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Erwin Eisch. Clouds Have Been My Foothold All Along Glass and Paintings
Erwin Eisch, a pioneer of the international Studio Glass movement, has helped establish the medium in Europe. His distinctively distorted glass vessels and imaginative sculptures of mould-blown glass challenge the distinctions between art forms and between realism and abstraction. This book also includes Eischs paintings, drawings and vitreographic prints. This book provides an introduction to the artist, from his development within the glass-making tradition of the Bavarian Forest to the present. Eisch began with functional vessels, including bottles, vases and steins, often distorting the hot glass, incorporating ceramic moulds and producing painted glass sculptures. Eisch uses glass, painting, drawing and printed graphics to overcome the borders between picture and sculpture. His later output includes drawings, paintings and prints. Eischs works incorporate vivid elements of imagination and fantasy, which supplement the reality that inspires him. This book includes essays, contributions by experts on his work, more than one hundred illustrations of Eischs work, and selected writings by the artist himself.
Absurde Angst - Narrationen der Sicherheitsgesellschaft
Mit Vehemenz durchdringen die Anforderungen der Sicherheit die Begegnungsräume von Nachbarschaft und Community. Im Fluss alltäglicher Kommunikation perpetuieren sie Verunsicherung, Krise und Angst; zwischen Ermächtigung und Kontrolle, Fiktion und Realität macht sich Absurdität breit. Im ethnografischen Mitgehen entfaltet die Studie, wie subjektive Erfahrungen und gesellschaftliche Mythologien im gelebten Alltag ineinandergreifen und in einem Spannungsfeld von intimer Verletzlichkeit und Terror die Transformationen zur Sicherheitsgesellschaft vorantreiben. Der Inhalt- Zugänge zu einem liminalen Forschungsraum- Übergänge und Schilderräume- Baustellen. Zur Geschichte der Sicherheitsregime- Die Verunsicherung des Gesprächsanfangs- Innenräume der Nachbarschaft- Angst und Alltagserzählen- Einbruch und Erfahrung- Die absurde Welt der Sicherheit Die ZielgruppenFachpublikum aus den Kultur-, Sozial- und Gesellschaftswissenschaften und die interessierte Öffentlichkeit. Die AutorinKatharina Eisch-Angus ist Professorin am Institut für Kulturanthropologie und Europäische Ethnologie der Universität Graz.
Conflicting Narratives of Crime and Punishment
This book illustrates the importance of conflicting narratives in understanding and dealing with crime, based on a variety of cutting-edge research. Offenders tell stories about crime and punishment, as do policemen, judges and defence lawyers, but so do politicians and the media. Each tells them very differently and only some stories are believed, while others are rejected as implausible leading to conflict. This book explores how these conflicts are carried out and what relationships exist between (often unquestioned) master narratives and (sometimes loud, sometimes silent) counter-narratives? These are questions of central importance for criminology which have thus far received little att...
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Old Cultures, New Institutions
Border regions around the new eastern and south-eastern edges of the European Union have seen the re-emergence of previous cultures and ethnicities. This has caused a reappraisal of people's relationship with history. Border-related institutions established at international, regional and local levels have endeavoured to make the border regions places of cultural encounter, providing a new way forward for future generations through new kinds of cooperation.
Negotiating Culture
How are cultural boundaries created, conceived, and experienced? On the public level, the political practices of (sub-)nationalism have been revitalized by contemporary ideologies of multiculturalism providing new rhetorical forms which ultimately deny the legitimacy of indeterminacy. Yet, on the private level, the creation of new intersubjectivities is a normal consequence of movement, mixing, and living together, resulting in novel repertoires of individual and collective experiences. This book seeks to connect both the public and the private within the same frame of analysis. Reginald Byron is professor of sociology and anthropology, University of Wales, Swansea (UK). Ullrich Kockel holds a chair in European Studies at Bristol University of the West of England (UK), where he leads the European Ethnological Research Unit.
Gender and Genre in Ethnographic Writing
This book provides new insights into an intense and long-standing debate on women, gender, and masculinity with an explicit focus on ethnographic writing. The six contributors to this book investigate and discuss the multiple connections between ethnographic writing and gender in both the history of anthropology and contemporary anthropology, underlining problems, potentialities, stereotypes, experiments, continuities, changes, and challenges. Building on a prologue by two Malinowski grandchildren and an exploration of the role that Bronislaw Malinowski’s first wife, Elsie Masson, played in his literary presentation, the anthropologists collected here problematize writing gender and gender...
Heimatkunde
An integrative Heimatkunde defined as the holistic study of localities and regions has been a core interest in Ullrich (aka Ulli) Kockels research since he first graduated with a double primary in 1984. Frequently described as an interdisciplinary and sometimes undisciplined academic, his research draws liberally on art, geography, human ecology, philosophical anthropology, political economy, and social anthropology, with its primary focus located in the field of Empirical Cultural Science / European ethnology. The contributions to this collection celebrate Ullis explorations of place and belonging at different junctures on his quest for Heimatkunde. Laid out in four thematic sections Borders, Regions and Frontiers; Human Ecology; Creative Ethnology; and, Memories they feature creative work along with research essays. Given Ullis love of cooking and food, we describe our offering as a feast-script.
School Leadership between Community and the State
This book presents changes in UK and global educational governance in the context of a radical shift in the operating logics of politics and its interaction with education. Beginning from the colonial origins of political interest in education, the author traces a fundamental shift in the patterns of governance of schools in England in the opening decades of the 21st century. Operating through the logics of public choice economics involving both real markets and quasi-markets, policy reforms have increasingly framed school values, and the value of schooling, in line with a politically determined and nostalgic discourse of ‘British values’. This stands in contrast to a previous focus on ‘community cohesion’ which foregrounded school partnership with the parent community and wider society. Tracing the processes and mid-level actors mediating between government and school leaders, the author identifies processes of recontextualisation through which policy can be reinscribed and resisted.
