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I Long for Normality
The political participation of names such as Mowassat, Demirel, or Özdemir alongside conventional German names such as Schmidt, Maier, or Beck is already becoming a routine aspect in German politics. Recent political debates on introducing special quotas to motivate more political aspirants with migration background adds emphasis on the necessity to elaborate whether and how having a ‘migration background’ is negotiated in political practice. Devrimsel Deniz Nergiz investigates how German politicians with migration background negotiate and deploy the marker ‘migration background’ in their political practice.
The Challenges of Cultural Psychology
This book considers cultural psychology from historical, theoretical, and epistemological perspectives, building an understanding of cultural psychology as a human science and moving beyond the nature-culture dichotomy. The unique collection of chapters seeks to advance the field of cultural psychology by reviving its historical legacies and arguing for its social responsibility in future historical developments. It considers European legacies for cultural psychology as developed by leading figures such as Giambattista Vico, Wilhelm Wundt, Wilhelm Dilthey, and Ernst Cassirer in order to provide insights into a long tradition of thinking from a cultural psychology perspective. The book discus...
Religi”se und kulturelle Probleme von Muslimen in Deutschland: M”glichkeiten und Irrwege einer uneingeschr„nkten Integration
Nicht nur in der Politik, sondern auch in allt„glichen Gespr„chen kommt es seit geraumer Zeit immer wieder zu Diskussionen rund um den Islam. Auch heute sind die Gespr„che ber Muslime in Deutschland und das Thema Integration nicht erloschen. Dieses Buch gibt einen breitgef„cherten šberblick ber die pr„gnantesten Diskussionspunkte der letzten Jahre und versucht dabei vor allem auf die Sicht der Muslime in Deutschland selbst einzugehen. ?Muslime mssen sich an die deutsche Kultur und die hiesige Lebensweise anpassen?. Diese und „hnliche Žuáerungen sind schnell getroffen, doch was genau bedeutet es fr einen Muslimen sich in die deutsche Gesellschaft zu integrieren und was ...
Religiöse und kulturelle Konflikte von Muslimen in Deutschland und die Frage nach der Integration
Nicht nur in der Politik, sondern auch in alltäglichen Gesprächen kommt es seit geraumer Zeit immer wieder zu Diskussionen rund um den Islam. Auch heute sind die Gespräche über Muslime in Deutschland und das Thema Integration nicht erloschen. Dieses Buch gibt einen breitgefächerten Überblick über die prägnantesten Diskussionspunkte der letzten Jahre und versucht dabei vor allem auf die Sicht der Muslime in Deutschland selbst einzugehen. ‘Muslime müssen sich an die deutsche Kultur und die hiesige Lebensweise anpassen’. Diese und ähnliche Äußerungen sind schnell getroffen, doch was genau bedeutet es für einen Muslimen sich in die deutsche Gesellschaft zu integrieren und was ve...
Cultural Psychology
The introductory book presents the current state of cultural psychology in terms of theoretical approaches and methods comprehensively. It also demonstrates how deeply it is anchored in various fields of action. Cultural psychology is an interdisciplinary field of research that aims less to objectively and causally explain human behavior and experience, but rather seeks to understand psychological phenomena in their respective sociocultural context. In doing so, it follows a theoretical understanding of humans as actively acting beings. Compared to the prevailing nomothetic-oriented psychology, it emphasizes different theoretical and methodological approaches, particularly highlighting intentionality, meaning structuring, and ultimately the cultural aspects of human existence. Cultural psychology incorporates both hermeneutic approaches from psychology, philosophy, sociology, and ethnology, as well as qualitative methods for studying human behavior and experience.
Macro Cultural Psychology
This book articulates a bold, new, systematic theory of psychology, culture, and their interrelation. It explains how macro cultural factors -- social institutions, cultural artifacts, and cultural concepts -- are the cornerstones of society and how they form the origins and characteristics of psychological phenomena. This theory is used to explain the diversity of psychological phenomena such as emotions, self, intelligence, sexuality, memory, reasoning, perception, developmental processes, and mental illness. Ratner draws upon Lev Vygotsky's sociocultural psychology, Bronfenbrenner's ecological psychology, as well as work in sociology, anthropology, history, and geography, to explore the p...
Hermeneutic Communism
Having lost much of its political clout and theoretical power, communism no longer represents an appealing alternative to capitalism. In its original Marxist formulation, communism promised an ideal of development, but only through a logic of war, and while a number of reformist governments still promote this ideology, their legitimacy has steadily declined since the fall of the Berlin wall. Separating communism from its metaphysical foundations, which include an abiding faith in the immutable laws of history and an almost holy conception of the proletariat, Gianni Vattimo and Santiago Zabala recast Marx's theories at a time when capitalism's metaphysical moorings—in technology, empire, an...
Mastering Illiquidity
Arms investors with powerful new tools for measuring and managing the risks associated with the various illiquid asset classes With risk-free interest rates and risk premiums at record lows, many investors are turning to illiquid assets, such as real estate, private equity, infrastructure and timber, in search of superior returns and greater portfolio diversity. But as many analysts, investors and wealth managers are discovering, such investments bring with them a unique set of risks that cannot be measured by standard asset allocation models. Written by a dream team of globally renowned experts in the field, this book provides a clear, accessible overview of illiquid fund investments, focus...
Vietnam 1946
"Vietnam 1946 is a masterful narrative of the immediate origins of the first Vietnam War. It is, by turns, vivid and shocking; it is always immensely revealing. Tønnesson brings forensic clarity to crucial events about which, even now, some sixty years later, fundamental misapprehensions exist. An outstanding work of scholarship of major international importance."—Martin Thomas, author of Empires of Intelligence "Tønnesson captures brilliantly the 1946 confrontation between two republics: France determined to redeem itself from Axis humiliation by regaining Indochina; Vietnam equally determined to retake independence after eighty years of colonial servitude. Tønnesson also demonstrates,...
Beyond Foucault
In his hugely influential book Discipline and Punish, Foucault used the example of Jeremy Bentham's Panopticon prison as a means of representing the transition from the early modern monarchy to the late modern capitalist state. In the former, power is visibly exerted, for instance by the destruction of the body of the criminal, while in the latter power becomes invisible and focuses on the mind of the subject, in order to identify, marginalize, and 'treat' those who are regarded as incapable of participating in, or unwilling to submit to, the disciplines of production. The Panopticon links the worlds of Bentham and Foucault scholars yet they are often at cross-purposes; with Bentham scholars...
