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Architectures of Colonialism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 280

Architectures of Colonialism

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2024-06-04
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  • Publisher: Birkhäuser

Fragen des kulturellen Erbes und unseres Umgangs damit sind nicht neutral. Ereignisse wie die Black Lives Matter-Bewegung und der Sturz von Denkmälern und Statuen zeigen, wie stark sich die koloniale Vergangenheit in unsere gebaute Umgebung eingeschrieben hat; zugleich prägt der Kolonialismus weiterhin kulturelles Gedächtnis und Geschichtsschreibung. Das fordert all jene, die sich mit der Geschichte von Architektur beschäftigen, dazu heraus, auch die eigene Positionalität zu reflektieren. Wessen Erbe sind die kolonialen Orte? Welche womöglich verdrängten Erinnerungen sind mit ihnen verknüpft? Wie lassen sich Archive und materielle Evidenz neu bewerten, um die Geschichten marginalisierter Personen und Gruppen sichtbar zu machen? Angesichts des globalen Rufs nach Entkolonialisierung bringt dieser Sammelband Archäologie, Architekturgeschichte und Heritage Studies zusammen, um historische Methoden zu erkunden und die Verflechtung unterschiedlicher Narrative an architektonischen Orten offenzulegen. Ein Beitrag zur aktuellen Debatte um Entkolonialisierung und Erinnerungskultur Eine interdisziplinäre Sicht auf Architektur und kulturelles Erbe Internationale Beiträger: innen

The Making of Identity Through Rural Space
  • Language: en

The Making of Identity Through Rural Space

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023-12-04
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  • Publisher: Birkhauser

Though sometimes overlooked and underestimated, rural space has played a substantial role in social, cultural, economic, and ideological change. This role can be studied by looking at the re/production of spatial agents that were caused by direct or indirect political interventions in rural communities. In this book, scholars looking at case studies from Greece, Turkey, Italy, Portugal, and Austria discuss the making of identity in and through rural areas, which have dramatically changed under different political, social, and economic conditions from the turn of the 20th century up until today. By focusing on potential contestations of such changes, the authors provide a better in-depth understanding of spatial dynamics related to cultural and social spheres of 20th-century rurality. Includes contributions of national and international experts Deals with 20th-century rural environment and identity-making policies Findings of an international symposium of DFG Research Training Group "Cultural and Technological Significance of Historic Buildings", Brandenburg University of Technology (BTU) Cottbus-Senftenberg

Sexuality and Consumption
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 247

Sexuality and Consumption

In western societies today, it goes almost without saying that sex and consumption are closely related. On the one hand, there is a plethora of commercial goods and services that shape sexual desires, and practices. On the other, there are scarcely any products or services that do not lend themselves to sexually charged advertising and mass media communication. This volume focuses on forms of hybridization of these equally suggestive notions.

DELUS. The Journal of the Institute of Landscape and Urban Studies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 80

DELUS. The Journal of the Institute of Landscape and Urban Studies

The pilot issue of DELUS offers a range of diverse insights into landscape and urban questions. It introduces new methods to unpack multiple worlds and narrate manifold stories. The contributions range from unraveling histories of land-body relations through recipes with Luiza Prado de O. Martins, following living fossils and their mythical counterparts with Christina Gruber, working with communities to examine extractive environments with Karin Reisinger, exploring postnatural aesthetics with the Institute for Postnatural Studies, to recording wastelands with Sandra Jasper and developing speculative curricula engaging with overlooked forms of knowledge with Federico Pérez Villoro. As a collection, these contributions address the complex relations between humans, non-humans and their environment across time and space. DELUS is an annual publication that explores emerging themes, topics and methods from landscape and urban studies. Founded in 2022 by the Institute for Landscape and Urban Studies (LUS) at ETH Zurich, it brings academic knowledge to a broader audience and fosters exchange amongst designers, artists, scientists, scholars and students.

Forming the Modern Turkish Village
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 213

Forming the Modern Turkish Village

During the early republican period, architectural interventions in rural Turkey took the form of social engineering as part of the state's modernization and nationalization policies. Özge Sezer demonstrates how the state's particular programs had a powerful effect on rural life in the countryside. She examines the regime's goals and strategies for controlling the rural people through development projects and demographic shaping to create a strong Turkish identity and a loyal citizenry. The book outlines the implementation of new rural settlements, particularly following the 1934 Settlement Law, with a geographic focus on two cities - Izmir and Elazig - with varied socio-economic and ethnic standing in the state program.

Thirdspace in Assyrien und Urartu
  • Language: de

Thirdspace in Assyrien und Urartu

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023-05-25
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Wie lässt sich Subalternität in der Vergangenheit untersuchen, wenn heute fast ausschließlich Hinterlassenschaften der Eliten erhalten sind? Warum lohnt sich eine solche Untersuchung und wo führt sie hin? Diesen Fragen wird in dem vorliegenden Buch über die Beziehung von Assyrien und Urartu im eisenzeitlichen Nordmesopotamien (ca. 9. bis 7. Jh. v.u.Z.) nachgegangen. Denn zwischen den kriegerischen Nachbarn gab es eine Vielzahl Deportierter und Kriegsgefangener, deren Erfahrungen und Leben in der Forschung bisher wenig Beachtung fanden. Dabei konnten postmoderne und postkoloniale Denker: innen aus Literaturwissenschaften, Humangeographie oder Soziologie unlängst darlegen, dass historisc...

Lokal extrem Rechts
  • Language: de
  • Pages: 285

Lokal extrem Rechts

Seit dem Aufstieg der AfD und der Selbstenttarnung des NSU werden Ursachen und Hintergründe für das Erstarken extrem rechter Politiken in Deutschland intensiv diskutiert. Doch dabei fehlt es zumeist an qualitativen Analysen und differenzierten räumlichen Betrachtungen jenseits von Stadt-Land- oder Ost-West-Polarisierungen. Die Beitragenden des Bandes verstehen das Lokale als Ort individueller und emotionaler Aneignungsprozesse und analysieren lokale Vergesellschaftungen im Kontext politischer Transformation. Ihre Analysen ermöglichen einen vergleichenden Blick auf lokale Konstellationen. Damit leisten sie einen komplementären und innovativen Beitrag zur empirisch fundierten und theoretisch orientierten Analyse gesellschaftlicher Regression.

Vera Kara's Family
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 285

Vera Kara's Family

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-09-08
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  • Publisher: Lucid Books

Based on memories of Vera Kara, daughter of the Austrian brew master to Czar Nicholas, the Kara family story is at times a fairy tale and a nightmare. In three generations, they lose four fortunes and must repeatedly surrender their way of life. Although their story could be of hate and regret, it is instead of hope for tomorrow, as the family rebuilds after each tragedy by relegating life's disappointments to the dustbin of yesterday.

Veruschka
  • Language: en

Veruschka

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1986
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Anna and Boris
  • Language: en

Anna and Boris

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2022-10-27
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Anna, a young Swiss beauty, and Boris, a Russian refugee twice her age, become captivated with each other after a brief first encounter. Over Anna's parents' objections and despite strict travel restrictions imposed on foreigners by the Swiss authorities, their love survives and deepens through an extensive correspondence lasting nearly two years. Both haunted by pasts they are determined to overcome, Anna and Boris explore the nature of their love, debate their plans for the future, and contend with the thorny differences that threaten to pull them apart. These extraordinary love letters are much more than mere expressions of affection. They cover a world of subjects-art, music, literature,...