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Selbstreflexivität eröffnet die Möglichkeit, eigene Irritationen, Gefühle und Assoziationen als Zugang zur Erkenntnis in den Forschungsprozess einzubeziehen. Einer Irritation nachzugehen, verlangt nach methodischen Wegen und reflexiven Verfahren der (Daten-)Triangulation und Interpretation. In diesem Beitrag veranschauliche ich anhand eines "irritierenden" Interviews, wie mir die Kombination von narrativer Positionierungsanalyse und ethnopsychoanalytischer Vorgehensweise dabei geholfen hat, meine Irritation besser zu verstehen und infolgedessen auch meine Emotion der Deutung zugänglich zu machen. Auf diesem Weg analysiere ich nicht nur die religiösen, sozialen und moralischen Positionierungspraktiken der interviewten Akteurin, sondern kann zeigen, wie innerhalb der Interviewbeziehung Inhalte und Formen kultureller und gesellschaftlicher Machtkonstellationen verhandelt wurden. Zuletzt reflektiere ich meine eigenen Vorannahmen und Anliegen, wodurch ich das theoretisch-praktische Verständnis der "selbstreflexiven Gesellschaftskritik" (EGGMANN 2009, S.255) neu ausloten und erweitern kann.

Vierzig Porträts von Philosophen, Praktikern, Natur- und Sozialwissenschaftlern hat Udo Simonis, Redakteur des Jahrbuchs für Ökologie, zusammengestellt, um in Zeiten des Klimawandels und der grossen Transformation an diese Menschen und ihren Beitrag zur Ökologiebewegung zu erinnern. Das Buch bietet in kurzen bebilderten Artikeln nebst Empfehlungen für weiterführende Literatur eine mannigfaltige Auswahl zum einen von ausgewählten Vordenkern vom 18. bis zum 20. Jahrhundert, wie z.B. Humboldt, Marx, Haeckel, Steiner, und zum anderen stellt es uns eine Anzahl von Vorreitern der Neuzeit des aktiven Umweltschutzes vor, u.a. hier auch die Nobelpreisträgerin Wangari Maathai, also Menschen die teilweise bis zum heutigen Tag am Nachhaltigkeitsdiskurs teilnehmen. Alles in allem eine gelungene Mischung. Überall gut einsetzbar. (3 A,S)

This study focuses on the relationship between nobility and freemasonry from 1750 to 1850. It examines the specific role of an esoteric discourse surrounding the roots of the human race, centring on legendary constructions of noble genealogies in eighteenth century Europe. The aristocratic idea of blood as a type of »liquid memory of virtue« was also found in the freemason lodges frequented by the European nobility of the eighteenth century. Both groups therefore believed in educational systems that used rites, pictures and symbols to imprint the virtues in ones blood and heart respectively. The foundation of this belief – strongly combined with an interest in occult sciences and the existence of an afterlife – can be seen in the antique »art of memory«. The example of an aristocratic lodge in Düsseldorf shows how these ›research interests‹ overlapped within masonic and non-masonic networks of European noblemen and citizens. In the perspective of Rhenish noblemen in the mid of the eighteenth century freemasonry took the role of an educational system that improved the qualities of the noble blood to secure the leading position of nobility in the God-given »Ständegesellschaft«. The aristocratic lodge La Parfaite Amitié therefore was not only dominated by Rhenish noblemen but also by cousinship. As a consequence, it struggled to become a »provincial lodge«, which had a stronger jurisdictional position in comparison with the civil-lodge of Düsseldorf. The second example is the masonic network of Joseph zu Salm-Reifferscheidt-Dyck (1773– 1861), from the Napoleonic period. Born in the Ancient Regime to an aristocratic familiy of the lower Rhineland, Joseph zu Salm-Reifferscheidt-Dyck faced the extensive changes for the nobility of the Rhineland, caused by the French Revolution and the French occupation of the area. Together with his second wife, the Parisian Salonier Constance de Salm, he became a prominent person in the Napoleonic era. He not only acted as an influential scientist of systematic botany, as a politician and states-man but also as a high-ranking freemason in several rites, especially in the Rit écossais philosophique. This masonic system can be seen as a ›scientific‹ one built upon the traditions of alchemistical and hermetical circles of the Ancient Regime. The Napoleonic period saw the occult sciences increasingly outdated and replaced by modern natural sciences. The methods considered as »exact« in the nineteenth century subsequently formed the perspective of civil dominated societies and its lodges on masonic rites and grades. In the masonic network of Joseph zu Salm-Reifferscheidt-Dyck, the Rit écossais philosophique was crossed with his network as a natural scientist, resulting in masonry being seen not only as an educational system but also as an exact way to uncover the »hidden roots« of the human soul and to assess the respective qualities of it. These tendencies were strongly influenced by the natural sciences outside the masonic sphere, which in parallel tried to uncover the »hidden roots« of the nations with the pseudo-scientific concepts of »race«. The civil lodges of the Napoleonic era and afterwards, with their strong emphasis on the nation, could no longer be seen as a retreat for noble man and their exclusive ideology of noble blood. The majority of the Rhenish nobility therefore turned away from the lodges in order to maintain a conservative view of itself in exclusively noble circles which still believed in the quality of the noble blood and its inherited race.

