peter lang peter lang aug 2007 (229 results)

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Shame and Desire defines the contemporary cinematic experience in terms that go beyond the visual. Adopting an intersubjective perspective on film studies, the author maintains that the dialectical poles of subject and object, seeing and being seen no longer seem to be valid. We are now surrounded by images that look back at us provocatively, seductively, indifferently; and not only in movies, but also in art, television, the city, in chance encounters, and in our private relationships.Taking her cue from Jean-Paul Sartre, the author shows how emotions exemplify the way in which we are ¿forced¿ to see ourselves through the eyes of others, unable to escape an identity that is imposed upon us from the outside but nevertheless resides ¿in the flesh¿ ¿ in the affective operations of the body and the senses. To illustrate her account of the intersubjective dynamics and affective bonds of cinema, the author explores the contemporary aesthetic investment in the emotional in the work of filmmakers such as Lars von Trier, Michael Haneke and Eija-Liisa Ahtila.This book proposes an insight into the ways in which we are engaged with visual displays and the look with which they respond to our looking. 158 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -The controversy surrounding the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine and autism has raised unprecedented questions about the communication of health and science. Health, Risk and News: The MMR Vaccine and the Media examines how this story came to be so influential and asks if the media are to blame for unduly panicking the public. Drawing on comprehensive research ¿ on media coverage, interviews with a range of journalists and sources, and analysis of audience opinion ¿ this book explores how medical controversies are covered, with attention to issues of balance and objectivity, expertise, news values, risk and media effects. It will be of interest to students and scholars of media studies, journalists and health professionals.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 240 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -This book explores the interplay between global and local influences in theatre festivals in the German-speaking border region around Lake Constance. Whilst opening up a fascinating yet under-researched theatre region to academic study, it also provides much-needed empirical grounding for often vague theories of place, globalisation and culture. Do we really live in a ¿shrinking world¿ dominated by a homogenising global culture industry, or are we experiencing the revival of ¿local particularism¿ To what extent is an apparently place-dependent cultural form such as theatre affected by the processes of cultural globalisation Through detailed analysis of theatrical case studies from Lake Constance and the application of an interdisciplinary theoretical framework, this book begins to answer such important questions. The empirical focus is on the defining features of the Lake Constance region: the beautiful and often romanticised natural landscape of lake and mountains, and the presence of the nation-state borders which make this the crossroads of the German-speaking world. The author thus examines both open-air summer theatre festivals, such as the internationally renowned Bregenzer Festspiele, and politically focused cross-border theatre festivals, such as the youth festival TRIANGEL. 290 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -According to the late Edward Said, ¿Why English and not Arabic is the question an Egyptian, Palestinian, Iraqi or Jordanian writer has to ask him or herself right now.¿ This concise study argues there is a qualitative difference between Arabic literature, Arabic literature translated into English, and a literature conceived and executed in English by writers of Arab background. It examines for the first time the corpus of a group of contemporary Arab writers who have taken the decision to incorporate Arab subjects and themes into the English language. Though variegated and distinct, the work of each writer contributes to a nexus of ideas, the central link of which is the notion of Anglo-Arab encounter. The fiction of Ahdaf Soueif, Jamal Mahjoub, Tony Hanania, Fadia Faqir and Leila Aboulela engages with the West ¿ primarily England ¿ and in the process blurs and hybridises discrete identities of both Arabs and English. Memoirs by accomplished academics, Leila Ahmed, Ghada Karmi and Jean Said Makdisi, are shown to expand definitions of postcolonial autobiography. 210 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Mudrooroo: A Likely Story reads the fiction of one of Australiäs most controversial and enigmatic literary figures against the backdrop of the likelihood that he assumed an Aboriginal identity to which he was not entitled. As he is neither black nor white, Colin Johnson (a.k.a. Mudrooroo) writes on issues of identity and belonging from the position of an outsider. The book argues that the experimental nature of Johnson¿s creative body of work coupled with the complexities of his ¿in-between¿ status, mean that both the man and his writing evade neat categorisation within mainstream literary criticism. Also examined here is how the denial of his white mother impacts upon the gender politics of Johnson¿s fiction in a way that opens up exciting new possibilities for critical comment and textual analysis. 