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G lo b a l / Lo c a l I s l a m

T r a n s c r ip t V e r l a g

Prayer in the City

The Making of Muslim Sacred Places and Urban Life Patrick A. Desplat and

Islam and the Politics of Culture in Europe

Memory, Aesthetics, Art

Frank Peter, Sarah Dornhof,

Dorothea E. Schulz, editors

and Elena Arigita, editors

This volume uses social practices surrounding mosques, shrines, and public spaces in urban contexts to unlock the diverse ways in which Muslims in different regional and historical settings imagine, experience, and inhabit places and spaces as sacred. Unlike most studies on Muslim communities, this volume focuses on cultural, material, and sensuous practices and urban everyday experiences. Drawing on a range of analytical perspectives, contributors examine spatial practices in Muslim societies from an interdisciplinary perspective, an approach widely neglected in Islamic studies and the social sciences.

Debates surrounding the “new presence of Muslims” in Europe often center on European values, multicultural policies, and secularism. The phenomenon’s conflict-ridden transformation of European identities is discussed with reference to normative orders, historical legacies, public philosophies, and political ideologies. The volume extends this discussion to the transformation of European cultural politics.

Over the past decade, multiple images of Islam and Muslims have shaped the cultural particularities and sensibilities defining European identities. This volume examines these developments against memory politics, cultural production, and Islamic art.

Patrick A. Desplat

is lecturer in the Department of

Social Anthropology at the University of Cologne.

Dorothea E. Schulz

is professor of social anthropology

at the University of Cologne.

Frank Peter

is assistant professor of Islamic and Middle

Eastern studies at the University of Bern, Switzerland.

Sarah Dornhof

is completing her Ph.D. in cultural

anthropology at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder).

Elena Arigita

is a senior researcher at Casa Arabe–IEAM.

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islamic studies

i s l a m i c s t u d i e s / E u r o p e a n H i s to r y

c u p. c o l u m b i a . e d u | 1

C u lt u r a l a n d M e di a S t u di e s

T r a n s c r ip t V e r l a g

Balkan Memories

The Aesthetics of Authenticity

Tanja Zimmermann, editor

and Irmtraud Huber, editors

This study provides insight into media constructions of historical remembrance that reflect national, transnational, and nationalistic forms of politics. Authors from post-Yugoslavia and neighboring countries focus on the diverse national (such as Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian) and transnational (such as Austro-Hungarian and Yugoslav) memory cultures of southeastern Europe, their interaction, and their rivalry.

They examine constructions of memory in different media from the nineteenth century to recent wars. These include longue durée images; breaks and gaps; selection and suppression; traumatic events and the loss of memory; nostalgia; false memory; reactivation; rituals; and traces of memory.

A concept of growing importance in contemporary cultural discourse, authenticity emerges as a site of tearing tensions between the fictional and the real, the original and the fake, the margin and the center, and the same and the other in this collection, which explores the paradoxical nature of authenticity within the context of various media.

Essays give ample proof of the fact that authenticity, which depends on giving the impression of being inherent or natural and found not created, is frequently the result of a careful aesthetic construction relying on the use of identifiable techniques to achieve certain effects for certain reasons.

Media Constructions of National and Transnational History

Tanja Zimmermann

teaches East European literature

and art history at the University of Constance in Germany.

Her research interests concern literature, art, and media in Russia, southeastern Europe, and Poland in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Medial Constructions of the Real

Wolfgang Funk, Florian GroSS,

Wolfgang Funk

teaches English literature and culture

at Leibniz University Hanover.

Florian GroSS

teaches American literature and culture

at Leibniz University Hanover.

Irmtraud Huber

teaches English literature at the

University of Berne, Switzerland.

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m e d i a s t u d i e s / e u r o p e a n h i s to r y

Media studies

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T r a n s c r ip t V e r l a g

Grinding California

Culture and Corporeality in American Skate Punk Konstantin Butz

Grinding California is the first book-length academic analysis of the subculture of skate punk, establishing highly critical evaluations of the discourses that influenced early skateboarding and punk cultures. Examining songs, flyers, magazines, and videos, Konstantin Butz revisits American popular cultures of the 1980s through a variety of theoretical and methodological lenses. He pinpoints the rebellious potential within skate punk’s material and corporeal contestations in the site-specific locale of suburban southern California. Theoretical recourses to thinkers such as Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Jean Baudrillard, and Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht are matched with excerpts from interviews with some of the most influential protagonists of the 1980s skate punk scene.

Konstantin Butz

has studied American studies and

cultural studies at the University of Bremen and at Dickinson

Ambiguity in Star Wars and Harry Potter

A (Post)Structuralist Reading of Two Popular Myths Christina Flotmann

This study combines theories of myth, popular culture, structuralism, and poststructuralism to explain the enormous appeal of Star Wars and Harry Potter. Although much research exists on both stories individually, this book is the first to explicitly bring them together to explore their set-up and the ways in which their structures help produce ideologies on gender and ethnicity.

The comparison yields central insights into the workings of modern myth and uncovers structure as integral to the success of the popular genre. It addresses academic audiences and general readers wishing to approach these iconic tales from fresh angles.

Christina Flotmann

teaches English literary

and cultural studies at the University of Paderborn.

Her research concerns contemporary popular culture and the Victorian era.

College. His research interests include (un-)popular music and literature.

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A m e r i c a n s t u d i e s / c u lt u r a l s t u d i e s

f i l m s t u d i e s / c u lt u r a l s t u d i e s

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T r a n s c r ip t V e r l a g

Ornamenting the Cold Roast

The Domestic Architecture and Interior Design of Upper-Class Boston Homes, 1760–1880

Placing America

American Culture and Its Spaces Michael Fuchs and Maria-Theresia Holub, editors

Dorothee Wagner von Hoff

This book features meticulous case studies of three individual homes from different eras, depicting the social, political, and cultural effects of domestic architecture and interior design on the upper classes, the city of Boston, and the national American identity.

The book takes the reader through eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Boston and provides insight into the lives of prominent men and women. The volume is a novel examination of the cultural significance of domestic architecture and interior design and, because of its absorbing storytelling and exquisite attention to detail, offers a fascinating narrative for curious readers and cultural historians alike.

Dorothee Wagner von Hoff

received her Ph.D. from

In Call Me Ishmael, Charles Olson argues space is “the central fact to man born in America.” Indeed, from its founding, American identity has been intricately tied to issues of space. From the idea of the “city upon a hill” to the transnational (soft) power of the United States, space has always served as an important parameter of power gained or lost and of the struggles to maintain or resist it. With essays confronting the construction of America in (European) academic discourses to its place in children’s fiction, this collection provides an extensive and insightful study of how space influences our understanding of America.

Michael Fuchs

teaches American literature and media

studies at the University of Graz.

Maria-Theresia Holub

is a research and teaching

the University of Munich. Her research interests include

associate in the Department of American Studies at the

colonial and Victorian architecture and interior design, as

University of Graz.

well as urban studies and American literature.

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american studies / Architecture

american studies

American studies

American studies

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Transatlantic Cultural Exchange

The Transatlantic Sixties

Katharina Gerund

Grzegorz Kosc, Clara Juncker,

African American Women’s Art and Activism in West Germany

Europe and the United States in the Counterculture Decade

Sharon Monteith, and Britta

From Josephine Baker’s performances in the 1920s to solidarity campaigns for Angela Davis in the 1970s, from Audre Lorde, “mother” of the 1980s Afro-German movement, to the literary stardom of 1993 Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison, West Germans have actively engaged with female African American art and activism throughout the twentieth century. This study examines the discursive strategies that have shaped West German reactions to African American women’s social activism and cultural work, offering not only a nuanced understanding of African Americanizations as a form of cultural exchange but also shedding new light on the role of African American culture in the development of West German society, culture, and national identity.

Katharina Gerund

teaches American studies at the Uni-

versity of Erlangen–Nuremberg, where she also coordinates the interdisciplinary doctoral program “Presence and Tacit Knowledge.”

Waldschmidt-Nelson, editors

This book presents new and original essays by twelve established European and American studies scholars who explore the 1960s from a transatlantic perspective. The anthology examines topics ranging from the impact of the American civil rights movement in Germany, France, and Wales to the transatlantic dimension of feminism and the global nature of the counterculture movement. Essays explore the vicissitudes of Europe’s status in U.S. foreign relations, anti-Vietnam European documentaries, USIA broadcasts, and the role of the arts in collective and cultural memory.

Grzegorz Kosc

is associate professor in American stud-

ies at the University of Warsaw and the University of Lodz.

Clara Juncker

is associate professor in American stud-

ies at the University of Southern Denmark.

Sharon Monteith

is professor of American studies

at the University of Nottingham.

Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson

is deputy director of

the German Historical Institute in Washington, D.C.

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A f r i c a n A m e r i c a n s t u d i e s / E u r o p e a n H i s to r y

a m e r i c a n h i s to r y / E u r o p e a n H i s to r y

American studies

A m e r i c a : C u lt u r e - H i s to ry- P o l i t i c s

c u p. c o l u m b i a . e d u | 5

T r a n s c r ip t V e r l a g

Active Audience

Translation

Huimin Jin

Federico Italiano and

A New Materialistic Interpretation of a Key Concept of Cultural Studies

Narration, Media, and the Staging of Differences Michael Rössner, editors

To date, there is no book dedicated to a historical and theoretical examination of British cultural studies’ engagement with the active audience theory of the Birmingham School and its legacies. Yet this book is no mere reconstruction of active audience theory. Huimin Jin develops new theoretical insights through a critical review of Stuart Hall’s classical model of encoding/decoding and close readings of David Morley’s groundbreaking ethnographic audience studies. Questioning the discourse model of the active audience proposed by Hall and Morley, Jin elaborates a new materialistic concept of audiences for the twenty-first century.

Huimin Jin

is 211 Chair Professor of Cultural Theory and

Aesthetics at Shanghai International Studies University and professor of literary theory at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing.

The concept of “translation” has grown increasingly important in our globalizing world and multimedia society. Seeing translation as the negotiation of different approaches to identity construction not only develops an understanding of contemporary cultural processes but also makes it possible to establish orientation and critical insights in a world of constantly changing social, political, and media spaces. This collection discusses the “translational turn,” providing new theoretical approaches and insight into the relation between narration and identity construction and translation processes and the media.

Federico Italiano

teaches comparative literature at

the University of Munich.

Michael Rössner

teaches Romance literature at

the University of Munich.

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c u lt u r a l s t u d i e s

c u lt u r a l s t u d i e s / m e d i a s t u d i e s

c u lt u r a l s t u d i e s

c u lt u r e & Th e o ry

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T r a n s c r ip t V e r l a g

Feminist Media

Participatory Spaces, Networks, and Cultural Citizenship Elke Zobl and Ricarda Drüeke, editors

is assistant professor in the Department of

Communication and director of the program area “Cultural Production and Contemporary Arts” at the University of Salzburg (in cooperation with Mozarteum University).

Ricarda Drüeke

Transnational Initiatives in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Birgit Schwelling, editor

While feminists have long recognized the importance of self-managed, alternative media to transport their messages, challenge the status quo, and spin novel social processes, the topic is sorely under-researched.

This book explores the processes behind women’s and feminist media production within the context of participatory spaces, technology, and cultural citizenship. The collection is composed of theoretical analyses and critical case studies. It highlights contemporary alternative feminist media in general and blogs, zines, culture jamming, and street art in particular.

Elke Zobl

Reconciliation, Civil Society, and the Politics of Memory

is a postdoctoral researcher in the

Department of Communication at the University of Salzburg.

How has civil society functioned as a locus for reconciliation initiatives since the beginning of the twentieth century? The essays in this collection challenge the conventional understanding of reconciliation as a benign state-driven process. They explore how a range of civil society actors, from Turkish intellectuals apologizing for the Armenian genocide to religious organizations working toward the improvement of Franco-German relations, have confronted and coped with the past. These essays offer a critical perspective on local and transnational reconciliation acts by questioning the extent to which speech became an alternative to silence, remembrance an alternative to forgetting, and engagement an alternative to oblivion.

Birgit Schwelling

is the academic director of the

research group History and Memory at the University of Konstanz.

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gender studies / media studies

p o l i t i c s / c u lt u r a l s t u d i e s

critical media studies

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T r a n s c r ip t V e r l a g

Futures of Modernity

Challenges for Cosmopolitical Thought and Practice

From Pathology to Public Sphere

The German Deaf Movement, 1848-1914 Ylva Söderfeldt

Michael Heinlein, Cordula Kropp, Judith Neumer, Angelika Poferl, and Regina Römhild, editors

Global risks, mobilities, and interdependencies lead to an inner globalization of societies in which worldwide constellations of “reflexive,” “multiple,” “entangled,” and “global” modernities clash in social action.

These essays address this premise and interpret imminent challenges, concomitant social dynamics, and political implications.

With contributions by Arjun Appadurai, Zygmunt Bauman, Ulrich Beck, Edgar Grande, Maarten Hajer, Ronald Hitzler, Wolf Lepenies, Anna Tsing, Angela McRobbie, Bruno Latour, Hans-Georg Soeffner, Natan Sznaider, and Yunxiang Yan. Michael Heinlein Cordula Kropp

is a sociologist at LMU Munich.

is professor of social innovation and

future studies, and Judith Neumer is a sociologist at the University of Applied Sciences in Munich.

Angelika Poferl

In the late nineteenth century, the so-called German method, which employed spoken language in deaf education, triumphed over the Western world. At the same time that deaf German schoolchildren were taught to articulate and read lips, an emancipation movement led by signing deaf adults emerged across the German empire. This book tells the story of how deaf people moved from being isolated objects of administration or education to an urban middle-class collective with claims of self-determination. The first comprehensive work on one of the world’s oldest disability movements, this volume traces the emergence of deaf organizations, what they fought for, and who was left behind.

Ylva Söderfeldt

teaches the history of medicine at the

University Hospital in Aachen, Germany. Her research confronts the juncture between intellectual and social history, focusing on the history of medicine and disability history.

is professor of sociology at the

University of Applied Sciences Fulda.

Regina Römhild

is professor of European ethnology

at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

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s o c i o lo g y / P o l i t i c s

E u r o p e a n H i s to r y

S o c i o lo gy

D i s a b i l i t y S t u d i e s : B o dy– P ow e r – D i f f e r e n c e

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Popular History Now and Then

International Perspectives

Peripheral Memories

Edited by Barbara Korte

Public and Private Forms of Experiencing and Narrating the Past

and Sylvia Paletschek

Edited by Elisabeth Boesen, Fabienne Lentz, Michel Margue,

The present boom in popular history is not unprecedented. The essays in this volume investigate peaks of historical interest favoring popular approaches from 1800 to the present. They analyze the media, genres, and institutions through which historical knowledge has been disseminated, from artifacts to the archive, from poetry to photography, from music to murals, and from periodicals to popular television series.

Contributors trace the evolution of major traditions in popular imagery of the past.

Cultural contexts include Western and Southern Europe, the United States, and West Africa. Contributors hail from a range of disciplines, including history, literary and cultural studies, musicology, and social and cultural anthropology.

Barbara Korte

is professor of British literature and

culture at the University of Freiburg.

Sylvia Paletschek

is professor of modern history at

the University of Freiburg.

