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The Cultural Politics of Anti-Elitism
This book examines the highly ambivalent implications and effects of anti-elitism. It draws on this theme as a cross-cutting entry point to provide transdisciplinary analysis of current conjunctures and their contradictions, drawing on examples from popular culture and media, politics, fashion, labour and spatial arrangements. Using the toolboxes of media and discourse analysis, hegemony theory, ethnography, critical social psychology and cultural studies more broadly, the book surveys and theorizes the forms, the implications and the ambiguities and limits of anti-elitist formations in different parts of the world. Anti-elitist sentiments colour the contemporary political conjuncture as muc...
Flexible Authoritarianism
Flexible Authoritarianism challenges the idea that the transnational rise of authoritarianism is a backlash against economic globalization and neoliberal capitalism. Flexible authoritarianism--a form of government that simultaneously incentivizes a can-do spirit and suppresses dissent--reflects the resonance between authoritarian and neoliberal ideologies in today's comeback of strongman rule. The book conveys the look and feel of flexible authoritarianism in Russia through the eyes of up-and-coming youth. Drawing on field observations, in-depth interviews, and analyses of documents and video clips, Anna Schwenck demonstrates how flexible authoritarianism is stabilized ideologically by the insignia of cool start-up capitalism and by familiar cultural forms such as the summer camp. It critically evaluates how loyalty to the regime--the order underlying political and economic life in a polity--is produced and contested among those young people who seek key positions in politics, business, the public sector, or creative industries.
Urban Ethics as Research Agenda
This book provides an outline for a multidisciplinary research agenda into urban ethics and offers insights into the various ways urban ethics can be configured. It explores practices and discourses through which individuals, collectives and institutions determine which developments and projects may be favourable for dwellers and visitors traversing cities. Urban Ethics as Research Agenda widens the lens to include other actors apart from powerful individuals or institutions, paying special attention to activists or civil society organizations that express concerns about collective life. The chapters provide fresh perspectives addressing the various scales that converge in the urban. The uni...
Operational Risk Management
OpRisk Awards 2020 Book of the Year Winner! The Authoritative Guide to the Best Practices in Operational Risk Management Operational Risk Management offers a comprehensive guide that contains a review of the most up-to-date and effective operational risk management practices in the financial services industry. The book provides an essential overview of the current methods and best practices applied in financial companies and also contains advanced tools and techniques developed by the most mature firms in the field. The author explores the range of operational risks such as information security, fraud or reputation damage and details how to put in place an effective program based on the four main risk management activities: risk identification, risk assessment, risk mitigation and risk monitoring. The book also examines some specific types of operational risks that rank high on many firms' risk registers. Drawing on the author's extensive experience working with and advising financial companies, Operational Risk Management is written both for those new to the discipline and for experienced operational risk managers who want to strengthen and consolidate their knowledge.
Recent Advances in Theory and Methods for the Analysis of High Dimensional and High Frequency Financial Data
Recently, considerable attention has been placed on the development and application of tools useful for the analysis of the high-dimensional and/or high-frequency datasets that now dominate the landscape. The purpose of this Special Issue is to collect both methodological and empirical papers that develop and utilize state-of-the-art econometric techniques for the analysis of such data.
Putin and His Neighbors
Russian President Vladimir Putin has implemented a set of policies toward his neighbors intended to help him re-establish his country's status as a major world power. These have included dominating, as far as possible, the independent states that once were part of the USSR and preventing further NATO encroachment on Russia's borders. He has also sought a pragmatic partnership with China to help bolster the Russian economy in the face of Western sanctions and declining revenues from oil and gas. This book argues that Putin's efforts have been largely, although not entirely, successful. Inthe future, however, the weakness of the Russian economy as compared to China's may pose a threat to Moscow's ability to maintain a Russian sphere of influence in its own neighborhood.
Wut der Fernfahrer
Aus unterschiedlichen Regionen Russlands fanden sich vor einigen Jahren Lkw-Fahrer zusammen und gründeten in Chimki ein Protestcamp gegen eine neu eingeführte Autobahngebühr, durch die sie ihre Existenz bedroht sahen. Olga Reznikova hat 2015–2018 die »wilden Streiks« der Fernfahrer sowie das Leben ihrer Familien und Unterstützer:innen ethnografisch begleitet. Ihr Buch zeigt, in welchem Verhältnis die Bewegung zu anderen Protesten und oppositionellen Gruppen steht, und zeichnet Allianzbildungsprozesse und Widersprüche innerhalb der russischen Protestlandschaft nach. Die Analyse der Figur der »einfachen Leute« in den spontanen und emotional aufgeladenen Protesten gegen Ungleichheit und Korruption wirft eine neue Sicht auf die Zeit vor dem jüngsten Krieg Russlands.
Carola Neher - gefeiert auf der Bühne, gestorben im Gulag
Dem außergewöhnlichen Leben und Schicksal der Schauspielerin Carola Neher (1900 – 1942) nähern sich die Autoren in dem von MEMORIAL Deutschland initiierten Sammelband aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven. Obwohl sich Carola Neher stets ausschließlich als Künstlerin verstand und der kommunistischen Partei nie angehörte, verkörpert ihr Schicksal wie kaum ein anderes die Ambivalenz der kommunistischen Bewegung im Europa des 20. Jahrhunderts, die zum Motor kultureller Innovation, als parteistaatlicher Apparat jedoch zum Vollstrecker von Massenterror wurde. Die gefeierte Schauspielerin der 1920er und 1930er Jahre wurde nach ihrer Emigration aus NS-Deutschland in die UdSSR 1936 in Moskau ve...
