Kulturstudier

This book connects clinical sociology to the food justice movement through gardens in incarcerated settings. Situated within the larger food justice movement, the authors highlight the shortcomings of the global food system and the inequalities produced by the lack of adequate nutrition, particularly in the context of marginalized populations, such as those in carceral institutions. The book provides an up-to-date overview of horticulture programs in different incarcerated settings in the US, including prisons and community correction units, and provides in-depth discussion on innovative best-practice models. It also features a detailed analysis of an ongoing multi-site research project on gardening in incarcerated settings for women at local, state, and federal levels. Unlike other literature on prison and jail horticulture, this book contextualizes gardening in incarcerated settings with critical historical analysis, presenting the theoretical background to sociological action research projects. Serving as a starting point for establishing gardening as an evidence-based practice in prisons and jails, it is essential reading for researchers and practitioners of clinical sociology and social work, criminologists, prison and corrective institution administrators, and citizen groups interested in therapeutic gardening and alternatives to industrial prison food.

Forfatteren og teologen Mitri Raheb føjer med denne bog endnu et perspektiv til forståelsen af den årelange konflikt mellem israelere og palæstinensere. Med Hamas’ massakre den 7. oktober 2023 og Israels efterfølgende sønderbombning af Gaza og nedlukning af Vestbredden er endnu et grufuldt kapitel i gang med at blive skrevet i Israel-Palæstina-historien. I Afkonoliser Palæstina giver Mitri Raheb læseren et historisk perspektiv på baggrunden for Israels besættelse af Vestbredden og ser konflikten som et udtryk for en nutidig imperial politik. Dermed skriver Raheb sig ind i rækken af forfattere, der anlægger en post-kolonial synsvinkel på det, der sker i Palæstina og Israel.Mitri Raheb, palæstinensisk teolog, uddannet i Tyskland. I 1988 vendte han tilbage til sin fødeby Betlehem, hvor han blev præst ved den lutherske Julekirke. Han er forfatter og redaktør på adskillige bøger. På dansk er udkommet Betlehem under belejring (Boedal/Unitas 2005) og Troen og Imperiet (Unitas 2014), og Forfølgelsens politikker (Eksistensen 2022).

Mit diesem Open-Access-Buch zeigt Stefan Lüder auf, dass die Geschichte der Himalaya-Region mit der übrigen Welt weitaus verflochtener ist als bisher angenommen wird.Die historische Legitimationsforschung ist bisher durch europa- und amerikazentrische Perspektiven geprägt. Auch wenn in den letzten Jahren vereinzelt auch die Zentren Asiens, insbesondere China und Indien, zunehmend in den Fokus genommen werden, bleibt die Himalaya-Region, trotz ihrer steigenden Bedeutung für Geopolitik und Klimawandel, in dieser Hinsicht bisher gänzlich unerforscht und wird in Medien, Politik und Wissenschaft weiterhin als unzugängliche Grenzregion wahrgenommen. Dies ist ein Open-Access-Buch.

"Hot Dog Event Horizon: How My Fat Sausage Fell into a Black Hole" takes readers on an epic culinary journey through the cosmos, exploring the physics, flavors, and adventures of a brave hot dog lost in the gravitational pull of a black hole. With mouth-watering descriptions, mind-bending science, and a dash of humor, this book delves into the bizarre world of black hole cuisine, leaving readers hungry for more. Delve into the flavorful abyss and discover the secrets of the universe's most tantalizing sausage.

This book uses popular films to understand the convergence of crime control and the ideology of repression in contemporary capitalism. It focuses on the cinematic figure of the fallen guardian, a protagonist who, in the course of a narrative, falls from grace and becomes an enemy of the established social order. The fallen guardian is a figure that allows for the analysis of a particular crime control measure through the perspective of both an enforcer and a target. The very notion of ¿justice¿ is challenged, and questions are posed in relation to the role that films assume in the reproduction of policing as it is. In doing so, the book combines a historical far-reaching perspective with popular culture analysis. At the core remains the value of the cinematic figure of the fallen guardian for contemporary understandings of urban space and urban crime control and how films are clear examples of the ways in which the ideology of repression is reproduced.This book questions the justifications that are often given for social control in cities and understands cinema as a medium for offering critique of such processes and justifications. Explored are the crime control measures of private policing in relation to RoboCop (1987), preventative policing and Minority Report (2002), mass incarceration in The Dark Knight Rises (2012), and extra-judicial killing in Blade Runner 2049 (2017). The book speaks to those interested in crime control in critical criminology, cultural criminology, urban studies, and beyond.

