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  1. Disseminating Jewish Literatures : Knowledge, Research, Curricula
    Contributor: Zepp, Susanne (Publisher); Shahar, Galili (Publisher); Fine, Ruth (Publisher); Olk, Claudia (Publisher); Gordinsky, Natasha (Publisher); Konuk, Kader (Publisher)
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston

    The multilingualism and polyphony of Jewish literary writing around the globe requires a collaborative, comparative, and interdisciplinary investigation into the methods of researching and teaching literature. This volume presents case studies from a... more

     

    The multilingualism and polyphony of Jewish literary writing around the globe requires a collaborative, comparative, and interdisciplinary investigation into the methods of researching and teaching literature. This volume presents case studies from a broad range of approaches to Jewish literatures across different languages, including Arabic, English, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, and Yiddish.

     
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    Contributor: Zepp, Susanne (Publisher); Shahar, Galili (Publisher); Fine, Ruth (Publisher); Olk, Claudia (Publisher); Gordinsky, Natasha (Publisher); Konuk, Kader (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783110619003
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    Subjects: Literature: history & criticism; Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Jewish studies
    Other subjects: Education; Jewish literature; multilingualism
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (311 p.)
  2. Futures of the Study of Culture : Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Global Challenges
    Contributor: Bachmann-Medick, Doris (Publisher); Kugele, Jens (Publisher); Nünning, Ansgar (Publisher)
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston

    By exploring possible futures of the study of culture, this volume goes beyond the potentials and challenges of recent and emerging topics, theories, and methods. It unfolds interdisciplinary and international research perspectives in the context of... more

     

    By exploring possible futures of the study of culture, this volume goes beyond the potentials and challenges of recent and emerging topics, theories, and methods. It unfolds interdisciplinary and international research perspectives in the context of a changing global world. The contributions utilize contact zones between disciplines to open up new directions in the study of culture, addressing crucial issues in contemporary public discourse.

     
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    Contributor: Bachmann-Medick, Doris (Publisher); Kugele, Jens (Publisher); Nünning, Ansgar (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783110669398
    Other identifier:
    Subjects: General studies; Cultural studies
    Other subjects: Study of Culture; Futures/Futurity; Interdisciplinary Research
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (310 p.)
  3. Facing Poetry : Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten's Theory of Literature
    Author: Berndt, Frauke
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston

    What is Literature? According to Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, Literature is perfect sensate discourse. Based on this insight Baumgarten offers the first modern theory of literature. His uniquely holistic approach encompasses a methodology,... more

     

    What is Literature? According to Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, Literature is perfect sensate discourse. Based on this insight Baumgarten offers the first modern theory of literature. His uniquely holistic approach encompasses a methodology, epistemology, metaphysics, narratology, and ethics.

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783110624519
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    Subjects: Literary theory; Literary studies: general; General studies; Science: general issues
    Other subjects: Literary theory; aesthetics; rhetoric; Enlightenment
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (238 p.)
  4. Mediating the Otherworld in Polish Folklore : A Cognitive Linguistic Perspective
    Author: Masłowska, Ewa
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, Bern

    This book analyses the ways of conceptualising and interpreting the interaction between physical and metaphysical worlds in Polish folklore. A linguistic and anthropological analysis offered in this study focuses primarily on myth, ritual and symbol... more

     

    This book analyses the ways of conceptualising and interpreting the interaction between physical and metaphysical worlds in Polish folklore. A linguistic and anthropological analysis offered in this study focuses primarily on myth, ritual and symbol as reflected in language (dialect lexis, phraseology, speech acts). Employing the methodology and analytical tools of cognitive linguistics (preconceptual image schemas, cognitive scene, profiling of concepts, development of cognitive paths), the author reconstructs mental patterns at the heart of mythical thinking, linguistic actions and symbolic meanings, which reflect universal conceptual schemas and may serve as models for intercultural studies.

     
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  5. Traces of the Foreign : The Reception of Translations of Spanish American Prose in Poland in 1945-2005 from the Perspective of Intercultural Communication
    Author: Gaszyńska-Magiera, Małgorzata
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, Bern

    The aim of this monograph is to present the traces of intercultural encounters between Poland and Latin America realized by means of literary translations produced in the post-war period. It considers various aspects of the reception of Polish... more

     

    The aim of this monograph is to present the traces of intercultural encounters between Poland and Latin America realized by means of literary translations produced in the post-war period. It considers various aspects of the reception of Polish translations of Spanish American prose in 1945-2005 by examining their presence on the book market in the communist times and after 1990 in free market conditions. The analyses of critical texts show the attitudes of Polish critics towards this prose over the years. Survey research presents motives, behaviours and needs developed in different epochs by Polish readers. The interdisciplinary character of the monograph involves methodology inspired by translation, reception and cultural studies, sociology of literature and intercultural semantics.

