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Beyond Gender
Scholars and activists often narrate the history of gender and feminism as a progression of "waves," said to mark high points of innovation in theory and moments of political breakthrough. Arguing for the notion of multiple futurities over that of progressive waves, Beyond Gender combines theoretical work with practical applications to provide an advanced introduction to contemporary feminist and sexuality research and advocacy. This comprehensive monograph documents the diversification of gender-related disciplines and struggles, arguing for a multidisciplinary approach to issues formerly subsumed under the unified field of gender studies. Split into two parts, the volume demonstrates how t...
Essentials of Sociology
The author is a proud sponsor of the 2020 SAGE Keith Roberts Teaching Innovations Award enabling graduate students and early career faculty to attend the annual ASA pre-conference teaching and learning workshop. Join the conversation with one of sociology’s best-known thinkers. In the fully updated Fourth Edition of Essentials to Sociology, bestselling author George Ritzer shows students the relevance of sociology to their lives. Adapted from Ritzer’s Introduction to Sociology, this text provides students with a rock-solid foundation in a shorter and more streamlined format. Students will learn about traditional sociological concepts and theories, as well as some of the most compelling c...
Who Can Speak and Who Is Heard/Hurt?
Ethnic diversity, race, and racism have been subject to discussion in American Studies departments at German universities for many years. It appears that especially in the past few decades, ethnic minorities and 'new immigrants' have increasingly become objects of scholarly inquiry. Such research questions focus on the U.S. and other traditionally multicultural societies that have emerged out of historical situations shaped by (settler) colonialism, slavery, and/or large-scale immigration. Paradoxically, these studies have overwhelmingly been conducted by white scholars born in Germany and holding German citizenship. Scholars with actual experience of racial discrimination have remained largely unheard. Departing from a critique of practices employed by the German branch of American Studies, the volume offers (self-)reflective approaches by scholars from different fields in the German Humanities. It thereby seeks to provide a solid basis for thorough and candid discussions of the mechanisms behind and the implications of racialized power relations in the German Humanities and German society at large.
Schreiblehrkonzepte an Hochschulen
In dem Sammelband werden verschiedene Schreiblehrkonzepte vorgestellt, um Studierende in das fachspezifische wissenschaftliche Schreiben einzuführen. Die Methoden, Übungen und Zugänge wurden im Qualitätspakt Lehre entwickelt und erprobt. Der Schwerpunkt liegt auf den Herausforderungen des fachspezifischen wissenschaftlichen Schreibens. Die Autorinnen und Autoren präsentieren Lehransätze und evaluieren Maßnahmen im Hinblick auf ihre Wirksamkeit. Außerdem wird diskutiert, wie Lehrende für die Vermittlung fachspezifischen Schreibens vom Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) profitieren können. Die Beiträge entstanden im Rahmen der Abschlusstagung des Projekts "richtig einsteigen mit literalen Kompetenzen (LitKom)".
Handbuch Kulturwissenschaftliche „Studies“
Mit dem Cultural Turn öffnen sich nicht nur bisher eher hermetisch gebliebene geistes- und sozialwissenschaftliche Disziplinen für ein kulturwissenschaftliches Denken — es entstehen aus diesen Forschungen heraus neue, Fachgrenzen überschreitende Ansätze. Eine zentrale Rolle hierbei spielen die ›Studies‹ — interdisziplinäre Forschungsbereiche, die sich marginalisierten Themen zuwenden, sie systematisch erschließen (bspw. »Women’s Studies«, »Postcolonial Studies« etc.) und letztlich auch selbst wieder Studies generieren (aus den »Women’s Studies« respektive den »Gender Studies« etwa die »Feminist Studies«, »Masculinity Studies«, »Fat Studies«, »Disability Studi...
Marx konkret
Ein "artistisches Ganzes"? - Zum rhetorischen, stilistischen und poetologischen Charakter von Marx` Hauptwerk. Das "Kapital" gehört zu den bekanntesten und wirkmächtigsten Texten der politischen Ökonomie und modernen Philosophie. Über den zahllosen Kontroversen um Marx` Hauptwerk wurde bislang jedoch vernachlässigt, wie sorgfältig und durchdacht dieses gestaltet ist, wie intensiv es sich auf literarische Texte bezieht und selbst immer wieder mit poetischen und stilistischen Mitteln wie Metaphern oder narrativen Einschüben arbeitet und wie sehr der theoretische Ansatz des "Kapitals" von der Darstellungsweise dieses Textes abhängt. In 14 Beiträgen wird die Frage nach der Poetik und Ästhetik des "Kapitals" aus verschiedenen Perspektiven untersucht: vom Zusammenhang von Rhetorik, Polemik und Kritik über das Wechselspiel von Darstellung und Wissen, die Rolle von Erzählungen bis zum Verhältnis des "Kapitals" zur Erzählliteratur des 19. Jahrhunderts, bevor an den Beispielen von Sergej Eisenstein und Alexander Kluge abschließend zwei produktive Rezeptionen von Marx` Text im 20. Jahrhundert betrachtet werden.
History, Politics, Law
Juxtaposes standpoints from which disciplines of history, political thought and law conceive and generate political order beyond the state.
American Opera Singers and Their Recordings
This book focuses on American opera singers and what their recordings say about their artistry. It is not a book about all American opera singers, since many who had important careers on stage, made few, if any, recordings. And many of those who did make recordings, did so prior to the introduction of electrical recording in 1925 (and the resulting advances in the reproduction of the human voice). Opera enthusiasts can only imagine the sound of Farinelli's voice or read what his contemporaries have written about it, but with almost any famous or near-famous singer of recent years, enthusiasts do not have to imagine. Their voices are available through the technology of sound recording. There are 53 entries, one each for 52 singers and a composite entry for a group of Hollywood vocalists. Each entry contains biographical information and is followed by a discography of operatic recordings to be used in conjunction with the critical commentaries. The entries are in alphabetical order by the singer's last name and provide critical analyses of key recordings and of the artists' gifts and limitations.
Materiability
Materiability is design by making, an understanding of actively learning from and about the world by physically engaging in it. The immediate connection between matter and human senses, such as touch, smell, sound or visuals, forms the basis for bodily explorations, engagements, and experiences. Materiability is a call to take action, to cease accepting the status-quo as given but instead speculate and dream about possible alternatives. It is about sharing these dreams with others, about communication, exchange, collaboration and open, unrestricted access to information. Materiability is the belief in a future that is shaped by our common efforts. It is about inspiration, ideas and visions. About understanding challenges not as problems that need to be solved but as opportunities from which new can emerge. Materiability is a playground for probing tomorrow.
Phonographies
Phonographies explores the numerous links and relays between twentieth-century black cultural production and sound technologies from the phonograph to the Walkman. Highlighting how black authors, filmmakers, and musicians have actively engaged with recorded sound in their work, Alexander G. Weheliye contends that the interplay between sound technologies and black music and speech enabled the emergence of modern black culture, of what he terms “sonic Afro-modernity.” He shows that by separating music and speech from their human sources, sound-recording technologies beginning with the phonograph generated new modes of thinking, being, and becoming. Black artists used these new possibilitie...