This book provides a thorough interdisciplinary analysis of the ways in which artists have engaged with political and feminist grassroots movements to characterise a new direction in the production of feminist art. The authors conceptualise feminist art in Turkey through the lens of feminist philosophy by offering a historical analysis of how feminism and art interacts, analysing emerging feminist artwork and exploring the ways in which feminist art as a form opens alternative political spaces of social collectivities and dissent, to address epistemic injustices. The book also explores how the global art and feminist movements (particularly in Europe) have manifested themselves in the art scenery of Turkey and argues that feminist art has transformed into a form of political and protest art which challenges the hegemonic masculinity dominating the aesthetic debates and political sphere. It is an invaluable reading for students and scholars of sociology of art, gender studies and political sociology.

The two-state solution is doomed; the one-state reality is here to stayWhy have Israelis and Palestinians failed to achieve a two-state solution to the conflict that has cost so much and lasted so long? In Paradigm Lost, Ian S. Lustick brings fifty years as an analyst of the Arab-Israeli dispute to bear on this question and offers a provocative explanation of why continued attempts to divide the land will have no more success than would negotiations to establish a one-state solution.Basing his argument on the decisiveness of unanticipated consequences, Lustick shows how the combination of Zionism's partially successful Iron Wall strategy for dealing with Arabs, an Israeli political culture saturated with what the author calls "Holocaustia," and the Israel lobby's dominant influence on American policy toward the Arab-Israeli conflict scuttled efforts to establish a Palestinian state alongside Israel. Yet, he demonstrates, it has also unintentionally set the stage for new struggles and "better problems" for both Israel and the Palestinians. Drawing on the history of scientific ideas that once seemed certain but were ultimately discarded, Lustick encourages shifting attention from two-state blueprints that provide no map for realistic action to the democratizing competition that arises when different subgroups, forced to be part of the same polity, redefine their interests and form new alliances to pursue them.Paradigm Lost argues that negotiations for a two-state solution between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River are doomed and counterproductive. Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs can enjoy the democracy they deserve but only after decades of struggle amid the unintended but powerful consequences of today's one-state reality.

Unmarked on maps and largely unnoticed by urban design, architecture, and planning communities, Combat Cities have quietly spread throughout the western hemisphere. The Complete Guide to Combat City is an architectural and cultural guide of these simulated cities, exclusively developed by the military. Seventeen existing, fully functioning urban combat centers in the US, Europe and the Middle East have been reconstructed from existing video footage, satellite images, military photographs, and army supplier's catalogs. Julia Schulz-Dornburg analyzes their features, be they fictional or real, and presents them with commentary, illustrations, and classifications. The book combines different urban portraits to create a comprehensive overview and architectural database of contemporary mock-cities. A comprehensive selection of seventeen urban combat centers in the US, Europe and the Middle East The first in-depth analysis of a clandestine architectural subject

Kunst, Kultur und Management stehen traditionell in einem besonderen Spannungsverhältnis. Ziel dieses Buchs ist es, die Begriffe in Beziehung zueinander zu setzen und die wesentlichen Aspekte eines erfolgreichen Managements von Kunst und Kultur in komprimierter Form herauszuarbeiten. Dazu werden zunächst jene Rahmenbedingungen besprochen, die Einfluss auf die im Kulturmanagement Tätigen nehmen. Die anschließenden Kapitel widmen sich den zentralen Handlungsfeldern im Kulturbetrieb: Marketing, Personal, Finanzierung und Tourismus. Charakteristisch für das vorliegende Buch ist die Verbindung von theoretischen Fundierungen und praktischer Anwendungsorientierung auf Basis aktueller Beispiele aus verschiedenen Kultursparten. Durch diese Verzahnung von Theorie und Praxis eignet sich das Buch sowohl für Studierende als auch für im Kulturbetrieb Tätige. Für die 3. Auflage wurde das Buch vollständig durchgesehen, aktualisiert und um neue Aspekte in der Fachdiskussion des Kulturmanagements ergänzt.