Denis Scuto, and Renée Wagener

Memory studies tend to focus on particular memory processes, namely, those connected with war, persecution, and expulsion. In this sense, the memory, or rather the trauma, of the Holocaust is paradigmatic for the entire field, understood as constitutive of a global memory community mediating universal values. This volume instead concentrates on everyday subjects of memory, enabling a fuller portrait of the interdependencies between public and private memory and, more specifically, public and family memory.

Elisabeth Boesen

is a cultural anthropologist working

at the University of Luxembourg.

Fabienne Lentz

is a historian completing a Ph.D.

on migration memory in Italian immigrant families in Luxembourg.

Michel Margue

teaches history at the University

of Luxembourg.

Denis Scuto

teaches history and Renée Wagener is

a social scientist at the University of Luxembourg.

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c u lt u r a l s t u d i e s / W o r l d H i s to r y

H i s to ry i n P o p u l a r C u lt u r e s

H i s to i r e

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T r a n s c r ip t V e r l a g

The Cop and the Sociologist

Investigating Diversity in German Police Forces Barbara Thériault

Couchsurfing Cosmopolitanisms

Can Tourism Make a Better World?

is associate

professor of sociology and director of the Canadian Centre for German and

Civilizations–Axial Times– Modernities–Humanisms

David Picard and

Oliver Kozlarek,

Sonja Buchberger,

Jörn Rüsen, and

Drawing on the work of Max editors Weber, Barbara Thériault investigates relations toward This unique study maps difference within German computer-mediated hospitalpolice forces. Accompanying ity and its transformation and interviewing police offiof contemporary tourism cers, she outlines three ideal and travel. Focusing on types of actors—empathetic, Couchsurfing.org, one of principled, and opportunist— the largest online hospitality and the motives underlying communities worldwide, their actions. A fourth type, contributors explore how the specialist, is conspicusocial relations, intimacy, and ously absent. Resolving this trust are built in online and dilemma points to a specific offline contexts of contact, “spirit” of diversity and a travel, and hospitality. singular way to apprehend David Picard is senior research the individual in Germany. fellow at the Centre for Research Barbara Thériault

Shaping a Humane World

Ernst Wolff, editors

These essays take a decentralized, globalized approach to understanding the generation of meaning. Civilization, humanism, and modernity— far from being exclusively Western ideas—help reflect on the universality of the human condition and the quest for a plural yet shared humane world.

Oliver Kozlarek

teaches political

and social philosophy and social theory at the Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo in Mexico.

in Anthropology, New University of

Jörn Rüsen

Lisbon.

Institute for Advanced Study in the

Sonja Buchberger

lectures at the

is senior fellow at the

Humanities at Essen.

European Studies at the University of

Ecole Hôtelière de Lausanne and the

Ernst Wolff

Montreal.

School for Oriental and African Studies.

the University of Pretoria.

teaches philosophy at

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S o c i o lo g y / e u r o p e a n s t u d i e s

s o c i o lo g y

C u lt u r e a n d S o c i a l P r ac t i c e

C u lt u r e a n d S o c i a l P r ac t i c e

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2 0 1 2 292 pages Ph i lo s o p h y B e i n g H u m a n : C au g h t i n t h e W e b o f C u lt u r e s — H u m a n i s m i n t h e Ag e o f G lo b a l i z at i o n

G l o b a l S t u di e s

T r a n s c r ip t V e r l a g

Environmental Uncertainty and Local Knowledge

Southeast Asia as a Laboratory of Global Ecological Change

Urban Life-Worlds in Motion

African Perspectives

Hans Peter Hahn and Kristin Kastner, editors

Anna-Katharina Hornidge and Christoph Antweiler, editors

Southeast Asia is a microcosm of the world’s ecological issues. Environmental change, natural resource exploitation, and global climate change increasingly threaten people’s livelihoods, and environmentally based uncertainties foster immense knowledge uncertainty. While these uncertainties threaten agricultural production, it is possible for local communities to develop coping strategies. Contributors to this volume focus on environmental developments that create knowledge uncertainties. Regions discussed include Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, Moluccas, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia’s West Sumatra and South Sulawesi, and Bangladesh’s Tangail Region.

Anna-Katharina Hornidge

Urban agglomerations host the most vital and creative societies. This applies particularly to Africa, where cities have the highest growth rates worldwide and where the urban population is the youngest on earth.

Urban life-worlds form the basis for the development of new lifestyles and cultural phenomena. Rooted in empirical ethnographic research, this book reproduces case studies that enhance our understanding of the dynamics of urbanity in Africa and beyond, envisioning cities as crossroads in which cultures, biographies, and networks collide.

Hans Peter Hahn

teaches anthropology at Goethe-

University Frankfurt am Main.

Kristin Kastner

is a research assistant at Goethe-

University Frankfurt am Main.

is a sociologist and senior

researcher at the Center of Development Research, Bonn University.

Christoph Antweiler

is an anthropologist and head of

the Southeast Asia Department at the Institute for Oriental and Asian Studies, Bonn University.

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s o c i o lo g y / e n v i r o n m e n ta l s t u d i e s

a n t h r o p o lo g y / A f r i c a n s t u d i e s

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M at t e R e a l i t i e s / V e r Kö r p e r u n g e n : P e r s p e c t iv e s f r o m E m pi r i c a l S c i e n c e S t u di e s

T r a n s c r ip t V e r l a g

Emerging Diseases

Structure, Controversy, and Change in the Scientific Constitution of Disease Patterns Martin Döring and Regine Kollek, editors

is a researcher at BIOGUM, Hamburg

University.

Regine Kollek

Contributions from Anthropology Paul Wenzel Geissler, Richard Rottenburg,

Hypotheses about diseases and their causes are often controversial and contested.

Concepts of diseases have always been subject to modification and disagreement.

At the core of these debates are the arguments among scientists, clinicians, and patients over causes, transmission routes, and contributing factors. These processes produce recategorizations in different fields of research and sometimes lead to the social emergence of disease concepts. This volume studies disease concepts empirically along with underlying processes of emergence, contestation, and change within the biomedical sciences.

Martin Döring

Rethinking Biomedicine and Governance in Africa

and Julia Zenker, editors

The relation among bodies, citizenship, nations, and governments has changed dramatically over the past four decades, especially in Africa. Populations are now faced with a total lack of medical care, rendering the disciplinary regimes of modernity irrelevant. How can we maintain our sophisticated critique of knowledge regimes and our doubts of narratives of development, when so many people in Africa are dreaming about modernity and envisioning a renaissance? This volume transcends critiques of old modernization and the disciplinary regimes of imperial times.

Paul Wenzel Geissler

teaches social anthropology at

the University of Oslo and the London School of Hygiene is professor of technology assessment

and Tropical Medicine.

and leads the research group Technology Assessment of

Richard Rottenburg

Modern Biotechnology in Medicine at BIOGUM.

anthropology at the University of Halle in Germany.

Julia Zenker

holds a chair in social and cultural

teaches at the University of Bern.

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m e d i c i n e / a n t h r o p o lo g y

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Past and Present Energy Societies

How Energy Connects Politics, Technologies, and Cultures

Nina Möllers and Karin Zachmann,

The Ages of Life

Living and Aging in Conflict?

Ulla Kriebernegg and Roberta Maierhofer, editors

editors

Abundant, salutary, and problematic, energy influences technologies, politics, societies, and cultural worldviews. Focusing on a range of energy types, from electricity and oil to bioenergy, this volume analyzes energy’s social, cultural, and political concepts and discourses and their implementation and materialization within technical systems, applications, media representations, and consumer practice. By examining and connecting aspects of production, mediation, and consumption from an international and interdisciplinary perspective, this book offers an innovative view on how energy is imagined, discussed, staged, and used.

Nina Möllers

is researcher at the Deutsches Museum

in Munich and curator of the Rachel Carson Center.

Karin Zachmann

is professor of history and technology

at the Technical University of Munich.

The binary construction of “young” and “old,” which is based on a biogerontological model of aging as decline, can be redefined as the ambiguity of aging from a cultural studies perspective. This concept enables an analysis of the social functions of images of aging with the aim of providing a basis for interdisciplinary exchange in gerontological research. The essays in this volume treat the relationship between living and aging as a productive antagonism, focusing on the interplay between continuity and change as a marker of life-course identity. Aging and growing older are processes that cannot be reduced to the chronology of years.

Instead, they are shown to be shaped by the individual’s interaction with the changing circumstances of life.

Ulla Kriebernegg

is an assistant professor at the Center

for Inter-American Studies at the University of Graz.

Roberta Maierhofer

is a director and professor at the

Center for Inter-American Studies at the University of Graz and adjunct professor at Binghamton University.

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t e c h n o lo g y

m e d i c i n e / g e r o n to lo g y

Science Studies

Ag i n g S t u d i e s

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Dance [and] Theory

Gabriele Brandstetter

and Gabriele Klein, editors

This anthology collects observations by choreographers and scholars, dancers, dramaturges, and dance theorists in an effort to trace the multiple ways in which dance and theory correlate and redefine each other.

What is the nature of their relationship?

How can we outline a theory of dance from our particular historical perspective that will treat dance as both a practice and an academic concept? Contributors examine which concepts, interdependencies, and discontinuities of dance and theory are relevant for current and future scholarship. They address crucial topics such as artistic research, aesthetics, politics, visuality, archives, and the “next generation.”

Gabriele Brandstetter

is professor of theater and

dance studies at the Freie Universität Berlin and director of the Institute for Movement Research.

Gabriele Klein

is professor of the sociology of move-

ment and dance and director of performance studies at the University of Hamburg.

Acting and Performance in Moving Image Culture Bodies, Screens, Renderings

Jörg Sternagel, Deborah Levitt, and Dieter Mersch, editors With a Foreword by Lesley Stern

This volume assembles twenty-six international scholars from dance, theater, film, media, and cultural studies, and from art history and philosophy, to investigate the art of acting and the presence of the human body in analog and digital film, animation, and video art. The volume features classical case studies and essays devoted to acting history and acting and genres. It also introduces a wide range of groundbreaking theoretical approaches, from continental and analytic philosophy to new media theory and cognitivist research, all of which interrogate fundamental conceptions of “act” and “actor” underwriting popular and academic notions of performance in moving image culture.

Jörg Sternagel

teaches media studies at the University

of Potsdam.

Deborah Levitt

is assistant professor in culture and

media studies at Eugene Lang College.

Dieter Mersch

is professor in media theory and media

studies at the University of Potsdam.

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Da n c e

film studies

C r i t i c a l Da n c e S t u d i e s

M e ta b a s i s

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Film

T r a n s c r ip t V e r l a g

Rubble, Ruins, and Romanticism

Visual Style, Narration, and Identity in German Post-War Cinema Martina Moeller

Traditional critiques of German postwar cinema tend to treat rubble films as simplistic texts of low artistic quality, reaffirming the spectator’s image of himself or herself as “a good German” living in “bad times.” This study claims some rubble films are actually informed by a type of visual and narrative romantic discourse that provokes a critical discussion of German national identity and its reconstruction in the aftermath of the Third Reich. Considering the lack of analyses with regard to the key aspects of romantic visual style, narration, and literary motifs in rubble films, this study fills a major gap in relevant research.

Martina Moeller

works as a DAAD lecturer in the Ger-

man Department at the Université Mohammed V in Rabat, Morocco. Her research interests include German cinema, film

European Visions

Small Cinemas in Transition Janelle Blankenship and Tobias Nagl, editors

This volume examines the challenges that cinemas in small European countries have faced since 1989. It explores how notions of scale and “small cinemas” relate to questions of territory, transnational media flows, and globalization.

Employing a variety of approaches from industry analysis to Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s concept of the “minor,” contributors address the relationship between small cinemas and Hollywood, the role of history and memory, and the politics of place in postsocialist cinemas.

Janelle Blankenship

is assistant professor of film

studies at the University of Western Ontario.

Tobias Nagl

is associate professor of film studies at the

University of Western Ontario.

theory, and intercultural literature.

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film studies

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Does War Belong in Museums?

The Body at Stake

The Representation of Violence in Exhibitions

Fusing Lab and Gallery

Device Art in Japan and International Nano Art

Experiments in Chinese Contemporary Art and Theatre

Wolfgang Muchitsch,

Sarah M. Schlachetzki

Jörg Huber and Zhao Chuan, editors

editor

Presentations of war and violence in museums struggle to balance a fascination with terror and the urge to analyze violence and make it easier to handle and prevent.

Does war really belong in museums? And if it does, what objectives and means are involved in its representation? Can museums avoid trivializing and aestheticizing war, transforming violence, injury, death, and trauma into tourist attractions?

What images of shock or identification should one generate, and what images are desirable?

Wolfgang Muchitsch

is the

Why do Japanese artists join with engineers to create device art? What is a nanoscientist’s motivation in approaching the art world? Media art has proven especially important in generating a dialogue between these fields. This book contributes to current debates over the relationship between art and science, interdisciplinarity, and the discourse on innovation. It critically reassesses artistic positions that reflect the ongoing attempt to localize art’s position within technological and societal change.

Sarah M. Schlachetzki

is an art

historian and former teacher of con-

This book explores the role and treatment of the body in contemporary Chinese visual culture. What meanings are assigned to the body in artistic practice, what does it represent, and what (hi)stories does it refer to?

Nineteen Chinese artists, theater practitioners, and theorists describe their personal experiences, discussing how art can shed light on the individual and collective experiences that emerge in the wake of historical change and newly won freedom.

Jörg Huber

is professor of cultural

theory and aesthetics at the Zurich University of the Arts.

scientific manager of the Landes-

temporary art history at the University

Zhao Chuan

museum Joanneum GmbH.

of Zurich.

worker, and art critic.

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trations

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a r t h i s to r y

a r t h i s to r y / Th e at e r

I m ag e

I m ag e

A r t H i s to r y Edition Museumsakademie J oa n n e u m

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is a writer, theater

T r a n s c r ip t V e r l a g

Queer Art

A Freak Theory Renate Lorenz

Queer Art explores how strategies of denormalization initiated by visual arts can be expanded through writing.

Art theoretical debates are combined with queer theory, postcolonial theory, and (dis-)ability studies, illuminating the concepts of radical drag, transtemporal drag, and abstract drag.

Artists discussed include Zoe Leonard, Shinique Smith, Jack Smith, Wu Ingrid Tsang, Ron Vawter, Bob Flanagan, Henrik Olesen, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Sharon Hayes, and Pauline Boudry/ Renate Lorenz.

Renate Lorenz

works as an artist

and independent author and is profes-

Soundscapes of the Urban Past

Staged Sound as Mediated Cultural Heritage

Thick Space

Approaches to Metropolitanism Dorothee Brantz,

Karin Bijsterveld,

Sasha Disko, and

editor

Georg Wagner-Kyora, editors

This volume studies the staging of Amsterdam, Berlin, and London soundscapes in historical documents, radio plays, and films, and offers insights into such themes as film sound theory and museum audio guides. It features contributions

by Jasper Aalbers, Karin Bijsterveld, Carolyn Birdsall, Andrew Crisell, Andreas Fickers, Annelies Jacobs, Evi Karathanasopoulou, Patricia Pisters, Holger Schulze, Mark M. Smith, and Jonathan Sterne.