     
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  6. On Cyprian Norwid. Studies and Essays : Vol. 1: Syntheses
    Contributor: Brajerska-Mazur, Agata (Publisher); Chlebowska, Edyta (Publisher)
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, Bern

    The book is the first volume of an extensive four-volume monograph devoted to the work of Cyprian Norwid (1821–1883), one of the most outstanding Polish authors. The impact of Norwid’s oeuvre does not fade, as he addresses fundamental and timeless... more

     

    The book is the first volume of an extensive four-volume monograph devoted to the work of Cyprian Norwid (1821–1883), one of the most outstanding Polish authors. The impact of Norwid’s oeuvre does not fade, as he addresses fundamental and timeless issues, such as the moral and spiritual condition of man or his place in the world and history and seeks to answer universal questions. The book contains an extensive selection of contributions which represent different approaches to the poet’s work. They cover various areas of research, including interpretation, thematology, genology, and editing.

     
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    Contributor: Brajerska-Mazur, Agata (Publisher); Chlebowska, Edyta (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783631784792; 9783631784808; 9783631784815; 9783631782781
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    Subjects: Literature & literary studies; History
    Other subjects: «Dzieła Wszystkie»; Chlebowska; Cyprian; Essays; Norwid; Norwidian Research; Paintings; Poetry; Polish Literature; Romanticism; Studies; Syntheses
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (592 p.)
  7. Hope and Uncertainty in Contemporary African Migration
    Contributor: Kleist, Nauja (Publisher); Thorsen, Dorte (Publisher)
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  Taylor & Francis

    "This volume examines the relationship between hope, mobility, and immobility in African migration. Through case studies set within and beyond the continent, it demonstrates that hope offers a unique prism for analyzing the social imaginaries and... more

     

    "This volume examines the relationship between hope, mobility, and immobility in African migration. Through case studies set within and beyond the continent, it demonstrates that hope offers a unique prism for analyzing the social imaginaries and aspirations which underpin migration in situations of uncertainty, deepening inequality, and delimited access to global circuits of legal mobility.

     

    The volume takes departure in a mobility paradox that characterizes contemporary migration. Whereas people all over the world are exposed to widening sets of meaning of the good life elsewhere, an increasing number of people in the Global South have little or no access to authorized modes of international migration. This book examines how African migrants respond to this situation. Focusing on hope, it explores migrants’ temporal and spatial horizons of expectation and possibility and how these horizons link to mobility practices. Such analysis is pertinent as precarious life conditions and increasingly restrictive regimes of mobility characterize the lives of many Africans, while migration continues to constitute important livelihood strategies and to be seen as pathways of improvement. Whereas involuntary immobility is one consequence, another is the emergence and consolidation of new destinations emerging in the Global South. The volume examines this development through empirically grounded and theoretically rich case studies in migrants’ countries of origin, zones of transit, and in new and established destinations in Europe, North America, the Middle East, Latin America and China. It thereby offers an original perspective on linkages between migration, hope, and immobility, ranging from migration aspirations to return. "

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Contributor: Kleist, Nauja (Publisher); Thorsen, Dorte (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781315659916; 9780367358983; 9781138961210
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    Subjects: Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography; Ethnic studies; Development studies
    Other subjects: ghanaian;ghassan;hage;high;migrant;migrants;risk;senegalese;societal;west
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (214 p.)
  8. Siting Futurity : The “Feel Good” Tactical Radicalism of Contemporary Culture in and around Vienna
    Author: Ingram, Susan
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  punctum books, Brooklyn, NY

    "Siting Futurity: The "Feel Good" Tactical Radicalism of Contemporary Culture in and around Vienna shows how cultural practitioners in and around Vienna draw on their historical knowledge of locality to create rousing productions designed to get... more

     

    "Siting Futurity: The "Feel Good" Tactical Radicalism of Contemporary Culture in and around Vienna shows how cultural practitioners in and around Vienna draw on their historical knowledge of locality to create rousing productions designed to get audiences to inform themselves about useful aspects of history, to get them to engage their presents, and to help make possible more socially equitable futures. Analyses of politically engaged works of contemporary theatre, film, and photography set in and around Vienna help to identify a historically oriented mechanism that enables artists to tap into Vienna’s extraordinary, and extraordinarily under-appreciated, tradition of protest culture that dates back to the action that brought about the Wiener Neustadt “Blood Court” in the 16th century, but really came into its own with the city’s most influential occupation of an abandoned slaughterhouse for 100 days in the late summer of 1976. It also shows how work with a connection to Vienna by international stars like David Bowie, Wes Anderson, and Christoph Schlingensief has absorbed the same principles.

