Welcome to our book review site go-pdf.online!
You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
Guilt, Forgiveness, and Moral Repair
In current debates about coming to terms with individual and collective wrongdoing, the concept of forgiveness has played an important but controversial role. For a long time, the idea was widespread that a forgiving attitude — overcoming feelings of resentment and the desire for revenge — was always virtuous. Recently, however, this idea has been questioned. The contributors to this volume do not take sides for or against forgiveness but rather examine its meaning and function against the backdrop of a more complex understanding of moral repair in a variety of social, circumstantial, and cultural contexts. The book aims to gain a differentiated understanding of the European traditions regarding forgiveness, revenge, and moral repair that have shaped our moral intuitions today whilst also examining examples from other cultural contexts (Asia and Africa, in particular) to explore how different cultural traditions deal with the need for moral repair after wrongdoing.
“They Took to the Sea”
The sea and maritime spaces have long been neglected in the field of Jewish studies despite their relevance in the context of Jewish religious texts and historical narratives. The images of Noah’s arche, king Salomon’s maritime activities or the miracle of the parting of the Red Sea immediately come into mind, however, only illustrate a few aspects of Jewish maritime activities. Consequently, the relations of Jews and the sea has to be seen in a much broader spatial and temporal framework in order to understand the overall importance of maritime spaces in Jewish history and culture. Almost sixty years after Samuel Tolkowsky’s pivotal study on maritime Jewish history and culture and the...
Cosmopolitan and Vernacular in the World of Wen 文
Sheldon Pollock’s work on the history of literary cultures in the ‘Sanskrit Cosmopolis’ broke new ground in the theorization of historical processes of vernacularization and served as a wake-up call for comparative approaches to such processes in other translocal cultural formations. But are his characterizations of vernacularization in the Sinographic Sphere accurate, and do his ideas and framework allow us to speak of a ‘Sinographic Cosmopolis’? How do the special typology of sinographic writing and associated technologies of vernacular reading complicate comparisons between the Sankrit and Latinate cosmopoleis? Such are the questions tackled in this volume. Contributors are Daehoe Ahn, Yufen Chang, Wiebke Denecke, Torquil Duthie, Marion Eggert, Greg Evon, Hoduk Hwang, John Jorgensen, Ross King, David Lurie, Alexey Lushchenko, Si Nae Park, John Phan, Mareshi Saito, and S. William Wells.
Argentina Since the 2001 Crisis
This timely and interdisciplinary volume analyzes the many impacts of and contrasting responses to the Argentine political, economic, and social crises of 2001-02. Chapters offer original theoretical models and examine the relationship between political, cultural, economic, and societal spheres.
Guilt
"The book investigates the role of guilt in the global discussion over locally specific legacies of mass violence and injustice. Guilt is an indispensable element in human social and emotional life that surfaces as a central phenomenon in the cultural politics of memory, transitional justice, and the aftermath of violence. The nuances and complexities of various national and historical guilt configurations fosters insight into guilt's transformative possibilities. The book interweaves specific case studies with broader theoretical reflections on the conditions that turn the emotional, legal, and cultural phenomenon of guilt into a culturally transformative dynamic that repairs relationships,...
The Evaluation Game
Scientific research is communicated, organized, financed, governed, and evaluated through the process of publication. The result of this process is a highly competitive academic environment that rewards researchers for high volume publication, preferably in high-impact journals, leading to the popularised expression 'publish or perish'. Universities and other scientific institutions are under similar pressure, with their aggregated research output being under constant scrutiny. This innovative text provides a detailed introduction to the origin and development of the scholarly metrics used to measure academic productivity, and the effect they have upon the quality and diversity of scientific research. With its careful attention to both the positive and negative outcomes of research evaluation and their distinct expressions around the globe, The Evaluation Game guides the way to a more grounded understanding of metrics, and the diverse academic cultures they give rise to.
Red October
Bolivia witnessed a left-indigenous insurrectionary cycle between 2000 and 2005 that overthrew two neoliberal presidents and laid the foundation for Evo Morales’ successful bid to become the country’s first indigenous head of state in 2006. Building on the theoretical traditions of revolutionary Marxism and indigenous liberation, this book provides an analytical framework for understanding the fine-grained sociological and political nuances of twenty-first century Bolivian class-struggle, state-repression, and indigenous resistance, as well the deeply historical roots of today’s oppositional traditions. Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, including more than 80 in-depth interviews with social-movement and trade-union activists, Red October is a ground-breaking intervention in the study of contemporary Bolivia and the wider Latin American turn to the left over the last decade.
Media and Social Justice
This book is an anthology of work by critical media scholars, media makers, and activists who are committed to advancing social justice. Topics addressed include but are not limited to international media activist projects such as the Right to Communication movement and its corollaries; the importance of listening and enacting policies that advance democratic media; regional and local media justice projects; explorations of the challenges the era of participatory media pose to public media; youth and minority media projects and activism; ethical dilemmas posed by attempts to democratize access to media tools; the continued marginalization of feminist perspectives in international policy venues; software freedom and intellectual property rights; video activism in both historical and contemporary contexts; internet strategies for defending dissenting voices; and five accounts by prominent scholar/activists of their lifelong struggles for media justice.
Die Kultbullen aus Hamburg
Am 16. Dezember 1986 wird die erste Folge "Großstadtrevier" ausgestrahlt. Die Kultserie ist damit geboren und vom ersten Tag an erfolgreich. So erfolgreich, dass gleich nach Ausstrahlung weitere Folgen produziert und gesendet werden. Heute schreiben wir das Jahr 2016 und noch immer werden in Hamburg und Umgebung Folgen für diese Serie gedreht. Zwar sind in der Zwischenzeit viele Köpfe gerollt, aber Witz und Charme sind geblieben. In diesem Buch werden Höhe- und Tiefpunkte der vergangenen 30 Jahre skizziert. Es ist eine ideale Ergänzung zu allen bisherigen Produkten der TV-Serie. Die Hauptdarsteller von 1986 bis heute werden vorgestellt, es gibt Suchrätsel mit Begriffen zur Serie, Interviews mit einigen Darstellern, die prominenten Gastdarsteller werden vorgestellt. Eine Auflistung aller bisher ausgestrahlten Folgen runden den Inhalt ab - außerdem gibt es das Kapitel "300. Folge Großstadtrevier" mit Informationen über die Dreharbeiten in Bad Segeberg sowie das Kapitel "25 Jahre Dirk Matthies".
Das 14. Kommissariat
Die Polizisten des 14. Kommissariats gehen regelmäßig in Hamburg auf Streife und im Fernsehen auf Sendung. Die Serie "Großstadtrevier" gehört zu den erfolgreichsten Serien im Deutschen Fernsehen. Ob Jung oder Alt - jeder zehnte Bundesbürger hat laut einer Umfrage schon mindestens eine Folge dieser Polizeiserie gesehen. Wo genau wird die Serie gedreht? Wer gehört zum Ensemble? Warum ist die Serie so erfolgreich? Gibt es Filmfehler? In diesem Buch gibt Autor Matthias Röhe allgemeine Angaben zur Serie, stellt die Darsteller und deren Rollen vor und gibt Details zu den Drehorten bekannt. Außerdem sind alle bis heute ausgestrahlten Folgen dieser Polizeiserie aufgelistet. Abgerundet wird das Buch mit interessanten Zwischenberichten über die Dreharbeiten in Hamburg und Umgebung. Das Buch enthält zahlreiche Fotos und Grafiken.
