Sociology and anthropology Books

Book SynopsisThe term Utopia, coined by Thomas More in 1516, contains an inherent semantic ambiguity: it could be read as eu topos (good place) or ou topos (no place). The authors of this volume analyze this polysemous notion and its fascination for scholars across the centuries, who have developed a variety of visions and ways to explain the «realization» of utopian discourses. The experts in the fields of sociology, political science, economics, computer science, literature and linguistics offer extensive studies about how utopian scenarios are realized in different cultural contexts.Table of ContentsContents: Utopia – Public communication – Academic communication – Myth – Plain language – City brand – Change Management Projects – Artificial Intelligence – Fair and free trade – Work disparities – Inclusive educational system.

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the construction of Euroscepticism in civil society discourse, focusing on Turkey’s possible EU-membership, the ongoing political struggles between different political camps in Turkey and general Western discourse. Applying semi-structured qualitative interviews with Civil Society Organisation leaders and Critical Discourse Analysis, the study shows how civil society leaders evaluate Europe and the European Integration of Turkey. It appears that there are multiple Eurosceptical argumentation strategies in the discourses varying according to ideological background and pro-government and anti-government positioning.Trade Review«This is an excellent book.» (Yannis A. Stivachtis, Slavic Review Spring 2017)Table of ContentsContents: Occidentalism – Euroscepticism – Civil Society – Gramsci – Europe – European Integration – Turkish politics – Discourse analysis.

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Book SynopsisDue to changes in retirement and employment policies the participation of older workers in the German labour force has been increasing in the recent decade. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), the book examines developments in the training participation patterns of older workers. The author gives special attention to the relations between the rate of training participation and the level of job satisfaction. The findings indicate an increase in training participation, particularly of workers aged 55–59, and imply a positive correlation between the rate of training and job satisfaction.Table of ContentsContents: Older workers – Job-related training – Job-satisfaction.

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Book SynopsisThe book deals with the question of resistance to Soviet hegemony in Central Europe after 1968, when Warsaw Pact troops invaded Czechoslovakia. The political and cultural situation in the context of Central Europe is presented through the life and work of the Slovak dissident, the writer Dominik Tatarka, who signed Charta 77 immediately after Václav Havel. For the first time, the wider context of resistance to violence and to intellectual as well as material hegemony is explored here. Using the comparative method, this work considers historical, philosophical and sociological ramifications of this resistance. To understand the issues of dissent means to comprehend the alternative and parallel culture of the 20th century. Thanks to this culture and the efforts of intellectuals in particular, the present-day relatively free conditions for creation and life in general were created. On the basis of the literary work and life of one of the Charta 77 signatories, Dominik Tatarka, this work addresses the topic of dissident literature. By the use of the comparative method Slovak literature is analysed alongside other literatures of Central Europe (e.g. the literature of Czech dissent Václav Havel, Ludvík Vaculík), as well as French (exploring the genetic connection between Dominik Tatarka and Albert Camus). This illustrates the wider context of the idea of freedom and free cultural values characterizing Tatarka’s work.Table of ContentsContents: Internal emigration as a gesture of freedom (Dominik Tatarka and Ludvík Vaculík after 1968) – Traces of «autobiography» in fiction (On the question of authenticity of an artistic work – Essays on culture (Aesthetic and political opinions) – Types of depiction – Water as the Beginning and End (The water motif) – The relationship of nature and culture in Slovak literary modernism – The Adventure of Humanity (Dominik Tatarka and Albert Camus) – Freedom and dreams – Political systems of the 20th century and Tatarka’s Community of God – Tatarka’s multilayered identity (The myth and reality of the author’s archai) – The relativistic and materialistic perception of mankind (The postmodern and the work of Dominik Tatarka).