     

    While the overwhelming scale of technological development and the ensuing problems and crises may not have been deliberately designed to induce resignation, passivity, and despair, those who benefit from the related hyperobjects of financialization and climate change must find it convenient that they do, as demoralization reduces resistance to their profit-making machinations. It is in this context that Red Vienna’s proud tradition of social engagement and long tradition of resistance and radicality deserves to be better known.

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781953035479
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    Subjects: Demonstrations & protest movements; Austria; Theatre studies; Film theory & criticism
    Other subjects: activism, Austria, contemporary art, contemporary theater, protest culture, radicalism, social protest, Vienna
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (224 p.)
  9. Chapter 1 The Polyphony of Function : Mixing Text and Music in Guillaume de Machaut
    Author: Smilansky, Uri
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Taylor & Francis

    "Polyphony and the Modern asks one fundamental question: what does it mean to be modern in one’s own time? To answer that question, this volume focuses on polyphony as an index of modernity. In the Principle of Hope, Ernst Bloch showed that each... more

     

    "Polyphony and the Modern asks one fundamental question: what does it mean to be modern in one’s own time? To answer that question, this volume focuses on polyphony as an index of modernity.

    In the Principle of Hope, Ernst Bloch showed that each moment in time is potentially fractured: people living in the same country can effectively live in different centuries – some making their alliances with the past and others betting on the future – but all of them, at least technically, enclosed in the temporal moment. But can a claim of modernity also mean something more ambitious? Can an artist, by accident or design, escape the limits of his or her own time, and somehow precociously embody the outlook of a subsequent age?

    This book sees polyphony as a bridge providing a terminology and a stylistic practice by which the period barrier between Medieval and Early Modern can be breached."

     
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  10. Polyphony and the Modern
    Contributor: Fruoco, Jonathan (Publisher)
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Taylor & Francis

    "Polyphony and the Modern asks one fundamental question: what does it mean to be modern in one’s own time? To answer that question, this volume focuses on polyphony as an index of modernity. In the Principle of Hope, Ernst Bloch showed that each... more

     

    "Polyphony and the Modern asks one fundamental question: what does it mean to be modern in one’s own time? To answer that question, this volume focuses on polyphony as an index of modernity.

    In the Principle of Hope, Ernst Bloch showed that each moment in time is potentially fractured: people living in the same country can effectively live in different centuries – some making their alliances with the past and others betting on the future – but all of them, at least technically, enclosed in the temporal moment. But can a claim of modernity also mean something more ambitious? Can an artist, by accident or design, escape the limits of his or her own time, and somehow precociously embody the outlook of a subsequent age?

    This book sees polyphony as a bridge providing a terminology and a stylistic practice by which the period barrier between Medieval and Early Modern can be breached."

     
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  11. Essays on Paula Rego : Smile When You Think about Hell
    Author: Manuel Lisboa, Maria
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Open Book Publishers

    "Conservation Biology in Sub-Saharan Africa comprehensively explores the challenges and potential solutions to key conservation issues in Sub-Saharan Africa. Easy to read, this lucid and accessible textbook includes fifteen chapters that cover a... more

     

    "Conservation Biology in Sub-Saharan Africa comprehensively explores the challenges and potential solutions to key conservation issues in Sub-Saharan Africa.

     

    Easy to read, this lucid and accessible textbook includes fifteen chapters that cover a full range of conservation topics, including threats to biodiversity, environmental laws, and protected areas management, as well as related topics such as sustainability, poverty, and human-wildlife conflict. This rich resource also includes a background discussion of what conservation biology is, a wide range of theoretical approaches to the subject, and concrete examples of conservation practice in specific African contexts. Strategies are outlined to protect biodiversity whilst promoting economic development in the region.

     

    Boxes covering specific themes written by scientists who live and work throughout the region are included in each chapter, together with recommended readings and suggested discussion topics. Each chapter also includes an extensive bibliography.