268 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Based on a variety of close readings, this book analyzes the use of ice and snow motifs in selected literary, scientific, and philosophical texts by a wide range of European authors from Johannes Kepler to Thomas Mann. The focus of the book is on German literature. While the metaphorical significance of cold imagery has been studied by various scholars, the close relationship between figurations of the cold and writing or reading has so far been overlooked. Compared with other instances of «reading the book of nature», stars or stones for example, the unstable status of snow or ice configurations also renders their literary representation problematic. This inherent tension accounts for the attraction snow and ice have exerted on authors to this day. Particular attention is paid to those texts that negotiate the close rapport between the fragile literary object and the fragile status of language and readability, thus exposing the «fragile legibility» of snow and ice motifs. This focus allows us to address more general issues, such as the shifting status of the aesthetic at the intersection of older natural history and the emergence of modern science; the apocalyptic; and the melancholic implications of cold imagery. 234 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -This book takes a fresh look at English fiction produced in the 1950s. By looking at a range of authors, some canonical, some less well known, it shows that the novel of the period was far more diverse and formally experimental than previous accounts have suggested. Drawing on a wide range of contemporary literary and cultural theories, the author examines the way in which issues and anxieties in 1950s society were articulated and addressed in fiction. These issues include the reformulation of Englishness in a rapidly decolonizing world; anxieties about immigration, racism, class and classlessness; new configurations of gender; and the fear of the Americanization of working-class culture, especially in the way it appeared to be influencing English youth. The first part of the book identifies some of these anxieties, and the response to them in non-fiction and writing by the emerging New Left. The second part contains a theoretically informed reading of important Fifties novels by Kingsley Amis, John Wain, Muriel Spark, Alan Sillitoe, Colin MacInnes and Sam Selvon. 332 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -This book sets out to examine the internal workings of a colonial settler society drawing on aspects of post-colonial theory and whiteness studies. It focuses on the construction of a hierarchical social order in German Southwest Africa in the period 1884-1914. In doing so it explores the historical creation of categories of race and the construction of a concept of whiteness within white settler society in Germany¿s foremost settler colony. In the colonial environment the presence of some settlers was deemed to be more desirable than others. As a consequence policies of exclusion and racial rhetoric were employed to exclude undesirable settlers from white society. What emerged was a pioneer society in which undesirable settlers were socially, politically and economically excluded whilst desirable settlers sought to forge a racially and culturally exclusive utopia. Based on extensive archival material from the Bundesarchiv in Berlin as well as a wide range of printed sources, the book presents an insight into strategies of social control, power, the establishment of social privilege and constructions of whiteness in a settler society. 270 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -The volume deals with the writings and the theology of the great Greek apologists of the third and fourth centuries. Its aim is to identify the differences and similarities between them. It can be asserted that there is a Christian-apologetic line of tradition from Origen to Eusebius, and further to Athanasius, and that this has a particular theological and literary profile. Der Band zielt darauf ab, die Texte und die Theologie der großen griechischsprachigen Apologeten des dritten und vierten Jahrhunderts in ihrer Unterschiedenheit und in ihren Gemeinsamkeiten wahrzunehmen. Die Aufsätze zeigen, dass man eine christlich-apologetische Traditionslinie von Origenes über Eusebius zu Athanasius ziehen und wie man diese auch inhaltlich profilieren kann. 216 pp. Englisch, Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -The notion implied in the word «servant» necessarily points to someone (the lord) of whom he is the servant. Isaianic notion of the servant is not an exception to this idea: the prophet is not presenting an isolated and abstract concept of a «servant» but he is speaking about the servant of Yahweh. The servant passages in Second Isaiah should therefore be read in relation to other texts that present Yahweh as the Lord. These texts together explain the concept of the servant. The work therefore reads twelve suggested Isaianic servant passages as original and integral parts of Isaiah 40-53. Thirteen texts that present Yahweh as the Lord are also analyzed. The Isaianic idea of the servant appears to be the result of the exilic reinterpretation of the traditional servant of Yahweh concept. 