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Book SynopsisThe relations between Turkey and Germany deserve to be called unique because of their depth and extent. This book offers an interdisciplinary approach on these relations from political, socio-economic and business perspectives. In this context, it is a beneficial reference book for those academics in Political Science, Economics and Business Administration who focus their researches on various aspects of the relations between Turkey and Germany. It also provides useful insight for the practitioners such as policy makers, diplomats, investors, financial analysts, NGOs that are engaged in Turkish-German relations, German companies invested in Turkey and Turkish companies that transfer know-how from Germany.Table of ContentsContents: Hanna-Lisa Hauge/Wolfgang Wessels: EU-Turkey Relations and The German Perspective – O. Can Ünver: The Role of Turkish Immigrants on Economic and Political Relations Between Germany and Turkey – Bianca Kaiser: Changing Patterns of Migration: German Migrants in Turkey – Ian Towers/Anabel Ternès/Dunja Ewinger: Turkish Migrant Self-Organizations in Germany – Halil İbrahim Bahar: Germans in Alanya – Şükrü Yurtsever/Sarah Glück: Transferring Social Capital from Turkey to Germany - Opportunities and Consequences for the Employment of Turkish Women? – Nihal Tuncer Terregrossa/Ferda Karagöz: The Structural Transformation of Bilateral Trade Relations between Germany and Turkey: Causes and Consequences – Güzin Emel Akkuş: The Contribution of the Remittances of Turkish Workers in Germany to the Balance of Payments of Turkey (1963–2013) – Şule Daldal: Transformations of the Labor Markets in Turkey and Germany – Seçil Paçacı Elitok: Do Rights Migrate with Migrants Across Borders? Transferability of Social Security Benefits between Turkey and Germany – Çiydem Çatak: Macroeconomic Variables and Stock Market Returns: A Comparison of Germany and Turkey – Y. Burçak Boydak Öztaş: The Role of Social Marketing Activities for Removing the Obscruity of Non-Governmental Organisations in Turkey: The Case of Friedrich Naumann Foundation – Harun Kaya: Knowledge and Technology Transfer from Germany to Turkey: Its Past, Current Situation and Future Challenges – Sevgi Kurtulmuş/ Ali Osman Öztürk: The Rise of Medical Tourism in Turkey and the Unique Case of Patients from Germany – Emre Ergüven: German FDIs in Turkish Manufacturing Industry – Nuray Terzi: Global Competitiveness: A Comparison between Turkey and Germany.

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Book SynopsisThe Yearbook on History and Interpretation of Phenomenology 2015 is dedicated to the question of generativity, and more broadly to the generative aspects of and in contemporary phenomenology. We continue to proceed in Husserlian research as well as to address newly emerging contemporary cultural, political, and ecological phenomena. This invites and welcomes a creative involvement with a generative phenomenological approach, which tries to address such phenomena as the liminality and volatility of experience, interpersonal and intercultural communication, home and alienness, identity and difference, globalization and fundamentalism, migration and interculturalism, and searches for the meaning of authentic sociality, morality or religiosity of human persons.Table of ContentsContents: Jana Trajtelová: Introduction – Iulian Apostolescu: The Phenomenologist’s Task: Generativity, History, Lifeworld. Interview with Anthony J. Steinbock – Fabrício Pontin: The Invention of a Paradigm: The Normative Conceptions of the Lifeworld in Habermas – Esteban Marín Ávila: Generative Problems and Generative Phenomenology: Thinking over Anthony J. Steinbock’s Conception of the Familiar and the Alien by Recourse to a Generative Absolute – Jaroslava Vydrová: Phänomenologie in den Abwandlungen der Reduktion und in der Fragestellung nach den Randphänomenen (der Geburt und des Todes) – Irene Breuer: Die haptisch korrelative Genesis von Raum/Ort und eigener bzw. «intersubjektiver» Leiblichkeit an den Rändern der Phänomenologie Husserls: Die originäre Entstehung der Ur-präsenzen an den Grenzen der Gegebenheit – Carmen López Sáenz: Interculturalism as an Articulation of Diversity: A Generative Phenomenological Approach.

