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Dass das Teilen in der Gesellschaft der Gegenwart einmal eine so große Rolle spielen würde, hätte bis vor kurzem wohl kaum jemand vorausgesagt. Eine globale Protestbewegung brachte ein tiefes Bedürfnis zum Ausdruck, alternative Wege einzuschlagen, die auf anderen Werten beruhten als jene, die allem Anschein nach zur Finanzkrise geführt hatten. Gleichzeitig sind hoch entwickelte Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien, die das Teilen erleichtern, nicht nur beinahe überall verfügbar; sie s...

media studies, sharing, computing technology

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In Emotion and Devotion Miri Rubin explores the craft of the historian through a series of studies of medieval religious cultures. In three original chapters she approaches the medieval figure of the Virgin Mary with the aim of unravelling meaning and experience. Hymns and miracle tales, altarpieces and sermons – a wide range of sources from many European regions – are made to reveal the creativity and richness which they elicited in medieval people, women and men, clergy and laity, people of...

Western Europe, medieval studies, cultural history, Christian culture, religious cultures, religious life and customs, religious texts

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One of the greatest challenges during the enlargement process of the European Union towards the east is how the issue of the Roma or Gypsies is tackled. This ethnic minority group represents a much higher share by numbers, too, in some regions going above 20% of the population. This enormous social and political problem cannot be solved without proper historical studies like this book, the most comprehensive history of Gypsies in Romania. It is based on academic research, synthesizing the ent...

Southeastern Europe, Romania, Moldavia, minority studies, Romanies, gypsies, gypsies’ migration, slavery, nomadism, sedentarisation, emancipation, deportation, social organisation, racism, integration, assimilation, social situation

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The ""war on terror"" has generated a scramble for expertise on Islamic or Asian ""culture"" and revived support for area studies, but it has done so at the cost of reviving the kinds of dangerous generalizations that area studies have rightly been accused of. This book provides a much-needed perspective on area studies, a perspective that is attentive to both manifestations of ""traditional culture"" and the new global relationships in which they are being played out. The authors shake off the sha...

Chinese empire, political ideologies, nationalism, transnationalism, patiotism, modernity, Russo-Chinese relations, foreign relations, Asian values, moral economy, minorities, contemporary globalization, Asian renaissance, capitalist development, authoritarian state, citizenship, Chinese immigration, transterritorial identities, diasporas, multiethnicity, media studies approach, new migrant, migrant elites, scholars, culturalism, social Darwinism, racialized identities, ethnic diplomacy, symbols, sexuality