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»We Are All Activists«
Who is meant when people talk about the citizens or the activists? Often, they are implied to mean the most privileged positionalities. Simultaneously, refugees and migrants tend to be seen through their (supposed) legal status. Thus, they are neither practically nor conceptually regarded as activists. The variety of intersecting positionings in migrant rights activism results in complex inequalities and power dynamics within activist groups. Solidarities are continually challenged, negotiated, and built. Lea Rzadtki develops a conceptual view on claims, challenges, and processes that activists experience and deal with. She moves beyond dichotomies and engages in transversal dialogue.
Democratic Citizenship in Flux
Traditionally, citizenship has been defined as the legal and political link between individuals and their democratic political community. However, traditional conceptions of democratic citizenship are currently challenged by various developments like migration, the rise of populism, increasing polarization, social fragmentation, and the challenging of representative democracy as well as developments in digital communication technology. Against this background, this peer reviewed book reflects recent conceptions of citizenship by bringing together insights from different disciplines, such as political science, sociology, economics, law, and history.
Refugee Routes
The displaced are often rendered silent and invisible as they journey in search of refuge. Drawing on historical and contemporary examples from Turkey, the Ottoman Empire, Iraq, Syria, UK, Germany, France, the Balkan Peninsula, US, Canada, Australia, and Kenya, the contributions to this volume draw attention to refugees, asylum seekers, exiles, and forced migrants as individual subjects with memories, hopes, needs, rights, and a prospective place in collective memory. The book's wide-ranging theoretical, literary, artistic, and autobiographical contributions appeal to scholarly and lay readers who share concerns about the fate of the displaced in relation to the emplaced in this age of mass mobility.
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Socializing Development
As Multilateral Development Banks increasingly gained influence in shaping global development, transnational social movements pushed to hold them accountable for their human rights impact towards communities. Leon Valentin Schettler presents a novel causal mechanism of movement advocacy towards MDBs, combining disruptive and conventional tactics. Systematically comparing the evolution of human rights standards and complaint mechanisms over the last three decades, he reveals how the combination of 1) declining US hegemony, 2) counter-mobilization by China and 3) movement cooptation by the World Bank bureaucracy led to a dilution of human rights accountability in the 2010s.
European Regions
At the beginning of the 21st century, the EU is facing deep political, social, and economic changes. The benefit of supranational organization is no longer obvious to European citizens and questions of legitimacy have accompanied the EU's development over the last decades. Regions - albeit often deemed »obsolete« - present themselves as stable and reliable partners in this turbulent environment: in being important objects of identification to their citizens, but also relevant political and legal entities in the EU's multilevel governance system. This edited volume asks about the role of regions and regional identity in a European Union that is perhaps struggling more than ever about its future.
Jüdische Tradition in der amerikanischen Diaspora
Die jüdisch-amerikanische Autorin Cynthia Ozick gilt seit Ende der sechziger Jahre als eine der entschiedensten und provozierendsten Vertreterinnen eines jüdischen Partikularismus. In ihrem Erzählwerk wie auch in ihren zahlreichen Essays versucht sie, gegen die weitgehende Assimilation der amerikanischen Juden eine bewußt abgrenzende, dezidiert jüdische Position zu etablieren. Die Studie will an Ozicks Erzählwerk zeigen, daß Ozick einen jüdischen Partikularismus nicht nur theoretisch postuliert, sondern vor allem auch literarisch zu realisieren versucht. Ihre wichtigsten Themen sind dabei: jüdischer Glaube zwischen Orthodoxie und Säkularismus; jüdisches Geschichtsbewußtsein in der Auseinandersetzung mit dem Holocaust; jüdische Identität zwischen Verdrängung und Suche nach einer eigenen Biographie sowie Literatur als bilderschaffendes und damit potentiell 'unjüdisches' Produkt der Phantasie. Realistisches und postmodernes Erzählen verbinden sich in Ozicks moralischen Parabeln zu einer komplexen Synthese, die das Spannungsverhältnis von jüdischer Tradition und Assimilation aufzeigt.
Segregation, Inequality, and Urban Development
In present-day South Africa, urban development agendas have inscribed doctrines of desirable and undesirable life in city spaces and the public that uses the space. This book studies the ways in which segregated city spaces, displacement of people from their homes, and criminalization practices are structured and executed. Sara Dehkordi shows that these doctrines are being legitimized and legalized as part of a discursive practice and that the criminalization of lower-class members are part of that practice, not as random policing techniques of individual security forces, but as a technology of power that attends to the body, zooms in on it, screens it, and interrogates it.