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Book SynopsisThe author analyzes modern Russian history from a new perspective. Due to the ideological heritage of the XIXth and XXth centuries, the social settings of the sociopolitical history of the USSR (1917–1945) have not been fully identified. Detailed examination of ideological and political concepts shows that the revolution of 1917 became not a middle class, proletarian movement, but rather a plebeian one. The misjudgment by the new power enabled growth but caused tremendous losses of human lives and material damages. Socialization of economy and strict centralization led to a new social structure and established terror as an instrument for social reorganization. WWII revealed the necessity of a correction of these developments, but the events of the Cold War circumvented any further considerations.Table of ContentsHistory of the USSR (1917–1945) – Ideological heritage of the XIXth and XXth centuries – Characteristics of the Russian Revolution – Development of a totalitarian system – Market and socialization – National issues – Internal and foreign affairs – Terror and its functions – USSR and USA/UK before, during and after WWII.

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Book SynopsisThis book illustrates the applicability of the seminal and controversial metaphor of the «invisible hand» in modern sociological theory. It shows that sociologists have long been part of a field mainly associated with economists and political philosophers. Though unlike the framing that builds directly on Adam Smith, sociological theory focuses on undesirable and perverse outcomes. Furthermore, the sociological angle favors the explanation of invisible hand-like mechanisms as contingent upon social structures and broader processes. Thus, it goes beyond its classical formulation in terms of interdependence, interaction and aggregation of individual actions. This book gathers contributions of remarkable authors who are linked directly either with the invisible hand metaphor, with the spontaneous order phenomenon or with the unintended consequences issue and aims to describe the traditional and contemporary applicability of the sociological framing of the invisible hand for social sciences.Table of ContentsInvisible hand – Spontaneous order – Unintended consequences –Social structure, long-term processes – Interaction, interdependence – Modern sociological theory

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Book SynopsisThe book analyzes the methods used in the construction of the grounded type of sociological theory. It provides an overview of examples of qualitative research which are used for delineating the principal characteristics of methods employed in the construction of the grounded type of theory. Subject to explication are the characteristics of concepts, categories, and properties of categories employed in this type of theory, as well as the main steps involved in the construction of a grounded type of theory. These steps are explicated by applying the modern logical and methodological treatment of induction, deduction, and abduction.Table of ContentsMethod of theory construction – Grounded Theory – Research cycles – Argument – Reasoning – Induction – Deduction – Abduction – Conceptual density – Qualitative-quantitative divide

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Book SynopsisWe live in times of accelerated changes – social, economic, and political – which are currently transforming most societies and areas of human life. Every day brings not only new shifts in political orders of various countries but also clearly observable metamorphoses of labour patterns, family forms, and modes through which we participate in political life, communicate, and which are related to each other. The pace of these changes and their complex mechanisms make it difficult to discern what directions they are actually taking. This book is about transformations of social bonds, the most fundamental sociological concept. It examines how these bonds are formed, how they are dissolved, and how they are forged anew. The book offers a preliminary reflection on the course and consequences of the ongoing transformations of the social order. At the same time, it invites to reconsider the foundations of sociological thinking.Table of ContentsSociology – Social History – Social Changes – Theory of the Modern and Postmodern Society – Social Psychology

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Book SynopsisFacing Heidegger’s critique of modern technology, the author analyses the question of technology and ethical responsibility and the call for reflexivity towards technology. He examines Heidegger‘s thoughts about how science and technology conceal the enigmatic and distinctive presencing of Being and exhibits how modern technology has brought unintended consequences and risks. The author extends the deliberation among diverse epistemologies, interested parties and laypersons, a component of reflexive modernization. Such epistemic community opens the way for a new reflexive democratization of technology, in which different actors should be involved in decision making about technology as it affects the society, the environment and individuals.Table of ContentsContents: Being-in-the-world – Dasein and Aletheia – The Event of Appropriation – Levinas’ Critique of Heidegger – Ontological Priority of Ethical Responsibility – The Age of Technological Being and Emergence of Subjectivity – Heidegger – Technology – Human Destiny – Technology as Revealing – Enframing – Modern Technology and the Imperative of Responsibility – Hans Jonas’ Critique of Heidegger – Risk and Responsibility – Reflexive Modernization – Reflexive Individualization – Sub-politics and deliberative democracy.

