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Enterprising Migrants in Berlin
How has »ethnic entrepreneurship« emerged and developed since the late eighties in Berlin? In his study, Baris Ülker answers this question by relying on the experiences of immigrants from Turkey. Most academic studies on »ethnic entrepreneurship« have focused either on the »most unitary« structure available in the »natural flow of history« or on the pre-given »cultural« characteristics of immigrants. This book instead sets historical ruptures, conditions of possibility and individual practices in context. It analyzes how human beings have been turned into »ethnic entrepreneurs« and explains the ways of governing the self and others in the neoliberal urban context.
Art and Architecture of Migration and Discrimination
This book brings together essays by established and emerging scholars that discuss Pakistan, Turkey, and their diasporas in Europe. Together, the contributions show the scope of diverse artistic media, including architecture, painting, postcards, film, music, and literature, that has responded to the partitions of the twentieth century and the Muslim diasporas in Europe. Turkey and Pakistan have been subject to two of the largest compulsory population transfers of the twentieth century. They have also been the sites for large magnitudes of emigration during the second half of the twentieth century, creating influential diasporas in European cities such as London and Berlin. Discrimination ha...
Turkish-German Studies
Dieser Band repräsentiert die Bandbreite der US-amerikanischen Turkish-German Studies: Die Beiträge befassen sich mit dem Einfluss jüdischer Emigranten in der Türkei, der Rolle der Türkei in der europäischen Filmförderung, islamischem Religionsunterricht in Deutschland, der türkischen Literaturströmung »İkinci Yeni« und mit Neuer Weltliteratur aus Deutschland. So werden Verbindungspunkte und Wechselwirkungen im deutsch-türkischen Feld unter aktuellen Fragestellungen untersucht.
Doing Tolerance
How is tolerance reflected in urban space? Which urban actors are involved in the practices and narratives of tolerance? What are the limits of tolerance? The edited volume answers these questions by considering different forms of urban in/exclusion and participatory citizenship. By drawing together disparate yet critical writings, Doing Tolerance examines the production of space, urban struggles and tactics of power from an interdisciplinary perspective. Illustrating the paradoxes within diverse interactions, the authors focus on the conflict between heterogeneous groups of the governed, on the one hand, and the governing in urban spaces, on the other. Above all, the volume explores the divergences and convergences of participatory citizenship, as they are revealed in urban space through political, socio-economic and cultural conditions and the entanglements of social mobilities.
Geotechnical Engineering
This book discusses contemporary issues related to soil mechanics and foundation engineering in earthworks, which are critical components in construction projects and often require detailed management techniques and unique solutions to address failures and implement remedial measures. The geotechnical engineering community continues to improve the classical testing techniques for measuring critical properties of soils and rocks, including stress wave-based non-destructive testing methods as well as methods used to improve shallow and deep foundation design. To minimize failure during construction, contemporary issues and related data may reveal useful lessons to improve project management an...
Cultural Topographies of the New Berlin
Since Unification and the end of the Cold War, Berlin has witnessed a series of uncommonly intense social, political, and cultural transformations. While positioning itself as a creative center populated by young and cosmopolitan global citizens, the “New Berlin” is at the same time a rich site of historical memory, defined inescapably by its past even as it articulates German and European hopes for the future. Cultural Topographies of the New Berlin presents a fascinating cross-section of life in Germany’s largest city, revealing the complex ways in which globalization, ethnicity, economics, memory, and national identity inflect how its urban spaces are inhabited and depicted.
Conscientious Objection
Refusing to take part in war is as old as war itself. This wide-ranging and original book brings together four different bodies of knowledge to examine the practice of conscientious objection: historical and philosophical analyses of conscientious objection as a critique of compulsory military service and militarization; feminist, LGBT and queer analyses of conscientious objection as a critique of patriarchy, sexism, and heterosexism; activist and academic analyses of conscientious objection as a social movement and individual act of resistance; legal analyses of the status of conscientious objection in international and national law. Conscientious objection is an increasingly important subject of academic and political debate in countries including the US, Israel and Turkey. This book provides a much needed introduction and tool for making sense of the history of nation-states in the 20th century and understanding the political developments of the early 21st century.
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Kleinstadtforschung
Knapp 30 Prozent der Einwohner*innen Deutschlands leben in Kleinstädten, die in Speckgürteln der Metropolregionen oder in peripheren Räumen liegen. Im ländlichen Kontext können Kleinstädte wichtige Anker sein, anderswo dienen sie eher als Wohn- und Erholungsorte. Das alltägliche Zusammenleben in und die Zukunft von Kleinstädten handeln die Akteur*innen vor Ort auf vielfältige Weise aus. Die Beiträger*innen des Bandes beleuchten die Heterogenität von Kleinstädten durch diverse Fallstudien mit unterschiedlichen methodischen Ansätzen. In Reflexionen dieser Zugänge zeigen sie die Potentiale einer interdisziplinären Kleinstadtforschung auf und nehmen Themen wie Digitalisierung, Mobilität und Migration in den Blick.
