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The Politics of Affective Societies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 200

The Politics of Affective Societies

Many claim that political deliberation has become exceedingly affective and hence destabilizing. This book reframes the debate by deploying the analytic framework of affective societies--claiming that in all aspects of the social, affect and emotion are present. What changes are modes and calibrations of affective and emotional registers.

The Indigenous Paradox
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 256

The Indigenous Paradox

An investigation into how indigenous rights are conceived in legal language and doctrine In the twenty-first century, it is politically and legally commonplace that indigenous communities go to court to assert their rights against the postcolonial nation-state in which they reside. But upon closer examination, this constellation is far from straightforward. Indigenous communities make their claims as independent entities, governed by their own laws. And yet, they bring a case before the court of another sovereign, subjecting themselves to its foreign rule of law. According to Jonas Bens, when native communities enter into legal relationships with postcolonial nation-states, they "become indi...

The Sentimental Court
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 257

The Sentimental Court

  • Categories: Law

Analyses how atmospheres and sentiments shape the workings of international criminal law in (post-)colonial Africa and beyond.

Homo Emotionalis
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 159

Homo Emotionalis

In this book, important works and approaches of policy-oriented emotion research are brought into a systematic context. For this purpose, three different types of emotions are elaborated, which in their totality constitute Homo Emotionalis: binary emotions, basic emotions, reflexive emotions. They correspond to individual-psychological stages of development, but are also relevant in the social and political handling of emotions. The interplay of emotion types and social constellations leads to different modes of political action, which shape different forms of emotional politics. In each case, individual logics emerge along which emotional politics is pursued. With its interdisciplinary focus, this volume is aimed at political scientists, anthropologists, sociologists and social psychologists.

Modern Jewish Thought on Crisis
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 381

Modern Jewish Thought on Crisis

This volume brings together scholars from a range of disciplines to explore the intersections between crisis, scholarship, and action. The aim of this book is to think about the “moment of crisis,” through the concepts, writings, and methodologies awarded to us by Jewish thinkers in modernity. This book offers a broad gallery of accounts on the notion of crisis in Jewish modernity while emphasizing three terms: interpretation, heresy, and messianism. The main thesis of the volume is that the diasporic and exilic experience of the Jewish people turned their philosophers and theologians into “experts in crisis management” who had to find resources within their own religion, culture and...

Turkish German Muslims and Comedy Entertainment
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 218

Turkish German Muslims and Comedy Entertainment

Turkish German comedy culture and the lived realities of Turkish Muslims in Germany Comedy entertainment is a powerful arena for serious public engagement with questions of German national identity and Turkish German migration. The German majority society and its largest labour migrant community have been asking for decades what it means to be German and what it means for Turkish Germans, Muslims of the second and third generations, to call Germany their home. Benjamin Nickl examines through the social pragmatics of humour the dynamics that underpin these questions in the still-evolving popular culture space of German mainstream humour in the 21st century. The first book-length study on the topic to combine close readings of film, television, literary and online comedy, and transnational culture studies, Turkish German Muslims and Comedy Entertainment presents the argument that Turkish German humour has moved from margin to mainstream by intervening in cultural incompatibility and Islamophobia discourse. Ebook available in Open Access. This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).

Language and Emotion. Volume 3
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 974

Language and Emotion. Volume 3

The Handbook consists of four major sections. Each section is introduced by a main article: Theories of Emotion – General Aspects Perspectives in Communication Theory, Semiotics, and Linguistics Perspectives on Language and Emotion in Cultural Studies Interdisciplinary and Applied Perspectives The first section presents interdisciplinary emotion theories relevant for the field of language and communication research, including the history of emotion research. The second section focuses on the full range of emotion-related aspects in linguistics, semiotics, and communication theories. The next section focuses on cultural studies and language and emotion; emotions in arts and literature, as w...

Smooth Path or Long and Winding Road?
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 280

Smooth Path or Long and Winding Road?

The book uses a comparative study of Germany and Britain to reveal how national institutions shape the labour market careers of higher education graduates. It identifies four institutional spheres that are important: the structure of higher education systems, the content of study, the structure of graduate labour markets, and labour market flexibility. Due to country differences, the transition from higher education to work in Germany follows a smooth path, while in Britain it is more comparable to a long and winding road.

The Politics of Affective Societies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 129

The Politics of Affective Societies

Many claim that political deliberation has become exceedingly affective, and hence, destabilizing. The authors of this book revisit that assumption. While recognizing that significant changes are occurring, these authors also point out the limitations of turning to contemporary democratic theory to understand and unpack these shifts. They propose, instead, to reframe this debate by deploying the analytic framework of affective societies, which highlights how affect and emotion are present in all aspects of the social. What changes over time and place are the modes and calibrations of affective and emotional registers. With this line of thinking, the authors are able to gesture towards a new outline of the political.

Emotions- und Affektsoziologie
  • Language: de
  • Pages: 406

Emotions- und Affektsoziologie

Unser Zusammenleben ist auf vielfältige Weise affektiv geprägt: Wir lassen uns von der Freude anderer anstecken, fühlen uns abgestoßen von Hass und sozialer Kälte oder fühlen uns cool im Verbund mit anderen. Emotionen, Gefühle und Affekte moderieren auf spürbare Weise das Verhältnis zwischen Individuum und Gesellschaft. Das Lehrbuch gibt einen Überblick über die soziologische Emotions- und Affektforschung. Neben der Entwicklung und den Grundkonzepten emotionssoziologischer Theoriebildung, werden empirische Forschungsmöglichkeiten und gegenwärtige Trends aufgezeigt. Um das weite Feld der Emotions- und Affektforschung gegenstandnah abzustecken, werden einige zentrale Forschungsfelder vorgestellt und einzelne distinkte Gefühle in ihrer sozialen Funktion diskutiert. Gerade Studierenden soll der Einstieg erleichtert werden, indem die Beiträge Kernthemen der Emotions- und Affektforschung in Relation zu zentralen Paradigmen und Zeitdiagosen der Soziologie besprechen. Auf diesem Weg adressiert die Einführung Potentiale und Schwierigkeiten des sozialwissenschaftlichen Studiums der Gefühle.