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Book SynopsisThe last decade has marked European higher education with particular dynamics. Today, after a decade of «connected» policy, national systems look much more convergent but new questions and dilemmas are emerging: about the nature and quality of higher education, about the real impact of recent reforms in different countries, and about higher education's future. The book examines the impact of Europe-wide and global developments on national higher education systems. The authors try in particular to place upfront issues of convergence and diversity, of equity and of the relationship between centres and peripheries in higher education. The book is an outcome of research collaboration between six institutes which developed a EuroHESC research proposal on the consequences of expanded and differentiated higher education systems.Table of ContentsContents: Pavel Zgaga/Ulrich Teichler/John Brennan: Challenges for European Higher Education: «Global» and «National», «Europe» and «sub-Europes» – Janja Komljenovič/Klemen Miklavič: Imagining Higher Education in the European Knowledge Economy: Discourse and Ideas in Communications of the EU – Ulrich Teichler: The Event of International Mobility in the Course of Study - The European Policy Objective – Ellen Hazelkorn/Martin Ryan: The Impact of University Rankings on Higher Education Policy in Europe: A Challenge to Perceived Wisdom and a Stimulus for Change – Elsa Hackl: Diversification in Austrian Higher Education: A Result of European or National Policies? – Manja Klemenčič: The Effects of Europeanisation on Institutional Diversification in the Western Balkans – Voldemar Tomusk: The Monolithic Un-intentionality of Higher Education Policies: On the Continuing Importance of Karl Marx, Joseph Stalin and the Minor Classics Less Known – Susan L. Robertson: «Hullabaloo in the Groves of Academe»: The Politics of «Instituting» a Market in English Higher Education – John Brennan: Higher Education Differentiation and the Myth of Meritocracy: The Case of the UK – Leon Cremonini: The Recognition of Prior Learning and Dutch Higher Education - At cross-purposes? – Marek Kwiek: From System Expansion to System Contraction. Access to Higher Education in Poland – Martina Vukasović/Mari Elken: Higher Education Policy Dynamics in a Multi-level Governance Context: A Comparative Study of Four Post-communist Countries – Jana Baćević: What Kind of University for What Kind of Society? Nation-States, Post-National Constellations, and Higher Education in the Post-Yugoslav Space – Tatjana Sekulić: The Bosnian Puzzle of Higher Education in the Perspective of the Bologna Process – Danijela Dolenec/Karin Doolan: Reclaiming the Role of Higher Education in Croatia: Dominant and Oppositional Framings – Pavel Zgaga: Reconsidering Higher Education Reforms in the Western Balkans: «Policy Colonies» or «Policy Autarchies»?

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Book SynopsisThe sixth volume in the series of the Central and Eastern European Forum for Legal, Political, and Social Theory Yearbook is focused on the effects of globalisation and global governance on state, law and society. It addresses the great structural and systemic changes in the fundamental constitutional and political concepts produced by the above mentioned phenomena. The main issues which are discussed in the book are the crisis of authority, the crisis of territoriality, the shifting constitutional geometry, the constitutional identity, the territorial irresponsibility of capital, the horizontalisation of human rights, the new constitutional and political roles of the transnational corporations and the global religions as well as the influence of the supranational jurisdictions on the supranational and national legal orders.Table of ContentsContents: Saskia Sassen: The Savage Sorting: Emergent Predatory Logics – Martin Belov: Globalisation, Crisis of Territoriality, and their Effects on the Constitutional Principles – Mate Paksy: Justice, Territory, and National Minorities: Critical Assessments – Michele Saporiti: The Concept of Sovereignty and the Transnational Challenge of Global Religions. A Theoretical Framework – Anna Kalisz/Monika Zalewska: Hans Kelsen in a Multicentric (Legal) World – Aleksander Tsekov: The Constitutional Identity of the EU Member States as a Legal Limit to the Constitutionalisation of the European Integration – Christoph Good: Corporate Human Rights Initiatives - From International Law to Global Governance and Back? – Axelle Reiter: State Responsibility for Private Breaches of International Law and the Horizontal Application of Human Rights – Miklós Könczöl: Future-Related Interests: What and How to Represent? – Szilárd Tattay: Making Sense of a Nonsense: Representation of the «Rights» of Future Generations – Uroš Zdravković: Coverage and Application of the WTO Dispute Settlement Mechanism – Adam Szot: The Influence of European Court of Human Rights’ Jurisprudence on Public Administration Governance Processes.