Karin Bijsterveld

is a historian

sor of art and research at the Academy

and professor of science, technology,

of Fine Arts in Vienna.

and modern culture at Maastricht University, Netherlands.

Essays offer interdisciplinary approaches to the complex dynamics of large-scale urbanization, analyzing the social, environmental, and cultural dimensions of metropolitan spaces from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. It considers the role of planning and urban parks, the impact of ethnic diversity and segregation, the place of cinematic visions, and the centrality of infrastructures and architecture.

Dorothee Brantz

is director of

the Center for Metropolitan Studies.

Sasha Disko

and Georg

Wagner-Kyora

are urban historians

affiliated with CMS.

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tions

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Sound studies

a r t h i s to r y / u r b a n s t u d i e s

a r t h i s to r y

Sound Studies

Urban studies

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M e di a Up h e ava l s

T r a n s c r ip t V e r l a g

Digital Tools in Media Studies

Analysis and Research: An Overview

Political Campaigning on the Web

Michael Ross, Manfred Grauer,

Sigrid Baringhorst, Veronika Kneip,

and Bernd Freisleben, editors

and Johanna Niesyto, editors

Digital tools are increasingly used in media studies, opening up new perspectives for research and analysis while at the same time creating new problems. In this volume, international media scholars and computer scientists describe the results of their projects, varying from powerful film-historical databases to automatic video-analysis software and the application of digital tools.

The first publication of its kind, this book provides a helpful guide to applications, standards, and problems for both media scholars and computer scientists who intend to use digital tools in their research.

Drawing upon a common conceptual framework of political Web campaigning, this book offers theoretical reflections on Internet-based campaign politics. It provides a comparative overview of the use of the Internet as a campaigning tool by diverse intermediary political actors. Considering the empirical findings of Internet appropriations, the volume discusses the impact of political Web campaigning on (transnational) democracy and the transformation of public spheres.

Michael Ross

is a researcher on the film-historical project

Sigrid Baringhorst

is director of the research project

Changing Protest and Media Cultures at the Collaborative Research Centre Media Upheavals, University of Siegen. and Johanna Niesyto are research

Industrialization of Perception, and Manfred Grauer

Veronika Kneip

and Bernd Freisleben head the project Methods and

fellows on the project Changing Protest and Media Cultures

Tools for Computer-Assisted Analysis in Media Studies at

at the Collaborative Research Centre Media Upheavals,

the Collaborative Research Center Media Upheavals, Siegen

University of Siegen.

University.

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2 0 0 9 196 pages

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media studies

media studies / politics

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T r a n s c r ip t V e r l a g

Reading Moving Letters

Digital Literature in Research and Teaching: A Handbook

Beyond the Screen

The Aesthetics of Transformations of Literary Net Literature Structures, Interfaces, and Genres

Jörgen Schäfer and

Writing, Reading, and Playing in Programmable Media

Roberto Simanowski,

Peter Gendolla,

Peter Gendolla, and

Jörgen Schäfer,

editors

Jörgen Schäfer,

and Peter Gendolla, editors

Scholars and teachers from different countries and disciplines articulate their approach to the study and teaching of digital literature, providing a broad, state-ofthe-art understanding of the subject along with an international comparison.

Roberto Simanowski

is assistant

professor of German studies at Brown University.

Jörgen Schäfer

is a postdoctoral

research fellow at the Cultural Studies Research Center Media Upheavals, University of Siegen.

Peter Gendolla

editors

This volume focuses on literary processes in interactive installations, locative narratives, and immersive environments, in which active engagement and bodily interaction is required to perceive a literary text.

Contributions from international scholars analyze how literary structures, interfaces, and genres change and how transitory aesthetic experiences can be documented, archived, and edited.

Jörgen Schäfer

dolla

is professor of

is a postdoctoral

research fellow and Peter Genis professor of literature, art,

new media, and technologies at the

Contributors from Germany, France, Finland, Spain, Switzerland, and the United States consider the ruptures and upheavals of literary communication in electronic and networked media.

Essays focus on new qualities of literariness; terms and methods; productive links between the logics of literary texts and their reception; and the relationship between literary writing and programming.

Peter Gendolla

is professor

of literature, art, new media, and technologies and Jörgen Schäfer

literature, art, new media, and tech-

Cultural Studies Research Center

is a postdoctoral research fellow at the

nologies at the University of Siegen.

Media Upheavals, University of Siegen.

University of Siegen.

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media studies / literary Criticism

media studies / literary Criticism

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C u lt u r a l S t u di e s

T r a n s c r ip t V e r l a g

Lived Temporalities

Moment to Monument

Exploring Duration in Guatemala: Empirical and Theoretical Studies

The Making and Unmaking of Cultural Significance

Julia Mahler

Ladina Bezzola Lambert and Andrea Ochsner, editors

In our contemporary global capitalist culture, time-consciousness has become more important than self-consciousness. In the realm of lived time, the identity of the self opens up to an encounter with otherness.

Insight into the way this dynamic unfolds enables us to affirm human temporalities and their potential difference to the temporalities of global capitalism. This book offers an empirical exploration of lived temporalities within markets, buses, and traditional subsistence in Guatemala and conducts a theoretical exploration of these phenomena through the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and the interrelational approaches of psychoanalysis.

Julia Mahler

earned her degree in sociology from

Hamburg University and her Ph.D. in cultural studies from the University of London, Goldsmiths’ College. She works as a researcher and writer in London.

Why are certain works accepted into the canon while others only enjoy a brief moment of recognition, if at all? How do moments produce monuments, and why does it only take a moment to erase monuments erased from our cultural memory?

Taking into account these cultural processes of creating, storing, remembering, and forgetting that are omnipresent and have an immense influence on how we perceive artifacts and cultural events, the articles in this collection analyze the phenomenon of cultural production, transmission, and reception from various angles, drawing on approaches from literary and cultural studies.

Ladina Bezzola Lambert

works as a literary scholar

and lecturer.

Andrea Ochsner

teaches English literature and cultural

studies at the University of Basel.

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C u lt u r a l ST u d i e s / L at i n A m e r i c a n S t u d i e s

c u lt u r a l s t u d i e s

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T r a n s c r ip t V e r l a g

Lad Trouble

Love It or Loathe It

Masculinity and Identity in the British Male Confessional Novel of the 1990s

Audience Responses to Tabloids in the UK and Germany

Andrea Ochsner

Mascha K. Brichta

In the 1990s, the male confessional novel, most prominently represented by Nick Hornby (High Fidelity), but also by Tim Lott (White City Blue) and Mike Gayle (My Legendary Girlfriend), articulated the structure of feeling of the male generation in their late twenties to early- to mid-thirties.

This book challenges the feminist claim that the genre was a backlash against feminism and a relapse into sexism. By applying an eclectic theoretical framework sourced in the theories of Raymond Williams, Anthony Giddens, Judith Butler, and Jacques Derrida, this study convincingly shows how postmodern gender scripts add to a crisis of identity and the problematic nature of clearly defined gender relationships.

Popular newspapers like the The Sun and Bild regularly invite controversy over their morals and methods, power and responsibilities, and political and social effects. At best, their reporting is treated as trivial, vulgar, and tasteless; at worst, it is deemed hazardous to the health of a democratic society. Yet these papers attract large audiences and contribute significantly to the daily lives of millions of readers. This book considers popular newspapers from an audience perspective. Examining the crucial relationship between news and entertainment, it provides empirical evidence for the value tabloids really have for readers in modern-day Britain and Germany. With a foreword by Peter Dahlgren of Lund University, Sweden.

Andrea Ochsner

teaches English literature and cultural

studies at the University of Basel.

Mascha K. Brichta

is a professional media researcher

and photographer. She earned her Ph.D. at the University of Westminster and now lives in Hamburg.

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literary Criticism

media studies / European Studies

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T r a n s c r ip t V e r l a g

Paradoxes of Authenticity

Studies on a Critical Concept Julia Straub, editor

Hollowed out by postmodernist theory, authenticity paradoxically persists as an important backdrop for the discussion of literature, film, and the visual arts. The essays in this volume explore perspectives on authenticity and case studies of “the authentic.” Essays show how the paradoxical persistence of authenticity in contemporary critical discourse can be turned into a fruitful point of departure for an analysis of literary texts, films, and the visual arts.

Julia Straub

is a senior lecturer

in North American literature at the University of Berne in Switzerland.

Pursuit of Meaning

Advances in Cultural and Cross-Cultural Psychology

Rewind, Play, Fast Forward

Jürgen Straub, Doris

The Past, Present, and Future of the Music Video

Weidemann, Carlos

Henry Keazor and

Kölbl, and Barbara

Thorsten Wübbena,

Zielke, editors

editors

Essays discuss recent theoretical and methodological approaches in crosscultural and cultural psychology to explore their potential for advancing the concept of culture, the conceptualization and methodical completion of comparative cultural studies, and the scientific understanding of cultural difference.

For the first time, this volume brings together journalists, museum curators, and gallery owners from different disciplines to discuss the past and present state of the music video, experimenting with methodological approaches that may be suitable to map the genre and speculate about its future.

Jürgen Straub

is a professor

at Ruhr-University Bochum.

Carlos Kölbl

teaches at the

Institute of Psychology and Sociology,

Henry Keazor

holds the chair in art

history at Saarland University.

Thorsten Wübbena

works at the

Art Historical Institute at Frankfurt University.

University of Hannover.

Doris Weidemann

teaches intercul-

tural communication and Barbara Zielke

teaches psychology at the

Chemnitz University of Technology.

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C u lt u r a l S t u d i e s / P s yc h o lo g y

Media studies

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C u lt u r a l a n d M e di a S t u di e s

T r a n s c r ip t V e r l a g

Represented Reporters

Images of War Correspondents in Memoirs and Fiction Barbara Korte

War correspondents grasped the cultural imaginary in the mid-nineteenth century.

Focusing on Britain, this study investigates the representation of war correspondents from Victorian times to the present in memoirs, novels, and films. Such representations react to prevailing notions about war reporters and participate in their further construction. With its cultural approach, this book complements studies of war correspondents within media and communication studies, history, and ethnology.

Barbara Korte

teaches English

literature and culture at the University of Freiburg.

Real Wars on Virtual Battlefields

The Convergence of Programmable Media at the MilitaryCivilian Margin

Totalitarian Communication Hierarchies, Codes, and Messages

Kirill Postoutenko, editor

Stefan Werning

This book dissects the exchange of algorithmic technologies and concepts between the military and the media from the early 1990s to today. It drafts a model of programmable media grounded in a close reading of key technologies and reconsiders technical disciplines from a humanities perspective. The model is then applied to the effects of algorithmic logic on the military-civilian continuum, including economic practices, patterns of media usage, and military decision making.

Stefan Werning

is an assistant

This book takes the first step in building a firmly actual, integrated historical, sociological, and linguistic understanding of totalitarian society. By using the history and theory of communication as an integrative methodological device, it confronts properties of totalitarian society that appear to be beyond the grasp of specific disciplines.

It ultimately redefines the term “totalitarian” within the specific constellation of hierarchies, codes, and networks of a given society.

Kirill Postoutenko

teaches lit-

erature, sociology, and anthropology at

professor of digital media at the

Smolny College in St. Petersburg and

University of Bayreuth.

at Constance University in Germany.

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Literary Criticism

Media studies

M e d i a s t u d i e s / E u r o p e a n H i s to r y

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Not Berlin and Not Shanghai

Art Practice on the Periphery

Machines as Agency

Artistic Perspectives

Christoph Lischka and

Artistic Aspects of Interaction

Andrea Sick, editors

Christa Sommerer,

This book supports and deepens the interface among art, science, and technology, transgressing traditional principles and styles of research and overcoming side-by-side coexistence in favor of an integrated “laboratory of the future.” Heterogeneous networks with humans and nonhumans (Latour) are opened in shared contexts of agency. New momentary propositions are developed, meeting the complexity of discovering, exploring, and inventing things that do not exist as given beings.

and Dorothée King,

Laurent Mignonneau,

Mona Schieren and Kirsten Einfeldt, editors

This volume discusses the periphery/center dichotomy and its connotations of east/west, north/south, and local/international. With art centers in regions that used to be perceived as periphery, the idea of center/ periphery is now open to debate. Also, the center/ periphery relationship exists among places with intensive art output, a prime art world, and cultures of discourse, as well as subsidiary locations situated in the provinces.

Mona Schieren

is a curator and

Interface Cultures

Christoph Lischka

is professor of

editors

Interface culture is based on an ongoing discourse in interactive art, interaction design, game design, tangible and auditory interfaces, fashionable technologies, wearable devices, intelligent ambiences, sensor technologies, telecommunication, and new forms of humanmachine, human-human, and machine-machine interactions. Essays discuss new forms of hybridization in art, media, and science.

Christa Sommerer Mignonneau

and Laurent

are professors at the

teaching researcher at the University

poietic machines and Andrea Sick

University of Art and Industrial Design

of the Arts Bremen.

is professor of cultural studies and

in Linz.

media theory at the University of the

Dorothée King

Arts Bremen.

Interface Cultures study program.

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A r t H i s to r y / c u lt u r a l s t u d i e s

A r t H i s to r y

A r t H i s to r y / c u lt u r a l s t u d i e s

Kirsten Einfeldt

is an art historian

at Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin.

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teaches at the

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T r a n s c r ip t V e r l a g

Space (Re)Solutions

Intervention and Research in Visual Culture

Media, Culture, and Mediality

Mind and Matter

Comparative Approaches Towards Complexity

Peter Mörtenböck and

New Insights Into the Current State of Research

Helge Mooshammer,

Ludwig Jäger, Erika

Johannes

editors

Linz, and Irmela

Grenzfurthner, and

Schneider, editors

Thomas Ballhausen

Culturally oriented media studies have significantly advanced mediality, media culture, media discourse, and the procedures of media.

Focused on this new terminological field, this volume presents landmark contributions in media studies, providing fresh insight into the current state of research on media theory and media culture and initiating an agenda for future research.

New challenges cast the nature of “mind” and “matter” into doubt. Net culture has exposed the causality of these superficially contradictory systems, translating them into new technological realities. This book investigates cultural, artistic, and technical entanglements to document developments, clarify the scientific community’s status quo, and glimpse the future.

Social networking, political projects, cross-border movements, artistic interventions, urban and environmental initiatives, and self-organized educational practices all articulate the challenges of organizing the spaces we share. In this volume, visual culture scholars from around the world discuss the “practical turn” in different fields of critical engagement, proposing fresh ways to assert an interpenetrated space of research and intervention.

Peter Mörtenböck Mooshammer

and Helge

teach visual culture

at Goldsmiths College, University of London, and at the Vienna University of Technology.

Ludwig Jäger

teaches linguistics

Günther Friesinger,

Günther Friesinger

is a

and media studies at RWTH Aachen

philosopher, artist, writer, curator, and

University.

edu-hacker living in Vienna and Graz.

Erika Linz

teaches linguistics at

Irmela Schneider

Johannes Grenzfurthner

is an

artist, writer, curator, and director.

Siegen University. teaches media

Thomas Ballhausen

is a lecturer

studies at Cologne University.

at the University of Vienna.

