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War Isn’t Hell, It’s Entertainment
Real war is a cruel theater of death, yet it is also an exciting narrative exploited for national, political and commercial purposes and turned into numerous films, television shows, computer games, news stories and reenactment plays. These essays examine the relationship between war, visual media and entertainment from a number of academic perspectives. Key topics include how war is used as an imaginary site to stage dramas; how boundaries between war, media, and entertainment dissolve as new media alters the formal qualities of representation; how entertainment is used to engage audiences; and what effect products of war and entertainment have on consumers of popular culture.
Übergänge schaffen
Our point of view has been very unusual so far but should help to gain new insights about the early modern society in the military. These articles investigate in detail what effect those rituals had in connection with group dynamics. Further more, it will be described how these rituals helped with day to day tasks as well as exceptional situations, like war. It should also be stated who actually initiated the rituals.
Vanquished and Victorious
Recent research has revised earlier views about the role of veterans of World War One in paramilitary formations, radical nationalism and political extremism in inter-war Europe, yet there remain considerable gaps in our understanding of the role they played in the ‘successor states’ of the Habsburg Empire. Vanquished and Victorious provides an innovative comparative investigation of veterans in Austria and Czechoslovakia, two states whose wider political development was of crucial importance to the question of stability in Central Europe after 1918. While differing in terms of how successfully veterans reintegrated into post-war society, this volume shows that both countries incorporated elements of ‘cultures of victory and defeat’.
Men in Metal
In his pioneering study, Men in Metal, Sven Saaler examines Japanese public statuary as a central site of historical memory from its beginnings in the Meiji period through the twenty-first century. Saaler shows how the elites of the modern Japanese nation-state went about constructing an iconography of national heroes to serve their agenda of instilling national (and nationalist) thinking into the masses. Based on a wide range of hitherto untapped primary sources, Saaler combines data-driven quantitative analysis and in-depth case studies to identify the categories and historical figures that dominated public space. Men in Metal also explores the agents behind this visualized form of the politics of memory and introduces historiographical controversies surrounding statue-building in modern Japan.
The Social Ecology of Border Landscapes
The collection of essays in The Social Ecology of Border Landscapes defi nes borders and borderlands to include territorial interfaces, marginal spaces (physical, sociological and psychological) and human consciousness. From theoretical and conceptual presentations on social ecology and its agencies and representations, to case studies and concrete projects and initiatives, the contributing authors uncover a thread of contemporary thought and action on this important emerging fi eld. The essays aim to defi ne the territories of social ecology, to investigate how social agencies can activate ecological processes and systems, and to understand how the interactions of people and ecosystems can create new sustainable landscapes across tangible and intangible territorial rifts.
Politics of Death
To disentangle the National Socialists’ path to power in Germany, one must attend to the discursive strategies and liturgical practices employed by its emocrats, or manipulators of emotions. The apotheosis of martyrdom in the National Socialist propaganda template is far from being a marginal element in the movement’s history. Owing to its mobilising and unifying potential in constructing a community of memory, the glorification of Nazi martyrdom constituted a fundamental pillar of the movement’s communicative and propaganda strategy, stressed to the point of paroxysm. The propaganda and lies that ground the construction of the martyr as a prefiguration of the "new man" are the core id...
A Companion to Border Studies
A Companion to Border Studies “Taking into consideration all aspects this book has a very important role in the professional literature of border studies.” Cross-Border Review Yearbook of the European Institute “Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.” Choice “This book, with its interdisciplinary team of authors from many world regions, shows the state of the art in this research field admirably.” Ulf Hannerz, Stockholm University “This volume will be the definitive work on borders and border-related processes for years into the future. The editors have done an outstanding job of identifying key themes, and of assembling influential scholars to...
Militär und Demokratie in Deutschland
Dieses Studienbuch führt umfassen und systematisch in das Thema Militär und Demokratie in Deutschland ein. Es erzählt die Geschichte des Neuaufbaus der Bundeswehr nach 1945 und ihrer Integration in die bundesdeutsche Demokratie und analysiert die Rolle der deutschen Verteidigungspolitik in den vertraglichen Bündnisstrukturen. Vor allem aber bietet es ein umfassendes Bild vom Wandel der Bundeswehr und der Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitspolitik nach dem Epochenwechsel von 1989.
Richtet nicht!
Eigentlich weiß es jeder: Fehlbare Menschen können nicht über die Fehler anderer zu Gericht sitzen. Ist wenigstens Gott gerecht? Gott sei Dank nicht! Der Kern der Botschaft Jesu lautet vielmehr: »Und vergib uns unsere Schuld, wie auch wir vergeben unsern Schuldnern«. Wie gewinnen wir diese Einsicht im Rahmen unseres Strafsystems zurück? Dazu untersucht Eugen Drewermann in diesem Band Vorstellungen des Strafrechts im Mittelalter und in der frühen Neuzeit. Im Mittelalter haben Papst und Kaiser aus »Gott« ein Mittel ihres Machterhalts gemacht, und beide scheiterten. Das Reich zerfiel in Fürstentümer und Nationalstaaten; die Kirche versuchte die Herrschaft über ihre Gläubigen durch ...
Krieg als Medienereignis II
Im 21. Jahrhundert werden Konflikte zwischen Staaten, aber auch die neuen asymmetrischen Kriege intensiver als früher von Medien beeinflusst. Neben dem Fernsehen profiliert sich vor allem das Internet als Raum für andere Formen der Kriegführung. Generell rückt die Steuerung und Kontrolle von Kommunikationsprozessen ins Zentrum des sicherheitspolitischen Krisenmanagements. Mit der Professionalisierung der militärischen Media Relations wird der Journalismus demokratischer Gesellschaften enorm herausgefordert. Die Medien geraten in die Gefahr, selbst Teil des militärischen Apparates zu werden. Diese und weitere Veränderungen der Krisenkommunikation im 21. Jahrhundert werden in dem Band "...
