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From the Highlands to Hollywood
This volume is dedicated to the academic achievements of Karl Kaser and to the 50th anniversary of Southeast European History and Anthropology (SEEHA) at the University of Graz. Its editors are collaborators of SEEHA and experts in various fields of Southeast European Studies: Siegfried Gruber, Dominik Gutmeyr, Sabine Jesner, Elife Krasniqi, Robert Pichler, and Christian Promitzer. The Festschrift covers diverse approaches toward the study of societies and cultures in Southeastern Europe, both with respect to history and current affairs, and brings together contributions from several of Kaser's former doctoral students, colleagues, collaborators and friends from across Europe.
Beyond the Lab and the Field
Beyond the Lab and the Field analyzes infrastructures as intense sites of knowledge production in the Americas, Europe, and Asia since the late nineteenth century. Moving beyond classical places known for yielding scientific knowledge, chapters in this volume explore how the construction and maintenance of canals, highways, dams, irrigation schemes, the oil industry, and logistic networks intersected with the creation of know-how and expertise. Referred to by the authors as “scientific bonanzas,” such intersections reveal opportunities for great wealth, but also distress and misfortune. This volume explores how innovative technologies provided research opportunities for scientists and en...
The Science of State Power in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1790-1880
The formation of modern European states during the long 19th century was a complicated process, challenged by the integration of widely different territories and populations. The Science of State Power in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1790-1880 builds on recent research to investigate the history of statistics as an overlooked part of the sciences of the state in Habsburg legal education as well as within the broader public sphere. By exploring the practices and social spaces of statistics, author Borbála Zsuzsanna Török uncovers its central role in imagining the composite Habsburg Monarchy as a modern and unified administrative space.
Experts, Social Scientists, and Techniques of Prognosis in Cold War America
This book describes how Cold War researchers used expert opinions to construct foreknowledge of geopolitical relevance. Focusing on the RAND Corporation, an American think tank with close relations to the armed forces, Dayé analyses the development of two techniques of prognosis, the Delphi technique and Political Gaming. Based on archival research and interviews, the chapters explore the history of this series of experiments to understand how contemporary social scientists conceived of one of the core categories of the Cold War, the expert, and uncover the systematic use of expert opinions to craft prognoses. This consideration of the expert’s role in Cold War society and what that can tell us about the role of the expert today will be of interest to students and scholars across the history of science, the sociology of knowledge, future studies, the history of the Cold War, social science methodology, and social policy.
Museums and Innovations
This volume presents sixteen thoughtful essays which address innovative ways to present cultural heritage primarily in ethnographic and social history museums through recent permanent, temporary, and mobile exhibitions. The essays included are taken from the different vantage points; they prompt critical debate about new ways of thinking and working in museums of different sizes, with regard for how we might work collaboratively towards a more equitable future. Essential political issues related to power and the strong influences of the museum are addressed in each section, especially with regards to the presentation of particular cultures and communities.
Dynamiken der Wissensproduktion
Versteht man Wissen als das Ergebnis des menschlichen Bedürfnisses, Ordnung in die Welt zu bringen, so ist es sinnvoll, bei der Frage nach der Produktion dieses Wissens die grundlegenden Dimensionen menschlicher Aktivität als essentielle Analysekategorien zu wählen. Der Band tut dies, indem er der räumlichen, zeitlichen und sozialen Dimension der Wissensproduktion besondere Aufmerksamkeit schenkt. Seine Beiträge machen dabei auf die Dynamiken aufmerksam, die auf individueller und institutioneller Ebene wirken und die Produktion von Wissen begünstigen oder aber auch behindern.
Räume und Dinge
Räume wie Dinge stehen nicht nur als Forschungsgegenstand, sondern auch als Analysekategorie zunehmend im Fokus kulturwissenschaftlichen Interesses. In diesem Band werden erstmals Räume und Dinge in ihren Beziehungen und Verhältnissen zueinander analysiert. Die versammelten Beiträge stellen Zugänge aus einzelnen Wissenschaftsdisziplinen vor. Sie durchmessen den Raum oder begeben sich auf die Spur der Dinge - und eröffnen so fruchtbare neue Perspektiven.
Globale Körper
Argumentativer Ausgangspunkt der Arbeit Globale Körper ist, dass Prinzipien, die mit Globalisierung in Verbindung gebracht werden können, maßgeblich das Tanzfeld in Deutschland strukturieren: Neben der stark internationalen Verfasstheit des Tanzfeldes gibt es auch eine Vielzahl an Projekten, die Themen und Personen kombinieren, die verschiedenen Teilen der Welt zugeordnet werden und diese Kombination explizit thematisieren. Solche Projekte werfen Fragen nach Kategorien wie Mobilität, Vernetzung, Kontakt, Vermischung oder Grenzüberschreitungen auf und bewegen sich damit im diskursiven Feld von Globalisierung. Innerhalb solcher Projekte (vier Tanzstücke namhafter ChoreographInnen und zwe...
Angeworben
Der Wirtschaftsboom in den 1960er Jahren führte in Österreich zu einem starken Arbeitskräftemangel, wodurch es zu einer gezielten Anwerbung von Arbeitskräften aus Südosteuropa kam. In der vorliegenden Studie wird den ökonomischen, politischen, gesellschaftlichen und globalen Aspekten dieser Migrationsbewegung auf nationaler und regionaler Ebene nachgegangen. Die Darstellung der Lebenswelten von ArbeitsmigrantInnen aus dem damaligen Jugoslawien bildet dabei eine wichtige Gegenerzählung zur staatlichen Perspektive, die von ökonomischen und arbeitsmarktpolitischen Interessen gekennzeichnet war.
Care Home Stories
Institutional care for seniors offers a cultural repository for fears and hopes about an aging population. Although enormous changes have occurred in how institutional care is structured, the legacies of the poorhouse still persist, creating panicked views of the nursing home as a dreaded fate. The paradoxical nature of a space meant to be both hospital and home offers up critical tensions for examination by age studies scholars. The essays in this book challenge stereotypes of institutional care for older adults, illustrate the changes that have occurred over time, and illuminate the continuities in the stories we tell about nursing homes.
