Kategoria BISAC: Political Science >> General

Drawing on a rich base of British archival materials, Arabic periodicals, and secondary sources, Colonialism and Christianity in Mandate Palestine brings to light the ways in which the British colonial state in Palestine exacerbated sectarianism. By transforming Muslim, Christian, and Jewish religious identities into legal categories, Laura Robson argues, the British ultimately marginalized Christian communities in Palestine. Robson explores the turning points that developed as a result of such policies, many of which led to permanent changes in the region's political...

Anfang des Jahres 2008 demonstrierten vor allem junge Kalkerinnen und Kalker mit Migrationshintergrund uber mehrere Tage gegen ihre Benachteiligung in der Einwanderungsgesellschaft. Dazu fanden Demonstrationen, spontane Treffen, Sitzblockaden, Mahnwachen, Diskussionsrunden und weitere Aktionen statt. Die Ereignisse wurden in den Medien auf stadtischer, regionaler und nationaler Ebene diskutiert. In dem Forschungsprojekt ging es unter anderem darum, die Perspektiven und Reaktionen der Beteiligten der Demonstrationen und der verschiedenen Akteurinnen und Akteuren im Stadtteil zu untersuchen....

In Material Politics, author Andrew Barry reveals that as we are beginning to attend to the importance of materials in political life, materials has become increasingly bound up with the production of information about their performance, origins, and impact.

• Presents an original theoretical approach to political geography by revealing the paradoxical relationship between materials and politics
• Explores how political disputes have come to revolve not around objects in isolation, but objects that are entangled in ever growing quantities of information about their...

In Material Politics, author Andrew Barry reveals that as we are beginning to attend to the importance of materials in political life, materials has become increasingly bound up with the production of information about their performance, origins, and impact.

• Presents an original theoretical approach to political geography by revealing the paradoxical relationship between materials and politics
• Explores how political disputes have come to revolve not around objects in isolation, but objects that are entangled in ever growing quantities of information about their...

Der Befund einer Pluralisierung der Sicherheitsproduktion und Allgegenwartigkeit von Sicherheit in der Diskussion um Stadt kann darauf zuruck gefuhrt werden, dass die Akteure, deren Verbindungen untereinander, ihre Aufgaben und Techniken weniger eindeutig als in der Vergangenheit fixiert sind. Anspruch des vorliegenden Bandes an der Schnittstelle zwischen sozialer und raumlich orientierter Sicherheitsforschung ist es, die lokal vielfaltigen Formen der Sicherheitsproduktion zu illustrieren und die Konflikte, Widerspruche und Folgen fur das Leben in den Stadten sowie das Handlungsfeld urbane...

Focusing on Irish speakers in Catholic West Belfast, this ethnography on Irish language and identity explores the complexities of changing, and contradictory, senses of Irishness and shifting practices of 'Irish culture' in the domains of language, music, dance and sports. The author's theoretical approach to ethnicity and ethnic revivals presents an expanded explanatory framework for the social (re)production of ethnicity, theorizing the mutual interrelations between representations and cultural practices regarding their combined capacity to engender ethnic revivals. Relevant not only to...