"Hot Dog Event Horizon: How My Fat Sausage Fell into a Black Hole" takes readers on an epic culinary journey through the cosmos, exploring the physics, flavors, and adventures of a brave hot dog lost in the gravitational pull of a black hole. With mouth-watering descriptions, mind-bending science, and a dash of humor, this book delves into the bizarre world of black hole cuisine, leaving readers hungry for more. Delve into the flavorful abyss and discover the secrets of the universe's most tantalizing sausage.

Surveying the artistic and cultural scene in the era of Trump.

The book offers a multi-scale, epistemically diverse, and sense-making perspectives on the food system. The book argues that sustainable food system transformation is a complex proposition that can better thrive upon the inclusion of consumer perspectives. The book brings together scholarly works of critical scholars and practitioners who bring to bear the uniqueness of places, cultures, histories and interactions in the milieu of food.

This book sheds a new light on the metafictional aspects of futuristic and science fiction novels, at the crossroads of information and media studies, possible worlds theories applied to cognitive narratology, questions related to the criticism of post-humanity, and, more broadly, contemporary French and Francophone literature. It examines the fictional minds of characters and their conceptions of resistance to the anticipated worlds they inhabit, particularly in novels by Pierre Bordage, Marie Darrieussecq, Michel Houellebecq, Amin Maalouf, Jean-Christophe Rufin, Antoine Volodine, and Élisabeth Vonarburg. It also explores how corporal postures serve as a matrix for philosophical quests in novels by Amélie Nothomb, Alain Damasio, and Romain Lucazeau. More specifically, from the fictional readers¿ points of view, it provides a critical approach to the mythologies of writing, in the wake of the French philosophical tales by authors including Cyrano de Bergerac and Voltaire, to question the traditionally expressed formulations of the mythologies of writing, that is, of the metaphors of the book (the book of life, nature, and the world), to rethink the idea of a humanity within its limits.

In the second half of the 19th and the first half of the 20th century, nearly one-third of the population of today¿s Slovenia permanently settled in countries around the world. Many more were traveling back and forth, searching for work to ensure the survival of the family members left behind at home and the prosperity for the families and communities they were creating abroad. From one of the smallest nations in Europe, barely reaching one and a half million inhabitants at the time, people departed in numbers reaching 440,000. This book tells their stories, about the "daring dreams of the future," as the Slovenian poet Oton ¿upanc¿ic¿¿whose words open the book¿so beautifully put it. The people who left took recipes for their foods, accordions for their music, and love for their culture and language, which was, and has remained, a linguistic island between Vienna and Venice. In their new communities, they built homes, churches, and cultural institutions that have survived until today.

This edited book draws on research on identity in language education to present a detailed and multi-faceted study of identity in language learning, teaching and revitalization settings in the context of Japan. It employs a diverse range of theoretical approaches, including poststructuralism, critical realism, cognitive behavioral theory, and complexity theory,, as well as methodologies such as linguistic ethnography, narrative enquiry, and critical multimodal discourse analysis. The authors focus on multiple dimensions of identity, illuminating linguistic, cultural and human complexity as manifested in language teaching and learning. This book will be of interest to advanced students and scholars of TESOL, applied linguistics, education, Japanese studies, East Asian studies, linguistic anthropology, indigenous languages and sociolinguistics.