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M e d i a s t u d i e s / c u lt u r a l s t u d i e s

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The Politics of Imagination

Benjamin, Kracauer, Kluge Tara Forrest

“[Contributes] well to the increasing

Staging the Past

Themed Environments in Transcultural Perspectives Judith Schlehe, Michiko Uike-Bormann,

interest in emergent studies, the

Carolyn Oesterle, and

interactions between literature, art,

Wolfgang Hochbruck,

science, and science philosophy.”

—Cultural Studies Review

This book explores Walter Benjamin's, Siegfried Kracauer's, and Alexander Kluge’s analyses of the role imagination can play in reconceiving past, present, and future possibilities.

Through a detailed analysis of their engagements with subjects spanning literature, children’s play, film, photography, history, and television, this book casts imagination as critical to a mode of perception and experience that can create and sustain a desire for a different future.

Tara Forrest

lectures on film and

cultural studies at the University of Technology in Sydney.

Black History– White History

Britain’s Historical Programme Between Windrush and Wilberforce Barbara Korte and Eva Ulrike Pirker

editors

Drawing upon themed environments across continents, essays focus on how such appropriations bypass, are different from, or contradict traditional and scientific modes of disseminating historical knowledge.

Combining theorists and practitioners, they help build an interdisciplinary and transcultural theory of the staging of pasts in various social contexts.

Judith Schlehe, Michiko UikeBormann , Carolyn Oesterle ,

and Wolfgang Hochbruck are members of a research group focusing on history in popular culture at the University of Freiburg.

New political directives in Britain have mainstreamed black history into national history. This volume assesses manifestations of this new cultural historiography on screen and on stage, in museums, and in other accessible sites within the context of the Windrush anniversary and the 1807 abolition bicentenary. It investigates the terms on which a new historical program could take hold, its sustainability, and its representational politics.

Barbara Korte

is professor of

English literature and Eva Ulrike Pirker

is lecturer in English literary

and cultural studies at the University of Freiburg.

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T r a n s c r ip t V e r l a g

Screening Nostalgia

100 Years of German Heimat Film Alexandra Ludewig

Theater in Lebanon Production, Reception, and Confessionalism Tarek Salloukh

The Heimat film genre, assumed by many to be outdated, is very much alive. Who would have thought that this genre, which has been almost unanimously denounced within academic circles yet seems to resonate so deeply with the general public, would experience a renaissance in the twenty-first century?

The genre’s recent resurgence is perhaps due less to an obsession with generic storylines and stereotyped figures than to a basic human need for grounding that has resulted in a passionate debate about issues of past and present. This book traces the history of Heimat film from the early mountain films to Fatih Akin’s contemporary interpretations of Heimat.

Alexandra Ludewig

is associate dean of education

and convener of German studies at the University of Western Australia.

Drawing on a rich history of conflict and a society full of contrasts, Lebanese theater boasts a wide spectrum of social peculiarities.

Confessionalism defines the images of the “self ” and the “other” within the Christian and Moslem social worlds and describes the manner in which they interrelate. The genre also generates a complex base for the interpretation of theatrical signs and symbols, theater being another stage on which the interaction between two conflicting social worlds takes place. This book sheds light on theater in Lebanon, its production and reception, the significance of theatrical performance and its implications, and the many categories ruling this phenomenon.

Tarek Salloukh

studied drama and theater arts at the

Lebanese University in Beirut. An actor and director, he performed in the theaters of the Lebanese capital for many years and concluded his studies by earning a Ph.D. at the University of Konstanz in South Germany, where he now lives.

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Setting the Record Queer

Rethinking Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray and Virginia Woolf ’s Mrs. Dalloway

Camp Comforts

Reparative Gay Literature in Times of AIDS Christian Lassen

Dirk Schulz

“To define is to limit,” Lord Henry claims, and Mrs. Dalloway “would not say of anyone . . . that they were this or that.” Why, then, are these novels mostly read, and in recent adaptations rewritten, in denial of their genuinely ambiguous designs?

Bringing these two literary classics together for the first time, this study reveals their shared concerns regarding textual and sexual identities. Challenging a critical record rooted in Oscar Wilde’s and Virginia Woolf ’s mythologized biographies, this work underscores the value of constantly rethinking labels by liberating these texts from the grip of categorical readings.

Dirk Schulz

Camp Comforts investigates the wide-ranging impact of camp on AIDS literature and places this influence within two different traditions of camp analysis: a politically subversive one that aims at social change and an aesthetically uplifting one that aims at personal healing.

Christian Lassen argues that camp may in fact serve both ends, social change and personal healing, and goes on to explore reparative reading practices to rehabilitate alleviation and relief as vital objectives in literary representations of gay grief. In this way, Camp Comforts reveals the dynamics that make camp so crucial as a strategy for survival in the time of AIDS.

is a postdoctoral researcher in the English teaches English literature and British

Department at the University of Cologne, where he teaches

Christian Lassen

courses on anglophone literature and culture and is editorial

cultural studies at the University of Oldenburg. His research

assistant at Gender Forum: An Internet Journal for Gender

interests include queer studies, gender studies, and contem-

Studies.

porary literature.

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Mittelbau-Dora: American and German Representations of a Nazi Concentration Camp

Literature, Visual Media, and the Culture of Memory from 1945 to the Present Bruno Arich-Gerz

In 1945, Americans liberated the Nazi concentration camp complex of Mittelbau-Dora, retrieving tons of intact rocket technology from the nearby Mittelwerke factory. Today, an astounding mix of first-hand memoirs; biographies; false survivor tales, novels, and theater plays; Hollywood movies; and newsreel footage portray the role of the United States in liberating Mittelbau-Dora.

This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of these textual and visual representations, juxtaposing them against publications by German eyewitnesses, local researchers, and academic historians, as well as experts in cultural memory.

Bruno Arich-Gerz

Chronotopes of the Uncanny

Time and Space in Postmodern New York Novels: Paul Auster’s City of Glass and Toni Morrison’s Jazz Petra Eckhard

Using the theoretical frameworks of Sigmund Freud, Tzvetan Todorov, and Mikhail Bakhtin, this book explores how American writers of the late twentieth century have translated the psychoanalytical concept of “the uncanny” into their novelistic discourses. The two texts under scrutiny, Paul Auster’s City of Glass and Toni Morrison’s Jazz, show that the uncanny has developed into a crucial trope delineating personal and collective fears often grounded in the postmodern disruption of spatiotemporal continuities and coherences.

Petra Eckhard

teaches American literature at the

University of Graz. Her research concerns contemporary American prose literature, graphic narratives, and American gothic fiction.

is a junior professor at TU

Darmstadt, Germany. His research centers on American studies and media studies, e-learning, Thomas Pynchon, and Namibia studies.

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Cultural History in Europe

Institutions–Themes–Perspectives Jörg Rogge, editor

What are the current discussions taking place in cultural history? Which European institutions engage exclusively in cultural history and what topics do they address?

How will cultural history develop in the future?

These and other questions are raised in this volume by European scholars as they discuss the institutions, themes, and perspectives of cultural history. The collection provides a profound overview of contemporary developments in Scandinavia, Finland, Great Britain, Latvia, Poland, Hungary, Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, and Spain.

Jörg Rogge

teaches medieval history at the University

of Mainz, specializing in the methods and theory of cultural historical sciences and the social and cultural history of late medieval Europe.

Deconstructing Gender in Carnival

A Cross-Cultural Investigation of a Social Ritual Valeria Sterzi

This book explores the complexity of the dialectic relationship between ritual-like activities and social structure, focusing on women’s growing presence in Trinidad carnival and the ways in which their participation becomes part of the conflict over efforts to change the basic distribution of power within society. Femininity emerges in Caribbean carnival as a sexualized body unmasking power relations simultaneously affirmed and denied. Paying attention to the ideological process through which gender relations are constructed, this event is analyzed in relation to economic, political, and social factors, as well as the changes caused by the clash between colonial and postcolonial societies.

Valeria Sterzi

received her Ph.D. in sociology at the

University of Hamburg.

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G e n d e r s t u d i e s / s o c i o lo g y

M a i n z H i s to r i c a l C u lt u r a l S c i e n c e s

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Doing Anthropology in Wartime and War Zones

World War I and the Cultural Sciences in Europe Reinhard Johler,

Asymmetrical Concepts After Reinhart Koselleck Historical Semantics and Beyond

Kay Junge and Kirill Postoutenko, editors

Christian Marchetti, and Monique Scheer, editors “[The] combination of carefully developed specific points of research and thorough reexamination of paradigmatic theoretical models should make this volume indispensable reading and an important point of reference for years to come.”

—Anthropos

Distinct national traditions and institutions emerged during World War I, partly due to collaborations with the military. Cultural science researchers used war zones to access informants, prisoner-of-war and refugee camps, occupied territories, and the front lines. Anthropologists tailored their inquiries to aid the war effort, contributed to interpretations of the war as a struggle between races, and assessed the warlike nature of the Balkan region, whose crises were key to the outbreak of the Great War. Reinhard Johler

is professor of European ethnology

and Christian Marchetti is a doctoral candidate in European ethnology at the University of Tübingen.

Monique Scheer

Asymmetrical concepts are well known to scholars across the social sciences and humanities, yet their role in structuring the human world has not been researched in detail. Thirty-five years ago, Reinhart Koselleck established the historical semantics between Hellenes/barbarians, Christians/pagans, and Übermensch/ Untermensch, but his insights have rarely been developed in a systematic fashion.

This volume brings together scholars at the crossroads of history, sociology, literary criticism, linguistics, political science, and international studies to elaborate on Koselleck’s notion of asymmetric counterconcepts and to adapt it to current research.

Kay Junge

teaches sociology at the University

of Constance.

Kirill Postoutenko

teaches literature, sociology, and

anthropology at the Smolny College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

is a research scholar at the Max Planck

Institute for Human Development in Berlin.

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Dissonant Memories, Fragmented Present

Exchanging Young Discourses Between Israel and Germany Charlotte Misselwitz and Cornelia Siebeck, editors

How do young Israelis and Germans communicate about national socialism and the Holocaust? In this collection, contributors from both societies elaborate on the past, their present, and their identity, pondering various switches of track in German-Israeli exchanges and social and political realities.

By highlighting marginalized memories, such as Palestinian and migrant ones, they challenge monolithic national-memory discourse. Altogether, a transnational memory discourse emerges, albeit a dissonant and highly subjective one, truthfully reflecting the fragmentations that exist in both societies.

Charlotte Misselwitz

is a freelance writer for

newspapers and radio.

Cornelia Siebeck

is a historian and publicist.

Doing Identity in Luxembourg

Subjective Appropriations–Institutional Attributions–Sociocultural Milieus IPSE—Identités Politiques Sociétés Espaces, editor

Luxembourg: international financial center, European administrative center, and destination country for immigrants? This empirical study provides insights into a society that has largely eluded scientific investigation, observing the processes of identity construction in globalized conditions. An interdisciplinary team of authors exposes subjective appropriations and institutional attributions at work in the fields of language, space, perceptions of the self and others, and everyday cultures, and identifies for the first time sociocultural milieus in the Grand Duchy and the ambivalences and dynamics of a multicultural and multilingual society.

The IPSE Research Unit (Identités, Politiques, Sociétés, Espaces) ,

based at the University of

Luxembourg, addresses socially relevant topics, particularly the analysis of social and cultural identity construction processes.

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The Making and Unmaking of Differences

Anthropological, Sociological, and Philosophical Perspectives

Richard Rottenburg, Burkhard Schnepel, and Shingo Shimada, editors

Childhood and Migration

From Experience to Agency

Jacqueline Knörr, editor “I found this volume of great value, especially in providing concrete examples of children’s creativity not only in the process of social and cultural reproduction, but also in cultural production. It will . . . be a useful read for policymakers in the fields of education and children’s services at all government levels.”

This book tracks the making and unmaking of sociocultural differences, as seen from anthropological, sociological, and philosophical perspectives. Some contributions address the problem of translation or the enigma of alienity or queer theory; others throw light on the integration of Muslims in Norway, identity-formation processes in Creole societies, and neo-traditionalist movements and identity in Africa. Special emphasis is placed on how globalization and the rapid spread of new technologies of information have generated new patterns of inclusion and exclusion.

Richard Rottenburg

and Burkhard Schnepel are

professors of social anthropology at the Institute for Social Anthropology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg.

Shingo Shimada

is a professor at the East Asia Institute,

Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf.

—International Migration and Integration

This volume emphasizes how children experience and manage migration and the means through which they construct an identity for themselves. What role do cultural background and strategies of integration play in the creation of identity and the conception of home, origin, and belonging? How do children express processes of cultural orientation and integration (music, media, fashion, and style), and what are the role of peer groups and social milieus? How do migrant children experience xenophobia and a lack of acceptance in a host society, and how do they counterbalance such experiences? The study’s approach is comparative and interdisciplinary.

Jacqueline Knörr

is an anthropologist and associate

professor at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle/Saale, Germany.

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Local Knowledge and Gender in Ghana Christine Müller

Women have proven to be central actors in the multiple channels of local-global networks, using these new social ties for the negotiation of old and new elements of knowledge, scientific knowledge, and development discourse. The inherent politicization of knowledge and the direct objective of transforming societal institutions are not only signs of resistance against global hegemony but also serve to redefine and defend local culture and local knowledge.

Christine Müller

completed her

postdoctoral degree at the National Center of Competence in Research North-South, University of Berne, Switzerland, and currently researches virtual governance in Southern Africa and Southeast Asia.

Lebanese in Motion

Companies in Peace Processes

Gender and the Making of a Translocal Village

A Guatemalan Case Study

Anja Peleikis

Ulrike Joras

Focusing on the empirical case of the south Lebanese Shi’ite village of Zrariye and its migrant population in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, this book shows how villagers at home and abroad have produced a translocal villagein-the-making that emanates as a social field through practices and narratives.

Travel and means of communication make it possible to keep in constant touch and renegotiate kinship and generational and gender relationships beyond local, regional, and nation-state boundaries.

This volume explores the role of the private business sector in sustaining violent conflict and negotiating peace during the civil war and peace processes in Guatemala.

It describes and analyzes corporate positions during this period, developing a better understanding of the potential and pitfalls of integrating private business actors in conflict transformation.

Anja Peleikis

Ulrike Joras

works in the arena of

business and peace for Swisspeace in Bern, Switzerland.

is a postdoctoral

research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle/Saale, Germany.

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S o c i o l o gy

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Historico-genetic Theory of Culture

On the Processual Logic of Cultural Change Günter Dux

This book focuses on the modern understanding of human life-forms as constructs following an evolutionary history. It maps the transgression of the virtual threshold between natural and cultural history and the development of sociocultural constructs over time. The book concentrates on the problem of determining a processual logic in the development of societal structures and cognition and on the historico-genetic reconstruction of cognition.

Günter Dux

teaches sociology and

social philosophy at the University of Freiburg.

A Sociological Theory of Value

Georg Simmel’s Sociological Relationism

Love After Auschwitz

The Second Generation in Germany Kurt Grünberg

Natàlia Cantó Milà

Natàlia Cantó Milà elaborates on Georg Simmel’s relational approach to a theory of value, applying its heuristic possibilities to modern sociology and a sociology of modernity. She focuses on a theory of value Simmel developed in The Philosophy of Money, delivering an alternative reading of his book that views its theory of value as its main axial point. Simmel’s theory of value is shown to include an intrinsically sociological aspect since economic, moral, ethical, and aesthetic values result from human relations.