    Conservation Biology in Sub-Saharan Africa provides the most up-to-date study in the field. It is an essential resource, available on-line without charge, for undergraduate and graduate students, as well as a handy guide for professionals working to stop the rapid loss of biodiversity in Sub-Saharan Africa and elsewhere.

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    Source: OAPEN
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Painting & paintings; Feminism & feminist theory; Geopolitics; Intergenerational relationships
    Other subjects: Paula Rego; Portugual; artist; personal history
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (510 p.)
  12. Running and Clicking: Future Narratives in Film
    Author: Schenk, Sabine
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  De Gruyter

    Running and Clicking examines how Future Narratives push against the confines of their medium: Studying Future Narratives in movies, interactive films, and other electronic media that allow for nodes, this volume demonstrates how the dividing line... more

     

    Running and Clicking examines how Future Narratives push against the confines of their medium: Studying Future Narratives in movies, interactive films, and other electronic media that allow for nodes, this volume demonstrates how the dividing line between film and game is progressively dissolved. Focused on traditional mass media, transitional media, and new media, it also touches on transmedial storytelling and virtual reality, discussions of the political power of the imaginary and of the possible fate of Future Narratives in the post-human hegemony of the simulated real.

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783110272437; 9783110272154
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    Subjects: Films, cinema; Literary studies: general
    Other subjects: Game; Play; Text; Narrative
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (241 p.)
  13. Playing the Text, Performing the Future: Future Narratives in Print and Digiture
    Author: Meifert-Menhard, Felicitas
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  De Gruyter

    This volume examines the structure of text-based Future Narratives in the widest sense, including choose-your-own-adventure books, forking-path novels, combinatorial literature, hypertexts, interactive fiction, and alternate reality games. How... more

     

    This volume examines the structure of text-based Future Narratives in the widest sense, including choose-your-own-adventure books, forking-path novels, combinatorial literature, hypertexts, interactive fiction, and alternate reality games. How ´radical` can printed Future Narratives really be, given the constraints of their media? When exactly do they not only play with the mere idea of multiple continuations, but actually stage genuine openness and potentiality? Process-rather than product-oriented, text-based Future Narratives are seen as performative and contingent systems, simulating their own emergence.

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783110272390; 9783110272130
    Other identifier:
    Subjects: Literary studies: general
    Other subjects: Play; Text; Performance; Future; Digital
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (246 p.)
  14. La croix et la bannière : l'écrivain catholique en francophonie (XVIIe-XXIe siècles)
    Contributor: Dierkens, Alain (Publisher); Bernard, Bruno (Publisher); Gugelot, Frédéric (Publisher); Preyat, Fabrice (Publisher); Bonafoux, Corinne (Publisher); Vanderpelen-Diagre, Cécile (Publisher); Hauser, Claude (Publisher); Houdard, Sophie (Publisher); Jakobs, Béatrice (Publisher); Kapp, Volker (Publisher); Lassave, Pierre (Publisher); Le Brun, Jacques (Publisher); Martin, Philippe (Publisher); Marx, Jacques (Publisher); Scholl, Dorothea (Publisher); Serry, Hervé (Publisher); Susini, Laurent (Publisher); Valasik, Corinne (Publisher)
    Published: 2007
    Publisher:  Editions de l'Université de Bruxelles, Bruxelles

    La question de l’identité des écrivains catholiques francophones a longtemps été envisagée sous l’angle d’un engagement personnel unissant foi et littérature. Un parcours diachronique et interdisciplinaire original permet d’analyser leurs... more

     

    La question de l’identité des écrivains catholiques francophones a longtemps été envisagée sous l’angle d’un engagement personnel unissant foi et littérature. Un parcours diachronique et interdisciplinaire original permet d’analyser leurs trajectoires institutionnelles en les inscrivant dans leur contexte historique et esthétique, en les resituant aussi dans le maillage social des réseaux littéraires. Entre les contraintes qui découlent du magistère de l’Église et celles de l’art, il s’agit d’éclairer l’évolution d’une image de soi que les écrivains déclinent au gré de stratégies multiples. Cette question ne concerne pas seulement la reproduction et la réception d’œuvres pensées au cœur de l’institution ecclésiastique, en ses marges ou à sa périphérie, mais interroge, avec une actualité criante, les processus de construction des identités collectives. Elle remet en perspective la figure de l’écrivain aux prises avec les identités fluctuantes du croyant, du clerc ou du laïc qui tous tentent de conférer le prestige du sacerdoce à la mission sociale de l’artiste.