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Book SynopsisThe book for the first time explores in-depth the life and work of Herta Herzog (1910–2010), an Austrian-American social psychologist. Herzog spent most of her working life in the United States, where she moved to in the 1930s, following her first husband Paul Lazarsfeld into migration and working with him at the famous Office of Radio Research in Princeton and Columbia. The chapters by scholars from the U.S., Israel, Germany and Austria show the amazing scope of Herzog’s work as both, one of the founders of empirical communication research and the "grand dame" of market and motivation research. Herzog crossed many borders, moving from Europe to the U.S. and back again, stepping over disciplinary lines as well as restrictions by gender.Trade Review«Overall, [the book] is a fine tribute to an assiduous and innovative media scholar who contribution to communications research has been too often and for too long under-acknowledged.» (European Journal of Communication, 32/5 2017)Table of ContentsHerta Herzog – Social psychology – Radio and TV research – Soap opera – Uses and gratifications approach – Focus group interview – Figure drawing – Market and motivation research – Advertising – McCann Erickson – Biography – Early women in communication science – History of media and communication research

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Book SynopsisThis book is about the dangers of religious intolerance, conflict and violence oriented strategies in our contemporary society. It exposes the evangelical strategies of Christian Churches and Denominations in the Nigerian society. The process of the enthronement of ‘prosperity theology’ has led to manipulation of individuals and events through demonization, deliverance, organized healings and miracles. This type of Christianity destroys religious values and exposes the society to the danger of materialism. Christian Churches should be advocates of empowerment, freedom and dignity instead of victimization of its members. This study argues that authentic Christian witnessing can only be achieved through holistic and proper integration of its teachings into socio-cultural values of its local setting. It insists that religion should enhance good core values and not destroy it. It critically analyses the elemental causes of conflict and violence in Igboland and concludes by making recommendations towards a peaceful society.Table of ContentsContents: African Traditional Religions in Nigeria – Christian Missionary Strategies in Nigeria – Conflicts and Violence in Christianity – Elemental Causes of Conflict and Violence in Christianity – Leadership, Doctrinal Prejudice, Traditionalism. Fundamentalism, Pentecostalism, Fanaticism and Urbanization in Christianity – Christian Conflict and Violence Management Bodies in Nigeria – Christian Association of Nigeria – Catholic Secretariat and Christian Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria – Ecumenism and Ecumenical Problems in Nigeria.

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Book SynopsisThis book is an anthropological essay which aims to capture the elusive phenomenon of hideouts employed by Jews persecuted during the Second World War. Oscillating between life and death, the Jewish hideouts were a space of the most diverse and extremely complex human relations – a specific realm of everyday life, with its own inherent logic. Based on different literary sources, especially wartime and post-war testimonies of Jewish escapees, the author seeks to examine the realm of hideouts to develop a novel, interdisciplinary perspective on this often neglected aspect of the 20th-century history.Table of ContentsAnthropology of space – Sociology of space –World War II – Wartime – Jewish escapees – Hideouts – Hiding places

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the boundary between «the private» and «the public» on Social Network Sites based on the sociability framework. The author analyses the roles of social norms and influences, benefits, and risks/costs, on the behaviors of SNSs users through models based on Social Exchange Theory, Social Penetration Theory and Communication Privacy Management Theory. She reviews different notions of «the private» and «the public» and selects the sociability framework to investigate the distinction between private and public. The author uses this theoretical framework to conduct online surveys and interviews with selected SNSs users in Germany and China and concludes that the clear boundary of «the private» and «the public» on SNSs is a result of acts of disclosure and/or withdrawal of personal information and political opinions. Globalization and mediatization contribute to similarities among different countries but do not erase the differences in their respective boundaries.