212 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Labour markets and demographics are changing. Highly qualified personnel is likely to become scarcer and for this reason it is important that more highly qualified women participate in the labour market. WorkLifeBalance and gender mainstreaming are issues that become important and organisations will need practical instruments to assist with the implementation of such initiatives. This publication aims at researching the use of the gender balanced scorecard as (long-term) change management instrument to implement gender mainstreaming in organisational culture. Case studies and in-depth interviews are the basis for the empirical research done in six organisations in Germany and the Netherlands. This research shows that a gender balanced scorecard could be a useful instrument for management, but before it can be introduced general awareness towards gender initiatives will have to be increased in organisations. 232 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -In this groundbreaking study, James P. Hering investigates the theological and ethical motivation that informs the controversial New Testament household codes (Haustafeln) found in the epistles to the Colossians (3:18-4:1) and Ephesians (5:22-6:9). Within most New Testament scholarship, the household code has been regarded as an imported element within its host letter, reflecting either pagan or embarrassingly sub-Christian values. Is the household code merely a nod to the pragmatic demands of culture, or can it be understood as a reflection of the author¿s theological concerns What can it teach us today Hering provides a unique analysis of these passages, revealing the Haustafeln in their historical context and examining their theological roots. This book is of vital importance for courses on Christian ethics and New Testament backgrounds. 296 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -This book breaks down and elucidates the relationships between the several leaders of an increasingly religious Middle East. Considering Islamic religious figures as well as the political leaders of Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Syria, and Egypt, it explains how, in times of crisis, these leaders counter the influences of moderate and extremist Islamists with Islam itself. Each uses an interpretation of the religion to effect equilibrium amongst their people, thus generating relative stability for their rule. As a result, many leaders have enjoyed remarkable longevity of power, and some have managed to obtain legitimate political ends. This book goes beyond state- and society-centered theories to focus on the dynamic interactions between the rulers and the ruled, shedding new light on how international crises create domestic crises, and suggesting new solutions to the Middle East¿s international problems. 252 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Although the storytelling of any time rewrites itself, rewriting became a primary concern in the literature of the twentieth century, an era characterized as having quoted, reenacted, cannibalized, revised, redone, refurbished, and outright plagiarized the texts of earlier times. The modern obsession with literary reiteration manifests itself in a rather unique way in the narratives of Marguerite Duras, Annie Ernaux, and Marie Redonnet. These authors systematically and repeatedly rewrite their own texts, and in so doing, give evidence of three of the more salient aspects of twentieth-century French literature: a trend toward the representation of multifaceted selves, a desire to reevaluate the literary paradigm, and an acute concern for the unreliability of language. This book argues that the rewriting performed by Duras, Ernaux, and Redonnet moves beyond the tacit rewriting that occurs in any text toward a renovation of various features of the literary arena within which they circulate. Cathy Jellenik argues that all writing contains rewriting ¿ an argument grounded in the theoretical apparatuses of Saussure, Bakhtin, Benveniste, Barthes, Kristeva, and Derrida. She then examines and interrogates the ways in which Duras, Ernaux, and Redonnet use rewriting to question and rethink the literary traditions they inherit. Jellenik suggests that the rewriting projects of Duras, Ernaux, and Redonnet promise to lead them, and their readers, toward the creation of a new literary aesthetic capable of responding to the questions of our times.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 224 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -This volume includes a selection of fifteen papers delivered at the Second International Conference on Late Modern English. The chapters focus on significant linguistic aspects of the Late Modern English period, not only on grammatical issues such as the development of pragmatic markers, for-to infinitive constructions, verbal subcategorisation, progressive aspect, sentential complements, double comparative forms or auxiliary/negator cliticisation but also on pronunciation, dialectal variation and other practical aspects such as corpus compilation, which are approached from different perspectives (descriptive, cognitive, syntactic, corpus-driven). 