How did Nazism and its legacy define German identity and citizenship? Anthropologist Ulrike Linke examines the various ways German-ness has been imagined in public discourse since World War II. While the substance of the project concerns politics, issues of citizenship and democracy, and the enigmas of racism, Linke approaches her subject with an anthropologist's tools. Beginning with the Nazi eroticization of the bodily ideal, Linke moves across the 1945 threshold to explain how the new Germany organized its understanding of the body: public nudism; the revival of the cult of the body; and...
How did Nazism and its legacy define German identity and citizenship? Anthropologist Ulrike Linke examines the various ways German-ness has been imagi...
How did Nazism and its legacy define German identity and citizenship? Anthropologist Ulrike Linke examines the various ways German-ness has been imagined in public discourse since World War II. While the substance of the project concerns politics, issues of citizenship and democracy, and the enigmas of racism, Linke approaches her subject with an anthropologist's tools. Beginning with the Nazi eroticization of the bodily ideal, Linke moves across the 1945 threshold to explain how the new Germany organized its understanding of the body: public nudism; the revival of the cult of the body; and...
How did Nazism and its legacy define German identity and citizenship? Anthropologist Ulrike Linke examines the various ways German-ness has been imagi...
In "Cultures of Fear," a truly world-class line up of scholars explore the formation and normalisation of fear in the context of war and terrorism. "Freedom from fear" is a universal right and fundamental for human well-being. People often look to governments, humanitarian agencies, and other institutions to further this aim. However, this book shows that these organisations often use the same "logic of fear" to monitor, control, and contain human beings in zones of violence. This is an excellent interdisciplinary reader for students of anthropology, sociology and politics....
In "Cultures of Fear," a truly world-class line up of scholars explore the formation and normalisation of fear in the context of war and terrorism.
In "Cultures of Fear," a truly world-class line up of scholars explore the formation and normalisation of fear in the context of war and terrorism. "Freedom from fear" is a universal right and fundamental for human well-being. People often look to governments, humanitarian agencies, and other institutions to further this aim. However, this book shows that these organisations often use the same "logic of fear" to monitor, control, and contain human beings in zones of violence. This is an excellent interdisciplinary reader for students of anthropology, sociology and politics....
In "Cultures of Fear," a truly world-class line up of scholars explore the formation and normalisation of fear in the context of war and terrorism.