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Book SynopsisAward-winning essay in philosophical anthropology meditating on who, in terms of history of ideas, modern western man was, is, and will perhaps become. The author focuses on developments of modern man’s self-knowledge, understood both as concept of his own human nature and as individual self-consciousness, made possible by the idea that each human being is an autonomous rational agent. The book examines how Selfhood and self-governed individuality connect to science and technology, and offers an imaginative exploration of various modern narratives of human singularity, from Robinson Crusoe to Zarathustra, and to contemporary individual Facebook profiles.Table of ContentsWhat is knowing oneself? – Ancient roots of self-knowledge and Plato’s hoax – Modern idea of man's self-knowledge – Early modernity's Robinson Crusoe – Anthropology of mature modernity – Nietzsche's moustache – Musil's Man without qualities – Postmodern condition of self-knowledge: Facebook and the God-machine – The death of death.

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Book SynopsisThis book revisits psychology’s appropriation of natural scientific methods. The author argues that, in order to overcome ongoing methodological debates in psychology, it is necessary to confront the problem of formalisation contained in the appropriation of methods of natural science. By doing so, the subject matter of psychology – the human being – and questions about the meaning of human existence can be brought to the centre of the discipline. Drawing on Garfinkel, Sacks, Edwards and Potter, the author sees ethnomethodologically informed qualitative methods, which stem from phenomenology, as a possible alternative to statistical methods, but ultimately finds these methods to be just another method of formalisation.She returns to Husserlian phenomenology as a way to critique the centrality of method in psychology and shows that the adoption of natural scientific methods in psychology is part of the larger push to formalise and objectify all aspects of human existence.Table of ContentsPsychology, Ethnomethodology and Phenomenology – Part 1: Phenomenology as a guideline for an empirical method – A Conversation Analytic Investigation of Therapy: Clinical Psychologists Use Members Methods to Present Their Interpretation as Objective – An Ethnomethodological Investigation of Therapy: Clinical Psychologists «Do Being Ordinary» – (3) A Discursive Psychological Investigation of Therapy: «Personality» as a Mediating Device – Part 2: A phenomenological critique of quantitative and ethnomethodologically-informed qualitative methods in psychology – (4) The Theoretical Attitude and the Natural Scientific Attitude – (5) Method as Formalisation: Empirical Data as Formal Categories – Psychology and Formalisation

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Book SynopsisThis book focuses on the fate of Polish Jews and Polish-Jewish relations during the Holocaust and its aftermath, in the ill-recognized era of Eastern-European pogroms after the WW2. It is based on the author’s own ethnographic research in those areas of Poland where the Holocaust machinery operated. The results comprise the anthropological interviews with the members of the generation of Holocaust witnesses and the results of her own extensive archive research in the Polish Institute for National Remembrance (IPN). «[This book] is at times shocking; however, it grips the reader’s attention from the first to the last page. It is a remarkable work, set to become a classic among the publications in this field.» Jerzy Jedlicki, Professor Emeritus at the Institute of History of the Polish Academy of SciencesTable of ContentsThe Unrighteous Righteous and the Righteous Unrighteous – An AL Unit and its Attitude Towards Jews. The Trial of Tadeusz Maj – Our Class in Klimontów Sandomierski – Ethnographic Findings on the Aftermath of the Holocaust Through Jewish and Polish Eyes – The Figure of Bloodsucker – Cries of the Mob in the Pogroms in Rzeszów, Cracow and Kielce – Communitas of Violence – Barabasz and Jews – Suppressio veri, suggestio falsi. The History of Ryszard Maj’s Testimony

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Book SynopsisFührt die neuzeitliche Individualisierung zur Subjektwerdung oder stehen wir im schleichenden Umbruch vom Gemeinschaftsmenschen zum egozentrischen ''Selfie'' des Anthropozäns? Nach verschiedenen Befreiungsversuchen betreibt der postmoderne Mensch seine digitale und ökonomische Selbstinthronisation an die Stelle des ''toten Gottes''. Diesem komplexen Prozess von Selbstermächtigung und Selbstunterwerfung ist zugleich seit der Christus-Theologie des Paulus und der Reformation das Gegenmodell von Subjekt-Werdung eingeschrieben: das paradoxe Widerfahrnis von Verpflichtung und Freiheitserfahrung. Dieses Paradox der Universalität des Christus-Geschehens und gleichzeitiger Singularität des glaubenden Individuums entlarvt die vornehmlich psychotherapeutischen Identitätskonzepte und Fundamentalismen für Subjekt-Werdung als naturalistische, bewusstseinsgebundene, vereindeutigende Fehlversuche. Beispiele aus Theologie, Philosophie, Kunst, Mode und Bildung zeigen diesen Widerstreit einer fatalen Egozentrik und einer Subjekt-Werdung, die asymmetrisch vom Anderen, von Gott, ausgeht als Paradox von Verpflichtetwerden und gleichzeitigem Versetztwerden in Freiheit.