464 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Im kommunikativen Verhalten des Kaisers sah der römische Historiker Cornelius Tacitus den entscheidenden Faktor für den Ablauf des historischen Geschehens. Dessen Fähigkeit, durch eine offene Kommunikation mit seinen Untergebenen deren aufrichtige Loyalität zu gewinnen, entschied maßgeblich über den Erfolg seiner Herrschaft. Die vorliegende Studie belegt diese These durch eine Analyse des kommunikativen, insbesondere körpersprachlichen Verhaltens der taciteischen Figuren und weist nach, daß Tacitus keinesfalls - wie ihm häufig vorgeworfen wurde - historische Personen und Ereignisse in böswilliger Verzerrung darstellt, sondern ein plausibles und wirklichkeitsgetreues Bild der Geschichte zeichnet. Zur Rekonstruktion der Wirkung nonverbaler Phänomene auf das zeitgenössische Publikum bedient sich der Autor eines interdisziplinären Ansatzes, der die Quellenbefunde zur römischen Körpersprache vor dem Hintergrund soziologischer, psychologischer und verhaltensbiologischer Erkenntnisse untersucht. Dadurch leistet er Pionierarbeit auf einem methodischen Neuland, das nicht nur zu einem vertieften und umfassenderen Verständnis des taciteischen Werkes führt, sondern der gesamten Altertumswissenschaft neue Perspektiven und Methoden zur Verfügung stellen kann. 510 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Les échanges entre la France et le Japon connurent une évolution historique remarquable, d¿abord fondée sur le rapport de forces, puis, le temps de la diplomatie succédant à celui des armes, sur un désir de l¿autre et de sa langue. Ce livre en retrace le cheminement, abordant certains aspects historiques de cette relation, évaluant sur des points circonscrits les conséquences esthétiques, littéraires, philosophiques et spirituelles des contacts entre les deux pays. Chacune de ces études met précisément en lumière la réciprocité d¿un regard constructif, étudie le transfert des connaissances d¿un pays à l¿autre et l¿interpénétration culturelle et artistique très fructueuse entre deux civilisations pourtant bien dissemblables.Les textes rassemblés ici constituent les actes du colloque international et pluridisciplinaire de Cergy-Pontoise « France-Japon, cultures croisées » co-organisé par l¿Université de Cergy-Pontoise et l¿Université Préfectorale d¿Osaka en septembre 2006. 224 pp. Französisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Die Arabel Ulrichs von dem Türlin erzählt in Anbindung an den Willehalm Wolframs von Eschenbach, aber auf eigenständige Weise, von unterschiedlichen Formen des Kontakts zwischen dem heidnischen Orient und dem christlichen Okzident: Im Mittelpunkt steht die Liebe zwischen zwei Kulturvertretern, die sich innerhalb eines ¿Minneraumes¿ unter Einbeziehung der zeichenhaften, verbalen und nonverbalen Sprache(n) und im Rahmen des Schachspiels vollzieht, das in der Erzählung als das Paradigma des Kulturkontakts erscheint. Zu Letzterem gehören die minutiös erzählte Integration der weiblichen Hauptfigur in die ihr fremde Gemeinschaft, der Gabentausch und die bewusste Engführung der erotischen und religiösen Dimension. Die Dichtung zielt zudem mitten in ein Problemfeld des von Sprachenvielfalt geprägten böhmischen Königshofs im 13. Jahrhundert. Der Kulturkontakt, der als Inhaltskern der Prosa- und Kurzfassung verbleibt, ist somit die entscheidende Basis für eine nähere Bestimmung der Identität des Textes. 396 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Die Verspottung christlicher Glaubensdogmen und christlicher Kreuzzugsideologie, so wie sie im Morgante des florentinischen Dichters Luigi Pulci (1432-1484) besonders deutlich zum Ausdruck kommt, steht in schärfstem Widerspruch zu unseren klischeehaften Vorstellungen über die Religiosität des «mittelalterlichen Menschen». Daß es keinen Sinn macht, ein bereits zu Lebzeiten seines Verfassers dringend nachgefragtes und tausendfach gedrucktes Werk in seinen bemerkenswertesten Aussagen fortgesetzten Relativierungsbemühungen zu unterziehen und an Stellen, wo dies nicht gelingen will, auf den Autor kurzerhand das atypische Sonderbewußtsein eines Außenseiters oder Geächteten zu projizieren, wird hier durch textnahe Analysen und unter kontinuierlichem Abgleich mit Pulcis dichterischen Vorlagen vor Augen geführt. Grundliegende These ist, daß der Morgante als wichtiger Indikator für die Existenz breiter Bevölkerungsschichten zu betrachten ist, die bereits im 15. Jahrhundert gegen eine ideologisch und institutionell krisenhaften Belastungsproben ausgesetzten Kirche ein gutes Stück Aufklärung durchgesetzt haben. 