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Learning and Calamities
It is widely assumed that humanity should be able to learn from calamities (e.g., emergencies, disasters, catastrophes) and that the affected individuals, groups, and enterprises, as well as the concerned (disaster-) management organizations and institutions for prevention and mitigation, will be able to be better prepared or more efficient next time. Furthermore, it is often assumed that the results of these learning processes are preserved as "knowledge" in the collective memory of a society, and that patterns of practices were adopted on this base. Within history, there is more evidence for the opposite: Analyzing past calamities reveals that there is hardly any learning and, if so, that ...
Catastrophe and Catharsis
Destroying human habitat and taking human lives, disasters, be they natural, man-made, or a combination, threaten large populations, even entire nations and societies. They also disrupt the existing order and cause discontinuity in our sense of self and our perceptions of the world. To restore order, not only must human beings be rescued and affected areas rebuilt, but the reality of the catastrophe must also be transformed into narrative. The essays in this collection examine representations of disaster in literature, film, and mass media in German and international contexts, exploring the nexus between disruption and recovery through narrative from the eighteenth century to the present. To...
Nordic Narratives of Nature and the Environment
Many contemporary environmental risks and global environmental changes occurring today are unprecedented in the history of human life on earth. However, the images and narratives through which humans relate to these phenomena are built on existing cultural tropes and narrative models. Cultural, social, and historical contexts strongly influence how we construct images and narratives of nature and the environment. It is therefore highly important to study such narratives in works of literature, film, and other forms of cultural expression in relation to the specific circumstances from which they arise. Nordic Narratives of Nature and the Environment is the first English language anthology tha...
The Zookeepers' War
The unbelievable true story of the Cold War’s strangest proxy war, fought between the zoos on either side of the Berlin Wall. “The liveliness of Mohnhaupt’s storytelling and the wonderful eccentricity of his subject matter make this book well worth a read.” —Star Tribune (Minneapolis) Living in West Berlin in the 1960s often felt like living in a zoo, everyone packed together behind a wall, with the world always watching. On the other side of the Iron Curtain, East Berlin and its zoo were spacious and lush, socialist utopias where everything was perfectly planned... and then rarely completed. Berlin’s two zoos in East and West quickly became symbols of the divided city’s two ha...
Alchemical Mercury
How can we account, in a rigorous way, for alchemy's ubiquity? We think of alchemy as the transformation of a base material (usually lead) into gold, but "alchemy" is a word in wide circulation in everyday life, often called upon to fulfill a metaphoric duty as the magical transformation of materials. Almost every culture and time has had some form of alchemy. This book looks at alchemy, not at any one particular instance along the historical timeline, not as a practice or theory, not as a mode of redemption, but as a theoretical problem, linked to real gold and real production in the world. What emerges as the least common denominator or "intensive property" of alchemy is ambivalence, the impossible and paradoxical coexistence of two incompatible elements. Alchemical Mercury moves from antiquity, through the golden age of alchemy in the Dutch seventeenth century, to conceptual art, to alternative fuels, stopping to think with writers such as Dante, Goethe, Hoffmann, the Grimm Brothers, George Eliot, and Marx. Eclectic and wide-ranging, this is the first study to consider alchemy in relation to literary and visual theory in a comprehensive way.
Weak Knowledge
Im Gegensatz zu landläufigen Vorstellungen sind wissenschaftliche Wissensbestände häufig prekäre Ressourcen. Sie können in bestimmten Situationen aus epistemischen Gründen schwach sein, weil Begründungen oder empirische Evidenz problematisch sind. In anderen Situationen fehlt die kulturelle und soziale Anerkennung oder das fragliche Wissen bleibt schwach, weil es nicht gelingt, es praktisch nutzbar zu machen. Der Band versammelt Beiträge aus allen historischen Epochen und aus einem breiten Spektrum von Wissensgebieten - von der Medizin bis zur Klimatologie.
Psychotherapiewissenschaft
Was macht die noch vergleichsweise junge Disziplin der Psychotherapiewissenschaft aus? Wie steht sie zur (klinischen) Psychologie und zur Medizin? Mit welchen aktuellen Herausforderungen sieht sie sich konfrontiert? Dieses Buch legt eine systematische Aufarbeitung der Psychotherapiewissenschaft aus einem erweiterten radikalkonstruktivistischen, multidisziplinären Ansatz heraus vor. Dazu werden zunächst Begriffsdefinitionen herausgearbeitet und die historische Entwicklung der Disziplin nachgezeichnet. Es folgt eine Beleuchtung des studien- und forschungspraktischen Alltags der Psychotherapiewissenschaft. Anschließend werden einzelne psychotherapiewissenschaftliche Ansätze aus philosophisc...
Will Spook You For Real
Popular fiction can be more than "feel-good diversion". Stories which are intended to entertain are uniquely suited to affect their recipients' feelings or moods, and tend to leave a more sustained impression than lectures or lists of facts. It is hardly surprising, therefore, that story-telling keeps on thriving in the 21st century, with ever new media providing ever new space for narratives. In Will Spook You For Real, Huber examines a wide range of strategies used in fiction to trigger a specific emotion in the readers: anxiety regarding the social constructs they live in, and their specific positions within these constructs. Can we trust our neighbours? Can we rely on our governments? What do big corporations have in mind? And what happens if I cannot conform to the role which has been assigned to me?
Zukunft & Forschung. Die Vielfalt der Vorausschau
Wie kommt die zukunftsbezogene Wissenschaft zu ihrem Wissen? Die allgemein verständlichen Antworten auf diese Frage finden sich im vorliegenden Buch. In Form von alphabetisch geordneten 66 Stichworten wird die historische Entwicklung des Zukunftsdenkens nachgezeichnet und werden die wichtigsten Fachbegriffe, Theorien und Methoden der prospektiven Forschung kurz beschrieben. Die große Vielfalt der Vorausschau findet sich sowohl in den traditionsreichen wissenschaftlichen Disziplinen als auch in den neueren und interdisziplinären Ansätzen der Innovations-, Risiko-, Technikfolgen- und Zukunftsforschung.
Coping with Shaking - Erschütterndes verarbeiten in Los Angeles
Am Pazifischen Feuerring gelegen stellt Kalifornien eines der erdbebengefährdetsten Gebiete der Welt dar. In den letzten zwei Jahrhunderten töteten die Auswirkungen der seismischen Wellen in Los Angeles hunderte Menschen, verletzten tausende und hinterließen einen Schaden in Milliardenhöhe. Solche Vorkommnisse sowie das Wissen, dass 'the Big One' sich jederzeit ereignen könnte, hinterlassen Spuren im Individuum und in der Gemeinschaft. Die Bewältigung von Katastrophen beinhaltet nicht nur die häufig im Fokus von Forschungen stehenden äußeren sichtbaren Maßnahmen, sondern auch psychische Prozesse der Betroffenen. Das Anliegen dieser Studie darin, die bislang viel zu wenig Beachtung ...