Over time, philosophers and historians of science have introduced different notions of 'ways of thinking'. This book presents, compares, and contrasts these different notions. It focuses primarily on Ian Hacking¿s idea of 'style of reasoning' in order to assess and develop it into a more systematic theory of scientific thought, arguing that Hacking¿s theory implies epistemic relativism. Luca Sciortino also discusses the implications of Hacking¿s ideas for the study of the problem of contingency and inevitability in the development of scientific knowledge

Durch den teils massiven Publikumsschwund nach der Pandemie stellt sich die Frage, ob diese als Brandbeschleuniger gewirkt hat für bereits vorhandene Trends. Der Autor geht dem nach anhand der Besuchszahlen bis zur letzten vollständigen vorpandemischen Spielzeit 2018/19. Er zeigt historische Zeitreihen zu Sparten- und Personalentwicklung, Vertriebskanälen und den Einnahmen. Die Theaterstatistik des Bühnenvereins dient vielen Entscheidungsträgern als Grundlage für z.B. kulturpolitische Steuerungen, obwohl sie nicht die komplette deutsche Theaterlandschaft abbildet. Deshalb beleuchtet der Autor weitere Anbieter. Da die Theaterstatistik große kulturpolitische Bedeutung hat, gibt es zum Schluss einige Vorschläge für die Zukunft.

I hele Europa får det radikale højre stadig flere stemmer, mens uligheden stiger og venstrefløjen synes at have kollapset. I Den politiske konflikts historie spørger to af verdens førende økonomer, om vi er på vej ind i en ny politisk tidsalder? Og om venstrefløjen overhovedet kan komme til magten igen?Svaret hviler på et enormt datamateriale, som beskriver franske vælgeres adfærd fra Den Franske Revolution i 1789 og frem til i dag. Cagé og Piketty giver ikke alene et unikt historisk indblik i, hvordan demokrati fungerer, deres analyser danner også baggrund for nye perspektiver på fremtidens politiske konflikter.Her vil venstrefløjen, ifølge Cagé og Piketty, potentielt have et stærkt vælgergrundlag, hvis den kan opløse den nuværende territoriale konflikt mellem land og by og i stedet genetablere den sociale konflikt som sin egentlige opgave – både i Frankrig og hele den vestlige verdens demokratier.JULIA CAGÉ, professor ved Sciences Po Paris og forfatter til flere internationalt anerkendte udgivelser om økonomi, demokrati og medier, bl.a. Sauver les médias.THOMAS PIKETTY, professor ved École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales og Paris School of Economics, forfatter til flere internationale bestsellere om økonomi og ulighed, bl.a. hovedværkerne Kapitalen i det 21. århundrede og Kapital og Ideologi.

This book presents the first systematic study of the 100-year history of translation, research, reception, and influence of Central and Eastern European literature in China from the late Qing Dynasty to the end of the twentieth century. This study of Eastern European literature from the perspective of Sino-foreign literary relations is based on extensive research into the translation and reception of Central and Eastern European writers such as Milan Kundera, Sándor Pet¿fi, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Julius Fucik, and Bertolt Brecht. Since the late nineteenth century, the major Chinese writers have paid special attention to the literature of the marginalized Eastern European nations when they have to translate from translations since few of them understand Eastern European languages. The book seeks to identify what attracted the founders of new Chinese literature to Eastern European literature and to define its unique significance for the construction of modern Chinese literature.

Advancing Medical Posthumanism Through Twenty-First Century American Poetry places contemporary poetics in dialogue with posthumanism and biomedicine in order to create a framework for advancing a posthuman-affirmative ethics within the culture of medical practice. This book makes a case for a posthumanist understanding of the body¿one that sees health and illness not as properties possessed by individual bodies, but as processes that connect bodies to their social and natural environment, shaping their capacity to act, think, and feel. Tana Jean Welch demonstrates how contemporary American poetry is specifically poised to develop a pathway toward a posthuman intervention in biomedicine, the field of medical humanities, medical discourse, and the value systems that guide U.S. healthcare in general.

Das diesjährige Motto ¿ Gender, Sex, Diversity ¿ der vierten Ausgabe der Reihe Science MashUp greift aktuelle politische und gesellschaftliche Debatten ebenso auf wie inhaltliche und technische Entwicklungen im Games-Bereich. Der Band fasst die Tagung im Rahmen der 17. Langen Nacht der Computerspiele sowie weitere Abschlussarbeiten an der Hochschule für Technik, Wirtschaft und Kultur Leipzig (HTWK Leipzig) zusammen. Themen sind die Darstellung und das Identifikationspotenzial von Held*innen in Games, feministisches und barrierearmes Design von Games, inhaltliche und konzeptionelle Analysen von Geschlechter- und Beziehungsrollen in Games, Intersektionalität in Games sowie Grenzüberschreitungen von und mit Games.

