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Die globale Migration der Gegenwart führt zu Hybridität, transnationalen Biografien und auszuhandelnden Identitäten. Der Umgang mit diesen Phänomenen des »Zwischenraums« stellt die sozialwissenschaftlichen Disziplinen vor methodologische Herausforderungen. Lösungen hierfür finden sich vor allem in der aktuellen kulturwissenschaftlichen Debatte, die Begriffe und Konzepte bereitstellt, welche die kulturelle Dimension von Hybridisierungen aufzeigen und ihre Geschichtlichkeit betonen. Der transdisziplinäre Sammelband vereint unterschiedliche Zugänge zum Phänomen. Er zeigt, wie der »Zwischenraum« i

Introduction : the study of Arab responses to fascism and Nazism in Middle Eastern studies / Israel Gershoni -- A challenge to the local order : reactions to Nazism in the Syrian and Lebanese press / Gøtz Nordbruch -- Against the tide : the secret alliance between the Syrian National Bloc leaders and Great Britain, 1941-1942 / Meir Zamir -- Memoirs do not deceive : Syrians confront fascism and Nazism -- as reflected in the memoirs of Syrian political leaders and intellectuals / Eyal Zisser -- More than the mufti : other Arab-Palestinian voices on Nazi Germany, 1933-1945, and their postwar narrations / Renø Wildangel -- The Spanish Civil War as reflected in contemporary Palestinian press / Mustafa Kabha -- Iraqi shadows, Iraqi lights : anti-fascist and anti-Nazi voices in monarchic Iraq, 1932-1941 / Orit Bashkin -- The view from the embassy : British assessments of Egyptian attitudes during World War II / James Jankowski -- The rise of homemade Egyptian communism : a response to the challenge posed by fascism and Nazism? / Rami Ginat -- "The crime of Nazism against humanity" : Ahmad Hasan al-Zayyat and the outbreak of the World War II / Israel Gershoni -- The war and the Holocaust in the Egyptian public discourse, 1945-1947 / Esther Webman -- The tiger and the lion : fascism and Ethiopia in Arab eyes / Haggai Erlich.

Ob »Twitter-Revolution« oder »Cyberdemokratie« - häufig prägen Schlagworte die Debatte zum politischen Potenzial des Internets. Jenseits von Mythisierungen untersucht Marcus Michaelsen die Nutzung neuer Medien durch Opposition und Zivilgesellschaft im Iran - angefangen von den ersten Reformwebseiten über die Blogs von Journalisten und Frauenrechtlerinnen bis hin zu den sozialen Medien der Grünen Bewegung. Durch die Verknüpfung präziser Landeskenntnis mit Theorien der Politik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft entsteht eine ebenso fundierte wie anschauliche Analyse der Leistungen und Grenzen von I

The book provides unique insights into the culture of computer-mediated hospitality and how this has begun to transform contemporary tourism and travel practice. Focusing on Couchsurfing.org, one of the largest online hospitality communities worldwide, the authors explore how social relations, intimacy and trust are built in the online environment and then extended into the offline contexts of actual tourism and travel. Being active couchsurfers themselves, the authors scrutinise the candid claim by much of the online hospitality community that couchsurfing creates a »better world«. The book i

