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Jewish and Non-Jewish Spaces in the Urban Context
The unifying thread of the interdisciplinary volume Jewish and Non-Jewish Spaces in the Urban Context is the fact that Jewish spaces are almost always generated in relation to non-Jewish spaces; they determine and influence each other. This general phenomenon will be scrutinized and put to the test again and again in a varied collection of articles by international experienced researchers as well as junior scholars using various urban contexts and discourses as data. From the viewpoints of different temporal and regional research traditions and disciplines the contributors deal with the question of how Jewish and non-Jewish spaces are imagined, constructed, negotiated and intertwined. All ex...
Unter dem Roten Stern geboren
Kinder und Kindheit hatten im sowjetischen kollektiven Imaginären einen wichtigen Ort. Bilder von Kindern wirkten als sozialer Kitt, sie mobilisierten die Menschen für den Aufbau einer neuen Gesellschaft, motivierten zu Aufopferung und Verzicht und transportierten zentrale utopische Versprechen. Bilder der Kinder der Völker der Sowjetunion standen für den Zusammenhalt des Imperiums. Sowjetische Bildformeln griffen auf das kulturelle Repertoire der europäischen Kunstgeschichte und der christlichen Ikonografie zurück. Doch die Grenzen des Sicht- und Zeigbaren verschoben sich immer wieder. Bildformeln konnten ironisch hinterfragt werden und ihr Pathos verlieren. Die Darstellungen, Formeln...
Socialist aesthetics
Sozialistische Bildkulturen gingen über die politische Ikonografie weit hinaus: Jenseits von Hammer und Sichel, roten Bannern oder stilisierten Lenin-Portraits konnten sie Normalität herstellen und integrativ wirken, Identität stiften, aber auch subversiv sein. Bilder banden die Bevölkerung emotional an das System. Der Sammelband behandelt unterschiedliche populäre Medien aus dem späten Sozialismus: Bildpostkarten, Verpackungen, Schaufensterdekorationen und andere alltägliche Bildformen. Die Beiträge beschreiben Spannungsfelder zwischen dem politischen Programm einer einheitlichen sozialistischen Hemisphäre und den visuellen Brüchen in der kulturellen und sozialen Praxis. Ein Glossar erläutert zentrale ästhetische Leitbegriffe.
Urban Spaces after Socialism
Was geschieht in eurasischen Städten seit dem Ende der Sowjetunion? Wie werden periphere urbane Räume neu konstruiert, angeordnet und reflektiert in Stimmen der Subkulturen und im Alltag der postsozialistischen Stadt? Bei politischen Ungewissheiten und begleitet von Phänomenen der Globalisierung entsteht hier ein Labor spezifischer urbaner Kulturen. Der Umgang mit urbanen Räumen und Symbolen muss neu verhandelt, die Aneignung öffentlicher Plätze von neuen Akteuren erprobt werden. Der Band bietet ethnografische Einblicke in Städte wie Eriwan, Tiflis, Taschkent oder Osh, die diesen Umbruch erleben.
Shadowing the Anthropocene
A spectre is haunting humanity: the spectre of a reality that will outwit and, in the end, bury us. "The Anthropocene," or The Human Era, is an attempt to name our geological fate - that we will one day disappear into the layer-cake of Earth's geology - while highlighting humanity in the starring role of today's Earthly drama. In Shadowing the Anthropocene, Adrian Ivakhiv proposes an ecological realism that takes as its starting point humanity's eventual demise. The only question for a realist today, he suggests, is what to do now and what quality of compost to leave behind with our burial. The book engages with the challenges of the Anthropocene and with a series of philosophical efforts to...
Cosmonaut
How the public image of the Soviet cosmonaut was designed and reimagined over time In this book, Cathleen Lewis discusses how the public image of the Soviet cosmonaut developed beginning in the 1950s and the ways this icon has been reinterpreted throughout the years and in contemporary Russia. Compiling material and cultural representations of the cosmonaut program, Lewis provides a new perspective on the story of Soviet spaceflight, highlighting how the government has celebrated figures such as Yuri Gagarin and Valentina Tereshkova through newspapers, radio, parades, monuments, museums, films, and even postage stamps and lapel pins. Lewis’s analysis shows that during the Space Race, Nikit...
The Socialist Car
Across the Soviet Bloc, from the 1960s until the collapse of communism, the automobile exemplified the tension between the ideological imperatives of political authorities and the aspirations of ordinary citizens. For the latter, the automobile was the ticket to personal freedom and a piece of the imagined consumer paradise of the West. For the authorities, the personal car was a private, mobile space that challenged the most basic assumptions of the collectivity. The "socialist car"-and the car culture that built up around it-was the result of an always unstable compromise between official ideology, available resources, and the desires of an increasingly restless citizenry. In The Socialist...
Soviet Space Culture
Starting with the first man-made satellite 'Sputnik' in 1957 and culminating four years later with the first human in space, Yuri Gagarin, space became a new utopian horizon. This book explores the profound repercussions of the Soviet space exploration program on culture and everyday life in Eastern Europe, especially in the Soviet Union itself.
Cross Purposes
No other symbol is as omnipresent in Poland as the cross. This multilayered and contradictory icon features prominently in public spaces and state institutions. It is anchored in the country's visual history, inspires protest culture, and dominates urban and rural landscapes. The cross recalls Poland's historic struggles for independence and anti-Communist dissent, but it also encapsulates the country's current position in Europe as a self-avowed bulwark of Christianity and a champion of conservative values. It is both a national symbol – defining the boundaries of Polishness in opposition to a changing constellation of the country's Others – and a key object of contestation in the creative arts and political culture. Despite its long history, the cross has never been systematically studied as a political symbol in its capacity to mobilize for action and solidify power structures. Cross Purposes is the first cultural history of the cross in modern Poland, deconstructing this key symbol and exploring how it has been deployed in different political battles.