Natàlia Cantó Milà

teaches

sociology and social policy at the University of Leipzig.

This book addresses the personal and collective abysses that open through an examination of the legacy of the National Socialist extermination of Jews.

The volume combines the experiences of survivors and their sons and daughters born after the Shoah with those of non-Jewish German Nazi perpetrators, supporters, bystanders, and their children. The study is aimed at gaining deeper insight into what Theodor W. Adorno called the “culture after Auschwitz.”

Kurt Grünberg

is a psychoanalyst,

licensed psychologist, and staff research member at Sigmund-FreudInstitute and a research director at the Jewish Psychotherapeutic Counseling Center in Frankfurt/Main.

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Dancing Postcolonialism

Knowledge in Motion

Emerging Bodies

The National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica

Perspectives of Artistic and Scientific Research in Dance

The Performance of Worldmaking in Dance and Choreography

Sabine Sörgel

Sabine Gehm,

Gabriele Klein and

Pirkko Husemann, and

Sandra Noeth, editors

This book presents the first in-depth critical and historical examination of the internationally renowned National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica (NDTC) within the context of postcolonial theater.

Combining a postcolonial theoretical framework with performance studies and dance analysis, the work examines the interrelations between Jamaican modern dance theater aesthetics and the Caribbean’s complex cultural genealogy since 1492.

Sabine Sörgel

teaches the history

and theory of theater and dance at Johannes Gutenberg–University Mainz.

Katharina von Wilcke, editors

What is body knowledge in motion and how can it be researched and conveyed?

Renowned choreographers, dancers, theorists, and pedagogues describe the unique potential of dance as an archive and medium and its significance at the intersection of art and science. Contributors include Gabriele Brandstetter, Dieter Heitkamp, Royston Maldoom, and Meg Stuart.

Sabine Gehm

is artistic director of

the festival Tanz Bremen.

Pirkko Husemann

Gabriele Klein

is a theater

scholar and dramaturge in dance.

Katharina von Wilcke

This volume considers hybrid and disparate worlds related to dance and choreography.

Authors inquire into the ways of producing dance worlds through artistic practice, discourse and media, choreographic form, and dance material. Essays reflect the topos of dance as something fleeting and ephemeral—an embodiment of the Other in modernity.

They demonstrate the multitude of interrelated dance worlds, with more emerging every day.

is a

cultural manager and curator.

is professor of the

sociology of movement and dance at the University of Hamburg.

Sandra Noeth

is head of drama-

turgy at Tanzquartier Wien.

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Historicizing the Uses of the Past

Scandinavian Perspectives on History Culture, Historical Consciousness, and Didactics of History Related to World War II

Between Self-Determination and Social Technology

Medicine, Biopolitics, and the New Techniques of Procedural Management Kathrin Braun, editor

Helle Bjerg, Claudia Lenz, and Erik Thorstensen, editors

This book presents new developments in Scandinavian memory cultures relating to World War II and the Holocaust by combining this focus with the perspective of history didactics. This theoretical framework of historical consciousness links individual and collective uses and re-uses of the past to the question of how history can and should be taught. It also offers examples of good practice in the field and its promotion of self-reflection and critical thinking.

Helle Bjerg

is teacher, trainer, and researcher at

University College Capital, Copenhagen.

Claudia Lenz

is research coordinator at the European

Wergeland Centre for Education on Human Rights, Intercultural Dialogue, and Democratic Citizenship in Oslo.

Erik Thorstensen

is a pedagogical adviser at the Center

for Studies of Holocaust and Religious Minorities in Oslo.

This book examines how concepts such as self-determination, participation, ethics, and dialogue, developed by the feminist movement and directed against repression, heteronomy, and professional paternalism, have been integrated into new contexts and transformed into new social technologies.

Traversing a variety of fields, from birthing, genetic counseling, living wills, and hospital ethics to population policies and the politics of biomedicine, this collection shows how medicine and medicine-related policies and practice constitute crucial arenas hosting such transformations. What emerges is procedural management as a new set of social techniques. With a preface by William Ray Arney, Evergreen State College.

Kathrin Braun

is professor of political science at the

University of Hanover, specializing in biopolitical modern rationality, its transformations, and its re-instantiations in the past and present.

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Internationalization of the Social Sciences

Asia–Latin America–Middle East– Africa–Eurasia

Tensions and Convergences

Technological and Aesthetic Transformations of Society

Reinhard Heil, Andreas Kaminski,

Michael Kuhn and Doris

Marcus Stippak, Alexander Unger,

Weidemann, editors

and Marc Ziegler, editors

Internationalization of the social sciences rests on the intersection of international scientific infrastructures, networks, and research agendas. It has also stimulated discussions concerning academic dependency and the need for the indigenization of theories and methods. This book traces phenomena that accompany the internationalization of the social sciences in different parts of the world. Contributions from East Asia, India, Russia, Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, South Africa, and Latin America offer manifold perspectives on the pathways and desiderata of internationalization, making the volume crucial for future debates.

This book presents the results of an international conference concerning the interaction between aesthetical and technological dimensions within the formation of contemporary society. Contributors discuss the production of time and space, self and nature, and individual and society in the image of technology, and they focus on the productive tensions and convergences between aesthetic and technological concepts when implemented in everyday life. The volume contains, among other essays, texts on technologies of visualization, the aesthetics of warfare, and the design of technological lifeworlds.

Michael Kuhn

is director of KnowWhy Global Research.

Doris Weidemann

is a cultural psychologist and

professor at the University of Applied Sciences in

Reinhard Heil, Andreas Kaminski , Marcus Stippak , Alexander Unger ,

and Marc Ziegler

are fellows at the postgraduate college Technisierung und Gesellschaft, Technische Universität Darmstadt.

Zwickau, Germany.

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The Diversification of Health Politics of Large-Scale Cooperation in Nutrition Science Bart Penders

Implanted Minds

The Neuroethics of Intracerebral Stem Cell Transplantation and Deep Brain Stimulation Heiner Fangerau, Jörg M. Fegert,

Complex problems and ambitious goals are often thought to become easier by enlarging and diversifying the experts that handle them. As a result, these complex entities are fragmented into smaller ones dealt with by single laboratories.

Bart Penders observed and joined teams of nutrition scientists to find out what happens to these problems and goals. He attended conferences and workshops and worked in their laboratories. He shows that scientists mobilize everything in their power to solve problems and reconstruct elements of the problem, such as our health. In the pro­cess, the search for health has led to its diversification.

Bart Penders

is an assistant professor in the Department

of Health, Ethics, and Society at the School for Public Health and Primary Care, Maastricht University.

and Thorsten Trapp, editors

Intracerebral interventions raise particular ethical issues. For instance, attempts at replacing lost or altered brain cells with the help of stem cells or the therapeutic application of deep brain stimulation have morally relevant implications. If the brain is conceived as the carrier of an individual’s personality or of the self, then operations on the brain can be seen as intrusions upon one’s personality. This book addresses the historical, philosophical, social, and legal implications of these new developments in neuroscience and aims at resolving some of the dilemmas that go hand in hand with “implanted minds.”

Heiner Fangerau

is director of the Institute for the

History, Philosophy, and Ethics of Medicine and Jörg M. Fegert

is director of the Department for Child and

Adolescent Psychiatry at Ulm University.

Thorsten Trapp

is senior researcher at the Institute

of Transplantation Diagnostics and Cell Therapeutics at Düsseldorf University.

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neuroscience / Ethics

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M at t e R e a l i t i e s / V e r Kö r p e r u n g e n : P e r s p e c t iv e s f r o m E m pi r i c a l S c i e n c e S t u di e s

T r a n s c r ip t V e r l a g

Health Promotion and Prevention Programmes in Practice

How Patients’ Health Practices are Rationalised, Reconceptualised, and Reorganised Thomas Mathar and

Yvonne J. F. M. Jansen, editors

The shift to prevention and health promotion is an example of how policy makers aim to rationalize and organize both health systems and patients’ health practices.

Applying perspectives from empirical science and technology studies, and rooted in qualitative research methods, this volume zooms into the micropolitics of prevention and health promotion, exploring how patients are framed as being “at risk,” how preventative regimes shape medical practices, and what its practical consequences are in patients’ everyday lives.

Tom Mathar

lectures on health and social policy at HFH-

Hamburg, University of Applied Sciences.

Yvonne J. F. M. Jansen

is a cultural anthropologist and

researcher at the Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research TNO Quality of Life.

Care in Practice

On Tinkering in Clinics, Homes, and Farms Annemarie Mol, Ingunn Moser, and Jeannette Pols, editors “An important contribution in the research of care in practice.

It moves beyond theories of care by choosing practices as starting points to evaluate and improve theoretical insights.

This approach is able to present new and surprising insights and for that it is valuable for every qualitative researcher in care practices.”

—Medicine, Health Care, and Philosophy

Rather than present care as a “warm” relation between human beings, contributors elevate the material world (usually cast as “cold”) to prominence. Technology is not a functional tool, easy to control; it is shifting, changing, surprising, and adaptable. In care practices all things are (and have to be) tinkered with persistently. Knowledge is fluid, too. Rather than a set of general rules, the knowledges relevant to care practices are as adaptable and in need of adaptation as the technologies, bodies, people, and daily lives involved.

Annemarie Mol

is Socrates Professor for Social Theory,

Humanism, and Materialities at the University of Amsterdam.

Ingunn Moser

is professor of sociology and dean of

the Department of Nursing at Diakonhjemmet University College in Oslo.

Jeannette Pols

is senior researcher in medical ethics at

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I m ag e

T r a n s c r ip t V e r l a g

Images of Illegalized Immigration

Towards a Critical Iconology of Politics

A New Thoughtfulness in Contemporary China

Christine Bischoff,

Critical Voices in Art and Aesthetics

Francesca Falk, and

Jörg Huber and

Sylvia Kafehsy, editors

Zhao Chuan, editors

Essays trace an iconography of illegalized immigration within political, ethical, and aesthetic discourse.

They discuss the need to project new images and the danger of giving illegal persons individual faces.

Illegalization is produced by law, yet naturalized through the everyday use of images.

The production of law is also driven by mental and materialized images, and a critical iconology may expose such mechanisms.

Globalization euphoria and enthusiasm for the West are declining in contemporary China. Many now question the radical upheaval of lifeworlds, the continued significance of traditions, and the paradoxes produced by the predominance of neoliberalism. These seventeen essays provide a vivid illustration of a “new thoughtfulness” that has infiltrated fields ranging from aesthetics and art to theater and photography.

Christine Bischoff esca Falk

and Franc-

teach cultural studies at

the University of Basel.

Sylvia Kafehsy

is an art historian

Jörg Huber

is professor of cultural

theory and aesthetics at the Zurich University of the Arts.

Zhao Chuan

is a writer, theater

Art and Sustainability Connecting Patterns for a Culture of Complexity Sacha Kagan “A comprehensive and sophisticated analysis of the relationship between art and sustainability in the context of complexity theory.”

—The Goose

Describing how modernity degenerated into a culture of unsustainability, to which the arts are contributing, Sacha Kagan fundamentally rethinks ways of knowing and seeing the world. We must learn not to be afraid of complexity, she argues, and reawaken a sensibility to patterns that connect. Surveying ecological art over the past forty years and discussing art and social change, Kagan assesses the potential role of art in a much-needed transformation process.

Sacha Kagan

is research associate

at Leuphana University Lueneburg and founding coordinator of the

and curator of contemporary art.

worker, and art critic.

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A r t H i s to r y / c u lt u r a l s t u d i e s

E a s t A s i a n / c u lt u r a l s t u d i e s

A r t H i s to r y / c u lt u r a l s t u d i e s

international network Cultura21.

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T r a n s c r ip t V e r l a g

Candide—Journal for Architectural Knowledge, No. 2

Candide—Journal for Architectural Knowledge, No. 3

Axel Sowa and

Axel Sowa and

Susanne Schindler,

Susanne Schindler,

editors

editors

This peer-reviewed journal, published in English and German by the Department of Architecture Theory at RWTH Aachen University, fosters multiple ways to write about the discipline. Issue number 2 features essays on interindividual explanations of innovation in architecture; a socialist perspective on the XV Triennale di Milano; an analysis of Leon Battista Alberti’s technique of architectural collage; and a conversation with Bernardo Secchi.

Candide is dedicated to the culture of knowledge specific to architecture. In issue number 3, essays include Andrew J. Witt on machine epistemology in architecture; Ela Kael on Hiltonculuk and the postwar architecture of Istanbul; Oliver Schetter on the architecture of Mozambique; Amy Kulper on questioning the spatial imaginary of Georges Perec; and a short story by Jimenez Lai titled “On Types of Seductive Robustness.”

Axel Sowa

is chair of the Depart-

ment of Architecture Theory and Susanne Schindler

is an assistant

Axel Sowa

Creative Networks and the City

Towards a Cultural Political Economy of Aesthetic Production Bas van Heur

is chair of the Depart-

ment of Architecture Theory and Susanne Schindler

is an assistant

professor at RWTH Aachen University.

professor at RWTH Aachen University.

This book contributes to the discourse on creative industries and knowledgebased economies by focusing on three aspects: urban spaces as key sites of capitalist restructuring; creative industries’ policies as state technologies aimed at economic exploitation; and the role of networks of aesthetic production in inflecting these tendencies.

It ultimately merges the cultural and aesthetic dimensions of the creative industries.

Bas van Heur

is a postdoctoral

researcher at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Maastricht University in the Netherlands.

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Architecture

Architecture

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U r b a n s t u d i e s / A r t H i s to r y C i t ys c a p e s —T e x t s i n C u lt u r a l Urban Studies

U r b a n S t u di e s

T r a n s c r ip t V e r l a g

Urban Hacking

Port Cities as Areas of Transition

Cultural Jamming Strategies in the Risky Spaces of Modernity

Ethnographic Perspectives

Günther Friesinger,

Gandelsman-Trier, Kathrin

Johannes Grenzfurthner, and

Wildner, and Astrid Wonneberger,

Thomas Ballhausen, editors

editors

Urban spaces have become battlefields, signifiers have been invaded, and new structures have been established: netculture has replaced counterculture in most parts of the world and draws attention to the everchanging environments of the modern city. How do we create culturally based resistance under the influence of capitalistic pressure and conservative politics? This collection attempts to address this question and its implications for different scientific and artistic fields.

Global transformation processes have dramatically altered life and work in and around port cities, the built environment, and the public imagery of urban waterfronts. Based on recent theories of city-port development, the ethnographic studies in this volume focus on local stakeholders’ perceptions and strategies in European and Latin American port cities. The volume covers a wide variety of urban fields, from traditional dockland communities, inland waterway sailors, and new forms of migration and exile to active agents of urban transformation.

Günther Friesinger

lives in Vienna and Graz as a

philosopher, artist, writer, curator, and journalist.

Johannes Grenzfurthner

teaches art theory and

Waltraud Kokot, Mijal

Waltraud Kokot

is professor of social anthropology

at Hamburg University.

aesthetical practice at the University of Applied Sciences in

Mijal Gandelsman-Trier

Graz, Austria.

ogy in Bremen and Hamburg.

Thomas Ballhausen

is a lecturer at the University of

Vienna and head of the Studies Department at the Austrian Film Archive.

