Over the past decade, European football has seen tremendous changes impacting upon its international framework as well as local traditions and national institutions. Processes of Europeanization in the fields of economy and politics provided the background for transformations of the production and consumption of football on a transnational scale. In the course of such rearrangements, football tournaments like the UEFA Championship or the European Champions League turned into mega-events and media spectacles attracting ever-growing audiences. The experience of participating in these events offers some of the very few occasions for the display and embodiment of identities within a European context. This volume takes the 2008 EUROs hosted by Austria and Switzerland as a case study to analyze the political and cultural significance of the tournament from a multidisciplinary angle. What are the special features and spatial arrangements of a UEFAesque Europe, in comparison to alternative possibilities of a Europe? Situating the sport tournament between interpretations of collective European ritual and European spectacle, the key research question will ask what kind of Europe was represented in the cultural, political and economic manifestations of the 2008 EUROs. This book was published as a special issue of Soccer and Society.

Over the past decade, European football has seen tremendous changes impacting upon its international framework as well as local traditions and national institutions. Processes of Europeanization in the fields of economy and politics provided the background for transformations of the production and consumption of football on a transnational scale. In the course of such rearrangements, football tournaments like the UEFA Championship or the European Champions League turned into mega-events and media spectacles attracting ever-growing audiences. The experience of participating in these events offers some of the very few occasions for the display and embodiment of identities within a European context. This volume takes the 2008 EUROs hosted by Austria and Switzerland as a case study to analyze the political and cultural significance of the tournament from a multidisciplinary angle. What are the special features and spatial arrangements of a UEFAesque Europe, in comparison to alternative possibilities of a Europe? Situating the sport tournament between interpretations of collective European ritual and European spectacle, the key research question will ask what kind of Europe was represented in the cultural, political and economic manifestations of the 2008 EUROs. This book was published as a special issue of Soccer and Society.

An encyclopedic selection of original documents from the Austrian capital's pathbreaking, progressive interwar period, translated and with contextualizing introductions and commentaries. The current blockbuster German TV series Babylon Berlin introduces viewers to the tumultuous period in German history known as the Weimar Republic. Critics have praised the series for its relevance to the present: it showsdark populist forces undermining a fragile democracy. While Weimar Germany makes a fascinating backdrop, its story does not inspire much hope for our present-day political and cultural woes. A fascinating contrast is the Austrian capital, Vienna. After the First World War the former imperial city elected a Social Democratic majority that persisted into the 1930s. "Red Vienna" undertook large-scale experiments in public housing, hygiene, and education,while maintaining a world-class presence in music, literature, art, culture, and science. Though Red Vienna eventually fell victim to fascist violence, it left a rich legacy with potential to inform our own tumultuous times. The Red Vienna Sourcebook provides scholars and students with an encyclopedic selection of key documents from the period, carefully translated and introduced. The thirty-six chapters include primary works from canonical names such as Sigmund Freud and Arthur Schnitzler but also introductions to lesser-known figures such as sociologist Kathe Leichter and health-policy pioneer Julius Tandler. The documents will be of interest to such diverse disciplines as economics, architecture, music, film history, philosophy, women's studies, sports and body culture, and Jewish studies.

An encyclopedic selection of original documents from the Austrian capital's pathbreaking, progressive interwar period, translated and with contextualizing introductions and commentaries. Immediately after World War I, in 1919, the Austrian capital Vienna elected a Social Democratic majority that persisted until 1934. The city's leaders, together with its intellectuals, boldly imagined a new society that would be economically just, scientifically rigorous, and radically democratic. "Red Vienna" undertook experiments in public housing, welfare, and education while maintaining a world-class presence in science, music, literature, theater, andother fields of cultural production. Though Red Vienna eventually fell victim to fascist violence, it left a rich legacy with potential to inform our own tumultuous times. The Red Vienna Sourcebook provides scholars and students with a selection of some 280 key texts from the period, carefully translated and introduced. These texts connect readers to the era's most fascinating discussions, movements, and personalities and will be of interest to such diverse disciplines as architecture, economics, film studies, history, Jewish studies, literary studies, music, philosophy, political science, psychology, sociology, sports, and women's studies.

Die Leitfrage des Bandes bezieht sich auf das interpretatorische Potenzial des Begriffs agency, verstanden als individuelle und kollektive Handlungsfahigkeit, wie sie in der politischen Theorie zentral ist. Moeglichkeit und Effektivitat demokratischer Praxis wurde im Zuge politischer Krisendiagnosen westlicher Gesellschaften infrage gestellt, so zum Beispiel in der Debatte um "Postdemokratie". Vor dem Hintergrund dieser gegenwartigen Problematik, nehmen die Beitrage des Bandes auch historische Tiefenbohrungen vor und erkunden, wie im Lauf des 20. Jahrhunderts und aktuell politische Denk- und Handlungsraume an den Schnittstellen von Theorie, Literatur und Medien bearbeitet und erschlossen wurden und werden.

Die ersten freien Wahlen zum Wiener Gemeinderat bringen 1919 der Sozialdemokratischen Arbeiterpartei die absolute Mehrheit. So beginnt ein international beachtetes Reformprojekt, das auf eine tiefgreifende Verbesserung der Lebensbedingungen in der Stadt und eine weitreichende Demokratisierung der Gesellschaft zielt. Zentrales Handlungsfeld wird die Wohnungsfrage. Auf der Grundlage von „Luxussteuern" werden bis 1934 mehr als 60.000 Wohnungen sowie zahlreiche Sozial-, Freizeit- und Kultureinrichtungen geschaffen. Die umfangreich illustrierte Publikation fragt nach historischen Voraussetzungen und Wirkungen, den internationalen Einflüssen und der Ausstrahlung nach Außen, nach dem Verhältnis von Ideologie und Pragmatismus sowie nach dem aktuellen Potenzial dieser dynamischen Stadtentwicklung im Zeichen der Moderne.