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The Visible Hands That Feed
The Visible Hands That Feed approaches the food sector against the backdrop of its pivotal role for social and ecological relations to trace the potentials and limitations for sustainable change from within.
Morality as Organizational Practice
Organizations are increasingly the subject of moral debates. The positioning of enterprises of various sizes, non-governmental organizations, or public institutions is discussed and taken as a basis for consumer, client, and political decisions in a broad scope of topics. While the perspectives of customers, organizations, and further stakeholders on such developments have been highlighted under the label of 'ethical consumption' or vis-à-vis the fragility of organizations, the impact and effects on actors working in or for such organizations or subcontractors have so far only been dealt with tangentially or left as a blank spot. This volume turns its attention to the actors and organizational practices in order to trace the effects of these discourses on everyday lives. Similarly, the ethnographic case studies collected in this volume explore the extent to which everyday work life itself shapes discourses on the negotiation of morality in the present.
The Government of Things
"Critically engaging with some limitations of new materialist scholarship, Lemke draws on Foucault's concept of a "government of things" to propose a relational understanding of political ontologies"--
At the End of Property
Recent decades have witnessed the creation of new types of property systems, ranging from data ownership to national control over genetic resources. This trend has significant implications for wealth distribution and our understanding of who can own what. This book explores the idea of ownership in the realm of plant breeding, revealing how plants have been legally and materially transformed into property. It highlights the controversial aspects of turning seeds, plants and genes into property and how this endangers the viability of the seed industry. Examining ownership not simply as a legal concept, but as a bundle of laws, practices and technologies, this is a valuable contribution that will interest scholars of intellectual property studies, the anthropology of markets, science and technology studies and related fields.
A Companion to Public History
An authoritative overview of the developing field of public history reflecting theory and practice around the globe This unique reference guides readers through this relatively new field of historical inquiry, exploring the varieties and forms of public history, its relationship with popular history, and the ways in which the field has evolved internationally over the past thirty years. Comprised of thirty-four essays written by a group of leading international scholars and public history practitioners, the work not only introduces readers to the latest scholarly academic research, but also to the practice and pedagogy of public history. It pays equal attention to the emergence of public his...
Recycling Infrastructures in Cambodia
This book examines the recycling infrastructure in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. It considers the circular flows of waste and practices through ‘infracycles’, maintenance practices that tinker with the social and capitalist order, and postcolonial ways of doing politics that co-constitute predominant waste fantasies from which naturecultures ooze out, shaping urban life in their own way. In this context, socially marginalized waste pickers contest the capitalist system by creating tropes about freedom, labor autonomy, and the will to survive. In this regard, they are also meddling about a new social order that represents the fine line Cambodia is sashaying between tradition and modernity. Waste ...
Auf dem Weg zu einer transnationalen Erinnerungskultur?
Zum 100. Jahrestag seines Ausbruchs war 2014 in fast ganz Europa eine Welle der medialen Erinnerung an den Ersten Weltkrieg zu beobachten. Sind damit auch konvergierende Tendenzen in Richtung einer europäischen Erinnerungskultur verbunden? Vollzieht sich eine Neubewertung der Erinnerung, die gemeinsame transnationale Narrative begründen kann? Diesen Fragen geht der Band nach. Neben den öffentlich-politischen Debatten werden auch Geschichtsbilder im Bereich von Massen- und Unterhaltungsmedien untersucht. Es zeigt sich eine Vielzahl an transnationalen Ansätzen, die jedoch nicht in eine einzige, homogene, transnationale Erinnerungskultur münden, sondern vielmehr um die Deutungshoheit über Geschichtsbilder konkurrieren.
Responsibilisierung
Der Band prüft den Begriff Responsibilisierung aus unterschiedlichen disziplinären Perspektiven auf seine Aktualität, sein analytisches Gewicht und seine theoretischen Bedeutungen und bringt so die Erziehungswissenschaft mit der Soziologie, der Philosophie oder der Geschichtswissenschaft ins Gespräch. Es wird sowohl danach gefragt, welche tragfähigen theoretischen, analytischen und politischen Perspektiven mit einer positiven Bezugnahme auf die Begriffe ‹Verantwortung› und ‹Responsibilisierung› verbunden sind, als auch danach, welche Kritiken angemessen erscheinen.
The Archaeology of Time Travel
This volume explores the relevance of time travel as a characteristic contemporary way to approach the past. Papers explore various types and methods of time travel and seek to prove that time travel is a legitimate and timely object of study and critique because it represents a significant way to bring the past back to life in the present.
Urbane Psyche
Wie beeinflusst urbanes Leben unsere psychische Gesundheit? Und wie wirkt sich andersherum der Umgang mit psychischer Gesundheit auf das Zusammenleben in Städten aus? In seiner ethnografischen Feldforschung in Berlin untersucht Patrick Bieler, wie Menschen, die mit schweren psychischen Problemen leben, ihren Alltag bewältigen, und er betrachtet, wie das dortige sozialpsychiatrische Versorgungssystem mit den Herausforderungen des angespannten Wohnungsmarktes umgeht. Der ethnografische Blick auf die Entstehungsbedingungen und gesundheitlichen Auswirkungen urbaner Umwelten schafft eine sozialwissenschaftlich fundierte Perspektive auf bekannte Alltagsphänomene. Aus dem dichten Verständnis urbaner Lebensbedingungen und ihrer politischen Dimensionen ergeben sich Konsequenzen für zukünftige Stadtgestaltung und interdisziplinäre Forschung. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode