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Contributor: Dierkens, Alain (Publisher); Bernard, Bruno (Publisher); Gugelot, Frédéric (Publisher); Preyat, Fabrice (Publisher); Bonafoux, Corinne (Publisher); Vanderpelen-Diagre, Cécile (Publisher); Hauser, Claude (Publisher); Houdard, Sophie (Publisher); Jakobs, Béatrice (Publisher); Kapp, Volker (Publisher); Lassave, Pierre (Publisher); Le Brun, Jacques (Publisher); Martin, Philippe (Publisher); Marx, Jacques (Publisher); Scholl, Dorothea (Publisher); Serry, Hervé (Publisher); Susini, Laurent (Publisher); Valasik, Corinne (Publisher)
    Language: French
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    Subjects: Literary studies: general
    Other subjects: Religion
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (240 p.)
  15. Affekt Macht Netz : Auf dem Weg zu einer Sozialtheorie der Digitalen Gesellschaft
    Contributor: Mühlhoff, Rainer (Publisher); Breljak, Anja (Publisher); Slaby, Jan (Publisher)
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  transcript Verlag, Bielefeld, Germany

    Shit storms, hate speech or viral videos that promote clicking, linking, sharing: The linked society is driven by affects. The contributions included in this book examine the media-technological developments of our times and explore them from the... more

     

    Shit storms, hate speech or viral videos that promote clicking, linking, sharing: The linked society is driven by affects. The contributions included in this book examine the media-technological developments of our times and explore them from the perspective of a critical affect and social philosophy. They indicate that social media and digital platforms are not only spaces of exchange but also create affect economies – and therein lies their power. By creating new modalities of social interaction and therefore by determining the forms of articulation, they also change the political topography. Including a contribution by Antonio Negri. Shitstorms, Hate Speech oder virale Videos, die zum Klicken, Liken, Teilen bewegen: Die vernetzte Gesellschaft ist von Affekten getrieben und bringt selbst ganz neue Affekte hervor. Die Beiträge des Bandes nehmen die medientechnologischen Entwicklungen unserer Zeit in den Blick und untersuchen sie aus der Perspektive einer kritischen Affekt- und Sozialphilosophie. Sie zeigen: Soziale Medien und digitale Plattformen sind nicht nur Räume des Austauschs, sie erschaffen Affektökonomien – und darin liegt auch ihre Macht. Indem sie neue Formen des sozialen Umgangs stiften und bestimmen, wie wir kommunizieren, verschieben sie auch die politische Topographie. Mit einem Beitrag von Antonio Negri.

     
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  16. Digitalität und Privatheit : Kulturelle, politisch-rechtliche und soziale Perspektiven
    Contributor: Aldenhoff, Christian (Publisher); Edeler, Lukas (Publisher); Hennig, Martin (Publisher); Kelsch, Jakob (Publisher); Raabe, Lea (Publisher); Sobala, Felix (Publisher)
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  transcript Verlag, Bielefeld, Germany

    Privacy in the digital society – its forms, opportunities, and risks. Datenschutz bleibt ein umkämpftes Thema im Kontext der voranschreitenden Digitalisierung. Die Beiträge des Bandes gehen der Frage nach, welche Formen Privatheit in einer... more

     

    Privacy in the digital society – its forms, opportunities, and risks. Datenschutz bleibt ein umkämpftes Thema im Kontext der voranschreitenden Digitalisierung. Die Beiträge des Bandes gehen der Frage nach, welche Formen Privatheit in einer digitalen Gesellschaft annehmen kann und welche Chancen und Risiken dabei entstehen. Dabei ergeben sich medienkulturelle Fragestellungen nach den Normierungsmustern hinter digitalen Anwendungen sowie die Notwendigkeit, digitale Nutzungsszenarien zu analysieren, einzuordnen und zu bewerten. Der interdisziplinäre Band versammelt kultur-, sozial-, medien-, rechts- und politikwissenschaftliche Perspektiven.

