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Inside Pakistan
Pakistan, a land with a long and storied history, is experiencing a tumultuous present. As its population expands to surpass two hundred million, its infrastructure is faltering and rampant unemployment and power outages have become the norm. The military controls much of the nation, and at the same time as the public educational system has found itself lacking needed resources, a brand of conservative and radical Islam has developed that is now a prominent political force. And yet the hope and resilience of the Pakistanis remain as strong as ever, promising the possibility of a calmer tomorrow. Hasnain Kazim, a correspondent for the current-affairs magazine Der Spiegel and the son of Indo-P...
Plötzlich Pakistan
»Ein spannender Blick auf ein verzweifeltes Land im Wandel« Die Tagespost Als Korrespondent für den SPIEGEL zieht Hasnain Kazim nach Islamabad und erlebt ein mehr als widersprüchliches Land. Wie tickt diese Atommacht, in der es so viele religiöse Extremisten gibt? Was hält ein Land zusammen, in dem eine Hochglanzsociety für viele Tausend Dollar Feste feiert, während Arbeiterfamilien unter sklavenähnlichen Bedingungen leben? Kazim trifft Geistliche, Politiker, Waffenhändler, Prostituierte und den Henker von Pakistan. Die Probleme sind gewaltig, immer mehr Menschen hungern. Zwei Drittel der über zwei Millionen Einwohner sind jünger als dreißig und haben keine Perspektive. »Die Begegnung mit Militärs [...], der Umgang mit Frauen, mit Alkohol, mit Prostitution, nichts wird ausgeklammert. Trotzdem ist das Buch eine faszinierende, fast liebevolle Ode an ein facettenreiches Land.« Heilbronner Stimme
Mein Kalifat
Endlich da: die Islamisierung des Abendlands! Hasnain Kazim ist nicht nur Journalist und Bestsellerautor, vor einigen Jahren hat er sich auch eine zweite Identität zugelegt – als Kalif. Das war seine nicht ganz ernst gemeinte Antwort auf die permanenten Ängste von Menschen vor einer »Islamisierung des Abendlandes« und auf Dauervorwürfe von Rechtsextremisten, er sei in Wahrheit ein »Islamist«, der »Deutschland islamisieren« wolle. Doch schnell stellte Hasnain Kazim fest, dass sich seine Kalifatspläne verselbständigten: In den sozialen Medien und bei Lesungen huldigten Fans ihrem weisen Kalifen, sie wollten Wesir oder Mitglied des Harems werden. Viele fragten sehnsüchtig, wann denn nun das Kalifat ausgerufen werde. Die gute Nachricht: Es ist endlich soweit! Und die noch bessere Nachricht: Der Kalif hat dabei ein geheimes Tagebuch geführt...
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...
The Aesthetics and Politics of the Online Self
This volume investigates our dissonant and exuberant existences online. As social media users we know we’re under surveillance, yet we continue to click, like, love and share ourselves online as if nothing was. So, how do we overcome the current online identity regime? Can we overthrow the rule of Narcissus and destroy the planetary middle class subject? In this catalogue of strategies, the reader will find stories on hacker groups, gaming platforms in the occupied territories, art objects, selfies, augmented reality, Gen Z autoethnographies, love and life. The authors of this anthology believe we cannot simply put vanity aside and a rational analysis of platform capitalism is not going to...
Subjectivity, Citizenship and Belonging in Law
This collection of articles critically examines legal subjectivity and ideas of citizenship inherent in legal thought. The chapters offer a novel perspective on current debates in this area by exploring the connections between public and political issues as they intersect with more intimate sets of relations and private identities. Covering issues as diverse as autonomy, vulnerability and care, family and work, immigration control, the institution of speech, and the electorate and the right to vote, they provide a broader canvas upon which to comprehend more complex notions of citizenship, personhood, identity and belonging in law, in their various ramifications.
Peace Report 2016
How can Europe ensure humane treatment and meet its shared responsibility for the causes of flight? The power struggles in Syria and in Iraq have expanded into the largest war currently being waged. An element of the conflict is the terrorism of the self-proclaimed Islamic State, a group which also evolved as a response to efforts by the West to exert hegemonial influence in the region. The Peace Report is the joint yearbook of the German Institutes of Peace and Conflict Research. Researchers from various disciplines investigate the realities of conflicts in various countries around the world. Their analyses are the basis for the Editors' Statement, which summarizes and assesses these result...
The New Political Islam
Islamist political parties and groups are on the rise throughout the Muslim world, constituting a new political Islam that is global in scope and yet local in action. Emmanuel Karagiannis explains how various Islamists have endorsed human rights, democracy, and justice to gain influence and mobilize supporters.
Predators
Predators is a riveting introduction to the murky world of Predator and Reaper drones, the CIAas and U.S. militaryas most effective and controversial killing tools. Brian Glyn Williams combines policy analysis with the human drama of the spies, terrorists, insurgents, and innocent tribal peoples who have been killed in the covert operationthe CIAas largest assassination campaign since the Vietnam War erabeing waged in Pakistanas tribal regions via remote control aircraft known as drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles. Having traveled extensively in the Pashtun tribal areas while working for the U.S. military and the CIA, Williams explores in detail of the new technology of airborne assassinati...
Belt and Road Initiative
Belt and Road Initiative: Emerging World Order is an attempt to analyses President Xi Jinping’s concept of connectivity and cooperation. I have tried to examine the future of BRI. There can be no economic and political development without the availability of modern infrastructure. In this context development of digital technology assumes importance. BRI is spread over land and the maritime zone. The two components are inter related. BRI should not be viewed only as a set of trade routes; it is much more than that. The economic corridors will create interdependence and promote cooperation. While BRI is envisaged as a system which could lead to peace and prosperity among states. However, there are some threats which cannot be ignored. Members of BRI will have to devise a strategy to meet future challenges without getting involved in wars.