Kathrin Wildner

lectures on social anthropol-

is lecturer in social anthropology

at Viadrina University and Hamburg University.

Astrid Wonneberger

is a lecturer in social anthropol-

ogy at Hamburg University.

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U r b a n s t u d i e s / C u lt u r a l S t u d i e s

U r b a n s t u d i e s / a n t h r o p o lo g y

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T r a n s c r ip t V e r l a g T r a n s c r ip t V e r l a g

B e i n g H u m a n : C a u g h t i n t h e W e b o f C u lt u r e s — H u m a n i s m i n t h e Ag e o f G lo b a l i z at i o n

Humanism in Intercultural Perspective

Experiences and Expectations

Jörn Rüsen and Henner Laass, editors

Buddhist Approaches to Human Rights

Dissonances and Resonances Carmen Meinert and

Jörn Rüsen

is senior fellow at the

editors “[The] transdisciplinary, transcultural, strong point of this book.”

—Internationales Asienforum

Demonstrations by monks in Tibet and Myanmar and the age-old conflict between a predominantly Buddhist population and Hindu minority in Sri Lanka link Buddhism and human rights.

Essays explore this topic from the viewpoint of three major traditions: Theravada, Mahayana, and Vajrayana Buddhism.

Carmen Meinert

is a sinologist,

Tibetologist, and research fellow at the

Institute for Advanced Study in the

Institute of Advanced Studies in the

Humanities in Essen.

Humanities (KWI), Essen.

Henner Laass

is teacher of English

Humanism and Critique Oliver Kozlarek, editor

Hans-Bernd Zöllner,

and transreligious approach is the

This book weaves Chinese, Indian, African, Islamic, and Western traditions into an intercultural discussion about understanding the human world. It recognizes history, philosophy, religious, literary, and gender studies with an emphasis on the relationship between humanism and religion. Humanism is brought to life as a synthesis of transcultural values and a mutual and critical recognition of cultural differences.

Octavio Paz

Hans-Bernd Zöllner

This volume identifies ways in which Octavio Paz’s essays can be read as substantial contributions to contemporary debates in the social sciences and philosophy. The aim is to present to a non-Spanish-speaking audience some of what Paz offers to ongoing debates. It also definitively proves that a critique of our contemporary modernity must go hand in hand with a nonexclusive intercultural understanding of humanism.

Oliver Kozlarek

teaches political

and social philosophy and social theory at the Institute for Philosophical Research, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Mexico.

teaches

and history at the Hibernia School

East Asian Studies at the University of

in Herne.

Hamburg and the University of Passau.

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Ph i lo s o p h y

r e l i g i o n / Ph i lo s o p h y

p h i lo s o p h y

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B e i n g H u m a n : C a u g h t i n t h e W e b o f C u lt u r e s — H u m a n i s m i n t h e Ag e o f G lo b a l i z at i o n

T r a n s c r ip t V e r l a g

Traces of Humanism in China

Humanism in East Asian Confucian Contexts

Carmen Meinert, editor

Chun-chieh Huang

This volume opens discourses on humanistic traditions to counterparts within Chinese culture that also reflect a rich autochthonous tradition of humanism. Contributors explore Confucian and Daoist dimensions of humaneness in Chinese philosophy and history up to the first half of the twentieth century, when Chinese and Western concepts of humanism first merged. This book is geared toward a non-sinological audience as well as specialists in the field and contributes to a non-Eurocentric view of humanism history.

Renowned Confucian scholar Chun-chieh Huang analyzes various East Asian contexts to identify the central pillars of the Confucian humanist spirit: a continuum between mind and body; harmony between oneself and others; the unity of heaven and humanity; and a profound historical consciousness. Scholars of religion, history, philosophy, and Asian studies will find this volume an indispensable guide to the rich tradition of East Asian Confucian humanism.

Tradition and Modernity

Carmen Meinert

is a research

fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities in Essen and teaches at the University of Bochum.

Chun-chieh Huang

is Distinguished

Professor of History and dean of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences at National Taiwan University and a research fellow at Academia Sinica, Taipei.

Political Responsibility for a Globalised World

After Levinas’ Humanism Ernst Wolff

This book tackles the practice of responsibility within a globalized world and contemporary means of action.

Levina's exploration of the ethical is shown to be a way to seek intercultural political relevance through an engagement with postcoloniality and humanism. Yet Levinas fails to realize the ethical implications of the instrumental mediation between ethical meaning and political practice. Drawing on Weber, Apel, and Ricoeur, Ernst Wolff proposes a theory of strategic co-responsibility for the uncertain global context of practice.

Ernst Wolff

teaches philosophy at

the University of Pretoria and is fellow of the Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut in Essen.

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E a s t A s i a n s t u d i e s / Ph i lo s o p h y

E a s t A s i a n s t u d i e s / Ph i lo s o p h y

Ph i lo s o p h y / p o l i t i c s

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T r a n s c r ip t V e r l a g

The Making of World Society

Bodies, Boundaries, and Spirit Possession

Perspectives from Transnational Research

Moroccan Women and the Revision of Tradition

Remus Gabriel Anghel,

Margaret Rausch

Eva Gerharz, Gilberto

“Contributes importantly to the

Rescher, and Monika Salzbrunn, editors

Remus Gabriel Anghel

is a Ph.D.

student in sociology, Eva Gerharz teaches social anthropology and development sociology, and Gilberto Rescher

is a doctoral student at the

University of Bielefeld.

Monika Salzbrunn

teaches eth-

nology and sociology at EHESS Paris.

Malaysia and Indonesia in the 1990s Georg Stauth

conversations about contemporary performances of religious and gendered identities and will find use in undergraduate and introductory courses

This book presents innovative contributions to transnationalization research and world society theory rooted in empirical studies from Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Europe. Practicable methodologies complete theoretical inquiries and provide examples of applied research, which also might be used in teaching.

Politics and Cultures of Islamization in Southeast Asia

in anthropology, religious studies, and Middle East and North African studies.”

—MESA Buelletin

Moroccan society has been changing in accordance with Western models, and the role of Islam in sharing this burden is exemplified by folk-Islamic spirit possession practices. By adjusting their vocation to processes of commercialization and professionalization and the changing needs of their female clientele, traditional women seers have taken on the therapeutic task of helping women resolve inner and interpersonal conflicts.

Margaret Rausch

teaches at the

This book concerns cultural and political figures and institutions and ideas during a transitional period in Southeast Asia, Malaysia, and Indonesia. It also addresses the permutations of civilizing processes in Singapore and the city-state’s image. It centers on the way in which Islam was reconstructed as an intellectual and sociopolitical tradition in Southeast Asia in the 1990s and maps different patterns of modernity in a tropical region still bearing the signatures of a colonial past.

Georg Stauth

teaches the sociol-

ogy of Islam and Islamic countries at the University of Bielefeld.

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S o c i o lo g y

I s l a m i c s t u d i e s / a n t h r o p o lo g y

Studies

G lo b a l S t u d i e s

G lo b a l / Lo c a l I s l a m

G lo b a l / Lo c a l I s l a m

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J a gi e l l o n i a n S t u di e s i n Hi s t o r y

is a new English-language series published by the Jagiellonian University, Poland’s oldest and most renowned university.

Jews on Route to Palestine, 1934-1944

Sketches From the History of Aliyah Bet—Clandestine Jewish Immigration

J a gi e l l o n i a n U n iv e r s i t y P r e s s

J A G I E L L O N I A N S TUD I E S I N H ISTORY

Artur Patek “This work contains a lot of crucial information enhancing our knowledge of seemingly familiar facts. It is only after we have read the book that we realize how frequently our understanding of these matters was fragmentary and T h e I n s t i t u t e o f H i s t o r y at t h e J a g i e l l o n i a n U n i v e r s i t y i n K r a k o w.

Jagiellonian Studies in History features works by leading Polish historians covering various time periods and miscellaneous aspects of Polish and world history. All monographs reflect the highest quality of content and competence, and all publications are original works, the result of extensive and meticulous research in libraries and archives. The series’s editor in chief, Jan Jacek Bruski, is a noted Polish historian specializing in the history of twentieth-century Central and Eastern Europe and is based at the Jagiellonian University’s Institute of History.

incomplete.”

—Michał Pułaski, professor emeritus, Jagiellonian University

Aliyah Bet refers to the illegal immigration of Jews to Palestine during the period of the British Mandate for Palestine. It constituted one of the Zionist movement’s most successful efforts toward achieving a sovereign state of Israel. Its history is marked, on the one hand, by clandestine activities and spectacular operations and, on the other hand, by dramatic events (catastrophic sinkings of sea liners carrying immigrants, the deportation of refugees). This book surveys these events, without which one cannot understand the nature of contemporary Israel.

Artur Patek

is professor of history at the Jagiellonian

University in Krakow. His books (in Polish) include Great Britain’s Policy Toward the State of Israel During the First Arab-Israeli War, May 1948–January 1949.

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J a gi e l l o n i a n U n iv e r s i t y P r e s s

Constitutional Developments of the Habsburg Empire in the Last Decades Before Its Fall

The Materials of Polish-Hungarian Conference: Cracow, September 2007 Kazimierz Baran, editor

“A noteworthy analytical presentation by Istvan Kajtara eminent Hungarian historian figure Andorra Czizmadii.”

—Andrzej Bryk, Jagiellonian University

Published after the 2007 Polish-Hungarian Conference in Krakow, this volume exemplifies the cooperation between Krakow and Pecs University legal historians as they traced the constitutional developments of the waning Austro-Hungarian empire.

Articles identify Rechtsstaat tendencies within the Austro-Hungarian administration and judiciary and church-state relationships. Also discussed is the liberalism of the Austro-Hungarian regime in regards to emigration; the grassroots initiative of the Poles in laying the foundations of Polonia restituta before the end of World War I; and the persistence of Hungarian serfdom in postwar Spisz and Orawa.

Kazimierz Baran

The United States and the World From Imitation to Challenge

Andrzej Mania and Łukasz Wordliczek, Editors

In this rich, interdisciplinary collection debating America’s impact in the world, essays discuss integration in Pax Americana and other parts of the world; different and similar approaches to maintaining an international order; the issue of political continuity and change; the “export” of American values to the world; the separation of church and state; human rights; the idea of sovereignty; the separation of powers; modern federalism; various approaches to democratization; Americanism; defining the parameters of American studies and American exceptionalism; the uniqueness of contemporary American society; and patterns in foreign policy.

Andrzej Mania

teaches at the Institute of Political Sci-

ence and International Relations, Jagiellonian University. Łukasz Wordliczek

teaches at the Institute of

American Studies and the Polish Diaspora, Jagiellonian University.

is head of the Department of General

History of State and Law at the Jagiellonian University.

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e a s t E u r o p e a n h i s to r y

I n t e r n at i o n a l R e l at i o n s / A m e r i c a n S t u d i e s

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European Integration in Central and Eastern Europe

Obama’s America

Change and Continuity Andrzej Mania, editor

Magdalena Góra and Katarzyna Zielińska, editors “All of the eighteen texts contained in this work provide an interesting view on many aspects of the political and social life of the newest members of the EU and also on their interactions in the international arena.”

—Dariusz Milczarek, University of Warsaw

This book descibes and assesses the changes and integration processes resulting from the EU enlargements of 2004 and 2007.

Locating similarities and differences within affected countries, the volume identifies recent alterations resulting from European integration and offers an account of Europeanization that transcends conditionality mechanisms. The book concentrates on the most profound results from the point of view of theorizing on the impact of integration processes: democratic consolidation in the region; collective identity construction; the functioning of civil society; and studies on foreign policy and international relations.

Magdalena Góra

is assistant professor at the Institute of

This book collects selected papers presented at an international conference organized by the Jagiellonian University in May 2010. The works thoroughly analyze the processes taking place during the first years of Barack Obama’s administration. The anthology initially focuses on U.S. foreignpolicy issues relating to Africa, Japan, Iran, Germany, and Central and Eastern Europe.

It then follows the political processes and institutions supervised by Vice President Joe Biden and the relationship between the American president and the Supreme Court.

In conclusion, the volume covers such social issues as racial policy, popular movements, and Obama’s public image.

Andrzej Mania

J a gi e l l o n i a n U n iv e r s i t y P r e s s

Democracy, State, and Society

works at the Institute of Political Science

and International Relations at the Jagiellonian University. He has published more than twenty works and is the editor of the series Jagiellonian University Texts on American Studies Momentum and the academic journal, Ad Americam: Journal of American Studies.

European Studies, Jagiellonian University, and Katarzyna Zielińska

is assistant professor at the Institute of Sociol-

ogy and international programmes coordinator at the Centre for European Studies, Jagiellonian University.

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politics / American Studies

Politics / East European Studies

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J a gi e l l o n i a n U n iv e r s i t y P r e s s

Unknown Lutsk Karaim Letters in Hebrew Script (Nineteenth– Twentieth Centuries)

In Selected Biographical-NovelsAbout-Writers

Michał Németh

“An ambitious attempt to tackle the important and current

A Critical Edition

Authors on Authors Robert Kusek

topic of theoretical, historical, and literary criticism. In “Michał Németh introduces new archival sources into the

accordance with the promise made in the title, Robert Kusek

history of everyday Karaim language in the nineteenth and

intriguingly discusses his selection of biographical novels and

early twentieth centuries and develops their language in

classifies different variations, based on theoretical thought.”

terms of the new information these sources bring to Karaim knowledge.”

—Marek Stachowski, Jagiellonian University

The work recaptures the language spoken

by Lutsk Karaims in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The volume reproduces eleven private letters and five open letters and is the first critical edition of this type of text written in this particular dialect. Linguistic descriptions of the texts identify the manuscripts’ grammar and are complemented by a chapter detailing the Slavonic structural influences exerted on the authors’ idiolects. A concise palaeographic description and content summary precedes each translation, and the work concludes with a glossary, several indexes, maps, and facsimiles of the manuscripts.

Michał Németh

is an assistant lecturer in Hungarian

philology at the Jagiellonian University.

—Mirosława Buchholtz, Nicolaus Copernicus University

Authors on Authors examines the biographical-novel-about-a-writer subgenre, which uses a real writer and his/her life story for imaginative exploration. The study identifies all the major examples of the genre written in English between 1990 and 2010 and discusses the approaches and methods used by contemporary authors in rewriting the lives of other authors. This study works dialectically across the borders of history, biography, literary criticism, philosophy, and textual analysis, focusing on four texts: Author, Author by David Lodge; The Master

by Colm Tóibín; The Hours by Michael Cunningham; and The Master of Petersburg

by J. M. Coetzee.

Robert Kusek

is a lecturer in the Institute of English

philology at the Jagiellonian University.

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J u da i c S t u d i e s / l i n g u i s t i c s

2 0 1 3 170 pages

S t u d i a T u r c o lo g i c a C r acov i e n s i a

Literary Criticism

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Suffering as a Poetic Strategy of Emily Dickinson Jadwiga Smith and Anna Kapusta

“A novel approach that at the same time illuminates the important problem of suffering by linking it with art.”

—Beata Szymańska, poet and author

Emily Dickinson’s texts confirm the idea that suffering occupies the principal position in the poet’s work. Her poetry reflects a painful literary quest for subjectivity as well as an act of self-transcendence, meaning that through her writing the poet obtained conscious control over her personal anguish.