     
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    Source: OAPEN; transcript Open Access
    Contributor: Aldenhoff, Christian (Publisher); Edeler, Lukas (Publisher); Hennig, Martin (Publisher); Kelsch, Jakob (Publisher); Raabe, Lea (Publisher); Sobala, Felix (Publisher)
    Language: German
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783839446614; 9783837646610
    Other identifier:
    Subjects: Media studies
    Other subjects: Digitalization; Privacy; Culture; Media; Law; Data Protection; Internet; Digital Media; Cultural Studies; Media Aesthetics; Sociology of Media; Media Studies; Digitalisierung; Privatheit; Kultur; Medien; Recht; Datenschutz; Digitale Medien; Cultural Studies; Medienästhetik; Mediensoziologie; Medienwissenschaft
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (406 p.)
  17. »Fremde, ferne Welt« : Mazedonienimaginationen in der deutschsprachigen Literatur seit dem 19. Jahrhundert
    Author: Langer , Benjamin
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  transcript Verlag, Bielefeld, Germany

    At present, Macedonia is again increasingly present in the German-speaking media discourse, in particular due to the so-called "name dispute" with Greece. But what is it when we talk about Macedonia? The media representation of the region often... more

     

    At present, Macedonia is again increasingly present in the German-speaking media discourse, in particular due to the so-called "name dispute" with Greece. But what is it when we talk about Macedonia? The media representation of the region often remains diffuse and is strongly influenced by stereotypes. In his comprehensive analysis, Benjamin Langer shows for the first time how this south-eastern European region was shaped in German-language texts from a terra incognita on the periphery of Europe and provided with attributions. In ten thematic chapters, he shows how powerful these images are despite their contradictions and changing instrumentalization to this day. Gegenwärtig ist Mazedonien – insbesondere aufgrund des sogenannten »Namensstreits« mit Griechenland – wieder verstärkt im deutschsprachigen Mediendiskurs präsent. Worum aber handelt es sich, wenn von Mazedonien die Rede ist? Die mediale Repräsentation der Region bleibt oft diffus und ist stark von Stereotypen geprägt. Benjamin Langer zeigt in seiner umfassenden Analyse erstmals auf, wie diese südosteuropäische Region in deutschsprachigen Texten aus einer terra incognita an der Peripherie Europas geformt und mit Zuschreibungen versehen wurde. In zehn thematischen Kapiteln weist er nach, wie wirkmächtig diese Bilder trotz ihrer Widersprüchlichkeit und wechselnden Instrumentalisierung bis heute sind.

     
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  18. Energopolitics
    Author: Boyer, Dominic
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Duke University Press, Durham, NC

    Between 2009 and 2013 Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer conducted fieldwork in Mexico's Isthmus of Tehuantepec to examine the political, social, and ecological dimensions of moving from fossil fuels to wind power. Their work manifested itself as a new... more

     

    Between 2009 and 2013 Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer conducted fieldwork in Mexico's Isthmus of Tehuantepec to examine the political, social, and ecological dimensions of moving from fossil fuels to wind power. Their work manifested itself as a new ethnographic form: the duograph—a combination of two single-authored books that draw on shared fieldsites, archives, and encounters that can be productively read together, yet can also stand alone in their analytic ambitions. In his volume, Energopolitics, Boyer examines the politics of wind power and how it is shaped by myriad factors, from the legacies of settler colonialism and indigenous resistance to state bureaucracy and corporate investment. Drawing on interviews with activists, campesinos, engineers, bureaucrats, politicians, and bankers, Boyer outlines the fundamental impact of energy and fuel on political power. Boyer also demonstrates how large conceptual frameworks cannot adequately explain the fraught and uniquely complicated conditions on the isthmus, illustrating the need to resist narratives of anthropocenic universalism and to attend to local particularities.

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781478004394; 9781478003137
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    Subjects: Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
    Other subjects: anthropocene; energy; power; development; Mexico
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (280 p.)
  19. A Future History of Water
    Author: Ballestero, Andrea
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Duke University Press, Durham, NC

    Based on fieldwork among state officials, NGOs, politicians, and activists in Costa Rica and Brazil, A Future History of Water traces the unspectacular work necessary to make water access a human right and a human right something different from a... more

     

    Based on fieldwork among state officials, NGOs, politicians, and activists in Costa Rica and Brazil, A Future History of Water traces the unspectacular work necessary to make water access a human right and a human right something different from a commodity. Andrea Ballestero shows how these ephemeral distinctions are made through four technolegal devices—formula, index, list and pact. She argues that what is at stake in these devices is not the making of a distinct future but what counts as the future in the first place. A Future History of Water is an ethnographically rich and conceptually charged journey into ant-filled water meters, fantastical water taxonomies, promises captured on slips of paper, and statistical maneuvers that dissolve the human of human rights. Ultimately, Ballestero demonstrates what happens when instead of trying to fix its meaning, we make water’s changing form the precondition of our analyses.

