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Multispecies Futures
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 238

Multispecies Futures

In light of the dramatic growth and rapid institutionalization of human-animal studies in recent years, it is somewhat surprising that only a small number of publications have proposed practical and theoretical approaches to teaching in this inter- and transdisciplinary field. Featuring eleven original pedagogical interventions from the social sciences and the humanities as well as an epilogue from ecofeminist critic Greta Gaard, the present volume addresses this gap and responds to the demand by both educators and students for pedagogies appropriate for dealing with environmental crises. The theoretical and practical contributions collected here describe new ways of teaching human-animal st...

Jahrbuch für Kulinaristik, Bd. 3 (2021)
  • Language: de
  • Pages: 280

Jahrbuch für Kulinaristik, Bd. 3 (2021)

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2022-01-12
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  • Publisher: Iudicium

Band 3 des Jahrbuchs für Kulinaristik widmet sich zwei hochaktuellen Themen der historischen und sozialwissenschaftlichen Ernährungsforschung, zum einen dem Fleischkonsum und Fleischverzicht (Teil I) und zum anderen der Ernährung im Kontext des aktuellen Fluchtgeschehens (Teil II). Beide Themen machen deutlich, dass es sich bei der Ernährung in der Moderne um ein Phänomen handelt, für das globale Beziehungen und Verflechtungen konstitutiv sind. Die Tier- und Fleischproduktion sowie der damit verbundene Konsum berühren weltweite ökonomische, ökologische, soziale und gesundheitliche Konflikte und Fragestellungen. Das migrantische Essen bringt die "fremde" Küche in den lokalen Kontext...

Naming, Defining, Phrasing Strong Asymmetrical Dependencies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 399

Naming, Defining, Phrasing Strong Asymmetrical Dependencies

An examination of the terms used in specific historical contexts to refer to those people in a society who can be categorized as being in a position of ‘strong asymmetrical dependency’ (including slavery) provides insights into the social categories and distinctions that informed asymmetrical social interactions. In a similar vein, an analysis of historical narratives that either justify or challenge dependency is conducive to revealing how dependency may be embedded in (historical) discourses and ways of thinking. The eleven contributions in the volume approach these issues from various disciplinary vantage points, including theology, global history, Ottoman history, literary studies, a...

The Emotional Politics of the Alternative Left
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 319

The Emotional Politics of the Alternative Left

Presents a fascinating account of the emotional politics and practices in the West German alternative left.

Non-humans in Social Science
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 353

Non-humans in Social Science

The book explores the issue of non-humans and their role and position within contemporary social sciences. Inspired by current trends of bridging the dichotomy of nature and culture, the authors use the “non-human“ as a prism that offers a different perspective of the world, society, culture, and last but not least, being(s). To start paying attention to non-humans has the potential to hybridize social sciences and in turn enrich them as well as to offer social scientists novel perspectives and tools to approach social phenomena. Such an attitude might in turn lead to a reassessment of understanding of the relationship between the world and being, and of the categories of being and subje...

Postcolonial Translocations
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 474

Postcolonial Translocations

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013
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  • Publisher: Rodopi

The sites from which postcolonial cultural articulations develop and the sites at which they are received have undergone profound transformations within the last decades. This book traces the accelerating emergence of cultural crossovers and overlaps in a global perspective and through a variety of disciplinary approaches. It starts from the premise that after the ‘spatial turn’ human action and cultural representations can no longer be grasped as firmly located in or clearly demarcated by territorial entities. The collection of essays investigates postcolonial articulations of various genres and media in their spatiality and locatedness while envisaging acts of location as dynamic cultu...

Release a Man for Combat
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 400

Release a Man for Combat

Die etwa 150.000 Frauen, die im Zweiten Weltkrieg im Women's Army Corps Dienst taten, waren die ersten regularen Soldatinnen der US-Armee. Um mannliche Soldaten fur den Kampf freizusetzen, arbeiteten sie auch in traditionellen Mannerbereichen, etwa als Mechanikerinnen oder Pilotinnen in den USA, Afrika, Europa und Sudostasien. Die Autorin geht den Erfahrungen dieser Frauen nach, den militarischen und zivilen Diskursen uber Soldatinnen im Militar und dem Umgang der Armee mit soldatischer Weiblichkeit und weiblicher Sexualitat. Anhand von Regierungsdokumenten, Kriegsgerichtsprozessen, aber auch Selbstzeugnissen, Gedichten und Songs zeigt M. Michaela Hampf, wie umkampft die Konstruktion der Soldatin im Amerika der vierziger Jahre war und bis heute ist.

Food and Globalization
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 300

Food and Globalization

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008-06-15
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  • Publisher: Berg

Food has a special significance in the expanding field of global history. In this wide-ranging study, the authors provide an historical overview of the relationship between food and globalization in the modern world.

Remembering Africa
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 496

Remembering Africa

"This is the first comprehensive study of contemporary German literature's intense engagement with German colonialism and with Germany's wider involvement in European colonialism. Building on the author's decade of research and publication in the field, the book discusses some fifty novels by German, Swiss, and Austrian writers, among them Hans Christoph Buch, Alex Capus, Christof Hamann, Lukas Hartmann, Ilona Maria Hilliges, Giselher W. Hoffmann, Dieter Kühn, Hermann Schulz, Gerhard Seyfried, Thomas von Steinaecker, Uwe Timm, Ilija Trojanow, and Stephan Wackwitz. Drawing on international postcolonial theory, the German tradition of cross-cultural literary studies, and on memory studies, the book brings the hitherto neglected German case to the international debate in postcolonial literary studies"--Publisher website, July 5, 2013.

Travelling Goods, Travelling Moods
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 265

Travelling Goods, Travelling Moods

Looking at cultural appropriation from around the world, this volume uses the field of cultural studies--heavily influenced by both economics and sociology--as a lens through which to view the paradigm of transcultural consumption. The editors present a variety of consumptive phenomena including: the introduction of Chinese foods to the United States, Ford cars in Germany, and American schoolbooks in the Philippines. Rejecting the idea that these interactions were simply forms of "Americanization," Travelling Goods, Travelling Moods fills a gap in consumer studies and enriches the debate about cultural transfer.