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Food - Media - Senses
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 398

Food - Media - Senses

Food is more than just nutrition. Its preparation, presentation and consumption is a multifold communicative practice which includes the meal's design and its whole field of experience. How is food represented in cookbooks, product packaging or in paintings? How is dining semantically charged? How is the sensuality of eating treated in different cultural contexts? In order to acknowledge the material and media-related aspects of eating as a cultural praxis, experts from media studies, art history, literary studies, philosophy, experimental psychology, anthropology, food studies, cultural studies and design studies share their specific approaches.

Integration for Third Country Nationals in the European Union
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 419

Integration for Third Country Nationals in the European Union

  • Categories: Law

This highly original book provides an innovative analysis of EU migration and asylum law and its interplay with equality issues in order to assess the current integration framework for third-country nationals and to explore future scenarios in the European Context. Integration for Third-Country Nationals in the European Union focuses on the nexus between non-discrimination based on nationality and race, and the equality clauses covering different categories of regularly residing third-country nationals within EU law. It highlights the extent to which social rights that have been formally promised to non-EU citizens are enjoyed in practice. The contributing authors Ð who are both academics a...

The Mediality of Sugar
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 357

The Mediality of Sugar

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2022-10-24
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  • Publisher: BRILL

The Mediality of Sugar probes the potential of reading sugar as a mediator across some of the disciplinary distinctions in early twenty-first century research in the arts, literature, architecture, and popular culture. Selected artistic practices and material cultures of sugar across Europe and the Americas from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century are investigated and connected to the transcontinental and transoceanic history of the sugar plants cane and beet, their botanical and cultural dissemination, and global sugar capital and trade under colonialism and in decoloniality. The collection contributes to the vision of a Transnational and Postdisciplinary Sugar Studies.

Consumer Policy from Below
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 344

Consumer Policy from Below

Since its existence in the 1950s, consumer policy in Germany has been understood and pursued primarily as a bundle of actions and measures initiated and institutionalised by the state. In many cases, the state has also issued corresponding mandates and set up support models, which has created the impression that we are basically dealing with a 'consumer policy from above' imposed by macro-politics. Not that there have not been repeated attempts in the past decades to give impetus to consumer policy from the middle of civil society - often in the form of small citizens' initiatives. And in recent years in particular, a number of new consumer organisations have emerged which operate much close...

Digital Culture & Society (DCS)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 247

Digital Culture & Society (DCS)

Modern mundane life is brimming with a variety of data-driven technologies that are supposed to augment the practices they are involved in. As humans bring these technologies into their lives in a process of domestication, they tame them and are simultaneously influenced by their presence. In combining domestication research and an empirical analysis of current, digital, and interconnected media, this issue examines the process of taming with an emphasis on practices. The contributions in this issue explore the use of digitally connected media such as vacuum robots, smart speakers, drones, and kitchen appliances with reference to the domestication paradigm from interdisciplinary perspectives including media studies, sociology, anthropology, and human-computer interaction.

The Aesthetics of Matter
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 448

The Aesthetics of Matter

It has often been argued that the arrival of the early-20th-century avant-gardes and modernisms coincided with an in-depth exploration of the materiality of art and writing. The European historical avant-gardes and modernisms excelled in their attempts to establish the specificity of media and art forms as well as in experimenting with the hybridity of the materials of their multiple disciplines. This third volume of the series European Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies sheds light on the full range and import of this aspect in avant-garde and modernist aesthetics across all art forms and throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. The book’s contributions, written by experts from some 20 coun...

Staying in Life
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 293

Staying in Life

We are constantly growing older, and there are an increasing number of elderly people living with dementia who are merely being ›taken care of‹. There is no question that we need alternatives to the established procedures. What can we do to create spaces where we can stay in life - rather than just staying alive? How can we turn the individual environments of people with and without dementia into ›places of human warmth‹? In Germany, initiatives attempting to answer these questions are on the rise: Committed individuals from politics, art, churches, social and volunteer work etc. are creatively working towards dementia-friendly communities. In this book, three authors, intimately familiar with the topic, explore initial movements, obstacles, and first approaches.

Fleischwissen
  • Language: de
  • Pages: 520

Fleischwissen

Fleischproduktion und Fleischkonsum stehen seit Ende des 20. Jahrhunderts zunehmend in der Kritik. Gesundheit, Tierethik und Klimawandel sind wesentliche Gründe. Fleisch ist sowohl zu einer Metapher für einen rücksichtslosen Umgang mit dem eigenen Körper als auch mit der globalen Umwelt geworden. Dabei sind tierische Produkte seit dem Beginn der Menschheit integrativer Bestandteil der Ernährung; sie genossen hohes Ansehen und waren Symbol für Wohlstand. Im 19. Jahrhundert wurde die Fleischproduktion allmählich industrialisiert, der Konsum stieg und wurde demokratisiert. Im Fokus standen bald weniger das Tier als seine Verwertbarkeit und die Produkte, die es lieferte. Das Lebendige wurde verdinglicht, und wir haben uns vom Fleisch entfremdet. Der Band zeichnet diesen Prozess nach und legt die gesellschaftliche, historisch gewachsene Logik von Fleischproduktion und Fleischkonsum offen.

Ernährung und Identität
  • Language: de
  • Pages: 340

Ernährung und Identität

Nahrungsmittel und Ernährungsgewohnheiten sind stets mit Bedeutung aufgeladen. Im Essen verkörpert sich mehr als eine bloß überlebensnotwendige Handlung: Stattdessen sagt die Bewertung von Lebensmitteln und die Art, wie wir sie zu uns nehmen, nicht nur viel über die Gesellschaft, sondern auch über den konsumierenden Menschen selbst aus. Wer wir sind oder wer wir gerne sein würden, zu welcher Gruppe wir uns zugehörig sehen und wen wir daraus ausschließen, all das kann an der Nahrungsaufnahme abgelesen werden. Dieser interdisziplinäre Band versammelt Beiträge aus so unterschiedlichen Disziplinen wie der Musikwissenschaft, der Soziologie, den Gender Studies und verschiedenen Philologien, um die Zusammenhänge von Ernährung und persönlichen sowie kollektiven Identitätskonzepten zu beleuchten.

Soziologie
  • Language: de
  • Pages: 273

Soziologie

Was ist der Gegenstand der Soziologie? Die Suche nach Antworten auf diese Frage führt zu unterschiedlichen Versuchen, etwas eher Unsichtbares sichtbar zu machen. Was treibt Individuen trotz steigender Arbeitsteilung und Spezialisierung weiterhin zu gegenseitiger Solidarität an? Wie vereinen sich widersprüchliche Motive wie Nachahmung und Individualisierung in einem einzigen gesellschaftlichen Phänomen wie der Mode? Schlagen sich soziale Ungleichheiten in alltäglichen Entscheidungen nieder wie Namensgebung, Schokoladenkonsum oder Teilnahme an einer Lotterie? Das Buch zeichnet die Soziologie in ihren Grundzügen nach und stellt dabei den Stimmen der Klassiker aktuelle Perspektiven sowie vielfältige Beispiele und Befunde aus der modernen Gesellschaft gegenüber. Es richtet sich dabei sowohl an Studierende der Sozialwissenschaften als auch an all jene, die sich für den Blick hinter das „nach Mustern und Gleichförmigkeiten ablaufende gesellschaftliche Verhalten der Menschen“ interessieren.