     
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    ISBN: 9781478004516
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    Subjects: Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
    Other subjects: water; wonder; future; difference; human rights; commodification; ethics
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (248 p.)
  20. Le mythe Néron : La fabrique d’un monstre dans la littérature antique (Ie-Ve s.)
    Author: Lefebvre, Laurie
    Published: 20171209
    Publisher:  Presses universitaires du Septentrion

    Dans l'imaginaire collectif, Néron est à jamais figé dans la posture du tyran dépravé, meurtrier, incendiaire : un mythe s'est forgé, éternel et persistant. C’est précisément cette mythologie que l’auteur se propose de décoder. Car parallèlement à... more

     

    Dans l'imaginaire collectif, Néron est à jamais figé dans la posture du tyran dépravé, meurtrier, incendiaire : un mythe s'est forgé, éternel et persistant. C’est précisément cette mythologie que l’auteur se propose de décoder. Car parallèlement à l’effacement des traces visibles de la mémoire du prince, les auteurs antiques, tant païens que chrétiens, se sont employés à reconstruire son histoire, jusqu’à ce que Néron, dépouillant son enveloppe d’individu historique, devînt une figure emblématique, incarnation de la tyrannie et de la monstruosité elles-mêmes. Enquête sur les codes philosophiques, rhétoriques ou littéraires qui ont contraint la réécriture de l’histoire du dernier Julio-claudien, l’ouvrage se propose aussi de suivre les mutations de cette figure au cours de l’Antiquité, au gré des erreurs de lecture, des confusions, des manipulations narratives ou des tentatives d’adaptation de la geste néronienne aux préoccupations du temps. Toute une mythographie se fait jour.

     
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    ISBN: 9782757428023
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    Subjects: Literature: history & criticism
    Other subjects: Literature; Literature; Mémoire; Condamnation; Légende; Réécriture; Histoire; Néron; Empereur; Rome
  21. Images des corps / corps des images au cinéma
    Author: Game, Jérôme
    Published: 20100101
    Publisher:  ENS Éditions

    "Ces dernières années ont vu se développer un important effort théorique et critique sur la question du corps au cinéma : comment ce dernier représente-t-il les formes du corps mais aussi ses puissances (gestes, désirs, pulsions, tendances hors... more

     

    "Ces dernières années ont vu se développer un important effort théorique et critique sur la question du corps au cinéma : comment ce dernier représente-t-il les formes du corps mais aussi ses puissances (gestes, désirs, pulsions, tendances hors cadre, hors champs, hors discours ou hors normes)? Comment rend-t-il compte des contextes cognitifs, culturels, politiques et technologiques associés à la fabrique des corps à travers l'histoire? Les films eux-mêmes ont eu recours au corps comme figure ou motif privilégié et ont pleinement participé de ce questionnement.

     

    Participant à cette réflexion en cours le présent volume s'attache à étudier la question de la représentation corporelle en la rapportant à celle des devenirs concrets du cinéma, que ce soit dans ses dispositifs propres ou ses rencontres avec d’autres régimes d’image (notamment la vidéo et la photographie).

     
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    Subjects: Electronic, holographic & video art
    Other subjects: Arts; Études cinématographiques; Cinéma; Corps; Anthropologie; Esthétique
  22. Allegories of the Anthropocene
    Author: DeLoughrey, Elizabeth M.
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Duke University Press, Durham, NC

    In Allegories of the Anthropocene Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey traces how indigenous and postcolonial peoples in the Caribbean and Pacific Islands grapple with the enormity of colonialism and anthropogenic climate change through art, poetry, and... more

     

    In Allegories of the Anthropocene Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey traces how indigenous and postcolonial peoples in the Caribbean and Pacific Islands grapple with the enormity of colonialism and anthropogenic climate change through art, poetry, and literature. In these works, authors and artists use allegory as a means to understand the multiscalar complexities of the Anthropocene and to critique the violence of capitalism, militarism, and the postcolonial state. DeLoughrey examines the work of a wide range of artists and writers—including poets Kamau Brathwaite and Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner, Dominican installation artist Tony Capellán, and authors Keri Hulme and Erna Brodber—whose work addresses Caribbean plantations, irradiated Pacific atolls, global flows of waste, and allegorical representations of the ocean and the island. In examining how island writers and artists address the experience of finding themselves at the forefront of the existential threat posed by climate change, DeLoughrey demonstrates how the Anthropocene and empire are mutually constitutive and establishes the vital importance of  allegorical art and literature in understanding our global environmental crisis.

