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The Meanings of Europe
What is Europe? What are the contents of the concept of Europe? And what defines European identity? Instead of only asking these classical questions, this volume also explores who asks these questions, and who is addressed with such questions. Who answers the questions, from which standpoints and for what reasons? Which philosophical, historical, religious or political traditions influence the answers? This book addresses its task in three parts. The first concentrates on the controversies around the meaning of Europe. The second focuses on the role of the European Union. The third discusses Europe and its relations to different types of otherness, or rather, non-European-ness. The volume produces a complex and plural picture of the concepts, ideas, debates and (ex)changes associated with the concept of Europe, and has a clear significance for today’s debates on European identity, Europeanization, and the EU.
Mediated Cosmopolitanism
Media power in the global era has to do with how people understand the world, their place in it, and their relation to the others who populate it. Making connections with distant places and people is the work of cosmopolitan imagination, which involves seeing the world through the eyes of others. In this book, Robertson engages with the growing literature on cosmopolitanism to address these issues, combining theoretical debates with an innovative empirical portal. Based on the analysis of over 2000 news reports broadcast on national and global channels and interviews with journalists and audience members, Mediated Cosmopolitanism illustrates that the same everyday stories about the world can...
African Renaissance and Discourse Ownership in the Information Age
The information revolution is transforming the world, especially the industrialised world. But what are its implications for the implementation of an African renaissance? Based on a Foucaultian analytical framework this book argues that the Internet has become a major Western instrument of domination in Africa. By extending the reach of Western hegemonic discourses, the Internet adds another dimension to Western discursive power. However, by allowing for the active participation in the process of naming the world, the Internet also affords unprecedented means of transcending dependency.
Ritual and Narrative
Ritual and narrative are pivotal means of human meaning-making and of ordering experience, but the close interrelationship between them has not as yet been given the attention it deserves. How can models and categories from narrative theory benefit the study of ritual, and what can we gain from concepts of ritual studies in analysing narrative? This book brings together a wide range of disciplinary perspectives including literary studies, archaeology, biblical and religious studies, and political science. It presents theoretical explorations as well as in-depth case studies of ritual and narrative in different media and historical contexts.
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Local Lives, Parallel Histories
The division of Germany separated a nation, divided communities, and inevitably shaped the life histories of those growing up in the socialist dictatorship of the East and the liberal democracy of the West. This peculiarly German experience of the Cold War is usually viewed through the lens of divided Berlin or other border communities. What has been much less explored, however, is what division meant to the millions of Germans in the East and West who lived far away from the Wall and the centres of political power. This volume is the first comparative study to examine how villagers in both Germanies dealt with the imposition of two very different systems in their everyday lives. Focusing on...
Medieval Concepts of the Past
An analysis of medieval ritual, history, and memory in Germany and the United States.
Gesellschaft und Kultur in der Endzeit des Realsozialismus
Der Autor untersucht seinen Gegenstand, den sogenannten real existierenden Sozialismus, zum erstenmal als Komplex von soziokulturellen Mustern (Praxisformen): von Lebensweise und Lebensstilen, Leistungsmustern und politischer Kultur, hauptsächlich anhand von Materialien aus der DDR und der UdSSR. Ethnosoziologischer Ansatz und weit gefaßter Kulturbegriff öffnen den Blick für die reale Beschaffenheit dieses Gesellschaftstypus in seiner zunehmenden Erstarrung und Stagnation. Der Verfasser zeigt ihn als Niedergangs- und Auflösungsstadium des sowjetisch geprägten Frühsozialismus nach dem Entwicklungsbruch von Mitte der fünfziger Jahre. In diesem Stadium verlor das System mehr und mehr se...
