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Living in a Bubble
In this issue, the cultural, political, and social costs of an era of debt-backed boom are explored by authors who link the global glut of financial liquidity with the capitalist self-cannibalization that sustains it.
Translation
As recent years have revealed, the concept of »translation« has grown increasingly important in a globalizing world and a multi-media society. Seeing translation as the negotiation of differences in identity construction does not only contribute to the understanding of contemporary cultural processes - it also makes it possible to find orientation and critical insights in a world of constantly changing social, political and media spaces. This collection of essays discusses the »translational turn«, proposing new theoretical approaches and providing new insights into the relation between narration and identity construction, between translation processes and the media.
Voices of Identities
European history has rarely met changes as rapid, dense and radical as those that have taken place in the regions of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire over the past hundred years. This cultural area has experienced political conflicts, the setting and dissolution of borders, and the construction of similarities, differences, and ever-new identities. Being tied to text, vocal music genres reflect such changes especially strongly. Operas and operettas, oratorios and cantatas, choir music, folksongs, and pop and rock hits have all helped to establish identities in many ways, connecting people on national, ethnical, local or social levels. The contributions to this volume represent the proceedings of the Annual Congress of the Austrian Society for Musicology (Österreichische Gesellschaft für Musikwissenschaft – ÖGMw) in 2014. They open multiple perspectives on the identity-relevant implications of every kind of vocal music from the last days of the Habsburg Empire to the present day. As such, the book places the extensively discussed concept of Nationalism in music in the wider context of identity building.
Understanding Multiculturalism
Multiculturalism has long been linked to calls for tolerance of cultural diversity, but today many observers are subjecting the concept to close scrutiny. After the political upheavals of 1968, the commitment to multiculturalism was perceived as a liberal manifesto, but in the post-9/11 era, it is under attack for its relativizing, particularist, and essentializing implications. The essays in this collection offer a nuanced analysis of the multifaceted cultural experience of Central Europe under the late Habsburg monarchy and beyond. The authors examine how culturally coded social spaces can be described and understood historically without adopting categories formerly employed to justify the definition and separation of groups into nations, ethnicities, or homogeneous cultures. As we consider the issues of multiculturalism today, this volume offers new approaches to understanding multiculturalism in Central Europe freed of the effects of politically exploited concepts of social spaces.
Re-Location 1-7
"Re:Location 1-7/Shake' has, among other things, shown the work of more than 110 artists from 24 countries, held 21 exhibitions over a 3-year period, taken place in 8 art centres in 8 countries in Europe and beyond, worked with 10 curators, produced 3 newsletters, published 2 catalogues, built 1 website, commissioned more than 30 essays by 23 authors, some translated into 6 languages by a team of 17 translators, produced 1 televised evening broadcast on 2 TV channels."--[Vol. 2], p. 9.
The Elgar Companion to Geography, Transdisciplinarity and Sustainability
With contributions from top geographers, this Companion frames sustainability as exemplar of transdisciplinary science (critical geography) while improving future scenarios, debating perspectives between rich North/poor South, modern urban/backwards rural, and everything in between. The Companion has five sections that carry the reader from foundational considerations to integrative trends, to resources use and accommodation, to examples highlighting non-traditional pathways, to a postscript about cooperation of the industrialized Earth and a prognosis of the road ahead for the new geographies of sustainability.
New Organs Within Us
An ethnographic analysis of organ transplantation in Turkey, based on the stories of kidney-transplant patients and physicians in Istanbul.
Postmigrantische Generation
Dominante Diskurse über Migration schreiben die mehrheimische Familie als bildungsfern fest. Im Gegensatz dazu diskutiert Anita Rotter die Familien der Arbeitsmigration als Bildungsorte, an denen erzählte und erinnerte Lebensgeschichten generationsübergreifend weitergegeben werden. Mit einer Kombination aus Fragen und Erkenntnissen der Migrations-, Familien-, Generations- und Bildungsforschung rekonstruiert sie, wie Erinnern und Erzählen im familialen Migrationsgedächtnis funktioniert. Die postmigrantische Generation greift diese Narrationen und Erfahrungen auf und kreiert davon ausgehend gegenhegemoniale Lebensentwürfe, die sich nicht auf einen Ort oder Kontext beschränken lassen.
Cities as Multiple Landscapes
Im Zentrum dieses Buches stehen Geschichte, Materialität, Mikrolandschaften und Atmosphären der Partnerstädte Innsbruck und New Orleans. Dabei stützen sich die Autorinnen und Autoren auf das Konzept der "multiplen Landschaften".
