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This article is a response to Jürgen Mansel's critical review of Reichertz' and Schoer's contribution to the previous issue of this journal. The authors reply that a) in the present case the use of qualitative research techniques is not only practicable but also the most adequate method to be used in this problem area and b) that their explaining hypotheses are orientated by a
sociology of culture approach. They reproach Jürgen Mansel an inclination for a sentimental
and not a value free sociological disposition.

In dem Beitrag wird die Bedeutung der basalen Körperpositionen des Sitzens, Liegens und Stehens für den Sozialisationsprozeß untersucht. Dabei wird der Zusammenhang zwischen Sitzen und Denken analysiert. Körperpositionen werden als kulturelle Erscheinungen gedeutet, die unter anderem auch mit psychologischer Bedeutung aufgeladen sind. Phänomenologisch wird ein Bild der kulturell vermittelten Zuordnung von Körperpositionen und psychischen/ geistigen Phänomenen gezeichnet. Anhand einiger Beispiele (Sauberkeitserziehung, Schulbank, Kirche, Königsthron) werden die kulturellen Bedeutungsdimensionen des Sitzens aufgezeigt: Macht und Ohnmacht, Bequemlichkeit, Konsumieren, Rezipieren, Besitzen. Im Vergleich zum Sitzen werden die komplementären Haltungen Stehen und Liegen betrachtet. Weil die Schule eine Institution des Sitzens ist, wird anhand einiger Szenen deren Sitzkultur besonders hinterfragt. Aus der Körperperspektive Sitzen werden dann einige Überlegungen zur schichtspezifischen Sozialisation angestellt. Indem ein Zusammenhang zwischen Sitzkultur, Lernen und Kommunikation hergestellt wird, werden Konsequenzen für die Pädagogik, besonders die Schulpädagogik, herausgearbeitet. An der Kommunikationsstruktur zwischen Pädagogen und Unterschichtkind wird exemplifiziert, wie eine körperbezogene Pädagogik aussehen kann. (RW)

Volume 1: Theories, Methods, and Ideas explores the mobility of ideas through time and space and how interdisciplinary theories and methodological approaches used in mobilities studies can be profitably utilised within the humanities and social sciences

"An original study of empire creation and its consequences, from ancient through early modern timesThe world s first great empires established by the ancient Persians, Chinese, and Romans are well known, but not the empires that emerged on their margins in response to them over the course of 2,500 years. These counterempires or shadow empires, which changed the course of history, include the imperial nomad confederacies that arose in Mongolia and extorted resources from China rather than attempting to conquer it, as well as maritime empires such as ancient Athens that controlled trade without seeking territorial hegemony. In Shadow Empires, Thomas Barfield identifies seven kinds of counterempire and explores their rise, politics, economics, and longevity.What all these counterempires had in common was their interactions with existing empires that created the conditions for their development. When highly successful, these counterempires left the shadows to become the world s largest empires-for example, those of the medieval Muslim Arabs and of the Mongol heirs of Chinggis Khan. Three former shadow empires-Manchu Qing China, Tsarist Russia, and British India-made this transformation in the late eighteenth century and came to rule most of Eurasia. However, the DNA of their origins endured in their unique ruling strategies. Indeed, world powers still use these strategies today, long after their roots in shadow empires have been forgotten.Looking afresh at the histories of important types of empires that are often ignored, Shadow Empires provides an original account of empire formation from the ancient world to the early modern period."

'In Pursuit of Progress' explores how meta-narratives of development become entangled in people's identities and life trajectories; how they weave their way into people's imaginings of their histories, their understandings of their place in the world, and their dreams for their future

"Informed by contemporary theories of colonial photography and the history of U.S. imperialism, Dean Worcester's Fantasy Islands--a product of intensive archival research at the University of Michigan and elsewhere--is narrative in its approach, tracing Worcester's emergence both as a colonial administrator and a photographer and analyzing the intersections between his personal desires and his political agenda as they shaped his photography in the Philippines. Author Mark Rice discusses the controversies that surrounded Worcester's use of evocative photography and demonstrates his lasting influence on dominant modes of ethnographic photography as seen in the pages of National Geographic and elsewhere"--

"What are corporations, and to whom are they responsible? Anthropologist Marina Welker draws on two years of research at Newmont Mining Corporation's Denver headquarters and its Batu Hijau copper and gold mine in Sumbawa, Indonesia, to address these questions. She shows how, against the backdrop of an emerging Corporate Social Responsibility movement and changing state dynamics in Indonesia, people enact the mining corporation in multiple ways: as an ore producer, employer, patron, promoter of sustainable development, religious sponsor, auditable organization, foreign imperialist, and environmental threat. Rather than assuming that corporations are monolithic, profit-maximizing subjects, Welker turns to anthropological theories of personhood to develop an analytic model of the corporation as an unstable collective subject with multiple authors, boundaries, and interests. Enacting the Corporation demonstrates that corporations are constituted through continuous struggles over relations with--and responsibilities to--local communities, workers, activists, governments, contractors, and shareholders"--

Acknowledgments; Introduction; One / Kant's Dermatology; or, The Racialization of Skin; Two / Paranoid Imagining: Wilkie Collins, the Rugeley Poisoner, and the Invisibility of Novelistic Ekphrasis; Three / Picturing Utilitarianism: John Stuart Mill and the Invention of a Photographic Public; Four / Observing Selection: Charles Darwin and the Emergence of the Racial Sign; Five / Structures of an Instant: The Wire and the Institution of Race; Notes; Index

This book discusses the extent to which the theoreticalrelevance and analytical rigor of the concept of the public sphere is affected bycurrent processes of transnationalization. The contributions address fundamentalquestions concerning the viability of a socially and politically effective publicsphere in a post-Westphalian world.

Frontmatter --Salon-Dank --Inhalt --Abbildungsverzeichnis --I Einleitung - Emanzipation in der Debatte --II "Über die bürgerliche Verbesserung" - Der Berliner jüdische Salon um 1800 im Schnittpunkt der Diskurse --III Tiergartenleben und Brunnenfreiheit - Orte, Medien und Themen der Berliner Salongesellschaft 1794/1795. Momentaufnahmen eines kommunikativen Netzes --IV "Eine eigene Species plantarum" - Die Diskussion über jüdische Freundinnen im Dreiecksbriefwechsel Friedrich von Gentz - Wilhelm von Humboldt - Gustav von Brinckmann --V Die "schimäre Gleichheit der Stände" - Parallellektüre der Briefwechsel Gustav von Brinckmanns mit Rahel Levin Varnhagen und Luise von Voss --VI Fazit - Emanzipatorische Momente --Anhang --Salon-Biografien --Quellen und Literatur --Register

One evening, while watching the news, Roger N. Lancaster was startled by a report that a friend, a gay male school teacher, had been arrested for a sexually based crime. The resulting hysteria threatened to ruin the life of an innocent man. In this passionate and provocative book, Lancaster blends astute analysis, robust polemic, ethnography, and personal narrative to delve into the complicated relationship between sexuality and punishment in our society. Drawing on classical social science, critical legal studies, and queer theory, he tracks the rise of a modern suburban culture of fear and d