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Figures of Authority
This book is about authority, more precisely, about figures of authority. The editors have put together an international group of renowned scholars to discuss the emergence of modern notions of authority from different angles. Modern authority is no longer legitimated by status and social position, but rather by institutional affiliation and performance. To research the genealogy and intricacies of this kind of authority, the chapters in this volume cast a closer look at the various institutional actors on whom authority has been bestowed. The authors use a case study approach to look at the instances in which modern authority emerged, was ridiculed, contested, or even failed. Taken together, the individual contributions shed new light on the intricate relationship between the subjects and their organisations; they challenge any Whig historiography of rationalisation and modernisation, and they help us to rethink the inter-relationship between modern and even postmodern institutional arrangements on the one hand, and their subjects on the other.
The Sports Shoe
The story of the sneaker's rise from the first Victorian tennis shoes to the Nike Air Max and beyond Moving from the athletic field to the shopping mall, Thomas Turner tells a fresh story of the evolution of the sports shoe against the changing landscape of society, sport, fashion, industry, and technology. The Sports Shoe takes us on a journey from the first Victorian tennis shoes to the adidas Superstar and the innovative technologies of Nike Air Max. Featuring newly uncovered archival material and historic images showcasing key personalities, vintage marketing and common perceptions of this hugely desirable product, this book is a must-have for any sneaker collector, historian of popular culture, or anyone interested in the place of athletic footwear in our lives today.
Kicks
“A vivid picture of how what we wear on our feet can tell us what it really means to be an American.”—Vanity Fair “Expansive, thorough, and entertaining . . . a comprehensive look at how much the sneaker became a signature indicator of cool.”—The Wall Street Journal A cultural history of sneakers, tracing the footprint of one of our most iconic fashions across sports, business, pop culture, and American identity “It’s gotta be the shoes.” When Spike Lee said it to Michael Jordan in a 1989 commercial, it was with a wink and a nod—what makes MJ so good? His Nike Air Jordan IIIs, of course. But as Nicholas Smith reveals in this captivating history, Lee’s line also speaks t...
Dogtown und X-Games - die wirkliche Geschichte des Skateboardfahrens
Subkultur und Sportbetrieb: Passt das zusammen? Das fragten viele, als Skateboarding für 2020 zur Olympiadisziplin erklärt wurde. Einerseits gab es in der Geschichte dieser sportiven Praktik tatsächlich Phasen, in der sie mit »Sport« kaum zu tun hatte. Andererseits aber war Olympia schon in den 1960ern Thema. Ausgehend von Foucaults Überlegungen zur »wirklichen Historie« und orientiert an der jüngeren »praxeologischen« Kultursoziologie rekonstruiert Eckehart Velten Schäfer erstmals umfassend jene Pendelbewegung zwischen Sport- und Popkultur, in der Skateboarding zum paradigmatischen Fall dessen wurde, was man heute etwas unglücklich »Trendsport« nennt.
The Great Powers and the End of the Ottoman Empire
How far was the end of the Ottoman Empire the result of Great Power imperialism and how far the result of structural weaknesses within the Empire itself? These studies of the foreign policy of each of the Great Powers and the Ottoman Empire examine these fundamental issues.
Skateboarding
Das Verhältnis von Skateboarding und Stadt ist seit jeher ein ambivalentes. So sehr die Skateboarder auf die Stadt als architektonischen, sozialen und symbolischen Raum verwiesen sind, so sehr sind sie immer wieder auch Verdrängungsversuchen ausgesetzt. Doch warum ist das Verhältnis von Skateboarding und Stadt so schwierig? Welche Bedeutung hat der urbane Raum für die Praxis des Skateboardfahrens? Und hat umgekehrt das Skateboardfahren auch eine Relevanz für die Stadt? Wie wird ein Skate-Novize zu einem akzeptierten Mitglied der »Skater-Community«? Wie erlernen Skateboarder ihre komplexen Bewegungsmanöver? Welche Rolle spielen dabei Medien? Und: Ist Skateboarding wirklich so politisc...
Rebellious Prussians
Challenges the accepted view that an oppressive Prussian state cast a shadow on the development of civil society and sheds light on a little-known historical reality in which weak Hohenzollern monarchs - and a still weaker Prussian bureaucracy - were confronted with prosperous, fearless, and argumentative Prussian burghers.
Sacred Plunder
In Sacred Plunder, David Perry argues that plundered relics, and narratives about them, played a central role in shaping the memorial legacy of the Fourth Crusade and the development of Venice’s civic identity in the thirteenth century. After the Fourth Crusade ended in 1204, the disputes over the memory and meaning of the conquest began. Many crusaders faced accusations of impiety, sacrilege, violence, and theft. In their own defense, they produced hagiographical narratives about the movement of relics—a medieval genre called translatio—that restated their own versions of events and shaped the memory of the crusade. The recipients of relics commissioned these unique texts in order to exempt both the objects and the people involved with their theft from broader scrutiny or criticism. Perry further demonstrates how these narratives became a focal point for cultural transformation and an argument for the creation of the new Venetian empire as the city moved from an era of mercantile expansion to one of imperial conquest in the thirteenth century.