     
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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9781478005582; 9781478004103
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    Subjects: Literary studies: post-colonial literature
    Other subjects: anthropocene; environmental humanities; blue humanities; climate change; postcolonial studies
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (280 p.)
  23. Ecologics
    Author: Howe, Cymene
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Duke University Press, Durham, NC

    Between 2009 and 2013 Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer conducted fieldwork in Mexico's Isthmus of Tehuantepec to examine the political, social, and ecological dimensions of moving from fossil fuels to wind power. Their work manifested itself as a new... more

     

    Between 2009 and 2013 Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer conducted fieldwork in Mexico's Isthmus of Tehuantepec to examine the political, social, and ecological dimensions of moving from fossil fuels to wind power. Their work manifested itself as a new ethnographic form: the duograph—a combination of two single-authored books that draw on shared fieldsites, archives, and encounters that can be productively read together, yet can also stand alone in their analytic ambitions. In her volume, Ecologics, Howe narrates how an antidote to the Anthropocene became both failure and success. Tracking the development of what would have been Latin America's largest wind park, Howe documents indigenous people's resistance to the project and the political and corporate climate that derailed its renewable energy potential. Using feminist and more-than-human theories, Howe demonstrates how the dynamics of energy and environment cannot be captured without understanding how human aspirations for energy articulate with nonhuman beings, technomaterial objects, and the geophysical forces that are at the heart of wind and power.

     
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    ISBN: 9781478004400; 9781478003199
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    Subjects: Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
    Other subjects: anthropocene; energy; more-than-human; politics; Mexico
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (272 p.)
  24. The Fixer
    Author: Piot, Charles
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Duke University Press, Durham, NC

    In the West African nation of Togo, applying for the U.S. Diversity Visa Lottery is a national obsession, with hundreds of thousands of Togolese entering each year. From the street frenzy of the lottery sign-up period and the scramble to raise money... more

     

    In the West African nation of Togo, applying for the U.S. Diversity Visa Lottery is a national obsession, with hundreds of thousands of Togolese entering each year. From the street frenzy of the lottery sign-up period and the scramble to raise money for the embassy interview to the gamesmanship of those adding spouses and dependents to their dossiers, the application process is complicated, expensive, and unpredictable. In The Fixer Charles Piot follows Kodjo Nicolas Batema, a Togolese visa broker—known as a “fixer”—as he shepherds his clients through the application and interview process. Relaying the experiences of the fixer, his clients, and embassy officials, Piot captures the ever-evolving cat-and-mouse game between the embassy and the hopeful Togolese as well as the disappointments and successes of lottery winners in the United States. These detailed and compelling stories uniquely illustrate the desire and savviness of migrants as they work to find what they hope will be a better life.

     
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    Contributor: Batema, Kodjo Nicholas (Publisher)
    Language: English
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    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781478003427; 9781478001911
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    Subjects: Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
    Other subjects: diversity visa lottery; Togo; West Africa; visa brokers; fixers; migration
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (224 p.)
  25. Anti-Japan
    Author: Ching, Leo T. S.
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Duke University Press, Durham, NC

    Although the Japanese empire rapidly dissolved following the end of World War II, the memories, mourning, and trauma of the nation's imperial exploits continue to haunt Korea, China, and Taiwan. In Anti-Japan Leo T. S. Ching traces the complex... more

     

    Although the Japanese empire rapidly dissolved following the end of World War II, the memories, mourning, and trauma of the nation's imperial exploits continue to haunt Korea, China, and Taiwan. In Anti-Japan Leo T. S. Ching traces the complex dynamics that shape persisting negative attitudes toward Japan throughout East Asia. Drawing on a mix of literature, film, testimonies, and popular culture, Ching shows how anti-Japanism stems from the failed efforts at decolonization and reconciliation, the Cold War and the ongoing U.S. military presence, and shifting geopolitical and economic conditions in the region. At the same time, pro-Japan sentiments in Taiwan reveal a Taiwanese desire to recoup that which was lost after the Japanese empire fell. Anti-Japanism, Ching contends, is less about Japan itself than it is about the real and imagined relationships between it and China, Korea, and Taiwan. Advocating for forms of healing that do not depend on state-based diplomacy, Ching suggests that reconciliation requires that Japan acknowledge and take responsibility for its imperial history.

     
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    ISBN: 9781478003359; 9781478001881
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    Subjects: Asian history; Cultural studies
    Other subjects: anti-Japanism; pro-Japanism; sentimentality; reconciliation; intimacy
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (176 p.)