Forside -- Titelblad -- Kolofon -- Indhold -- Forord -- 1 Spring -- En revolution: 1789 -- Revolutionen som fænomen -- 2 Et moderne begreb -- Modernitet, forandring og handling -- Fra cyklus til fremskridt -- Handlingsbegreb -- Verdensrevolution mod kapitalismen -- Tilbageblik i fremskridtet -- 3 Hvor findes revolutioner? -- Revolutioner og deres fravær -- Fransk revolution og dansk politik -- Reform og revolution i dansk historie -- 4 Slægtninge -- Statskup -- Oprør, opstand -- Krig -- Reform -- Revolution som moment og proces -- Kontrarevolution -- Kontrarevolution i revolutionens skal -- Kontrarevolution som fjendebillede -- 5 Hvem skaber revolutionen? -- Skabes revolutioner? -- Revolutionære handlingers udspring -- Revolutionen skaber sine subjekter -- Handling for nutiden eller fremtidens slægter? -- Individer i massen -- Ledende individer -- Gruppeidentitet og klasse -- Fra borgerskabet til arbejderne -- Kvinder i revolution -- 6 Brud i tiden -- Angreb på ur og kalender -- Fremtiden -- Russiske fremtider -- Fortid -- Kampe om fortidige revolutioner -- 7 Vold -- Voldens dobbeltheder -- Moderne voldsmonopol og selvtvang -- Vold og revolutionære -- Vold og kontrarevolutionære -- 8 Sprængninger i sprog, kultur og kunst -- Revolutionens sprog: 'demokrati' -- Revolution som kulturelt tema -- Revolution som aspekt af moderne kultur -- 9 Forudsætninger og følger -- I revolutionens kældre og saloner -- Årsager, virkninger -- Materialisme, idealisme, sprog -- Forarmelse eller vækst? -- 10 Revolution i det 21. århundrede -- Til videre studier -- Noter -- Register.

Modern Jewish history is urban. In the wake of massive migratory movements and social transformations since the late 19th century, cities became the prime sites for the emergence and reconfiguration of modern Jewish identities and cultures. They served as hubs in transnational diasporic networks and as pivots of local Jewish communities. The unique framework of the modern metropolis facilitated an unprecedented diversification of Jewish cultural practices and expressions. Drawing from a rich variety of sources, Tales of Three Cities limns the complex reciprocities between cities and Jews and i

Intro -- Inhalt -- Einführung der Herausgeber: Sozialwissenschaftliche Sexualforschung: Zur Institutionalisierung eines Begriffs -- Teil I: Sexualität in wissenschaftshistorischer Perspektive -- Sexualität als sozialer Tatbestand: Emile Durkheims Spuren in der Sexualwissenschaft heute -- Sexualwissenschaft als Kulturwissenschaft: Zur Diskussion vor 1933 -- Ein neues Verhältnis: Sexualwissenschaft und Sozialwissenschaften bei Iwan Bloch -- Teil II: Sexualität, Tradition und Soziale Ordnung -- Die sogenannte Liebe: Ein historischer Diskurs -- Sexualität als soziales Problem: Systemtheoretische Reflexionen über die Lust an der Grenzüberschreitung -- Sexualtabus: Gesellschaftliche Perspektiven in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart -- Männliche Homosexualität in Japan: Tradierte Kultur und westlicher Einfluß -- Teil III: Sexualität, Identität und Soziale Rolle -- Das Werden einer Frau: Entwicklungsstufen der weiblichen Geschlechtsidentität -- Transsexualität: Ethnosoziologische und ethnomethodologische Perspektiven eines Problems der Selbstidentifikation -- Soziale und sexuelle Interaktion bei Jugendlichen: Ein handlungstheoretischer und empirischer Ansatz -- Teil IV: Sexualität, Stigma und Soziale Kontrolle -- Vorurteilsstrukturen gegenüber Juden und Homosexuellen: Eine vergleichende Betrachtung -- Homosexuelle in der Institution Bundeswehr: Wehrpsychiatrische, rechtliche und sozialpsychologische Aspekte eines Dilemmas -- Vergewaltigung: Auswirkungen und soziale Bedeutung -- Vergewaltigung: Versuch einer Entmythologisierung -- Anhang -- 1. Stellungnahme der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sozialwissenschaftliche Sexualforschung zur Vernichtung von Sexualkunde-Material durch das Bundesministerium für Jugend, Familie und Gesundheit.

