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Der Sammelband vereint Beiträge, die im Rahmen der Vorlesungsreihe «Afrika: Radikal neu denken?» an der Freien Universität Berlin entstanden sind. Sie fragen nach den Pfaden, die Afrikaner_innen heute jenseits der anscheinend allgemein gültigen Konventionen beschreiten...
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JungakademikerInnen unterschiedlicher Fachgebiete haben sich mit der Idee den interdisziplinären sowie interkulturellen wissenschaftlichen Dialog zu fördern ans Werk gemacht und setzen sich in ihren Beiträgen mit internationalen Fragen beziehungsweise regionalen Themen...
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Das algerische Kino begleitet die Geschichte des Landes seit dem Unabhängigkeitskrieg. Es reflektiert Entwicklungen und Probleme des modernen Algerien, dessen enge und konfliktreiche Beziehung zu Frankreich sowie die nationale Krise im Bürgerkrieg. Aus filmhistorischer,...
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At the start of studies on health communication, scholars were primarily concerned with showing the ethical implications of a new approach to care and with collecting evidence to demonstrate its greater effectiveness as opposed to the paternalistic and mechanistic...
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Dangerous Discourses brings together new work by feminist scholars who provide a multifaceted view of the ways contemporary media discourses inscribe particular understandings of gendered social identities, gun violence, and public policy. The chapters examine multiple...
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Die Autorin untersucht das Formenspektrum griechischer visueller Poesie in ihrer sprachlichen und kulturgeschichtlichen Spannbreite: Vom antiken Technopägnion, den Kuben und Trigona, über die byzantinischen «gewebten Verse» oder die neuzeitlichen figurierten Lobgedichte...
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Moving away from the common/traditional focus on studying organizations from a distance, this highly engaging book introduces the idea of studying them from the inside.
Inside Organizations: Exploring Organizational Experiences guides placement students, and any...
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Der Islam soll den Muslim zu einem ethischen und prosozialen Leben führen. Entgegen dem heutigen Islambild ist festzuhalten, dass jede Art von Prosozialität, gegenüber allen Lebewesen und allem, was existiert, eine vom Islam nicht nur erwünschte, sondern bei jedem...
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The bond between humans and horses is deep. For humans, horses provide freedom. Riding on horses and horse-drawn chariots or carts has allowed humans to go farther and faster than they could on their own. Horses (now high-horsepower cars) are our wings. As a result,...
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This book argues for – and carries out – what the author terms Heightened Performative Autoethnography (HPA). The common theme throughout the volume involves resisting oppressive and hegemonic spaces within paradigms, and hence seeking epistemological liberation. The...
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Playing for Change – performing for money and for social justice – introduces a critical pedagogy of arts-based community learning and development (A-CLD), a new discipline wherein artists learn to become educators, social workers, and community economic development...
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The book investigates relations between the ‘East’ and ‘West’ which have been forming and evolving from the Enlightenment until the present times. On the basis of material covering a selection of American, British and Turkish literature, as well as examples of Western...
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The book is about the evolution and transformation of knowledge and knowledge systems in the context of cultural contact.The articles take Korea as an example and deal with the configuration, dissemination and consolidation of knowledge in certain contexts of the past...
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The book offers the very first critical biography on Norman Manea, a widely respected writer and multiple Nobel Prize Nominee. It follows two main objectives: an aesthetic interpretation of his literature and a contextualization of his ethical discourse. Manea's...
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Korea, geographically situated at cultural crossroads, has a long history of creative engagement with knowledge from outside sources. This volume discusses processes of knowledge integration – of interpretive adaptation, dissection, selection and re-assemblage, of...
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This volume examines representations and explorations of travel ideals in contemporary international cinema. It assembles work from a diverse range of academic fields including anthropology, sociology, ethnography, cinema, culture, tourism, communication and language...
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Are we living in a post-colonial world? A colonial one? An anti-colonial one? Lifting the veil from language and politics, Anti-Colonial Theory and Decolonial Praxis uses case studies from around the world to explore and untangle these concepts as they relate to...
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Der Autor zeigt den Verlauf der sozialen, politischen und wirtschaftlichen Prozesse in den Regionen Memelland, Kaliningrader Gebiet, Ermland und Masuren nach 1945 auf. Er vergleicht ihre jeweiligen Entwicklungen kritisch miteinander und rekurriert dabei auf die...
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How are media and communications transforming armed conflicts?How are conflicts made visible in the media in different national and transnational settings?How does the media serve as a means by which various actors manage and communicate conflict?
These are some of the...
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This book presents the legal institutions involved in cultural heritage protection from a Polish point of view. Its authors set out the legal framework of cultural management in the context of private and public law. They analyse the Anglo-Saxon concept of trusts,...
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