Förderer: KU Select 2016: Backlist Collection
Reconciliation, Civil Society, and the Politics of Memory
Transnational Initiatives in the 20th and 21st Century
- Schwelling, Birgit
- (ed.)
This volume examines the role of civil society in local and transnational reconciliation initiatives in 20th-century Europe, challenging the conventional view of reconciliation as a benign state-driven process.
Erschienen: 13. März 2017
City of Crisis
The Multiple Contestation of Southern European Cities
- Eckardt, Frank
- Sánchez, Javier Ruiz
- (eds.)
The ongoing crisis in Europe has dramatic impact on the life in many Southern European cities. In this book, contributions from Spain, Greece, Portugal and Italy provide an insight into the complex interference between the different aspects of the crisis.
Erschienen: 01. August 2015
(Re-)Framing the Arab/Muslim
Mediating Orientalism in Contemporary Arab American Life Writing
- Schmidt, Silke
Can only Hollywood movies and TV news frame public discourse? This innovative study demonstrates the potential of life writing to (re-)frame Orientalism in the »West.«
Erschienen: 01. Oktober 2014
The Myths That Made America
An Introduction to American Studies
- Paul, Heike
Myths play a vital role in the process of American »nation building«. On the basis of a critical analysis of central American myths this textbook offers an introduction to the field of American (Culture) Studies.
Erschienen: 01. August 2014
Spaces of the Poor
Perspectives of Cultural Sciences on Urban Slum Areas and Their Inhabitants
- Petersen, Hans-Christian
- (ed.)
How far can we look behind the facade of urban poverty? The volume takes up this question and presents new research perspectives that do not stop at collective categories.
Erschienen: 01. April 2014
Borders and Border Regions in Europe
Changes, Challenges and Chances
- Lechevalier, Arnaud
- Wielgohs (verst.), Jan
- (eds.)
Focussing European borders: The book provides insight into a variety of changes in the nature of borders in Europe and its neighborhood from various disciplinary perspectives.
Erschienen: 01. April 2014
Fashion Myths
A Cultural Critique
- Meinhold, Roman
Prestige, beauty, strength – which »meta-goods« do we buy when we buy fashion? A study on myths in our wardrobes.
Erschienen: 01. April 2014
Gender in Science and Technology
Interdisciplinary Approaches
- Ernst, Waltraud
- Horwath, Ilona
- (eds.)
What role does gender play in scientific research and the development of technologies? The book provides interdisciplinary approaches and examples of how to apply gender in scientific research, technological development and teaching.
Erschienen: 01. April 2014
Wounds and Words
Childhood and Family Trauma in Romantic and Postmodern Fiction
- Schönfelder, Christa
Trauma re-examined – at the intersections of literature and psychiatry, of Romanticism and postmodernism.
Erschienen: 01. April 2014
Does War Belong in Museums?
The Representation of Violence in Exhibitions
- Muchitsch, Wolfgang
- (ed.)
Does war really belong in museums? And if it does, what objectives and means are involved? Can museums avoid trivializing and aestheticising war, transforming violence, injury, death and trauma into tourist sights?
Erschienen: 01. April 2014