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Skiing Into Modernity
"Examines the relationship between skiers and the Alpine environment since the late nineteenth century. It argues that skiing and winter tourism modernized the Alps in both material and perceptual terms while the Alpine landscape itself challenged skiers to alter their practices and philosophies of sport, leisure and nature, harmonizing Alpine skiing with modern cultural values and social practices in the twentieth century"--Provided by publisher.
Die Vernissage
Die Vernissage ist nach wie vor das dominante Eröffnungsritual im Kunstbetrieb, wenngleich über die Verflechtungen der Funktionen sowie die Rollenverteilung der beteiligten Personen wenig bekannt ist. Besucher, Sammler, Galeristen, Museumsdirektoren, Kuratoren, Künstler, Eröffnungsredner und Kulturpolitiker liefern alle ihren Beitrag zum Eröffnungsritual. Sie gestalten mit ihren unterschiedlichen Handlungen die soziale und emotionale Atmosphäre und tragen zur gelungenen oder misslungenen Erinnerung an die Vernissage bei. Durch die kultursoziologisch-empirische Betrachtungsweise des Rituals der Vernissage werden umfassend Erkenntnisse zu diesem sozialen Phänomen präsentiert.
Collective Memory in International Relations
This book traces the influence of collective memory in International Relations (IR). It inquires where a country's memory first emerges and how it guides states through time in world politics, and locates the origins of national memory in political strategies within the internationalenvironment.The study then turns to the domestic landscape, where among a country's public, it finds memory to be the carrier of national identity over time. From there, however, the analysis reverts to the international here: in the medium term, collective memory begins to channel international statebehaviour, whereas, in the long run, it circumvents a country's normative horizons. In this book, collective memor...
ISCONTOUR 2013
This are the proceedings of ISCONTOUR 2013 - the first "International Student Conference in Tourism Research", which was held at the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences on the 15th of April 2013.
Key Concepts in Theme Park Studies
This book offers a comprehensive, multidisciplinary introduction to theme parks and the field of theme park studies. It identifies and discusses relevant economic, social, and cultural as well as medial, historical, and geographical aspects of theme parks worldwide, from the big international theme park chains to smaller, regional, family-operated parks. The book also describes the theories and methods that have been used to study theme parks in various academic disciplines and reviews the major contexts in which theme parks have been studied. By providing the necessary backgrounds, theories, and methods to analyze and understand theme parks both as a business field and as a socio-cultural phenomenon, this book will be a great resource to students, academics from all disciplines interested in theme parks, and professionals and policy-makers in the leisure and entertainment as well as the urban planning sector.
The Palgrave Handbook of Intermediality
This handbook provides an extensive overview of traditional and emerging research areas within the field of intermediality studies, understood broadly as the study of interrelations among all forms of communicative media types, including transmedial phenomena. Section I offers accounts of the development of the field of intermediality - its histories, theories and methods. Section II and III then explore intermedial facets of communication from ancient times until the 21st century, with discussion on a wide range of cultural and geographical settings, media types, and topics, by contributors from a diverse set of disciplines. It concludes in Section IV with an emphasis on urgent societal issues that an intermedial perspective might help understand.
Beyond the Gymnasium
Beyond the Gymnasium is the first systematic effort to examine the history of the body in modern Germany. By looking into medical dietetics, walking, dancing, gymnastics, cholera, and classrooms, Heikki Lempa reconstructs the ways the middle-class body became a source of political and social autonomy and a medium of social interaction. During the first two decades of the nineteenth century, German physicians defined the middle class body as qualitatively different from the lower class body. This belief was supported by a contemporary science known as dietetics. Lempa provides a comprehensive history and analysis of this science. Beyond the Gymnasium also analyzes the social implications of c...
Landschaft und Identität
Zahlreiche Umfragen belegen, dass die Landschaft ein zentraler Bereich der österreichischen Identität ist. Landschaften ändern sich, im 20. Jahrhundert sehr rasch. Ihre Grundstrukturen bleiben aber relativ konstant. Unterschiedlich hingegen können die Wahrnehmungen der Menschen sein. Ernst Hanisch untersucht die Erfahrungen der Menschen in und mit der Landschaft: welche Gefühle Landschaft auslöst, wie sie Mentalitäten prägt. Der Zeithorizont reicht von der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts bis zur Gegenwart. Im Zentrum stehen Archetypen der Landschaft: Berge – Flüsse – Wälder – Industrielandschaft – flaches Land. Das Ziel ist, über diesen Versuch einer Erfahrungsgeschichte eine neue Dimension der österreichischen Geschichte zu erschließen.
