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1. Knowledge of the form
Culture can be understood not only as special institutions, objects and special actions, but also as social practices. For theoretical explanations, this means a double challenge: in addition to the findings of different academic disciplines, the cultural determination of one's own perspective of investigation must always be reflected. The contributors to this volume analyse the relevant shaping conditions of cultural practices from the perspective of philosophy, psychology, linguistics, music and movement studies. In doing so, they specify which prerequisites should be given for cultural theory formation.
2. Expanded Choreographies-Choreographic Histories
Anna Leon is a dance historian and theorist based in Vienna. She is theory curator at Tanzquartier Wien and postdoctoral fellow at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, where she researches peripheralised dance modernities through a focus on ballet in early 20th century Greece. She holds a BSc from the University of Bristol, an MA from Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne University and a PhD from the University of Salzburg. Her first book, Expanded Choreographies - Choreographic Histories. Trans-Historical Perspectives Beyond Dance and Human Bodies in Motion was published in 2022 by transcript. She is curatorially engaged in the ongoing projects Radio (non-)conference with Netta Weiser and Choreography+ with Johanna Hilari. She has taught at the Universities of Vienna, Salzburg and Bern as well as SEAD (Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance) and the Institut Français. She occasionally collaborates, as a dramaturg or historiographic adviser, with choreographers including Julia Schwarzbach, Florentina Holzinger and Netta Weiser.
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Expanded Choreographies-Choreographic Histories
English, 2022
3. Democratic Citizenship in Flux
Traditionally, citizenship has been defined as the legal and political link between individuals and their democratic political community. However, traditional conceptions of democratic citizenship are currently challenged by various developments like migration, the rise of populism, increasing polarization, social fragmentation, and the challenging of representative democracy as well as developments in digital communication technology. Against this background, this peer reviewed book reflects recent conceptions of citizenship by bringing together insights from different disciplines, such as political science, sociology, economics, law, and history.
4. Culture in conflict
The social scientist Claus Leggewie has initiated or significantly influenced numerous political and academic debates in Germany and Europe. He has often demonstrated an excellent grasp of the central topics of our time, for example, with his reflections on multicultural society, his view of generational and media upheavals, and climate change. Leggewie's texts have regularly crossed the boundaries between disciplines and have often met with a broad response, even beyond academic boundaries. This volume now brings together for the first time key texts by Claus Leggewie from five thematic areas: Cultures of Democracy, Multiculture, Cultures of Memory, Generational Conflicts and Cultures of Science. In this book, original texts by Leggewie are commented on by renowned authors from various disciplines and placed in current contexts.
5. Räume und Dinge
Spaces as well as things have been receiving increased attention for quite some time - not least as a reaction to social and cultural transformations. However, this also shows a shift from the object of investigation to the category of analysis, as Doris Bachmann-Medick says. Spaces and things are not only of interest in their own right, but above all in their relationships and relations to one another. The exemplary studies in this volume traverse space and set out on the trail of things. The respective approaches from different disciplines allow for particularly promising findings.
6. Poetic Resurrection
While many Americans dismissed the borough of The Bronx in the late 1970s through the belief that "The Bronx is burning," this study challenges that assumption. As the first explicit study on The Bronx in American popular culture, this book shows how a wide variety of cultural representations engaged in a complex dialogue on its past, present, and future. Sina A. Nitzsche argues that popular culture ushered in the poetic resurrection of The Bronx, an artistic and imaginative rebirth, that preceded, promoted, and facilitated the spatial revival of the borough.
7. Fresh fruit, broken bodies
Winner of several awards in English and now finally available in German, Seth M. Holmes offers an in-depth examination of the daily lives and suffering of Mexican migrants who work in modern US agriculture as harvest workers. The anthropologist and physician shows how health and health care suffer due to the dark side of consumer society, resentment against immigrants and racism. Holmes' material is harrowing and powerful: he and his companions trekked illegally through the desert to Arizona and were detained with them until they were deported. He lived with indigenous families in the mountains of Oaxaca and in farm labour camps in the USA, grew corn and strawberries and accompanied sick workers to hospitals. This embodied anthropology deepens our theoretical understanding of how quickly social inequalities in society - and especially in health care - are perceived as normal and natural.
8. Sexualised Nazis
Sexualised Nazi figures are part of a continually expanding cultural repertoire of images used in (audio-)visual representations of National Socialism and the Shoah. Julia Noah Munier traces this pattern, which has been neglected in research until now, back to the 1930s and shows how it has been used again and again after 1945 until today. She directs attention to a condensation of similarly structured figures across medial boundaries into specific patterns of interpretation. The focus is on the subjectivising effects of these patterns of representation, in which perpetrators of the Nazi regime and of Italian fascism appear as completely different, as deviant.
9. Das Handeln der Systeme
The action-theoretical foundation of sociology has been rejected by Niklas Luhmann's systems theory: The structure of the object itself, the argument goes, leads compellingly to the insight that action is not due to human beings but to the self-generation of social systems. Matthias Klemm reconstructs this argument and traces its implications for the architecture of systems theory. The analysis allows to show connections especially to the pragmatic lifeworld theory of Alfred Schütz beyond the front line between system- and action-theoretical positions.
10. Dynamis
Since time immemorial, "dynamis" and "energeia" have formed what is probably the most dazzling pair of concepts in the history of philosophy: in their tense interplay, materialism and metaphysics, capability and realisation come together. But can they also be understood as historical-political categories? As such, it is precisely the turning points and differences in their conceptual history that reveal a change in historical thinking and new possibilities for political action. From Aristotle to Martin Heidegger to Jacques Derrida, Nassima Sahraoui shows in her penetrating reading that a new understanding of the ancient "dynamis" is more current and necessary than ever, because it holds a critical potential through which moments of freedom are made possible for us and our thinking, also and especially today.
