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This collection examines how the loss of state socialism as a world-making project and the subsequent failures of postsocialist "civil society building" have impacted new generations of progressive, antinationalist, anarchist, and social-justice oriented activists. How do the histories of state socialism come to shape activist thinking and practice in Eastern Europe and the Caucasus? What kinds of political work can and does emerge out of this 30-year-long experience of political, social, and economic transformation? Understanding postsocialism as an intersectional experience and a geopolitically sensitive form of knowledge, this collection of essays seeks to render visible the forms of political activism in the region that are not tied to, or fully determined by, specific moments of street protest and public interruption. Instead, the contributors examine forms of activist effort that endure in the aftermath of protest movements and in the course of lingering crises, in order to capture how our interlocutors seek to enact their desired futures under the conditions of intensifying and shape-shifting pressures of neoliberal governance. The ethnographies that span from Armenia to Ukraine, to Bosnia-Herzegovina to the newly emerging transnational Balkan route that refugees and migrants have created, illuminate how local activists engage with and/or disengage from their socialist inheritance of political imaginaries differently and imagine different futures. Our collection argues for a need for a careful, theoretically nuanced and context-specific analysis across the uneven political landscapes of the former socialist world. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of History and Anthropology

Voice -- Vocal injustice -- The ethics of envoicing -- The gender voice -- Envoicing in sex, maternity, and childbirth -- Ethical spotlight : envoicing in voice pedagogy -- Ethical spotlight : envoicing in/and philosophy -- Conclusion : shifting vocal soundscapes in the age of Trump.

"The 1979 murder of 13-year-old John Pius is a stain on the history of Suffolk County, Long Island. It was national news at the time: a young white kid with his whole life ahead of him, killed and trampled and left in the woods. A young detective named Thomas Spota was under intense pressure to solve the mystery. Then a 14-year-old informant named Jimmy Burke came to him with evidence--questionable evidence--that broke the case open. The relationship between Spota and Burke bloomed after the Pius case, and both grew powerful in law enforcement. Over the ensuing years, Spota rose through the ranks, eventually becoming District Attorney. And Burke became first a cop, and then, ultimately, the Chief of Police. And their reign, founded on a scandalous murder with a dubious resolution, was one of extravagant corruption: bribes and coerced confessions, side deals, brutality, and graft. Spota and Burke were brought down in 2014, when Newsday exposed their criminal activity to the public and forced them out of office. Jimmy the King is not only the story of this corruption and its eventual demise, but about the true role of the police department of Suffolk County: to serve the powerful and project strength, while allowing the marginalized to suffer. This powerful and dramatic story is a microcosm of one of the most urgent issues of our times, a book that asks who the law serves, who it protects, and who it leaves out in the cold"--

Bei der Verfolgung seiner Ziele geht Wladimir Putin über Leichen, und das nicht erst seit dem Überfall auf die Ukraine. John Sweeney, investigativer Journalist und seit vielen Jahren auf der Spur von Putins Verbrechen, legt die Beweise vor: Schon bei seinem unheimlichen Aufstieg vom Stasi-Mann in Dresden zum unumschränkten Herrscher im Kreml ging Putin mit erbarmungsloser Konsequenz vor, liess Oppositionelle ausschalten, provozierte Kriege und überzog Russland mit einem Netzwerk der Korruption. Sein Ziel: die Festigung seiner Macht, persönliche Bereicherung, Russlands Wiederaufstieg zur Weltmacht. Mit kriminalistischer Akribie hat Sweeney vor Ort recherchiert IBM in Moskau, Tschetschenien, in der Ukraine während des Krieges IBM, hat mit Zeugen und Experten gesprochen, mit Dissidenten und Ex-KGBlern, mit Handlangern des Systems Putin, mit Kritikern, von denen zu viele für ihre Haltung sterben mussten. Psychogramm, packender Hintergrundreport und knallharte Analyse IBM eine längst überfällige Aufklärung, eine beispiellose Anklageschrift. (Verlagswerbung)

Zusammenfassung: Estamos estancados en una vida frenética, alienada y desconectada del entorno social y natural ¡Necesitamos un horizonte social alternativo! Para ello, los dos sociólogos más importantes de Alemania elaboran una novedosa teoría crítica que da respuesta a la crisis multidimensional de la época actual. Andreas Reckwitz y Hartmut Rosa pre¬sentan sus respectivas concepciones de las dos áreas de la teoría sociológica: la «teoría social» [Sozialtheorie] y la «teoría de la sociedad» [Gesellschaftstheorie].Andreas Reckwitz define su propia teoría de la praxis y desarrolla los mecanismos de su teoría de la sociedad (tardo)moderna. Por otro lado, Hartmut Rosa profundiza en su original «sociología de las relaciones con el mundo» y propone la estabilización adaptativa y la resonancia como dos «terapias» para la superación de las patologías sociales de la (tardo)modernidad.