By using pain as a poetic strategy, Dickinson transformed her private biography into a literary text. In this way, she is a model for coping with suffering and using it for self-examination and self-development. The investigation of Dickinson’s poetic texts reveals three dimensions of suffering as poetic strategy: suffering as a theme; suffering as a subversive force affecting language; and suffering as a form of poetic expression.

Jadwiga Smith

is a professor of English at Bridgewater

State University.

Anna Kapusta

is a social anthropologist and literary critic.

The “Image-Event” in the Early Post-9/11 Novel

Literary Representations of Terror After September 11, 2001 Ewa Kowal

J a gi e l l o n i a n U n iv e r s i t y P r e s s

Writing Life

“The picture of empty space left after the towers collapsed has become a museum of memory and a place for experiencing the greatness and victory of human spirit, recalled repeatedly in the book. It is in these fragments that Ewa Kowal finds the literate memorial strengthening the memory of the victims, becoming a part of the history in opposition to a sole description of the events that happend.”

—Ewa Borkowska, University of Silesia

How can literature respond to a monumental event whose memory is inseparable from its media coverage? How can writers represent what Jean Baudrillard called the “image-event,” and what form can they use to convey something so unspeakable simultaneously broadcast live across the globe? These questions are central to Ewa Kowal’s comparative study of thirteen post-9/11 novels. Focusing on audio-visual media, motifs of childhood, and magical thinking, she ranks each book according to its closeness to the terrorist attack and links the book’s distance to its degree of formal (un)conventionality.

Ewa Kowal

teaches at the Institute of English Studies

at the Jagiellonian University.

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Developing Intercultural Competence Through English

Focus on Ukrainian and Polish Cultures

Developing the “Sociology of Ageing”

Anna Niżegorodcew,

To Tackle the Challenge of Ageing Societies in Central and Eastern Europe

Yakiv Bystrov, and

Jolanta Perek-Białas and

Marcin Kleban, editors

Andreas Hoff, editors

“A valuable result on a joint intercultural project between

“This book collects the most contemporary issues relating

two universities from the neighboring countries of Poland

to the process of ageing in Central and Eastern European

and Ukraine. The volume distinguishes itself in three ways:

societies. Its aim is to call attention to the challenges of

an unusual format combining the work of both scholars and

this population and its importance to aspects of sociology.

students; a focus on the intracultural approach; and practical

These challenges not only require recognition and resolution

designation.”

through the application of appropriate research approaches

—Lucyna Aleksandrowicz-Pędich, Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities

action.”

This volume emphasizes an increasing awareness that teaching and learning English also serves to develop general intercultural competence. This volume’s choice of topics points to an interesting cultural difference: a Ukrainian inclination to focus on the characteristic and attractive aspects of their own culture, and a Polish inclination to concentrate on the problematic and difficult features of their culture.

Anna Niżegorodcew

is professor of English at the

Jagiellonian University.

Yakiv Bystrov

is head of the Department of English

Philology at the Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University in the Ukraine.

Marcin Kleban

but also the education of various actors (including policy makers) for both diagnosing the phenomena and taking

—Jolanta Grotowska-Leder, University of Lodz

This volume covers multiple topics in ageing studies and outlines a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches, meaning that although it is a publication containing many authors, it is a consistent study, tracing the development of the sociology of ageing as a scientific discipline in select Central and Eastern European countries.

Jolanta Perek-Białas

teaches in the Institute of

Sociology at Jagiellonian University.

Andreas Hoff

is professor of social gerontology at the

University of Applied Sciences in Germany and a research affiliate at the Oxford Institute of Ageing.

is an assistant professor at the Institute

for English Studies, Jagiellonian University.

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Teresa Siemieńska,

Jan Stępniewski and

Krzysztof Szczeponek,

Marek Bugdol, editors

Andrzej M. Turek, and Leonard M. Proniewicz

This study concerns the use, management, and disposal of chemical reagents according to Polish and EU law. It covers regulatory directives, occupational health and safety rules, fire regulations, the purchase and preparation of chemical substances, storage, handling, the use of chemicals in the workplace, and the recovery and disposal of chemical waste.

Teresa Siemieńska

is a specialist,

Krzysztof Szczeponek

is a se-

nior specialist, Andrzej M. Turek is an assistant professor, and Leonard M. Proniewicz

is a professor in the

Faculty of Chemistry at the Jagiel-

A successful health-care unit means meeting patients’ expectations, taking advantage of the latest organizational and technological solutions, and providing financial balance.

Medical units must pursue modern methods of management, taking into account cost analysis, cost structure, and controlling and caring about income. This volume shows how to transpose organizational solutions to medical units from other economic fields.

JAn STĘPNIEWSKI BUGDOL

and MAREK

are lecturers at the Faculty

Strategic Directions of Tourism Development

The Cases of Poland and Slovakia–Scientific Monograph Małgorzata

Bednarczyk, Andrej Malachovský, and Ewa Wszendybył-Skulska, editors

This volume describes the implementation of tourism policy within each member country of the EU. It details regional approaches and confronts the complex monitoring processes of regional and national tourism products.

MAŁGORZATA BEDNARCZYK

is

lecturer in the Faculty of Management and Social Communication, Jagiellonian University.

ANDREJ MALACHOVSKÝ

teaches

of Management and Social Communi-

in the Department of Tourism and

cation at the Jagiellonian University.

Hospitality at the Matej Bel University.

lonian University.

J a gi e l l o n i a n U n iv e r s i t y P r e s s

Chemical Management Costs, Organization, in Scientific and and Management of Educational Institutions Hospitals

EWA WSZENDYBYŁ-SKULSKA

is

lecturer in management and social communication, Jagiellonian University.

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Shakespeare in Europe

History and Memory

Eyes to Wonder, Tongue to Praise

and Agnieszka

Volume in Honour of Professor Marta Gibińska

Romanowska, Editors

Agnieszka Pokojska

Marta Gibińska

International scholars trace the changing concept and status of history in the reading and representation of Shakespearean plays. Essays consider the transposition of the plays’ time and place to the time and place of their reception within the context of historical awareness. Equally fascinating are studies reclaiming medieval and Renaissance perspectives. Memory and how it operates (or how we operate it) becomes indispensable to research on history’s literary and dramatic representation.

Marta Gibińska

is a lecturer in

English philology and Agnieszka Romanowska

is an assistant

Genre Analysis of Online Encyclopedias

The Case of Wikipedia

Anna Tereszkiewicz “A valuable and innovative contribution

and Agnieszka

to modern genealogy research.”

Romanowska, Editors

—Ewa Willim, Faculty of English Philology, Jagiellonian University

These essays cover Shakespeare’s historical context; sources; theatrical, screen, and literary reception; and translations. “Eyes to wonder, tongue to praise” is a poetic phrase borrowed from Shakespeare, conveying a defining quality of the contributors to this volume and its recipient: the ability to translate a keen appreciation of literature into eloquent praise, combined with a generosity to share it with others.

Agnieszka Pokojska

is a lecturer

in the Faculty of English Philology and Agnieszka Romanowska

is an

This is the first complete study of the online encyclopedia genre. The book opens with a theoretical introduction to the concept of Web genres and provides a detailed overview of the content, form, and functionality of different types of encyclopedic websites.

The second part concerns Wikipedia, featuring an in-depth discussion of the site’s discourse features. The book is enhanced by many illustrations reproducing the analyzed websites.

Anna Tereszkiewicz

is a lecturer

at the Institute of English Studies at

professor of English at the Jagiellonian

assistant professor of English at the

University.

Jagiellonian University.

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the Jagiellonian University.

The Secret Agent, Tarr, and Women in Love Izabela Curyłło-Klag

“This work taps into a deep layer of communication and mutual conflict

Aspects Yellowing Darkly

Ethics, Intuitions, and the European High Modernist Poetry of Suffering and Passage Peter McCormick

as literary forms, the symbolism of gestures and behaviors, reflecting what Irving Goffman defined in his sociological analysis as ‘presentation of self.’ ” —Krystyna Stamirowska, Jagiellonian University

Building on the anthropological insights of René Girard and on the premise that literature is a reflection of a cultural moment, Izabela Curyłło-Klag shows how early modernism registers symptoms of a crisis even the outbreak of World War I failed to resolve. Addressed in chronological order, the works of Conrad, Lewis, and Lawrence indicate the growing intensity of the epoch that produced them.

Izabela Curyłło-Klag

Peter McCormick highlights the conceptual and linguistic resources of the distinctive European high modernist poetry of suffering, demonstrating its fresh rearticulation of the morals and ethics underwriting European civilization. McCormick investigates forms of moral discourse, moral perception, moral motivation, and ethical emancipation in the poetry of Nobel Laureates T. S. Eliot, Paul Valéry, and Eugenio Montale.

Peter McCormick

is a member of

the Institut international de philosophie in Paris and a former professor of philosophy at the University of Ottawa.

teaches in

J a gi e l l o n i a n U n iv e r s i t y P r e s s

Violence in Early Modernist Fiction

Modern Literature of the United Arab Emirates Barbara MichalakPikulska “This volume develops a comprehensive, contemporary literature of the United Arab Emirates. The work’s composition is clear and contains interesting conclusions supported by insightful research, resulting in an innovative historical and literary study.”

—Ewa Machut-Mendecka, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Warsaw

This volume fills a yawning gap in the academic study of Emirate literature, bringing Arab and non-Arab readers closer to the exceptionally interesting—though only recently represented—panorama of Emirati literary life.

This anthology also contains biographical information on featured authors and bibliographies of their work.

Barbara Michalak-Pikulska

is

head of the Arabic Department at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Jagiellonian University.

the Institute of English Studies at the Jagiellonian University. $35.00 paper 978-83-233-3232-9

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Literary Criticism / Poetry

L i t e r at u r e / A n t h o lo g y

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Genres Rediscovered

Transcending Traditions

Poland–China

Studies in Latin Miniature Epic, Love Elegy, and Epigram of the RomanoBarbaric Age

Thurayya al-Baqsami— a Creative Compilation— Poetry, Prose, and Paint

Anna Maria Wasyl

Barbara MichalakPikulska

Reading Dracontius’s epyllion, Maximianus’s elegy, and Luxorius’s epigram, this volume transforms common understandings of classical Roman poetry genres, emphasizing the courage of these poets in reusing and reinterpreting their literary heritage. The book proves that studies of Latin literature and literature in general require a proper, diachronic approach unsettling accepted conceptions of “main” and “marginal,” “relevant” and “negligible.”

Anna Maria Wasyl

teaches at the

Institute of Classical Philology at the

“This book is an interesting, original, and valuable contribution to the study of Arabic literature and culture.”

—Ewa Machut-Mendecka, University of Warsaw

Transcending Traditions systematically maps the Kuwaiti female artist Thurayya Al-Baqsami’s literary creativity and examines the significance of her artistic work.

Barbara Michalak-Pikulska

is

head of the Arabic Department at the Institute of Oriental Studies, the Jagiellonian University. Her many books include Modern Poetry and Prose of Bahrain; Authority, Privacy, and Public Order in Islam; and Intertextuality in Modern Arabic Literature Since 1967.

Jagiellonian University.

Art and Cultural Heritage Joanna Wasilewska, Editor

This book contains a collection of texts produced during the first conference between Polish and Chinese art historians in 2009. Essays synthesize different periods and phenomena throughout the history of Polish and Chinese art, addressing artistic contact between the two countries, especially from a Chinese point of view, and the affinities and common tendencies shared between modern and contemporary Chinese and Polish art. The volume also provides insight into recent developments in Polish research on Chinese art, a dynamically developing subject.

Joanna Wasilewska

is deputy

director and curator of the Asia and Pacific Museum in Warsaw.

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A r t H i s to r y

Rearticulating Social Justice in France and the EU PETER MCCORMICK

“Important, original, and valuable.”

The Analytic Hierarchy The Ageing Societies and Network Processes of Central and Eastern Europe Application in Solving Multicriteria Decision Problems

Some Problems–Some Solutions

Wiktor Adamus, Editor

Jolanta Perek-Białas and Andreas Hoff,

—Czesław Porębski, Jagiellonian University

This volume reframes social injustice not as an absence of solidarity but as the failure to imagine and act on “mutualities.” The book highlights the central elements of extreme child poverty through case studies of destitute Parisian street children, arguing the violations of social justice outlined by J. Rawls, A. Sen, R. Dworkin, and J. Habermas are insufficient for understanding such legally and morally intolerable situations. Nevertheless, each contributes to a progressive rearticulation of social justice.

PETER MCCORMICK

is a fellow of

the Royal Society of Canada and a permanent member of the Institut

J a gi e l l o n i a n U n iv e r s i t y P r e s s

Moments of Mutuality

This book reviews the AHP/ ANP approach to decision problems and their application to economic, managerial, and organizational issues. It addresses theoretical and methodological aspects; the application of AHP in connection with other methods; the application of ANP in solving economic, organizational, social, and political problems; and other multicriteria methods. The variety of problems and solutions indicate these methods are developing rapidly and offer interdisciplinary research perspectives.

Wiktor Adamus

is a professor

at the Institute of Economics and Management, Jagiellonian University.

Editors

This book explores how Central and Eastern European societies are handling populations ageing more rapidly than in Western Europe. The text focuses on the influence of demographic ageing on societal change; overcoming age discrimination; the effect of family change on intergenerational solidarity; combining the skills of the young and the old in the workplace; public policy; and the public pension system.

Jolanta Perek-Białas

is an assis-

tant professor, Jagiellonian University.

Andreas Hoff

is professor of social

gerontology, Hochschule Zittau-Görlitz, Fakultät für Sozialwissenschaften.

International de Philosophie in Paris.

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2 0 1 2 196 pages

2 0 0 9 106 pages

p o l i t i c s / p h i lo s o p h y

M a n ag e m e n t

2 0 0 8 182 pages g e r o n to lo g y / E a s t E u r o p e a n Studies

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The Hasmoneans and Their State

Studies on the Turkic World

A Study in History, Ideology, Festschrift in Honor of and the Institutions Stanisław Stachowski Edward Dąbrowa,

Elżbieta Mańczak-

Editor

Wohlfeld and Barbara Podolak, Editors

Scholars have long disputed Hasmonean history, particularly the chronology and importance of events and the the identities of the actors involved. The aim of this study, therefore, is not to present a new reconstruction of Hasmonean history but to describe the state institutions they created. This issue usually remains on the fringe of scholarly dispute and to date has not been closely investigated. Nor has any attempt been made to synthetically present how the Hasmonean state once functioned in every aspect.

Edward Dąbrowa

Stanisław Stachowski is a Polish linguist and specialist on Turkey and the Turkish language. He founded the Department of Hungarian Philology at the Jagiellonian University and has served twice as the director of its Institute of Oriental Philology.

Elżbieta Mańczak-Wohlfeld

is a professor at the Jagiellonian University.

Barbara Podolak

is a senior

lecturer at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Jagiellonian University.

Defensive Architecture and the Depopulation of the Mesa Verde Region, Utah-Colorado, in the Thirteenth Century A.D. Radosław Palonka

Scholars still stuggle to understand the migration of Pueblo people from the Mesa Verde region to the south and southeast at the end of the thirteenth century.

This volume covers the social, political, and environmental factors driving the region’s depopulation. It presents evidence from remote archaeological sites, defensive buildings, settlement layouts; human remains; and rock art.