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- I. Trompe-l'Oeil Nature -- 1. Configurations of Continuity -- 2. The Wild and the Domesticated -- Nomadic Spaces -- The Garden and the Forest -- The Field and the Rice Paddy -- Ager and Silva -- Herdsmen and Hunters -- The Roman Landscape, the Hercynian Forest, and Romantic Nature -- 3. The Great Divide -- The Autonomy of the Landscape -- The Autonomy of Phusis -- The Autonomy of Creation -- The Autonomy of Nature -- The Autonomy of Culture -- The Autonomy of Dualism -- The Autonomy of Worlds -- II. The Structures of Experience -- 4. The Schemas of Practice -- Structures and Relations -- Understanding the Familiar -- Schematisms -- Differentiation, Stabilization, Analogies -- 5. Relations with the Self and Relations with Others -- Modes of Identifi cation and Modes of Relation -- The Other Is an "I" -- III. The Dispositions of Being -- 6. Animism Restored -- Forms and Behavior Patterns -- The Variations of Metamorphosis -- Animism and Perspectivism -- 7. Totemism as an Ontology -- Dreaming -- An Australian Inventory -- The Semantics of Taxonomies -- Varieties of Hybrids -- A Return to Algonquin Totems -- 8. The Certainties of Naturalism -- An Irreducible Humanity? -- Animal Cultures and Languages? -- Mindless Humans? -- The Rights of Nature? -- 9. The Dizzying Prospects of Analogy -- The Chain of Being -- A Mexican Ontology -- Echoes of Africa -- Pairings, Hierarchy, and Sacrifi ce -- 10. Terms, Relations, Categories -- Encompassments and Symmetries -- Differences, Resemblances, Classifi cations -- IV. The Ways of the World -- 11. The Institution of Collectives -- A Collective for Every Species -- Asocial Nature and Exclusive Societies -- Hybrid Collectives That Are Both Different and Complementary -- A Mixed Collective That Is Both Inclusive and Hierarchical.

Forside -- Titelblad -- Kolofon -- Indhold -- Forord -- 1 Tingenes verden, verdens ting -- Objektivering og yderliggørelse -- Den materielle vending -- Fra objekt til subjekt -- Animation og fortælling -- 2 Nære ting. Kroppen i rummet -- Fænomenologien og kroppen -- Et personligt miniunivers -- Den sociale hud -- Det materielle subjekt -- Dybdeontologien og tøjet -- 3 Boligens ting. Hjemmets byggesten -- Trendy og truede boligting -- Husets socialitet og materialitet -- De egentlige husejere: Spøgelserne -- Hjemmets byggesten -- Arvestykker -- Fællesarv og individualisering -- Gemmernes kosmologi -- 4 Ting som varer, ting som gaver. Forbrug -- Gavernes fest -- Hvad kan man få for en cigaret? -- Karl Marx' overfrakke -- En ting som sko -- At konsumere ting og andet -- 5 Ordnede og ordnende ting. Museer og teknologi -- Ordnede ting: samlinger og museers skiftende orden -- Museet. Tingenes hus -- Fra kulturøer til omverdenens ting -- Ting, der ordner: teknologi -- Fortryllelsesteknologi og kunst -- 6 Monumentale ting. Kulturarv og gadens politiske kultur -- Materiel og immateriel kulturarv -- En politisk-kulturel verdensarv? -- Store ting og ødelagte ting. Politisk ikonoklasme -- Rum skabt af ting -- 7 Levende ting. Fetich og magi -- Hvad form kan gøre -- Fetichens historie og mysterium -- Relikvier -- - og andre magiske ting -- 8 Ting i sammenhænge. Materialitetsteorier -- Tingenes tegn og tegnenes ting -- Ting som aktører -- En politisk ontologi -- En ontologisk vending? -- Materialitetens metode -- Epilog -- Forslag til videre læsning -- Register.