The history of the Irish Brigade remains fascinating more than three centuries after its creation in the late seventeenth century and is regularly revived in the English speaking world as well as in Western Europe thanks to historians, journalists, and even politicians. The military feats of these Irish troops fighting for the French kings in Italy in 1702, on the plains of Belgium or for the Stuarts in the Scottish Highlands in 1745 still captivate people's imaginations to this day. Yet, the reality of the lives and deaths of these Irishmen is often eclipsed by nineteenth century historical myths produced in both Ireland and Great Britain for political purposes that were either different or even in complete opposition to the Brigade's raison d'etre. This is not the only paradox attached to the Irish Brigade. Though successful on the battlefields of Europe, they fought other people's wars. Though remaining present in historical memories, the Brigade ultimately failed to help secure a second Stuart restoration. Though serving the Jacobite cause, they are often overshadowed by the Scottish clans of the '45. This book endeavours to explain how and why the myth surrounding the Brigade came to be by studying this military diaspora of the long eighteenth century. This book rests on the author's ongoing forays into hitherto unused primary sources and documents and takes the reader from the heyday of the so-called "Wild Geese" at the very end of the seventeenth century to the decline of the Brigade in the second half of the eighteenth century, using sources found in Irish, British, and French archives. The negative stereotype attached to Irish soldiers is explored in the press as well as in correspondence from French civilian and military authorities. Questions about the daily lives of officers and soldiers in the Brigade can be answered using cross-referenced information from different national and local records. The battle of Fontenoy on 11 May 1745 represents the pinnacle of the Brigade's military identity, while the battle also proved its undoing due to the heavy casualties suffered by the Irish on that fateful day. The rest of the century saw the Irish regiments serving the French king becoming a military tradition more than a viable asset in the ongoing war between France and Great-Britain. --

"Esta publicación une a académicos(as) de diversas disciplinas cuyo enfoque investigativo gira en torno a la cultura visual. Mediante el análisis discursivo de filmes, publicidad, fotografías, radio, materiales pedagógicos, artes plásticas y literatura, los doce ensayos que componen este libro dan cuenta de las diversas instancias en que la imagen es empleada como discurso político y referente cultural. Nos enfrentamos a textos que nos muestran a un Puerto Rico en el que las imágenes y las palabras se fabrican, idealizan y consumen. La mirada en construcción: ensayos sobre cultura visual apuesta a un enfoque crítico y multidisciplinario que insta a revisitar aquellas estampas y simbolismos que han sesgado las definiciones y privilegiado ciertos constructos sociales. Aspiramos a repensar esas miradas con el fin de expandir, e incluso derribar, muchos de los matices discursivos que han pretendido moldear la imagen de Puerto Rico" --

Seit einigen Jahren wird die Idee diskutiert, in Frankfurt (Oder) eine grenz überschreitende deutsch-polnische Einrichtung zu schaffen, die sich mit der Geschichte von Flucht und Vertreibung aus den östlich von Oder und Neiße gelegenen Gebieten der ehemaligen Provinz Brandenburg im Rahmen einer übergreifenden Regionalgeschichte auseinandersetzt. Der vorliegende Artikel erläutert den historischen Hintergrund und die besonderen regionalen Voraussetzungen, die die Konzeption einer solchen Institution bestimmen könnten: Es werden die organisatorische Geschichte der Landsmannschaft der Brandenburger und der Stiftung Brandenburg sowie die rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen skizziert, die das Projekt ermöglichen könnten. Im Anschluss wird an einem Beispiel ein multiperspektivischer Blick auf die Region und auf die Ereignisse des Jahres 1945 geworfen und damit eine europäische Perspektive vorgezeichnet.

"The main objective of this book is to introduce detailed and evidence-based research of the enormous challenge represented by a "black swan" of pandemic crisis, which dealt a painful and very strong blow to the global economy, separate countries and people by analyzing the nature, consequences and possible mitigation measures from the pandemic crisis on the global economy as well as the economy of certain regions and countries"--