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Book SynopsisJustice and Development Party (JDP), as the sole incumbent force for the last decade and a half, has proven to be an influential political actor with its power and capability to shape-shift the domestic and foreign policy of the Republic of Turkey. Within this context, this work analyses the transformation of the Turkish society through a constructivist perspective in the context of a «transformational shift» from the «traditional» experienced throughout the JDP tenure. JDP’s «new» policy orientation is scrutinized through a constructivist lens to examine the entrenched «clash of identities» between the Islamists and the secularists in Turkish politics. Table of ContentsJDP – Constructivism – Transformational shift – Traditional – New foreign policy – Domestic – Convergent – Instrumentalism and expediency – Value – Clash of identities, – Secularists –Islamists 1. Erdoğan’s New Turkey – Identity Matrix – Transformation – A New Islamist State – Emergence of Erdoğanism – Demise of Kemalism

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Book SynopsisAktuelle gesellschaftliche Entwicklungen zeigen, dass parallel zu einer fortschreitenden globalen Vernetzung und einer Zunahme an Komplexität viele Menschen (wieder) Wert auf persönliche, kulturelle und religiöse Identitäten legen. Das Engagement für Offenheit, Dialog und Vielfalt sieht sich mit einer neuen Sehnsucht nach Identität konfrontiert. Diese reicht vom Wunsch nach Anerkennung über die Suche nach Beheimatung bis hin zu Formen von Nostalgie und Regression aber auch fundamentalistischer Gewalt. Die Beiträge des Bandes gehen auf eine interdisziplinäre Tagung an der Universität Salzburg zurück. Sie befassen sich aus unterschiedlichen wissenschaftlichen Perspektiven mit der Frage, inwiefern die Ausbildung von Identitäten als Ressource und nicht als Bedrohung einer offenen und vielfältigen Gesellschaft wahrgenommen werden kann.

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Book SynopsisAll people around the world are directly or indirectly under the influence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which appeared in China in December 2019, and the COVID-19 pandemic caused by it. This pandemic, which is still ongoing, has infected over 40 million people and killed around 1 million, according to the latest data from the World Health Organization. Besides significant effects on human health, the overall effect of the pandemic will be much greater than predicted, as it can also cause major social and economic problems. In this context, the book contributes with 10 original scientific studies for understanding the health, social, and economic aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Table of ContentsSARS-CoV-2 virus, COVID-19, Pandemic, Health aspects, Social aspects, Economic aspects