Radosław Palonka

is a

researcher and faculty member at the Institute of Archaeology, Jagiellonian University.

is a professor of

history at the Jagiellonian University.

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A n c i e n t H i s to r y

2 0 1 0 268 pages

2 0 1 1 240 pages / 43 color and 37 b&w maps

Electrum

linguistics / Middle East Studies

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Our Lady of Częstochowa in Polish Culture and Popular Religion Anna Niedźwiedź

Gaps in the Iron Curtain

Economic Relations Between Neutral and Socialist Countries in Cold War Europe Gertrude Enderle-

The image of Our Lady of Częstochowa is the most famous and venerated holy image in Poland. It is a kind of cultural icon, instantly recognizable and full of popular symbolic and mythological meanings.

This book analyzes the beliefs, narratives, myths, and rituals surrounding the image, revealing that for its devotees, it is not merely material object and picture but a perceived, lived, and experienced image of a real person, the figure of Mary, queen and mother.

Anna Niedźwiedź

is an anthro-

pologist teaching at the Institute of

Women in New Migrations Current Debates in European Societies

Krystyna Slany,

J a gi e l l o n i a n U n iv e r s i t y P r e s s

The Image and the Figure

Maria Kontos, and Maria Liapi, Editors

Burcel, Piotr Franaszek, Dieter Stiefel, and Alice Teichova, Editors

This volume focuses on the role of the capitalist market economies of neutral countries in building EastWest contacts during the Cold War. Gertrude Enderle-Burcel

is a

This volume surveys research and debates concerning new female migrants in European countries. Despite globalization and the Europeanization of national migration and integration policies, varying social, economic, and political conditions at the national level remain a powerful basis of academic production.

historian at the Austrian State Archives

Krystyna Slany

in Vienna.

studies at the Institute of Sociology,

Piotr Franaszek

is a professor of

is head of gender

the Jagiellonian University.

history at the Institute of History, the

Maria Kontos

Jagiellonian University.

fellow at the Institute for Social

Dieter Steifel

is a professor of

is a senior research

Research, J. W. Goethe University.

social and economic history at the

Maria Liapi

University of Vienna.

and equality expert and founding

is professor emeri-

is a sociologist

member of the Centre for Research on

Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology,

Alice Teichova

the Jagiellonian University.

tus of the University of East Anglia.

Women’s Issues, Athens.

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religion / East European Studies

E u r o p e a n H i s to r y

S o c i o lo g y / G e n d e r S t u d i e s

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Transformation of the Natural Environment in Western Sørkapp Land (Spitsbergen) Since the 1980s

Studies in the Philosophy of Law, 4

Studies in the Philosophy of Law, 5

Jerzy Stelmach,

Jerzy Stelmach,

Marta Soniewicka,

Bartosz Brożek, and

and Wojciech Załuski,

Marta Soniewicka,

Wiesław Ziaja, Editor

Editors

Editors

Western Sørkapp Land is a remote and diverse region, representative of the European Arctic. This book maps the transformation of the environment and landscape based on research data collected by the Jagiellonian University scientific expeditions of 1980–1986 and 2008.

Western Sørkapp Land has experienced dramatic natural changes such as glacial recession, the emergence of new landforms, and Quaternary deposits, changes in the water drainage and network caused by global warming.

This is the fourth volume in the series Studies in the Philosophy of Law, the first volume of which was published in 2001. The previous two volumes had a monographic character, the last one being devoted to the economic analysis of law.

This book concerns various issues in bioethics, law, and philosophy.

This fifth volume reflects work completed during a 2007–2010 research project entitled “Biojurisprudence,” undertaken by the Department of the Philosophy of Law and Legal Ethics at the Jagiellonian University and sponsored by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education.

Wiesław Ziaja

is a professor

Jerzy Stelmach

is a professor of

law at the University of Heidelberg.

Marta Soniewicka

is an assistant

Jerzy Stelmach

is a professor of

law at the University of Heidelberg.

Bartosz Brożek

is a professor

professor in the Faculty of Law and

of law in the Faculty of Law and

Administration at the Jagiellonian

Administration at the Jagiellonian

University.

University.

Wojciech Załuski

is an assistant

Marta Soniewicka

is an assistant

professor in the Faculty of Law and

professor in the Faculty of Law and

Administration at the Jagiellonian

Administration at the Jagiellonian

University.

University.

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E n v i r o n m e n ta l S t u d i e s

L aw

L aw

of geography at the Institute of Geography and Spatial Management, Jagiellonian University.

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Andrzej Marian Świątkowski

“Fundamental not only for students and teachers but also for legal practitioners, presenting basic notions and laws from a theoretical standpoint and a set of proposals and practical solutions to tackle the occurrence of norm conflicts and remain operative in the face of such conflicts.”

—Luis Jimena Quesada, University of Valencia Faculty of Law, president of the European Committee of Social Rights, Council of Europe

In EU labor law matters (individual and collective), as well as social security law, unified regulations create identical ways to resolve labor law conflicts arising from cross-national work relations. To ensure legal stability, national regulations concerning international private labor law have been replaced by unified conflicts of law norms. Employees and employers of EU member states must apply these laws in work situations in which third parties are involved. This volume collects international private labor law regulations issued by EU institutions, enabling the application of foreign laws based on citizenship, residency, and location.

Andrzej Marian Świątkowski

graduated from the

Faculty of Law at the Jagiellonian University and studied at Columbia Law School and the University of Pennsylvania.

The New Law School

Reexamining Goals, Organization, and Methods for a Changing World Daniela Ikawa and Leah Wortham, Editors

J a gi e l l o n i a n U n iv e r s i t y P r e s s

European Union Private International Labour Law

“This collection is a unique contribution to understanding issues confronting law schools in Central and Eastern Europe and in countries of the former Soviet Union as they seek to ensure their programs meet the needs of twenty-first-century lawyers.”

—Barbara Schatz, Columbia Law School

This collection is unusual in two ways: most contributors are faculty members at universities within Central and Eastern Europe, and essays address structural issues as well as pedagogical ones (e.g., the disincentives for academics to invest time in developing new teaching methodologies and the problems posed by rigid government standards for higher education). It is especially useful to join these essays together in one book so readers can consider both problems and suggested solutions in a crosscultural context.

Daniela Ikawa

is an assistant professor at the Institute

for the Study of Human Rights, Columbia University.

Leah Wortham

is on the faculty of the Columbus School

of Law at the Catholic University of America. She is an editor and coauthor of Learning from Practice: A Professional Development Text for Legal Externs.

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Prepositional Network Models

A Hermeneutical Case Study

Andrzej Pawelec

This text concerns the modeling of prepositional polysemy, known as “the story of over,” and the Polish counterpart, “the story of za(-),” a preposition and verbal prefix. The book explores the difference between cognitive and hermeneutical approaches to understanding the meaning of words, the representation of lexical senses (available out of context), the distinct meanings of words in communal use, and the question of the transformative power of words.

Andrzej Pawelec

teaches

cognitive linguistics and translation at the Institute of English Philology, the Jagiellonian University.

Languages and Cultures in Research and Education

Jubilee Volume Presented to Professor Ralf-Peter Ritter on His Seventieth Birthday László Kálmán Nagy, Michał Németh, and Szilárd Tátrai, Editors

This collection features papers presented at a conference held in Krakow in 2009. Essays consider historical linguistics lato sensu, reflect recent research on Hungarian language and literature, and explore Indo-European and UgroFinnic linguistics, the history of science, and Hungarian literature.

László Kálmán Nagy

is a profes-

sor in Hungarian philology, Michał Németh

is an assistant lecturer in

Hungarian philology, and Szilárd Tátrai

is an assistant professor of

Hungarian philology at the Jagiellonian University.

Young Linguists in Dialogue

The First Conference Ewa Willim, Editor

Young Linguists in Dialogue contains selected papers on linguistics from a conference organized by the Jagiellonian University Student’s English Society in Krakow in 2008.

The authors were all students of the Jagiellonian University and the University of Łódź.

Papers address questions related to the theory of natural language syntax, language diachrony, theory of phonology, psycholinguistics, linguistic stylistics, translation theory, and language methodology. This impressive variety of topics reflects these students’ wide-ranging research interests in the study of natural language.

Ewa Willim

is an associate professor

of linguistics at the Institute of English Studies, the Jagiellonian University.

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Monika Kusiak, Editor “An extremely valuable book discussing issues that play a crucial role in contemporary foreign-language

Learner’s Dictionary for Students and Professionals

English for European Public Health

presents the voices of its contributors.

Czabanowska, Editor

instructors, and teacher trainees and students of foreign-language colleges.”

“An extremely useful tool for public health programs across Europe.”

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Acting and Performance in Moving Image Culture.........................14 Active Audience.......................................... 6 Aesthetics of Authenticity, The...................... 2 Aesthetics of Net Literature, The.................19 Ageing Societies of Central and Eastern Europe, The............................. 57 Ages of Life, The........................................ 13 Ambiguity in Star Wars and Harry Potter..........................................3 Analytic Hierarchy and Network Processes, The.......................... 57 Art and Sustainability...............................41 Aspects Yellowing Darkly........................... 55 Asymmetrical Concepts After Reinhart Koselleck................................ 31 Authors on Authors....................................50 Balkan Memories....................................... 2 Between Self-Determination and Social Technology..................................37 Beyond the Screen......................................19 Black History–White History.................... 26 Bodies, Boundaries, and Spirit Possession.................................. 46 Body at Stake, The.....................................16 Buddhist Approaches to Human Rights.................................... 44 Camp Comforts.........................................28 Candide–Journal for Architectural Knowledge, No. 2.................................42 Candide–Journal for Architectural Knowledge, No. 3..................................42 Care in Practice........................................ 40 Chemical Management in Scientific and Educational Institutions................. 53 Childhood and Migration.......................... 33 Chronotopes of the Uncanny...................... 29 Companies in Peace Processes.....................34 Constitutional Developments of the Habsburg Empire in the Last Decades Before Its Fall..........................48 Cop and the Sociologist, The........................10 Costs, Organization, and Management of Hospitals..................... 53 Couchsurfing Cosmopolitanisms..................10 Creative Networks and the City.................42 Cultural History in Europe....................... 30 Dance [and] Theory...................................14 Dancing Postcolonialism............................36 Deconstructing Gender in Carnival........... 30 Defensive Architecture and the Depopulation of the Mesa Verde Region, Utah-Colorado, in the Thirteenth Century A.D........................58 Democracy, State, and Society.................... 49 Developing Intercultural Competence Through English.................52 Developing the “Sociology of Ageing”..........52 Dialogue in Foreign Language Education............................63 Digital Tools in Media Studies................... 18 Dissonant Memories, Fragmented Present..............................32 Diversification of Health, The.....................39 Does War Belong in Museums?...................16 Doing Anthropology in Wartime and War Zones..................................... 31

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Doing Identity in Luxembourg..................32 Emerging Bodies.......................................36 Emerging Diseases..................................... 12 Environmental Uncertainty and Local Knowledge.................................. 11 European Union Private International Labour Law....................61 European Visions...................................... 15 Eyes to Wonder, Tongue to Praise................54 Feminist Media.......................................... 7 From Pathology to Public Sphere................. 8 Fusing Lab and Gallery.............................16 Futures of Modernity.................................. 8 Gaps in the Iron Curtain...........................59 Genre Analysis of Online Encyclopedias............................54 Genres Rediscovered..................................56 Grinding California....................................3 Hasmoneans and Their State, The................58 Health Promotion and Prevention Programmes in Practice....................... 40 Historicizing the Uses of the Past................37 Historico-genetic Theory of Culture............. 35 Humanism in East Asian Confucian Contexts..............................45 Humanism in Intercultural Perspective.......................................... 44 Image and the Figure, The..........................59 “Image-Event” in the Early Post-9/11 Novel, The............................. 51 Images of Illegalized Immigration..............41 Implanted Minds......................................39 Interface Cultures......................................24 Internationalization of the Social Sciences......................................38 Islam and the Politics of Culture in Europe..................................1 Jews on Route to Palestine, 1934–1944.............................47 Knowledge in Motion................................36 Lad Trouble.............................................. 21 Languages and Cultures in Research and Education........................62 Learner’s Dictionary for Students and Professionals....................63 Lebanese in Motion...................................34 Lived Temporalities.................................. 20 Local Knowledge and Gender in Ghana.................................34 Love After Auschwitz................................ 35 Love It or Loathe It................................... 21 Machines as Agency...................................24 Making and Unmaking of Differences, The.................................... 33 Making of World Society, The.................... 46 Media, Culture, and Mediality..................25 Mind and Matter......................................25 Mittelbau-Dora: American and German Representations of a Nazi Concentration Camp................... 29 Modern Literature of the United Arab Emirates.......................... 55 Moments of Mutuality.............................. 57 Moment to Monument............................. 20 New Law School, The.................................61 New Thoughtfulness in Contemporary China, A........................41

Not Berlin and Not Shanghai....................24 Obama’s America...................................... 49 Octavio Paz............................................. 44 Ornamenting the Cold Roast...................... 4 Paradoxes of Authenticity...........................22 Past and Present Energy Societies............... 13 Peripheral Memories................................... 9 Placing America......................................... 4 Poland–China...........................................56 Political Campaigning on the Web.............. 18 Political Responsibility for a Globalised World...........................45 Politics and Cultures of Islamization in Southeast Asia............. 46 Politics of Imagination, The....................... 26 Popular History Now and Then................... 9 Port Cities as Areas of Transition...............43 Prayer in the City........................................1 Prepositional Network Models...................62 Pursuit of Meaning...................................22 Queer Art................................................. 17 Reading Moving Letters............................19 Real Wars on Virtual Battlefields................23 Reconciliation, Civil Society, and the Politics of Memory..................... 7 Represented Reporters................................23 Rethinking Biomedicine and Governance in Africa........................... 12 Rewind, Play, Fast Forward......................22 Rubble, Ruins, and Romanticism............... 15 Screening Nostalgia...................................27 Setting the Record Queer...........................28 Shakespeare in Europe...............................54 Shaping a Humane World..........................10 Sociological Theory of Value, A.................... 35 Soundscapes of the Urban Past.................... 17 Space (Re)Solutions...................................25 Staging the Past....................................... 26 Statistics by Prescription............................63 Strategic Directions of Tourism Development.......................... 53 Studies in the Philosophy of Law, 4........... 60 Studies in the Philosophy of Law, 5............ 60 Studies on the Turkic World........................58 Tensions and Convergences........................38 Theater in Lebanon....................................27 Thick Space................................................ 17 Totalitarian Communication.....................23 Traces of Humanism in China...................45 Transatlantic Cultural Exchange.................5 Transatlantic Sixties, The.............................5 Transcending Traditions............................56 Transformation of the Natural Environment in Western Sørkapp Land (Spitsbergen) Since the 1980s....... 60 Translation................................................ 6 United States and the World, The................48 Unknown Lutsk Karaim Letters in Hebrew Script (Nineteenth-Twentieth Centuries)........50 Urban Hacking.........................................43 Urban Life–Worlds in Motion................... 11 Violence in Early Modernist Fiction........... 55 Women in New Migrations........................59 Writing Life.............................................. 51 Young Linguists in Dialogue......................62