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Encounters with Popular Pasts
This volume is based on the recognition that heritage is popular and popular culture is now readily transformed into heritage whose meanings and myths reshape social life and political and economic realities as well as re-make “tradition.” The papers in this volume consider: What does popular heritage look like? To whom does it speak? Is it active in dissolving class and cultural boundaries or just in reproducing new ones? How do societies manage a heritage that is fluid, immediate and that straddles extremes of serious conflict and hedonistic frivolity? When/under what circumstances is the creation and expression of new cultural forms – popular culture – capable of being transformed into heritage?.
Antisemitism and the Politics of History
"A ground-breaking collection of essays regarding the history, implementation and challenges of using "antisemitism" and related terms as tools for both historical analysis and public debate. A unique, sophisticated contribution to current debates in both the academic and the public realms regarding the nature and study of antisemitism today"--
De-Commemoration
In the wake of recent protests against police violence and racism, calls to dismantle problematic memorials have reverberated around the globe. This is not a new phenomenon, however, nor is it limited to the Western world. De-Commemoration focuses on the concept of de-commemoration as it relates to remembrance. Drawing on research from experts on memory dynamics across various disciplines, this extensive collection seeks to make sense of the current state of de-commemoration as it transforms contemporary societies around the world.
Militarization and Democracy in West Germany's Border Police, 1951-2005
"A social history of West Germany's Bundesgrenzschutz (BGS, Federal Border Police) that complicates the telling of the country's history as a straightforward success story. The 2020 murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers shows that police violence is still a problem in Western democracies. Floyd's murder prompted some critics to hail the German police as a model of democratic policing that should be emulated. After 1945, Germany's police forces had supposedly shed the militarization and authoritarian impulses still prevalent in other nations' forces. These uncritical appraisals, however, deserve closer analysis. This book is a social history of West Germany's Bundesgrenzschutz...
Racial Domination
Race is arguably the single most troublesome and volatile concept of the social sciences in the early 21st century. It is invoked to explain all manner of historical phenomena and current issues, from slavery to police brutality to acute poverty, and it is also used as a term of civic denunciation and moral condemnation. In this erudite and incisive book based on a panoramic mining of comparative and historical research from around the globe, Loïc Wacquant pours cold analytical water on this hot topic and infuses it with epistemological clarity, conceptual precision, and empirical breadth. Drawing on Gaston Bachelard, Max Weber, and Pierre Bourdieu, Wacquant first articulates a series of re...
»Nicht du trägst die Wurzel, sondern die Wurzel trägt dich«
Mit dem Synodalbeschluss zur Erneuerung des Verhältnisses von Christen und Juden der Evangelischen Kirche im Rheinland im Jahr 1980 hat erstmals eine evangelische Landeskirche in Deutschland das christlich-jüdische Verhältnis und den christlich-jüdischen Dialog sowohl ekklesiologisch als auch strukturell im eigenen Selbstverständnis verankert. Seither folgten die meisten Landeskirchen innerhalb der EKD wie auch die EKD selbst diesem Weg. Aus Anlass des 40jährigen Jubiläums des Rheinischen Synodalbeschlusses erscheinen in dem Band Beiträge zur Entwicklung und Bedeutung der jüdisch-christlichen Beziehungen und des Dialogs bis heute. Autoren und Autorinnen tragen Einsichten aus der bib...
Die große Unmöglichkeit
Nach Karl Barth versöhnt sich Gott mit allen Menschen unabhängig von ihrem Glauben. Die Aufgabe der Mission ist es, diese Überzeugung ins Gespräch zu bringen. Ginge es nach Barth, würden Juden durchaus Jesus Christus als Gottessohn anerkennen. Er hält es jedoch für unmöglich, ihnen, die durch die Erwählung im Bunde stehen, etwas Neues von Gottes Gnade mitteilen zu können. Gott bestimmt Juden und Christen zum gegenseitigen Zeugnis des dreieinen Gottes. Sie werden verstanden als eine heterogene Gemeinde Gottes aus Juden, die Jesus Christus nicht als Gottessohn betrachten und aus Christen, die mit dem Bekenntnis zu seiner Auferstehung in den Bund aufgenommen werden. Das Zulassen von Antisemitismus und Judenmission schafft Distanzen in der Gemeinde, die verhindern, dass Juden und Christen diesem Zeugnis nachkommen können.
L'esclavage, du souvenir à la mémoire. Contribution à une anthropologie de la Caraïbe
Cahier photos de 8 pages (photos couleur). Coédition Karthala-CIRESC. Cet ouvrage propose une étude de grande envergure, première du genre, sur la mémoire et le souvenir de l’esclavage. En analysant les débats politiques et académiques des vingt dernières années, l’auteur dégage deux approches : celle du soupçon politique (victimisation, instrumentalisation, surenchère) et celle du doute anthropologique (fragilité, absence, vide). Ayant établi ce constat, Christine Chivallon part alors à la recherche des traces du souvenir de l’esclavage, ainsi que des témoins qui les transmettent, pour comprendre la teneur des expressions mémorielles issues de l’expérience esclavagi...
Lives in Music
Lives in Music analyses interwoven patterns of mobility, change, and power in music and dance practices. It challenges some commonly accepted conceptual tools that are ubiquitous in anthropology today, including cultural hybridity, transnational networks, and globalization. Based on seven “itineraries” that are the result of extensive ethnographic long-term field research efforts, the processes of geographic and social mobility, transformation, and power relative to music and dance practices are explored in different parts of the world. Seven writers provide life stories constructed through ethnographic techniques and life histories and supported by a deep knowledge of local customs.