348 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Epigramm wie frühromantisches Fragment treten dem Leser meist in Ensembles entgegen; welche lesepragmatischen Konsequenzen das hat, wurde jedoch bisher wenig beachtet. Die Untersuchung rückt Verwendungsweisen und Potential eines Schreibens in den Blick, bei dem in sich abgeschlossene Einzeltexte konzeptgeleitet zusammengestellt und angeordnet werden. Die diesen Arrangements eingeschriebenen Lese(r)konzepte werden vor dem Hintergrund historisch erwartbarer Lesepraxis interpretiert und zum strukturell-semantischen Profil der Kompositionen in Beziehung gesetzt. Im Spannungsfeld von Gesamtentwurf und punktueller Gültigkeit öffnen sich die Einzeltexte auf argumentative wie handlungspraktische Zusammenhänge jenseits von gattungstraditionellen Vorgaben, die das kommunikative Funktionieren des Textverbunds entscheidend prägen. 424 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Die Publikation beschreibt die verwaltungsgeschichtliche Entwicklung der Bezirkstage und Räte der Bezirke der DDR zwischen 1952 und 1990/91 am Beispiel des Bezirkes Cottbus. Sie geht detailliert auf die einzelnen Strukturteile und deren Aufgaben und Zuständigkeiten ein, gibt dadurch einen umfassenden Überblick über die von der wichtigsten Verwaltungsbehörde der DDR auf der regionalen Ebene bearbeiteten Sachgebiete und belegt die Ausführungen durch ausführliche Quellenangaben. Im Anhang werden die leitenden Mitarbeiter in Kurzbiographien vorgestellt. Begriffserklärungen DDR-typischer Termini und ein Sach- und Personenregister sowie ein Abkürzungsverzeichnis erleichtern dem Leser die Benutzung. 300 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Die Arbeit ist ein Beitrag zur Erforschung der Rolle von Phraseologie im literarischen Text. Als Untersuchungsgegenstand dient deutschsprachige Kinderliteratur, von den Klassikern Erich Kästners bis heute. Es wird der Frage nachgegangen, wie Phraseologismen und Sprichwörter im Kinderbuch funktionieren: in welchem Umfang sie verwendet werden, mit welchen Mitteln sie in den Kontext eingebettet sind, welche Funktionen sie im Text übernehmen. Zu diesem Zweck werden drei verschiedene Korpora (Kästners Kinderbücher, zwei von Kästners Romanen für Erwachsene sowie Kinderbücher von sechs weiteren Autoren) untersucht und miteinander verglichen. Dabei spielt neben textlinguistischen Ansätzen auch der erzähltheoretische Blickwinkel eine Rolle. 338 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Hans Arp hat seit den späten 1930er Jahren eine religiöse Einstellung und eine Kunstauffassung angenommen, die sich nicht restlos mit seinen Überzeugungen der Dada-Zeit decken. Die in dieser Arbeit vorgenommenen vergleichenden Analysen früher und später Texte sowie eine chronologische Darstellung des Auftauchens zentraler Begriffe in den Essays und Gedichten fördern Veränderungen im Denken des Künstlers zutage und erlauben eine detaillierte Rekonstruktion seines späten Weltbildes. Durch Recherchen in Arps Bibliothek können zum ersten Mal wissenschaftlich fundierte Erkenntnisse über seine Lesegewohnheiten vorgelegt werden. Die Untersuchung geht zudem der Frage nach, wie weit Arps retrospektive Dada-Kommentare von Begriffen und Auffassungen seiner späten Weltanschauung und der späten Lektüren geleitet sind. Schliesslich wird das bildnerische, insbesondere das dreidimensionale Spätwerk formal analysiert, vor dem Hintergrund von Arps religiösem Weltbild interpretiert und vom Werk der Dada-Zeit abgehoben. Das Buch entlarvt einige in der Arp-Rezeption für selbstverständlich genommene Auffassungen als Klischees und zeigt weitgehend unbekannte, überraschende Seiten des bildenden Künstlers und Dichters auf. 596 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Das Tanzen war für die Kultur des Mittelalters von zentraler Bedeutung. Dies wird nicht nur durch seine zahlreichen Repräsentationen in der höfischen, sondern gerade auch in der geistlichen Kunst und Literatur offenbar. Die Darstellungen des Tanzes in Schrift oder Bild stellen der Kulturwissenschaft ein höchst aufschlußreiches Materialfeld bereit, in dem sich anthropologische und wissensgeschichtliche Fragestellungen mit literaturwissenschaftlichen Interessen verbinden lassen. Vor dem Hintergrund durchaus ambivalenter zeitgenössischer Wertungen analysiert die Studie die unterschiedlichen Bildkomplexe, literarischen Traditionslinien und kulturellen Deutungsmuster, die von nachkonstantinischer Zeit bis ca. 1450 insbesondere in der theologischen Auseinandersetzung mit der Tanzthematik ins Spiel kommen. Auf diese Weise will die Studie die noch immer konturlose Tanzgeschichte des Mittelalters durch differenzierte Quellenvergleiche ersetzen. 460 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -In periodi di transizione, quali la fine e l¿inizio di un nuovo secolo, e in un contesto come quello dell¿Unione Europea che porta inevitabilmente a riflettere sui concetti di nazionalità e cittadinanza o, più in generale, su tutte la questioni legate all¿identità, il tema della memoria riveste una grande importanza.Attraverso un¿analisi dettagliata di opere di autori, narratori e registi italiani degli ultimi vent¿anni, gli autori dei saggi riuniti in questo volume intendono mettere in luce, da varie angolazioni, l¿importanza della memoria e il ruolo fondamentale da essa svolto nel processo di acquisizione dell¿identità individuale e collettiva, prendendo in esame specialmente la riscrittura dell¿io e di eventi traumatici, la rappresentazione di avvenimenti storici e la raffigurazione, tra altre, della partecipazione femminile ad essi, la creazione dell¿identità nazionale nel contesto contemporaneo e la ricostruzione del rapporto tra macrostoria e microstoria. 