This annual yearbook presents essays in environmental history based on lectures given at the Göttingen study group "Environmental History" by external authors. As previous yearbooks it is dedicated to the plurality of approaches in environmental history and serves as a valuable source for information about current research in that realm. - Seit seiner Gründung vor annähernd 25 Jahren hat sich das Göttinger Umwelthistorische Kolloquium zu einer Einrichtung entwickelt, welche die vielfältigen, thematisch einschlägigen Aktivitäten des Standortes wie auch des deutschsprachigen Raumes durch Austausch von Forschungsergebnissen und Sichtweisen bündelt. Von hier haben auch einige Unternehmungen ihren Ausgang genommen, welche zum heutigen Profil der Umweltgeschichte spürbar beitrugen. Der Band vereinigt Beiträge zum Kolloquium des Sommersemesters 2007 und des Wintersemesters 2008.

This annual yearbook presents essays in environmental history based on lectures given at the Göttingen study group "Environmental History" by external authors. As previous yearbooks it is dedicated to the plurality of approaches in environmental history and serves as a valuable source for information about current research in that realm.

The integration of environmental statutes into city planning has occupied city planners as well as environmentalists for a considerable time. In 1993 this discussion was not put to rest but akindled anew when the building law compromise was inserted into the paragraph 8a-c of the federal environmental law within the framework of the law furthering investments and the construction of dwellings. This work deals with the present state of the discussion of the legal aspects of the conflict between the environmentalists and the city planners. Using the planning of an industrial park as an example, this study demonstrates the interaction of environmental protection rules and the necessity to meet the needs of the population and to encourage economic development

Work on the history & development of the environmental movement in France conducted at the U of Potsdam, Germany, is reported. The growing acceptance of environmentalism, the construction of a future-oriented platform of ecology & social justice, environmental groups & their methods, the role of nuclear energy, & French political structures are mentioned. Differences & connections between German & French environmentalists, as well as publications resulting from the research, are highlighted. E. Blackwell

In the Barents region, Norway & Russia are in conflict over ecological issues. This involves fishing quotas & fishing equipment, the over-fishing of Atlantic cod, the clean up of radioactive waste left on the Kola Peninsula by the Soviet Northern Fleet, C02 emissions & nuclear safety. In order to regulate these conflicts, both countries are working at the bilateral level & in transnational forums such as the Euro-Arctic Barents Region. The results of such cross-border environmental protection efforts have been quite modest The erratic actions of the Russian environmental authority & its break up under Vladimir Putin both limit environmentalists' ability to act & weaken cooperation. Adapted from the source document.

