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Anlass des Pogroms an Deutsch-Böhmen am 31.Juli 1945 in Aussig (Ústí nad Labem) war die Explosion eines Munitionsdepots im Stadtteil Schönpriesen (Krásné Březno) am gleichen Tag, die als Anschlag der Werwölfe dargestellt wurde. Nach Erkenntnissen der Forschung und aus geheimen tschechischen Unterlagen kann davon ausgegangen werden, dass der Anschlag auf das Depot und auch die angebliche Reaktion der Bevölkerung eine gezielte Aktion der Abteilung Z des tschechoslowakischen Innenministeriums, des OBZ, waren. Ziel der Aktion war, einen für das Ausland klar erkennbaren Grund zu schaffen, die restlose Vertreibung der deutschen Minderheit aus dem Sudetenland zu vollziehen. Um diesbezügliche Informationen und Zusammenhänge in die gewünschte Richtung zu lenken, wurde Stabshauptmann Bedřich Pokorný mit der offiziellen Untersuchung der Vorgänge beauftragt. Sofort nach der Explosion wurden deutsche Zivilisten von tschechischen Revolutionsgarden ohne nähere Untersuchung als vermeintlich Schuldige ausgemacht. Erkennbar waren die Deutschen an weißen Armbinden, die seit dem Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs bis mindestens Ende 1946 alle Deutschen in der Tschechoslowakei tragen mussten. Die Menschen wurden erschlagen, mit Bajonetten erstochen, in einem Löschwasserspeicher ertränkt oder von der Elbebrücke gestoßen und im Wasser beschossen. Die Leichen trieben bis ins benachbarte Sachsen. Dieses Buch dokumentiert anhand von Archiv-Funden akribisch, was genau am 31.Juli 1945 in Aussig passierte.

Autor navazuje na své mezinárodně úspěšné knižní fresky roku 1913, onoho "léta jednoho století", tentokrát se ovšem věnuje celé jedné dekádě, třicátým letům 20. století Jean-Paul Sartre pozval Simone de Beauvoirovou na schůzku a teď čeká sám v kavárně. Henry Miller a Anaïs Ninová se milují v Paříži a občas si zajedou za tichými dny do Clichy. Pablo Picasso kličkuje mezi svou ženou a milenkami a Gottfried Benn musel vstoupit do armády, aby se k němu vrátila poezie. Zatímco všude kypí láska, v Německu se Bertolt Brecht, Thomas Mann a mnozí další rozhodují pro emigraci. Moc uchvacují nacisté. Pálí se knihy. "Zlatá dvacátá" skončila. Nakladatelská anotace. Kráceno

This book is the first Finnish-language collection of research on superdiversity. At the core of the book is the growing migration to Finland since the turn of the 1990s and its numerous effects on Finnish society. The interdisciplinary examination of superdiversity is important at the current moment: Finland as a society has reached the point where certain social categories, such as ethnic background, country of birth, mother tongue or gender, are not necessarily sufficient to understand the increased diversity and its consequences.
The book consists of a comprehensive introduction to the topic and thirteen chapters. In Finland, research on superdiversity is carried out especially in critical sociolinguistics and applied language studies, education, cultural studies, social sciences, and urban studies. Therefore, these disciplines are strongly represented in the collection, and the chapters approach a variety of topics including refugees' mental health, experiences of multilingual families, the diversity of education and working life, discursive practices in social media, issues of urban planning and pro-asylum activism.

The book approaches the history of Finnish development cooperation through the experiences of development aid workers. At its core is a small group of Finns (experts and officials from different fields) who have worked with international development aid in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Their memories and experiences, together with diverse archival material offer an interesting window into the world of development (cooperation), or "Aidland", from the 1960s to the turn of the millennium.
The research focuses on the personal motives and experiences of Finnish aid workers from the 1960s to the 2000s. The book offers perspectives on the historical construction of Aidland since the 1940s and on the gradual integration of Finland and the Finns into its structures. It describes the mindset of the first two generations of aid workers and the factors that made them interested in developing countries. The book follows their education, their first contacts with Aidland, adaptation to work and conditions, returning home and the challenges that come with it. The study gives the reader a view of the power positions, hierarchies and contradictions in Aidland and development cooperation, which at times led Finns to reassess their motives and justify to themselves the meaningfulness of the entire undertaking. Through their experiences, the book also deals with the less-known side of development cooperation, such as corruption, prejudices, and opposition to development projects, as well as their occasionally unwanted consequences in partner/recipient countries. It also sheds light on the effects of the Aidland experience on an individual's worldview and identity.
The book is an academic study suitable for a wide audience, from university students to ordinary readers interested in development cooperation. The book helps to understand both the history of development and the construction of multi-level connections of Finnish society with the countries of the Global South. It is therefore also ideally suited for readers interested in the development of Finland's internationalization in the late twentieth century. For its part, the book contributes to wider public debates on development cooperation.

In the 21st century, vernacular tradition has been emerging updated, hybridized forms. The increased availability of digital devices and resources has diminished the gap between professional production and folk culture. Digital technology and commercial productions have merged with grassroots practices, local identities, and personal expression. This book introduces analytical views of contemporary folklore as vernacular meaning-making and performance in interaction with digital technology and commercial productions. It focuses on various genres, such as internet memes, local rap music, video games, creepypasta, and stand-up performances. Central themes featured in the analyses include accelerated cultural circulation and reinterpretations, questions surrounding ownership and appropriation, technological agency, and the performance of cultural and personal identities.