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This title was first published in 2003. This volume is concerned
with the European north above the Arctic Circle and its
representations in Cultural Geography and International Relations.
The chapters in the book deal with cultural, geographical and
political imaginations of northern peoples and landscapes. Emphasis
is placed on the triangle of and interrelationship between culture,
geography and politics. The historical and contemporary variations
of meaning assigned to the north point to real processes which need
to be studied in their own right. To achieve this aim, the book
does not plainly specify the sites and levels of discourses (be
they academic, political or popular), but it does take into account
the material circumstances making the context of the European
north. Illustrated by a coherent set of specially written case
studies, the volume explores issues such as history, literature,
gender, folk culture, pictorial representations, environment and
climate change and links these issues with the (geo-)politics of
the region.
This title was first published in 2003. This volume is concerned
with the European north above the Arctic Circle and its
representations in Cultural Geography and International Relations.
The chapters in the book deal with cultural, geographical and
political imaginations of northern peoples and landscapes. Emphasis
is placed on the triangle of and interrelationship between culture,
geography and politics. The historical and contemporary variations
of meaning assigned to the north point to real processes which need
to be studied in their own right. To achieve this aim, the book
does not plainly specify the sites and levels of discourses (be
they academic, political or popular), but it does take into account
the material circumstances making the context of the European
north. Illustrated by a coherent set of specially written case
studies, the volume explores issues such as history, literature,
gender, folk culture, pictorial representations, environment and
climate change and links these issues with the (geo-)politics of
the region.
This unique study offers a political analysis of the relationship
between visual representations and the politics of violence both
nationally and internationally. It emphasizes the spectator and his
or her own involvement in, responsibility for, and potential
responses to the conditions depicted in given images.Through a
series of case studies which engage with visual representations of
the politics of violence, such as the aftermath of the 1994
genocide in Rwanda and the visualization of colonial memory, it
analyzes the relationship between visibility and political agency
and elaborates the extent to which people who have normally been
subjects of the image production of others can become agents of
their own image.This book's comprehensive analysis of different
genres including photography, graphic novels, comics and paintings
introduces a new research agenda for the emerging field of visual
peace.
This book introduces a new research agenda for visual peace
research, providing a political analysis of the relationship
between visual representations and the politics of violence
nationally and internationally. Using a range of genres, from
photography to painting, it elaborates on how people can become
agents of their own image.
This study thinks with photography about peace. It asks how
photography can represent peace, and how such representation can
contribute to peace. The book offers an original critique of the
almost exclusive focus on violence in recent work on visual culture
and presents a completely new research agenda within the overall
framework of visual peace research. Critically engaging with both
photojournalism and art photography in light of peace theories, it
looks for visual representations or anticipations of peace - peace
or peace as a potentiality - in the work of selected photographers
including Robert Capa and Richard Mosse, thus reinterpreting
photography from the Spanish Civil War to current anti-migration
politics in Europe. The book argues that peace photography is
episodic, culturally specific, process-oriented and considerate of
both the past and the future.
Die Entstehung der modernen, nationalen Gesellschaften ist
begleitet von der Ausbildung eines neuen populistischen
Politikertyps. Diese charismatischen Fuhrer stutzen ihre Herrschaft
auf das Volk, welches wiederum in ihnen seine Wunsche und
Hoffnungen verwirklicht sieht. Als "Charisma" hat Max Weber die
Eigenschaften eines Politikers bezeichnet, die von seinen Anhangern
als ausseralltaglich bewertet werden. Diese Vorstellungen und
Zuschreibungen der deutschen Offentlichkeit gegenuber den
wichtigsten deutschen Politikern des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts
werden in den Beitragen des Sammelbandes untersucht und verglichen.
Gefragt wird also nicht, ob diese Politiker charismatische Fuhrer
waren, sondern welche charismatischen Qualitaten ihnen von ihren
Anhangern zugeschrieben wurden. Betrachtet werden neben der
Vorbildfunktion, die das Kaisertum Napoleons auch fur Deutschland
hatte, Heinrich von Gagern, Otto von Bismarck, Wilhelm II., Paul
von Hindenburg, Adolf Hitler, Konrad Adenauer, Walter Ulbricht,
Willy Brandt und Helmut Kohl. Kontinuitaten und Diskontinuitaten in
den gesellschaftlichen Bildern uber diese nationalen Fuhrer werden
dabei herausgearbeitet. Beitrage von: Rainer Gries, Dieter Hein,
Christian Jansen, Wolther von Kieseritzky, Dirk van Laak, Frank
Moller, Wolfram Pyta, Andreas Schulz, Ulrich Sieg, Edgar Wolfrum"
Frank Moller untersucht den Wandel burgerlicher Herrschaft von den
patrizisch-standischen Strukturen einer Reichstadt zur
Klassengesellschaft einer Industriestadt. Die Eingliederung in das
Konigreich Bayern, die seit den 1830er Jahren einsetzende
Fruhindustrialisierung, die Revolution von 1848/49 und schliesslich
die kulturkampferischen Auseinandersetzungen zwischen Liberalen und
Ultramontanen sind die entscheidenden Stationen dieser Entwicklung.
In der Selbstverwaltung, in der Wirtschaft, im Vereinswesen und in
der politischen Orientierung musste burgerliche Herrschaft und
damit Burgertum als Trager dieser Herrschaft immer wieder neu
definiert werden. In einer Mischung von Sozial-, Politik- und
Kulturgeschichte zeigt sich dabei, wie sehr in Augsburg die moderne
burgerliche Gesellschaft durch das alte Stadtburgertum durchgesetzt
wurde. Wenn das Burgertum zugleich ruckstandig und fortschrittlich
war, so deswegen, weil es Veranderungen durch die Wiederbelebung
alter Traditionen schuf."
Frank Moller explores why the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and
Lithuania have not evolved into a security community despite the
area undergoing, since the mid 1980s, considerable change with
little turmoil. This book focuses on the tensions resulting from
policies in the Baltic states aiming at an increase in both
security and sovereignty. Moller shows how these states' attempts
at increasing their security were intricately bound up with their
efforts at autonomous nation-state building. Moller argues that a
primary obstacle to security community building was the
construction of nation-states based upon an exceedingly traditional
template emphasizing the connection between the state, sovereignty,
and military security. One complicating factor, he demonstrates, is
that as the Baltic states aspired to NATO membership, unique
challenges prevail, for example, a perceived threat of looming
Russian imperialism and the perseverance of a collective memory
emphasizing anti-Soviet resistance. Moller also examines such key
issues as the demise of the Soviet Union, the nonviolent withdrawal
of Russian troops from the Baltic States, and U.S. foreign policy
in northern Europe. Here is a profound, multifaceted look at issues
of security in the contemporary world - a crucial tool for
researchers and students of peace and conflict studies.
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