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Negotiations of Migration
At a time when migration is mostly discussed in terms of “conflict” and “crisis”, it is decidedly important to acknowledge the discursive traditions, narrative patterns, and conceptual categories that continue to inform how migration is represented, analyzed and theorized in contemporary Europe. This volume focuses on the potential of artistic and critical practices to challenge hegemonic framings of migration and embrace the ambivalence inherent in migration as a conflictual, often violent, yet also liberating uprooting. By placing special emphasis on “peripheral” perspectives and subject positions, the volume provides new insights into topics such as belonging and exclusion, the “migrant crisis”, and memory. By bringing into dialogue creative practices and academic discourses, it explores how new modes of seeing and theorizing may emerge through experiences and representations of migration. Situated within the field of literary and cultural studies, it complements historical and social analyses in the emerging interdisciplinary field of migration studies.
The Routledge Companion to Contemporary European Theatre and Performance
This is a comprehensive overview of contemporary European theatre and performance as it enters the third decade of the twenty-first century. It combines critical discussions of key concepts, practitioners, and trends within theatre-making, both in particular countries and across borders, that are shaping European stage practice. With the geography, geopolitics, and cultural politics of Europe more unsettled than at any point in recent memory, this book’s combination of national and thematic coverage offers a balanced understanding of the continent’s theatre and performance cultures. Employing a range of methodologies and critical approaches across its three parts and ninety-four chapters...
Femtochemistry VII
Femtochemistry VII presents the most recent developments in femtochemistry and highlights the significance of the field today. This book contains extracts from the proceedings, presentations and posters from the Femtochemistry VII conference, held in Washington D.C., on July 17-22, 2005. The stimulating conference was opened by Professor Ahmed Zewail (1999 Nobel Prize Winner), and as was evident by the attendees at the conference, had a very active program with the presentation of numerous talks and a large number of posters. This collection of papers reflects the remarkable progress that has been made in femtosecond spectroscopy, and especially to its emergence as a field of research devote...
Polytropos Ajax
Meanings are realized at the point of reception and this volume intends to offer an in-depth discussion of some of the meanings associated with and raised by the figure of Telamonian Ajax at various, specifically contextualized, and yet somehow connectable ‘points of reception’. Part 1 looks at how, and from where, and with what effects, the epic and tragic figure of Ajax is constructed and re-defined in archaic and classical Greece. Part 2 moves on to Roman Ajax(es), evaluating how he is used in and by Latin literature as a tool for window-references and innovation, and for reflecting on national identity and cultural categories. Part 3 discusses various ways in which the myth of Ajax, especially in its Sophoclean version, has been translated into theatrical, psychological, and philosophical discussions. This is not an attempt to look for Ajax’s true nature (an ill-posed question in itself). Nor is it a claim to evaluate Ajax’s features as if they could be placed on a straight evolutionary line (they never can be). On the contrary, the volume provides a multiform and interconnected ensemble of relevant patterns, always particularly situated, and constantly changing.
Enter the Ghosts of Europe
Niemand will ihrer ansichtig werden – und doch sind sie da, abwesend-anwesend in den Brüchen und blinden Flecken der hegemonialen Ordnung, in ihren Auslassungen und (Gedächtnis-)Lücken: die vielgestaltigen Gespenster Europas. Als heimsuchende Wiedergänger*innen unterminieren sie die vermeintlich intakte Identität der Konstruktion 'Europa', die Kohärenz ihrer (normativen) Selbstbeschreibungen und die Stabilität ihrer historischen und geopolitischen Koordinaten. In einer interdisziplinären Perspektive, die sich der Lektüre von Judith Butler, Julia Kristeva, Giorgio Agamben, Jacques Derrida, Esther Peeren und Achille Mbembe verdankt, wird der Begriff 'Heimsuchung' aus seiner alltagss...
Refugees, Democracy and the Law
The book provides an in-depth discussion of democratic theory questions in relation to refugee law. The work introduces readers to the evolution of refugee law and its core issues today, as well as central lines in the debate about democracy and migration. Bringing together these fields, the book links theoretical considerations and legal analysis. Based on its specific understanding of the refugee concept, it offers a reconstruction of refugee law as constantly confronted with the question of how to secure rights to those who have no voice in the democratic process. In this reconstruction, the book highlights, on the one hand, the need to look beyond the legal regulations for understanding the challenges and gaps in refugee protection. It is also the structural lack of political voice, the book argues, which shapes the refugee’s situation. On the other hand, the book opposes a view of law as mere expression of power and points out the dynamics within the law which reflect endeavors towards mitigating exclusion. The book will be essential reading for academics and researchers working in the areas of migration and refugee law, legal theory and political theory.
Jelinek-Handbuch
Das Handbuch umfasst Biografisches, künstlerische Kontexte, das feministische und politische Engagement der Autorin, ihre ästhetischen Strategien und Schreibverfahren. In den Besprechungen ihrer Werke geht es um inhaltliche und formale Aspekte ebenso wie um Entstehung, Quellen und Intertexte. Mit einem lexikonartigen Teil zu Themen wie Frauenbilder, Heimat, Natur, Nationalsozialismus u. v. m. Das Kompendium greift die öffentlichen Debatten über die Autorin und Skandale auf. Die Neuauflage des Standardwerks nach 10 Jahren bringt eine Aktualisierung durch die Darstellung aller neuen Werke (v.a. Dramen und Essays). Außerdem werden die Themen und Diskurse um Beiträge zu „Flucht und Migration“, „Religion“ sowie „Demokratie – Totalitarismus – Rechtspopulismus“ erweitert. Insgesamt wird das Handbuch um ca. 150 Seiten erweitert.
virtuell
Die als Sog empfundenen kulturellen Produkte unserer Zeit wollen in den verschiedensten Formen konsumiert und diskutiert werden, wer welche Erfahrungshorizonte genießt, bestimmt hier jedoch die Kaufkraft. Das Global Village als Gated Community erzeugt und reproduziert Hierarchien, deren Dekonstruktion und Reflexion an ein emanzipatorisches Konzept des Virtuellen gebunden ist. Losgelöst von Materialität und Kostenpunkt einer Virtual Reality-Brille widmet sich SYN #15 "virtuell" dem, was denkbar ist, erfahrbar gemacht wird.
BioMachtTheater
Ist der darstellerische Akt ein ursprüngliches Bedürfnis des Menschen? Woher kommt der Drang in uns, Theater zu schaffen? Die Religionen aller Welt bedienen sich der Macht des Rituals. Spiele beschäftigen den Menschen von der Geburt bis in den Tod in all ihren Variationen und Formen. Selbst den Tod kann man sich nicht anders erklären als über eine Inszenierung. Welcher Impuls in uns ist es, der uns dazu bringt, zu spielen? Und wie kann heutzutage kritisch gespielt, inszeniert, gestaltet werden? Dieses Buch ist eine kritische Beschäftigung mit Spiel und Theater anhand von historischem Material und im Kontext von Foucaults Begriff „Biomacht" – gerade in Zeiten, in denen biopolitisch Macht durch das Steuern von Lebensprozessen ausgeübt wird, ist dies ein wichtiges philosophisches Unternehmen.
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