstand Kritischer Theorie: Diese verbindet gerade in den Varianten ihrer ersten Generation (Adorno, Horkheimer u.a.) die Perspektive auf Funktion und objektive Genese von Ideologien mit psychologischem Blick auf subjektive Verarbeitungsformen. Um Rassismus in eine Gesellschaftstheorie einzubetten, widmet sich Ulrike Marz den drei Kategorien Gesellschaft, Ökonomie und Subjekt. Damit erweitert sie den theoretischen Blickwinkel auf Rassismus und vermittelt mithilfe der Kritischen Theorie Gegensatzpaare, die oft nur einseitig beschieden werden: Objektivismus-Subjektivismus, Natur-Kultur, Partikularismus-Universalismus

Intergeschlechtlichkeit bekommt verstärkt mediale Aufmerksamkeit - nicht aber in der katholischen Kirche und Theologie. Ausgehend von den religionssoziologischen Beobachtungen Pierre Bourdieus als auch von der freiheitstheologischen Anthropologie Thomas Pröppers wirft Katharina Mairinger-Immisch einen kritischen Blick auf die katholische Geschlechteranthropologie. Sie entwickelt dabei eine geschlechterinklusive Ethik, die die Haltung der Ambiguitätstoleranz fordert und fördert: Eine Handlungsorientierung für die Anerkennung intergeschlechtlicher Menschen

This study of ludic literary society in sixteenth-century France addresses Italianate practices of philosophical and literary sociability as they took root there. It asserts that entertainment activities of women-led circles illustrate the richly complex precursors of the seventeenth-century salons. Notions from the philosophy of play, such as those developed by Johan Huizinga, Eugen Fink, and Roger Caillois, who argue that play is critically intertwined with the development of society, provide a theoretical path across these periods of women's engagement in literary culture. The barrister Estienne Pasquier, whose voluminous network of literary and legal connections permitted him entry into the society of such women, acts as an eyewitness to sixteenth-century circles. Ultimately, we see that the ludic activities in such society produced powerful influences that extended beyond the confines of the groups in question to shape ideas, attitudes, and activities—such as those of the salon cultural norms to come