358 pp. Italienisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Daredevil Research: Re-creating Analytic Practice gathers together ten research projects that seek to transform thinking about analytic practice and the construction of research knowledge. By experimenting with alternative models of representation unconstrained by the weight of traditional research protocols, the authors create multiple spaces for imagining how to differently identify issues for inquiry, select modes of analysis, and inscribe «data» into transmittable form. At once a production of research knowledge and a conceptual field for meaning-making, Daredevil Research suggests the possibilities of analytic practice in imaginative, independent space. 233 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book traces the history of injustices suffered by American Indians from the beginning of white contact in the 16th century through the present, identifying five unique epochs of U.S. Indian policy. The first section examines how the definition of Native Americans as a sub-species of human beings justified their harsh treatment and eradication from desirable lands in the emerging states, and the second addresses the further destruction of tribalism through Indian wars, the establishment of military-run concentration camps for uncooperative tribes, and the opening of Indian territories to non-Indian settlers. Subsequent sections detail a shift in policy from physical to cultural genocide: section three covers the legislation that set the stage for federally-controlled tribal administration, and the fourth section examines the 1950s attempt to dissolve tribes, forcing them into capitalist-based corporations with tribal members assigned stockholder status. The final section identifies a middle ground between the strict federal oversight posited by Indian Reorganization and the harsh policies of termination and relocation.Although the days of overt genocide are over, a more subtle form of exploitation continues today, evidenced by the current controversies surrounding the mismanagement of the Individual Indian Trust Fund, and the deliberate exploitation of gaming tribes by lobbyists and politicians. By providing insight into the history of this legislative trend, Legislating Indian Country points to new directions for the future of tribalism. 192 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Against a backdrop of a hegemonic, global economic arrangement that has spawned astounding disparities in wealth, this book foregrounds seventeen intellectuals who are engaged in resisting corporate values and in promoting social justice and human dignity. Ranging from socially engaged professors with a track record in grassroots involvement to popular educators, the interviewees challenge the manufactured consent produced by armies of intellectuals organic to dominant ideologies. Public Intellectuals, Radical Democracy and Social Movements reminds us that strategic silence and/or indifference reproduces a common sense arrangement where critical «reading of the world» (Freire, 1987) is relegated to the periphery. 214 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -When Germany lost its colonial empire after the Great War, many Germans were unsure how to understand this transition. They were the first Europeans to experience complete colonial loss, an event which came as Germany also wrestled with wartime collapse and foreign occupation.In this book the author considers how Germans experienced this change from imperial power to postcolonial nation. This work examines what the loss of the colonies meant to Germans, and it analyzes how colonialist categories took on new meanings in Germany's 'post-colonial' period. Poley explores a varied collection of materials that ranges from the stories of popular writer Hanns Heinz Ewers to the novels, essays, speeches, pamphlets, posters, and archival materials of nationalist groups in the occupied Rhineland to show how decolonization affected Germans. When the relationships between metropole and colony were suddenly severed, Germans were required to reassess many things: nation and empire, race and power, sexuality and gender, economics and culture. 290 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware - 13 des deutschen Strafgesetzbuchs stellt in seinem Absatz 1 das Begehen einer Tat durch Unterlassen unter Strafe und sieht in Absatz 2 vor, dass «die Strafe (.) gemildert werden kann». Aus philosophischer Sicht ist diese Regelung in zweierlei Hinsicht interessant: Zum einen stellt sich die Frage, warum eine Person bestraft werden soll, obwohl sie nichts getan hat; wenn sich diese Frage zufriedenstellend beantworten lässt, bleibt zum anderen zu klären, unter welchen Bedingungen und mit welcher Begründung die Strafe gemildert werden kann. Diese Studie versucht, durch eine philosophische Analyse der strafrechtlichen Konzepte der Normzwecktheorie und des Handlungsvorsatzes eine Antwort zu geben, die sowohl Philosophen als auch Juristen zufriedenstellt. 118 pp.