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Revisualising Intersectionality
Revisualising Intersectionality offers transdisciplinary interrogations of the supposed visual evidentiality of categories of human similarity and difference. This open-access book incorporates insights from social and cognitive science as well as psychology and philosophy to explain how we visually perceive physical differences and how cognition is fallible, processual, and dependent on who is looking in a specific context. Revisualising Intersectionality also puts into conversation visual culture studies and artistic research with approaches such as gender, queer, and trans studies as well as postcolonial and decolonial theory to complicate simplified notions of identity politics and cultural representation. The book proposes a revision of intersectionality research to challenge the predominance of categories of visible difference such as race and gender as analytical lenses.
Erlebte Authentizität
Der Begriff der Authentizität bewegt sich zwischen Hochwertwort und ethischem Ideal der Postmoderne. In ihm verdichtet sich die anthropologische Frage nach dem Selbstsein, zugleich kommen ihm Diskursfunktionen der Autorisierung, Vermarktung oder Letztbegründung zu. Während diverse geistes-, kultur- und sozialwissenschaftliche Disziplinen unterschiedliche Zugänge zu Authentizität aufzeigen, blieb eine empirisch-diskurslinguistisch angelegte Untersuchung aus. Die vorliegende Studie versteht Authentizität gleichermaßen als Performativitäts- und Diskursphänomen und konzentriert sich in der Analyse auf Zuschreibungspraktiken. Dadurch schlägt sie die Brücke von diskursiver zu erlebter A...
Moralische Gentrifizierung
Migration, Klimawandel, Inflation, Krieg – Krisen kumulieren in immer kürzeren Abständen. Dieses Buch bietet einen aktuellen, pointierten, aber wissenschaftlich fundierten Beitrag über die Korrosion von Politik und Gesellschaft. Die Moralisierung politischer Kultur wird im Kontext gegenwärtiger Transformationskonflikte als ein Krisensymptom demokratischer Gesellschaften analysiert. Eine These lautet: Das Schwinden liberaler Demokratie und die Transformation der Gesellschaft bewirken emotionale Kontrastverschärfungen, die in einen Vertrauensverlust staatlicher Institutionen münden können. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Reflective Authenticity
Reflective Authenticity: Rethinking the Project of Modernity is a challenging consideration of what remains of ambitious Enlightenment ideas such as democracy, freedom and universality in the wake of relativist, postmodern thought. Do clashes over gender, race and culture mean that universal notions such as justice or rights no longer apply outside our own communities? Do our actions lose their authenticity if we act on principles that transcend the confines of our particular communities ? Alessandro Ferrara proposes a path out of this impasse via the notion of reflective authenticity. Drawing on Aristotle, Kants concept of reflective judgement and Heideggers theory of reflexive self-grounding, Reflective Authenticity: Rethinking the Project of Modernity takes a fresh look at the state of Critical Theory today and the sustainability of postmodern politics.
Indexing Authenticity
The concept of authenticity has received some attention in recent academic discourse, yet it has often been left under-defined from a sociolinguistic perspective. This volume presents the contributions of a wide range of scholars who exchanged their views on the topic at a conference in Freiburg, Germany, in November 2011. The authors address three leading questions: What are the local meanings of authenticity embedded in large cultural and social structures? What is the meaning of linguistic authenticity in delocalised and/or deterritorialised settings? How is authenticity indexed in other contexts of language expression (e.g. in writing or in political discourse)? These questions are tackled by recognised experts in the fields of sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, and contact linguistics. While by no means exhaustive, the volume offers a large array of case studies that contribute significantly to our understanding of the meaning of authenticity in language production and perception.
International Media Development
This collection is the first of its kind on the topic of media development, and reflects on how advocacy groups, researchers, the international community and others can work to ensure that media can continue to serve as a force of democracy and development.
Media, Communication and Development
The book thus addresses the extant gap in scholarship in the field and includes a chapter on impact evaluation, which current scholarship has either ignored or footnoted. In addition, the book uses case studies from both the global south and the global north to attend to complex and multidisciplinary concerns with participation, power and empowerment. The author brings in postcolonial perspectives to demonstrate that the use of MCD approaches emerged in response to the growing problems of underdevelopment, and not necessarily to western development theories. Using simple language that is at the same time theoretically engaged, he opens up the field to scholars across a large number of disciplines.