This fascinating volume offers a critique of recent institutional and cultural turns in heterodox economics and political economy. Using seven case studies as examples, the authors explore how research on sense- and meaning-making can deepen critical studies in political economy, illuminating its role in critiquing the specific categories, contradictions and crisis-tendencies of capitalism. Parts I and II provide a foundation in institutionalism, international political economy and historical semantics, before introducing an original account of sense- and meaning-making and its role in remaking social relations. This account connects the evolution of both economic and extra-economic concepts to dispositives (problem-oriented social fixes), institutions, and capitalist restructuring. In Parts III and IV, specific case studies demonstrate how this new research program can be applied to issues such as competitiveness, the knowledge-based economy, governmental technologies, institutional and spatio-temporal fixes and crisis management. Scholars and students of heterodox, cultural, political and institutional economics will find this book a comprehensive and illuminating addition to their libraries.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations, Figures, and Tables -- Archival Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The Thaw as an Event in Russian History -- Part One: Looking Back -- 2 'Wait for Me and I Shall Return': The Early Thaw as a Reprise of Late Thirties Culture? -- 3 Khrushchev's Gulag: The Soviet Penitentiary System after Stalin's Death, 1953-1964 -- 4 From Prisoners to Citizens? Ex-Prisoners in Vorkuta during the Thaw -- 5 Remembering and Explaining the Terror during the Thaw: Soviet Readers of Ehrenburg and Solzhenitsyn in the 1960s -- 6 The Personal and the Political: Opposition to the Thaw and the Politics of Literary Identity in the 1950s and 1960s -- Part Two: Looking Forward -- 7 From White Grave to Tselinograd to Astana: The Virgin Lands Opening, Khrushchev's Forgotten First Reform -- 8 The Empires Pay a Visit: Gulag Returnees, East European Rebellions, and Soviet Frontier Politics -- 9 The Revival of Soviet Internationalism in the Mid to Late 1950s -- 10 Soviet Fashion in the 1950s-1960s: Regimentation, Western Influences, and Consumption Strategies -- 11 Cine-Weathers: Soviet Thaw Cinema in the International Context -- 12 Afterword: The Thaw in Retrospect -- List of Contributors -- Index

The EU has tried to bridge decision making by qualified majority and unanimity over the years by expanding qualified majorities (consensus) or by making unanimities easier to achieve. I call this decision-making procedure q-"unanimity" and trace its history from the Luxembourg compromise to the Lisbon Treaty, and to more recent agreements. I analyze the most recent and explicit mechanism of this bridging (article 31 (2) of the Lisbon Treaty) and identify one specific means by which the transformation of qualified majorities to unanimities is achieved: the reduction of precision or scope of the decision, so that different behaviors can be covered by it. I provide empirical evidence of such a mechanism by analyzing legislative decisions. Finally, I argue that this bridging is a ubiquitous feature of EU institutions, used in Treaties as well as in legislative decision-making.

"This book examines the online memory wars in post-Soviet states - where political conflicts take the shape of heated debates about the recent past, and especially World War II and Soviet socialism. To this day, former socialist states face the challenge of constructing national identities, producing national memories, and relating to the Soviet legacy. Their pasts are principally intertwined: changing readings of history in one country generate fierce reactions in others. In this transnational memory war, digital media form a pivotal discursive space - one that provides speakers with radically new commemorative tools. Uniting contributions by leading scholars in the field, Memory, Conflict and New Media is the first book-length publication to analyse how new media serve as a site of political and national identity building in post-socialist states. The book also examines how the construction of online identity is irreversibly affected by thinking about the past in this geopolitical domain. By highlighting post-socialist memory's digital mediations and digital memory's transcultural scope, the volume succeeds in a twofold aim: to deepen and refine both (post-socialist) memory theory and digital-memory studies. This book will be of much interest to students of media studies, post-Soviet studies, Eastern European Politics, memory studies and International Relations in general."--Publisher's website

Climate Change and the Course of Global History presents the first global study by a historian to fully integrate the earth-system approach of the new climate science with the material history of humanity. Part I argues that geological, environmental, and climatic history explain the pattern and pace of biological and human evolution. Part II explores the environmental circumstances of the rise of agriculture and the state in the Early and Mid-Holocene, and presents an analysis of human health from the Paleolithic through the rise of the state. Part III introduces the problem of economic growth and examines the human condition in the Late Holocene from the Bronze Age through the Black Death. Part IV explores the move to modernity, stressing the emerging role of human economic and energy systems as earth-system agents in the Anthropocene. Supported by climatic, demographic, and economic data, this provides a pathbreaking model for historians of the environment, the world, and science