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Book SynopsisObwohl Komik und Behinderung gerade in den Künsten immer wieder zusammentreffen, gibt es so gut wie keine theoretisch und methodisch fundierten Auseinandersetzungen mit dieser Thematik in den Literatur-, Kultur- oder Sozialwissenschaften. Gerade im Kontext von Inklusionsdiskussionen jedoch sind Fragen nach dem Potential des Lachens und der Komik, aber auch nach deren Ambivalenz im Zusammenhang mit Behinderung von weitreichender Bedeutung. Der vorliegende Band unternimmt eine Bestandsaufnahme möglicher Theorien und Analysekonzepte anhand konkreter Einzelanalysen. Die Autor:innen vertreten die Sozial-, Erziehungs-, Literatur-, Kultur-, Medien-, Theater- und Filmwissenschaften.Table of ContentsList of Contributors – I. Theorie – Susanne Hartwig: Einführung: Komik, Lachen und Behinderung – Franziska Felder: Lachen aus Gründen der Gerechtigkeit? Zum Verhältnis von Komik, Behinderung und moralischem Sollen – II. Fiktion: Schwankliteratur, Theater und Film – Sonja Kerth: Un:ethische Blicke - un:ethisches Lachen? Behinderung und Komik in vormodernen deutschen Schwankerzählungen – Elisabeth Braun: Komik in der Theaterarbeit mit Menschen mit Behinderung – Erfahrungsschritte – Benjamin Wihstutz: Die Komik der Leistung: Über Disability Performance und das Lachen des Publikums – Susanne Hartwig: Ironie und Erwartung, Humor und Erfahrung: Menschen mit ‚geistiger‘ Behinderung auf der Bühne und im Film – Anette Pankratz: Komische Irritationen mit Behinderung in Sitcoms von und mit Ricky Gervais – Herbert Schwaab: There’s something about disability. Behinderung und Affekt in den Gross- out- Blockbusterkomödien der Farrelly- Brüder – III. Lebenswelt – Dieter Kulke: „Es geht nicht, es rollt.“ – Das ‚Lachen über Behinderung‘ aus der Perspektive körperlich behinderter Menschen – Fabian Riemen: „Das Lachen blieb mir im Halse stecken.“ Zum Transformationspotenzial in Dschingis Khan und der spezifischen Funktion von Komik – Cosimo Mangione: Das ,Lächerliche‘ in Familien mit ,geistig‘ behinderten Angehörigen. Einige Reflexionen aus einer interaktionistisch professionstheoretischen Perspektive – Karlheinz Kleinbach: Billy the Kit – Abbildungsverzeichnis – Über die Autor:innen

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Book SynopsisThis book describes the main characteristics that define the emotion of fear, its dimensions, functions, types, and social and individual meanings. It also shows that fear represents a desire to eliminate the Other and that horror films have their origin precisely in crisis and fear, which gives it a fundamentally xenophobic nature. This is demonstrated in the book through the analysis of the four most important versions of the King Kong myth: 1933, 1976, 2005 and 2017. These versions are the result of the fear of the Other that was generated by particular crises in US society: the stock market crash of 1929, the 1970s energy crisis, 9/11 and the military intervention in Iraq in 2003 and its consequences. These conflicts also led to psychological and sociological effects that created a desire for escape that King Kong's films manifest. Table of ContentsSTARTING HYPOTHESIS, OBJECTIVES, THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS, FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS AND STRUCTURE OF THE BOOK — CRISIS, FEAR, AND XENOPHOBIA IN HORROR CINEMA — CRISIS AND FEAR IN KING KONG — NOSTALGIA FOR THE ORIGIN — KING KONG AND THE INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL FEAR OF THE OTHER — FEAR OF THE BLACK RACE — MALE FEAR OF WOMEN — CRISIS, OR WHERE WE COME FROM AND WHERE WE ARE GOING — BIBLIOGRAPHY .

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Book SynopsisThe Social Dynamics of Smallscale Enterprises in India.

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Book SynopsisA grand hotel on the edge of the abyss? The phrase that provided the title and the agenda for steirischer herbst ’19—Grand Hotel Abyss came from the pen of the philosopher Georg Lukács. In the early 1930's he used this striking metaphor to describe the attitude of the European intellectual and cultural scene who continued to party in an uninhibited, hedonistic manner, despite the looming rise of fascism. Doomsday scenarios viewed from a snug sofa, along with the culinary and cultural comfort zones known as “Genusshauptstädte” (pleasure capitals), demonstrate that the apocalypse can be shaped in a thoroughly pleasant and exciting manner today. This reader, accompanying the 52nd edition of the steirischer herbst, tracks these observations and explores the actual relevance of this historical context, as well as the significance of critical artistic attitudes, in essays, artists’ texts, and numerous illustrations. Every year for a month, steirischer herbst, the oldest interdisciplinary festival of contemporary art in Europe, turns the city of Graz and the province of Styria in Austria into a parcours of installative and performative works. Since 1968, the festival has offered a platform for public debates, critical positions, and dialogues between the arts.

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