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This open access book links the artistic and cultural turn in migration studies to the larger struggle for narrative and cultural change in European migration societies. It proposes theoretical and methodological approaches that highlight how ideas of change expressed in artistic and cultural practices spread and lead to wider cultural change. The book also looks at the slow processes of change in large cultural institutions that emerged at a time when culture was nationalised. It explains how individual and group activities can have an impact beyond their immediate surroundings. Finally, the book discusses how migration researchers have cooperated with arts and cultural producers and used artistic means to increase the effect of their research in the wider public. As such, the book provides a great resource for graduate students and researchers in the social sciences and the humanities who have an interest in migration studies and want to move beyond interpreting the world towards changing it.

Part I: How to conceive change: Theoretical and methodological considerations -- Chapter 1. Post-migrant literary history: a new theoretical and methodological approach -- Chapter 2. Continuity or change? How migrants' musical activities (do not) affect symbolic boundaries -- Chapter 3. How to research 'cultural change' in migration societies? Conceptual and methodological issues -- Chapter. Culture changes but cultural institutions not? -- Part II: Cultural encounters: locations of change and their impact beyond the local -- Chapter 5. Challenging Italian national identity through literature and cinema. Voices and gazes of racialised artists -- Chapter 6. How do 'migrant' and 'world' music change local and national cultures? An insight from Cologne carnival, related antiracist networks and recent cultural politics -- Chapter 7. Words matter. Museums remove offensive terms in the Netherlands: changing representations of 'self' and 'others' -- Chapter 8. Everyday encounters with national day celebrations: the case of Turks in Norway -- Part III: Research, arts and cultural production: joint ventures for change -- Chapter 9. Collaborations between arts, academia and activists on topics of migration -- Chapter 10. Refugees in a multimedia dialogue – a methodology that creates new narratives in a process of change -- Chapter 11. Beyond the spectacle of diversity: On art, audience engagement and social inclusion -- Chapter 12. Youth in the city: fostering transcultural leadership for social change.

Zwanzig Minuten hat Christian Sievers in einer «heute»-Sendung, um über das aktuelle Weltgeschehen zu berichten – und muss dabei erklären, zusammenfassen, weglassen. In diesem Buch erzählt er die Geschichten hinter der Nachricht. Gerade in den Krisengebieten dieser Welt stößt er auf Unerwartetes, Überraschendes, Verwirrendes: Humor neben Hass, Mut in der Katastrophe, Propaganda mit Augenzwinkern und Lügner, die den Wert der Wahrheit predigen. Eine verunsicherte Medienwelt steht vor der Herausforderung, all diesen Facetten der Story gerecht zu werden. Das Buch ist ein Blick hinter die Kulissen einer Nachrichtensendung und in den aufwühlenden Alltag von Krisenreportern. Es ist auch eine Liebeserklärung an den Nahen Osten, wo nichts geht und alles möglich ist.

Inhalt -- Danksagung -- Grenzüberschreitungen:Ein literatursoziologischer Blick auf die lange Geschichte von Literatur und Migration -- Teil 1: Die selbstverständliche Aufnahme von Zuwanderern im Literaturbetrieb bis in die 1950er Jahre -- Beheimatung in der transnationalen deutschsprachigen Kulturnation und Analyse ihres Zerfalls: Elias CanettisWiener Zeit -- Literatur als Medium des Widerstands: Milo Dor -- "Ankunft eines Barbaren": György Sebestyén -- Teil 2: Grenzziehungen gegenüber zugewanderten AutorInnen in der Gegenwart -- Vom Ausloten der Freiheit: Seher Çakir -- Erzählen zwischen Macht und Ohnmacht: Ilir Ferra -- Eine Suche nach Heimat: Stanislav Struhar -- "Ich bin irgendwo dazwischen": Tanja Maljartschuk

This text is a revised edition and contains new material documenting the extensive and rapid innovations in the UN Security Council's procedures of the past two decades. It provides insight into the inside workings of the world's pre-eminent body for the maintenance of international peace and security. Grounded in the history and politics of the Council, it describes the ways the Council has responded through its working methods to a changing world. It explains the Council's role in its wider UN Charter context and examines its relations with other UN organs and its own subsidiary bodies.