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The Art of Resistance in Islam
Examining different forms of resistance among Shi'i women in the Middle East and Europe, this book studies the performance of sectarian and gender power relations as expressed in Shi'i ritual practices. It provides a new transnational approach to researching gender agency in contemporary Islamic movements in both the Middle East and Europe.
Becoming East German
For roughly the first decade after the demise of the GDR, professional and popular interpretations of East German history concentrated primarily on forms of power and repression, as well as on dissent and resistance to communist rule. Socio-cultural approaches have increasingly shown that a single-minded emphasis on repression and coercion fails to address a number of important historical issues, including those related to the subjective experiences of those who lived under communist regimes. With that in mind, the essays in this volume explore significant physical and psychological aspects of life in the GDR, such as health and diet, leisure and dining, memories of the Nazi past, as well as identity, sports, and experiences of everyday humiliation. Situating the GDR within a broader historical context, they open up new ways of interpreting life behind the Iron Curtain – while providing a devastating critique of misleading mainstream scholarship, which continues to portray the GDR in the restrictive terms of totalitarian theory.
Risk on the Table
Over the last century, the industrialization of agriculture and processing technologies have made food abundant and relatively inexpensive for much of the world’s population. Simultaneously, pesticides, nitrates, and other technological innovations intended to improve the food supply’s productivity and safety have generated new, often poorly understood risks for consumers and the environment. From the proliferation of synthetic additives to the threat posed by antibiotic-resistant bacteria, the chapters in Risk on the Table zero in on key historical cases in North America and Europe that illuminate the history of food safety, highlighting the powerful tensions that exists among scientific understandings of risk, policymakers’ decisions, and cultural notions of “pure” food.
Insatiable Appetite: Food as Cultural Signifier in the Middle East and Beyond
Insatiable Appetite: Food as Cultural Signifier in the Middle East and Beyond explores the cultural ramifications of food and foodways in the Mediterranean, and Arab-Muslim countries in particular. The volume addresses the cultural meanings of food from a wider chronological scope, from antiquity to present, adopting approaches from various disciplines, including classical Greek philology, Arabic literature, Islamic studies, anthropology, and history. The contributions to the book are structured around six thematic parts, ranging in focus from social status to religious prohibitions, gender issues, intoxicants, vegetarianism, and management of scarcity. Contributors are: Tarek Abu Hussein, Yasmin Amin, Kevin Blankinship, Tylor Brand, Kirill Dmitriev, Eric Dursteler, Anny Gaul, Julia Hauser, Christian Junge, Danilo Marino, Pedro Martins, Karen Moukheiber, Christian Saßmannshausen, Shaheed Tayob, and Lola Wilhelm.
The Science of Beauty
What did the cosmetic practices of middle-class women in the nineteenth century have in common with the repair of men's bodies mutilated in war? What did the New Woman of the Weimar years have to do with the field of social medicine that emerged in the same period? They were all part of a conversation about the cosmetic modification of bodies, a debate shaped by scientific knowledge and normative social models. Conceived as a cultural history, this book examines the history of artificially created beauty in Germany from the late Enlightenment to the early days of National Socialist rule.
Eating Nature in Modern Germany
A study of vegetarianism, raw food diets, organic farming, and other 'natural' ways to eat and farm in Germany since 1850.
Arranged Marriage
Arranged Marriage: The Politics of Tradition, Resistance, and Change shows how arranged marriage practices have been undergoing transformation as a result of global and other processes such as the revolution of digital technology, democratization of transnational mobility, or shifting significance of patriarchal power structures. The ethnographically informed chapters not only highlight how the gendered and intergenerational politics of agency, autonomy, choice, consent, and intimacy work in the contexts of partner choice and management of marriage, but also point out that arranged marriages are increasingly varied and they can be reshaped, reinvented, and reinterpreted flexibly in response ...
Körperführung
Sport und körperliche Bewegung sind heute tief in die Lebensführung einzelner Menschen wie auch ganzer Bevölkerungsgruppen integriert. Das Streben nach Fitness ist ein Kennzeichen gegenwärtiger Gesellschaften, das Identifikationsraster bereitstellt und Inklusionswie auch Exklusionseffekte zeitigt. Der vorliegende Band geht diesen Phänomenen in historischer Perspektive nach. Erstmals wird dazu das von Michel Foucault geprägte Paradigma der Biopolitik - eine "moderne" Machtform, in der die Regulierung des individuellen wie kollektiven "Lebens" ins Zentrum politischer Strategien rückt - systematisch auf sporthistorische Untersuchungsgegenstände bezogen.
Das Oberlandesgericht Köln zwischen dem Rheinland, Frankreich und Preußen
Der Band dokumentiert die Geschichte des Oberlandesgerichts Köln zwischen Preußen, Frankreich und dem Rheinland aus Anlass seines 200. Bestehens am 21. Juni 2019. Der 1819 gegründete Rheinische Appellationsgerichtshof zu Cöln, 1879 in Oberlandesgericht Köln umbenannt, saß zwischen den Stühlen. Er judizierte in einigen Rechtsgebieten bis zum 1. 1. 1900 nach französischem Recht und blickte daher nach Frankreich, wo die Cour de Cassation das französische Recht prägte. Das ihm übergeordnete Höchstgericht, der Rheinische Revisions- und Kassationsgerichtshof, ab 1852 das Preußische Obertribunal, saß bis 1879 jedoch in Berlin, das nach preußischem Recht lebte. Sein direktes Umfeld war weiterhin von eigenständigen rheinischen Rechtstraditionen des Ancien Régime geprägt. In Köln kam hinzu, dass hier der Katholizismus immer wieder in Konflikt mit dem protestantischen Preußen geriet. Der Band zeigt, wie die Rheinische Justiz mit den Prägungen, Wünschen und Vorgaben dieser verschiedenen Kontexte umging.
