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Cultural Responses to the Far Right in Contemporary Germany
Against the backdrop of an insurgent far right and numerous deadly neo-Nazi attacks, various cultural practitioners have written far-right violence into Germany’s collective memory and imagined more inclusive futures in its wake. This volume explores contemporary examples from literature, music, theatre, film, television and art that respond to this situation. They demonstrate that, alongside the ways in which art expands the public sphere in terms of what is said and who is heard, aesthetic questions of how artistic works are presented are a crucial part of how they open up new perspectives.
What Remains?
This book tells the story of the German Democratic Republic from “the inside out,” using the lens of generational change to deconstruct an intriguing array of social identities that had little to do with the “official GDR” version authoritarian rulers regularly sought to impose on their citizens. The author compares the “identities” of five societal subgroups (GDR writers and intellectuals; pastors and dissidents; women; youth; and working-class men), exploring the policies defining their lives and status before/during/after the 1989 Wende, as well as the diverging “exit, voice and loyalty” dilemmas encountered by each. The “dialectical” components treated in this work ce...
Everyday Postsocialism in Eastern Europe
The collapse of state socialism ushered in dramatic political and economic change, producing new freedoms and opportunities, but also new challenges and disappointments. Focusing on laborers, professionals, youth, women, sexual minorities, foreign students, and emigrants, Everyday Postsocialism in Eastern Europe explores these multifaceted changes and people’s varied experiences of them. The featured narratives complicate hegemonic representations of transformation, revealing ruptures and continuities, progress and reversals. Highlighting the multi-directionality of change over the last thirty years, the book reappraises 1989 as an epochal event for all.
The Third Wave in Science and Technology Studies
This book analyzes future directions in the study of expertise and experience with the aim of engendering more critical discourse on the general discipline of science and technology studies. In 2002, Collins and Evans published an article entitled “The Third Wave of Science Studies,” suggesting that the future of science and technology studies would be to engage in “Studies in Expertise and Experience.” In their view, scientific expertise in legal and policy settings should reflect a consensus of formally-trained scientists and citizens with experience in the relevant field (but not “ordinary” citizens). The Third Wave has garnered attention in journals and in international workshops, where scholars delivered papers explicating the theoretical foundations and practical applications of the Third Wave. This book arose out of those workshops, and is the next step in the popularization of the Third Wave. The chapters address the novel concept of interactional experts, the use of imitation games, appropriating scientific expertise in law and policy settings, and recent theoretical developments in the Third Wave.
The Oxford Handbook of Communist Visual Cultures
Looking at monuments, murals, computer games, recycling campaigns, children's books, and other visual artifacts, The Oxford Handbook of Communist Visual Cultures reassesses communism's historical and cultural legacy.
The Oxford Handbook of Expertise and Democratic Politics
In the last several decades, there has been a surge of interest in expertise in the social scientific, philosophical, and legal literatures. While it is tempting to attribute this surge of interest in expertise to the emergence and consolidation of a "knowledge society," "post-industrial society," or "network society," it is more likely that the debates about expertise are symptomatic of significant change and upheaval. As the number of contenders for expert status has increased, as the bases for their claims have become more diverse, and as the struggles between these would-be experts intensified, expertise became problematic and contested. In The Oxford Handbook of Expertise and Democratic...
Die Generation der Wendekinder
Seit 2011 stehen Wendekinder, als letzte partiell in der DDR sozialisierte Gruppe, welche sich in Teilen selbst als Dritte Generation Ostdeutschland bezeichnen, im Fokus der Öffentlichkeit. Mit diesem Band liegt eine transdisziplinäre Betrachtung des Phänomens vor. Dabei wird das Forschungsfeld in den Dimensionen Diskurs, Typen und Positionierung(en) kartiert. Im zweiten Moment ist durch die Bildung eines Analyserasters, dem Rostocker-Generationen-Modell, eine Betrachtung der Frage nach dem „Zusammenwachsen“ der beiden deutschen Staaten gelungen. Die Vielfalt der Beiträge verdeutlicht eine initiale Erkenntnis: Es handelt sich bei den Wendekindern um eine hochgradig diverse Generation, welcher jedoch aufgrund ihrer doppelten Sozialisation eine ausgleichende triangulierende Vermittlerposition zukommt.
Engagementstrategien und Engagementpolitik
Die Engagementpolitik der Länder steht im Mittelpunkt des Schwerpunktthemas "Engagementstrategien und Engagementpolitik" – mit Fallstudien zu Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Nordrhein-Westfalen und Baden-Württemberg. Gerahmt werden diese länderspezifischen Betrachtungen durch Überlegungen dazu, wie sich Infrastrukturen der Engagementförderung in Zusammenarbeit von Staat und Kommunen, Wirtschaft und Zivilgesellschaft (trisektoral) entwickeln lassen. Darüber hinaus analysieren Autor*innen die Lage des Non-Profit-Sektors in Deutschland und setzen sich mit migrantischen Selbstorganisationen im Wandel auseinander. Nicht zuletzt bietet das Jahrbuch auch einen umfassenden Überblick über die Arbeit des Bundesnetzwerks Bürgerschaftliches Engagement (BBE).
