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In her endeavour to overcome the established methodological, conceptual, and empirical dualism of mobility and migration, Anna Xymena Wieczorek develops a "mobilities perspective" by combining migration studies theories with approaches of the mobility studies. With the help of rich empirical data gathered among young adults of Polish heritage in Germany and Canada, Wieczorek conceptualizes three patterns of (im)mobility which illustrate the diversity of immigrants' geographical movements after their initial migration. She thus reveals the different social configurations promoting or hindering the development, maintenance or shifting of each pattern in migrants' biographical trajectories.
Sash, Mokassins und blumenförmiges Beadwork haben sich zu Symbolen für das indigene people der Metis in Kanada entwickelt. Sie werden mindestens seit dem frühen 19. Jahrhundert verwendet, um Metisness zu konstruieren und zu artikulieren. Durch ihre Bedeutung für die Produktion von kollektiver und kultureller Erinnerung bilden diese Artefakte eine der Grundlagen für die Resilienz der Metis gegenüber Strategien der Zwangsassimilation und damit auch für die Metis-Renaissance seit den 1960er-Jahren. Dieses Buch befasst sich mit den Fragen, wie Sash, Mokassins und Beadwork als Artefakte im Kontext einer Metis-Erinnerungskultur genutzt wurden, wie sie - sowohl von Metis als auch von Eurokanadier*innen - in Bilder und Narrative von Metisness übersetzt wurden und wie sich die museale Repräsentation der Artefakte zur Konzeption von Hybridität verhält.
Comment les relations internationales sont-elles devenues une discipline académique et quelles orientations ont-elles pris au fil du temps ? Quels sont les outils aujourd’hui disponibles pour comprendre les événements politiques et diplomatiques, du XIXe siècle à nos jours ? Cet ouvrage innovant établit l’idée que l’histoire des relations internationales ne doit pas être exclusivement centrée sur l’Etat, comme c’est encore souvent le cas. Pour en saisir toute la complexité, il est nécessaire d’adopter une lecture décentrée et désoccidentalisée, de mettre l’accent sur les acteurs de terrain (soldats, juristes, scientifiques, migrants...) et sur les « lieux » des...
This volume invites the reader to participate in a discussion about how to conceptualize the mediation of difference in localities of diversity and transcultural spaces via the analytical lenses of 'translation' as a social practice. The contributions to the volume explore, discuss, and theorize 'translation' as a pre-institutionalized strategy of conflict resolution and conflict transformation as well as a driving force of cultural and social change and as a means of knowledge production. In addition to mistranslations and untranslatabilities, the authors analyze the politics of literary translation and translation as research-creation. Contributors: Alex Demeulenaere (Trier), Stefan Dixius (Trier), Jean Friesen (Winnipeg), Ute Heidmann (Lausanne), Julia Charlotte Kersting (Saarbrücken), Judith Lamberty (Saarbrücken), Ursula Lehmkuhl (Trier), Laurence McFalls (Montréal), Geneviève Robichaud (Montréal), Robert Schwartzwald (Montréal), Madeleine Stratford (Gatineau).
This book demonstrates diverse ways of looking at internal migrations and points to their fairly unexplored aspects. The book will not only be a source of knowledge on population movements in Poland but also an inspiration to the readers for their own studies and reflections.
Spaces of Difference discusses the construction of transcultural spaces and the representation and negotiation of diversity through the analytical lenses of narratives, practices and politics of diversity. The multi-disciplinary contributions to this volume address four broader research fields: (1) the entangled and contested (hi)stories of diversity; (2) migration and the creation of transcultural spaces; (3) practices and politics of belonging; and (4) the dynamics of confrontation and cohabitation in spaces of difference. The research presented in this volume combines approaches from history, political science, sociology, migration studies and literature.
A wide-ranging survey of the theory and evidence on public goods, presenting the main literature on public goods, both theoretical and empirical, in a systematic manner. The breadth and depth of the book's coverage extends the existing literature in many ways.
A comprehensive analysis of the European Union's foreign policy over 40 years, this study describes how multilateralism has been used in the fields of peace, security, and military crisis management. Relying on detailed case studies, this new research looks at interventions in Macedonia, the Balkans, the Congo, and Chad--and assesses EU's cooperation with NATO and the United Nations during these emergencies.