Es gibt wohl kaum ein Buch im Bereich der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften, das gegen Ende der Weimarer Republik eine dermaßen große Aufmerksamkeit im deutschen Sprachraum auf sich gezogen hat wie die 1929 beim Verlag Friedrich Cohen in Bonn erschienene Aufsatzsammlung Ideologie und Utopie von Karl Mannheim. Denn diese hatte eine leidenschaftlich geführte Kontroverse ausgelöst, der als ¿Streit um die Wissenssoziologie¿ in die Geschichte eingegangen ist. Die in diesem Buch zusammengefassten Studien stellen zugleich einen wichtigen Beitrag zu einem besseren Verständnis der Geschichte der neuzeitlichen sozialen Bewegungen in Europa und zu einer strikt historisch ausgerichteten Politischen Soziologie dar. Im Vorwort des Herausgebers dieser Neuausgabe werden dabei nicht nur die entsprechenden ideengeschichtlichen Zusammenhänge angesprochen, sondern auch die Unterschiede zwischen den verschiedenen Editionen von Ideologie und Utopie verdeutlicht.

An impassioned philosophical celebration of the multiple dimensions of contemporary cuteness.Involuntarily sucked into the forcefield of Cute, Amy Ireland and Maya B. Kronic decided to let go, give in, let the demon ride them, and make an accelerationism out of it—only to realize that Cute opens a microcosmic gate onto the transcendental process of acceleration itself.Joining the swarming e-girls, t-girls, NEETS, anons, and otaku who rescued accelerationism from the double pincers of media panic and academic buzzkill by introducing it to big eyes, fluffy ears, programming socks, and silly memes, they discover that the objects of cute culture are just spinoffs of an accelerative process booping us from the future, rendering us all submissive, breedable, helpless, and cute in our turn. Cute comes tomorrow, and only anastrophe can make sense of what it will have been doing to us.Evading all discipline, sliding across all possible surfaces, Cute Accelerationism embraces every detail of the symptomatology, aetiology, epidemiology, history, biology, etymology, topology, and even embryology of Cute, joyfully burrowing down into its natural, cultural, sensory, sexual, subjective, erotic, and semiotic dimensions in order to sound out the latent spaces of this Thing that has soft-soaped its way into human culture.Traversing tangents on natural and unnatural selection, runaway supernormalisation, the collective self-transformation of genderswarming cuties, the hyperstitional cultures of shojo and otaku, denpa and 2D love, and the cute subworlds of aegyo and meng, moé and flatmaxxing, catboys and dogon eggs, bobbles and gummies, vore machines and partial objects, BwOs and UwUs…glomping, snuggling, smooshing and squeeeeing their way toward the event horizon of Cute, donning cat ears and popping bubbles as they go, in this untimely philosophical intensification of an omnipresent phenomenon, having surrendered to the squishiest demonic possession, like, ever, two bffs set out in search of the transcendental shape of cuteness only to realize that, even though it is all around us, we do not yet know what Cute can do.Seriously superficial and bafflingly coherent, half erudite philosophical treatise, half dariacore mashup, 100 percent cutagion, this compact lil’ textual machine is a meltdown and a glow up, as well as a twizzled homage to Deleuze and Guattari’s A Thousand Plateaus. Welcome to the kawaiizome: nothing uncute makes it out of the near future, and the cute will very soon no longer be even remotely human.

"Focusing on artificial intelligence (AI) and reproductive and genetic technologies (Repro-tech), Jude Browne asks who is politically responsible for the impacts of these transformative technologies and examines how we can respond to the societal challenges they pose in a way that is both politically feasible and socially responsible"--

"Makes available in English translation a series of hugely influential articles about Roman Republican politics which were all originally published in German. Three new essays discuss the history of German scholarship on the Republic and its interactions with Anglophone research, and each piece is situated in its intellectual context"--