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Cultural Responses to the Far Right in Contemporary Germany
Against the backdrop of an insurgent far right and numerous deadly neo-Nazi attacks, various cultural practitioners have written far-right violence into Germany’s collective memory and imagined more inclusive futures in its wake. This volume explores contemporary examples from literature, music, theatre, film, television and art that respond to this situation. They demonstrate that, alongside the ways in which art expands the public sphere in terms of what is said and who is heard, aesthetic questions of how artistic works are presented are a crucial part of how they open up new perspectives.
The Oxford Handbook of Communist Visual Cultures
Stereotypes often cast communism as a defunct, bankrupt ideology and a relic of the distant past. However, recent political movements like Europe's anti-austerity protests, the Arab Spring, and Occupy Wall Street suggest that communism is still very much relevant and may even hold the key to a new, idealized future. In The Oxford Handbook of Communist Visual Cultures, contributors trace the legacies of communist ideology in visual culture, from buildings and monuments, murals and sculpture, to recycling campaigns and wall newspapers, all of which work to make communism's ideas and values material. Contributors work to resist the widespread demonization of communism, demystifying its ideals a...
The Third Wave in Science and Technology Studies
This book analyzes future directions in the study of expertise and experience with the aim of engendering more critical discourse on the general discipline of science and technology studies. In 2002, Collins and Evans published an article entitled “The Third Wave of Science Studies,” suggesting that the future of science and technology studies would be to engage in “Studies in Expertise and Experience.” In their view, scientific expertise in legal and policy settings should reflect a consensus of formally-trained scientists and citizens with experience in the relevant field (but not “ordinary” citizens). The Third Wave has garnered attention in journals and in international workshops, where scholars delivered papers explicating the theoretical foundations and practical applications of the Third Wave. This book arose out of those workshops, and is the next step in the popularization of the Third Wave. The chapters address the novel concept of interactional experts, the use of imitation games, appropriating scientific expertise in law and policy settings, and recent theoretical developments in the Third Wave.
The Oxford Handbook of Expertise and Democratic Politics
In the last several decades, there has been a surge of interest in expertise in the social scientific, philosophical, and legal literatures. While it is tempting to attribute this surge of interest in expertise to the emergence and consolidation of a "knowledge society," "post-industrial society," or "network society," it is more likely that the debates about expertise are symptomatic of significant change and upheaval. As the number of contenders for expert status has increased, as the bases for their claims have become more diverse, and as the struggles between these would-be experts intensified, expertise became problematic and contested. In The Oxford Handbook of Expertise and Democratic...
The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies, fourth edition
The fourth edition of an authoritative overview, with all new chapters that capture the state of the art in a rapidly growing field. Science and Technology Studies (STS) is a flourishing interdisciplinary field that examines the transformative power of science and technology to arrange and rearrange contemporary societies. The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies provides a comprehensive and authoritative overview of the field, reviewing current research and major theoretical and methodological approaches in a way that is accessible to both new and established scholars from a range of disciplines. This new edition, sponsored by the Society for Social Studies of Science, is the fourth i...
What Remains?
This book tells the story of the German Democratic Republic from “the inside out,” using the lens of generational change to deconstruct an intriguing array of social identities that had little to do with the “official GDR” version authoritarian rulers regularly sought to impose on their citizens. The author compares the “identities” of five societal subgroups (GDR writers and intellectuals; pastors and dissidents; women; youth; and working-class men), exploring the policies defining their lives and status before/during/after the 1989 Wende, as well as the diverging “exit, voice and loyalty” dilemmas encountered by each. The “dialectical” components treated in this work ce...
Konflikt und soziale Identität
Diese interdisziplinäre Untersuchung verbindet eine empirische Studie zu einer heutigen Kirchengemeinde, die vor 20 Jahren einen Trennungskonflikt durchlebte, und exegetische Untersuchungen zum Matthäusevangelium. Die Rahmentheorie bildet der Social Identity Approach (SIA). Die explorative Studie zeigt auf, inwiefern Einsichten und Fragestellungen einer empirischen Untersuchung für das Verständnis des im Matthäusevangelium sichtbar werdenden Trennungskonflikts zwischen christusgläubigen Jüdinnen und Juden und der von Pharisäern geleiteten Synagoge fruchtbar gemacht werden können. Umgekehrt eröffnen sich von den gewonnenen exegetischen Einblicken aus auch neue Zugänge zu Konflikten in heutigen Kirchen bzw. Kirchengemeinden.
Ekklesiologie der Volkskirche
Die Mitgliederzahlen der Kirchen gehen zurück, Kirchgemeinden fusionieren, Kirchgebäude werden umgenutzt, die Verhältnisse von Kirche und Staat neu austariert. Ist die Rede von der Volkskirche im Horizont solcher Transformationsprozesse überhaupt noch sinnvoll? Der Begriff Volkskirche dient nicht nur zur Beschreibung und Orientierung kirchlicher Praxis, sondern besitzt auch Potenziale für ein zukunftsfähiges theologisches Kirchenverständnis. Genau dies zeigen die Autorinnen und Autoren auf, indem sie Volkskirche empirisch erforschen, ihre Geschichte, praktisch-theologische Modelle und Theologien der Volkskirche untersuchen und Thesen zu einer Ekklesiologie der Volkskirche entwickeln.
Die Generation der Wendekinder
Seit 2011 stehen Wendekinder, als letzte partiell in der DDR sozialisierte Gruppe, welche sich in Teilen selbst als Dritte Generation Ostdeutschland bezeichnen, im Fokus der Öffentlichkeit. Mit diesem Band liegt eine transdisziplinäre Betrachtung des Phänomens vor. Dabei wird das Forschungsfeld in den Dimensionen Diskurs, Typen und Positionierung(en) kartiert. Im zweiten Moment ist durch die Bildung eines Analyserasters, dem Rostocker-Generationen-Modell, eine Betrachtung der Frage nach dem „Zusammenwachsen“ der beiden deutschen Staaten gelungen. Die Vielfalt der Beiträge verdeutlicht eine initiale Erkenntnis: Es handelt sich bei den Wendekindern um eine hochgradig diverse Generation, welcher jedoch aufgrund ihrer doppelten Sozialisation eine ausgleichende triangulierende Vermittlerposition zukommt.