Characterizes environmental protest in postwar Japan in terms of its social structure; value orientation; organization; use of social networks; communication arenas; actor strategies; discourse; & cultural, social, political, & economic opportunity structures. Environmental protest has its origins in several major scandals that resulted in large health risks for the population, &, in general, mobilization has required that environmental problems affect large numbers of people, allowing recruitment of the rural lower classes & middle-class urban women. Protest is often violent, & public apology by responsible parties is the expected outcome. Apology, considered a sign of respect of cultural codes, is a more important goal to participants than financial compensation. Recently, environmentalists have added legal strategies to violent protest, although the political & economic opportunity structures for an environmental movement remain fairly weak. 41 References. Adapted from the source document.

Das Lehrbuch Weltbilder und Weltordnung, das für die fünfte Auflage von Gert Krell und Peter Schlotter völlig neu bearbeitet wurde, behandelt zentrale Theorien aus dem Fachgebiet der Internationalen Beziehungen (IB): Realismus, Liberalismus, Institutionalismus, Marxismus, Feminismus, Konstruktivismus und - als Besonderheit - Politisch-psychologische Theorien. Vorangestellt sind vier Kapitel über grundlegende Voraussetzungen für das Verständnis der Internationalen Beziehungen, u.a. über Globalisierung, Moderne, Kapitalismus, Staaten bzw. Nationen und Völkerrecht. Im Schlusskapitel plädieren Krell und Schlotter für eine Theorie der Internationalen Beziehungen, die den Anspruch, globale Prozesse erklären zu können, ernst nimmt und dabei Sichtweisen aus anderen Weltregionen einbezieht. Die Autoren greifen neben der Fachliteratur im engeren Sinne vermehrt auf historische und soziologische Studien zurück und berücksichtigen ausführlich ökonomische Aspekte der internationalen Beziehungen."Nach wie vor eine der besten deutschsprachigen Einführungen in die Internationalen Beziehungen: zugänglich, didaktisch durchdacht und zugleich an den neueren Entwicklungen des Faches orientiert."Prof. Dr. Nicole Deitelhoff, Leiterin des Leibniz-Instituts Hessische Stiftung Friedens- und Konfliktforschung in Frankfurt am Main

This article investigates various maritime-cultural developments of three new Baltic Sea
harbours in Germany, Lithuania and Finland. The first to be discussed, Mukran Harbour on
Ruegen Island, exemplifies the difficult path from a strategically important modern military facility to an all-round transhipment point with a good rail connection but inadequate access to
the road system. Despite all the efforts undertaken there, this harbour's future is presumably
still uncertain, owing primarily to the fact that environmentalists have blocked the construction
of a modern means of road traffic access. The second example is Klaipeda-Smelte, likewise once a military facility. Despite its similarity to Mukran in terms of origins, and moreover burdened by a long process of transformation from erstwhile floated timber storage site to fishing harbour to modern terminal, Smelte has more hope of a viable future, in which modern forms of access to land transport routes are expected to represent a factor of major significance. The third example, Kemi in Northern Finland, proves the importance of modern "backcountry" connections with rail, highway and air traffic in close association with constantly
modernized transhipment technology. Even the reception programme for luxury liners plays a
role here.

Reference to an extended notion of security has become common practice in security discourses since the end of the Cold War: the idea that security is an issue not only with respect to weapons but also to health & environmental sustainability. This notion was introduced as a conscious effort on the part of peace researchers & environmentalists to re-distribute resources from the military sector to development & environmental protection. But the strategy of "securitization" was only partially successful: it has also helped to widen the scope of military contingency planning. In this context, the German "Action Plan for Crisis Prevention, Conflict Resolution & the Consolidation of Peace" has to be read as an undertaking in which quite different agendas of securitization compete. Instead of highlighting such tensions, the Plan of Action follows the familiar pattern of giving a little bit to everyone. It comes up with a long list of measures, but not with a coherent concept. The article attempts to delineate a security agenda based on a narrow notion of security. It claims that a narrow notion of security can do more to enhance innovation in security policies than the attempt to define each & every thing as a security issue. Adapted from the source document.