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  • Bielefeld : transcript Verlag  (14)
  • Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH  (8)
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    Hope and Uncertainty in Health and Medicine : Imagining the Pragmatics of Medical Potential (2024)
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    Description / Table of Contents: Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- Pragmatics of hope and uncertainty -- The techno‐sphere -- Health management -- Individual and socially distributed emotions -- References -- Part I: Pragmatics of Hope and Uncertainty -- 1 Embracing Uncertainty -- Debates in philosophy -- Uncertainty in the search for certainty -- "Certainty" as a social strategy -- Embracing uncertainty -- Positioning embrace -- References -- 2 Hope, Trust, Medical Action, and Care -- The setting -- Realms of the young -- Clinicians' moral worlds -- A few blind spots -- Realms of the older adults: Are they so different? -- Ms Moretti's story -- The moral threshold of acceptability -- Concluding remarks -- References -- Part II: The Techno‐Sphere -- 3 Self‐Tracking Practices of "Doing Health" -- Introduction -- "Doing health" -- Methods, field sites and theoretical approach -- Self‐tracking in practice: Data discussion -- Introducing the phenomenon of self‐tracking -- Mobilizations of data at the human‐technology interface -- Self‐tracking practices of "doing health" and processes of responsibilization -- Emerging regimes of "doing health" in insurance policy -- Affectivities and uncertainties of self‐tracking practices -- Conclusion -- References -- 4 Precarious Lives, Uncertainty and the Politics of Hope -- Introduction -- A note on methods and the field: Setting the scene -- Novel treatment: Controversy, efficacy and safety of thalidomide -- Seeking Jhanduwalla ilaj: Precarity of care, uncertainty and hope -- Reflections on other potential endings, limits of hope -- Therapeutic innovation, private market and the role of medical pioneers -- Concluding reflections -- References -- 5 Between Uncertainty and Routinization -- Introduction -- "A safe test that may relieve your concerns" -- "Reassuringly routinized" technologies of pregnancy care.
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    Pages: 1 online resource (279 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    ISBN: 9783839467626
    Series Statement: Gesundheit, Kommunikation und Gesellschaft Series
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    Shared Heritage Revisited : National and Postnational Dimensions on the Example of Germans, Palestinians and Israelis (2024)
    Bielefeld : transcript Verlag
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    Description / Table of Contents: Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Cultural heritage definition from a Western European angle -- Cultural heritage definition from a non‐European angle -- Cultural heritage definition as "shared cultural heritage" -- About the book -- Part I Theoretical approach -- Part II Nationality and the construction of cultural heritage -- Part III Multinational divisions and the construction of cultural heritage -- Part IV The postnational concept and the construction of shared heritage -- Bibliography -- I. Theoretical approach -- The concept of heritage - A national perspective -- Introduction -- Cultural heritage and the concept of nation -- Jewish cultural heritage as nationalism -- Israeli Palestinians cultural heritage as nationalism -- Epilogue: Cultural heritage as an unstable category -- Bibliography -- Common, shared, contradictory heritage? -- Introduction -- Definitions and terms: Cultural heritage revisited -- Components of cultural heritage: (How) can cultural heritage be shared? -- Varieties of understanding: Common or shared heritage? -- Political framework: Postcolonial memory culture in Germany -- An example from Germany: The Humboldt Forum in Berlin -- Chances, limits, utopias? A brief outlook -- Bibliography -- Other Sources -- II. Nationality and the construction of cultural heritage -- The Dawn Multicultural Theater: Sharing heritage through documentary theater -- Introduction -- Theater and the construction of national heritage: A case study in Israel -- Documentary theater and the construction of heritage -- Methods -- Analysis -- Emotional resuscitation and revitalizing of personal memories -- Consciousness‐raising: Repositioning memories of community heritage -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Other Sources -- From the Mellah in Marrakesh to Israel and back -- Introduction.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: 1 online resource (379 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    ISBN: 9783839466995
    Series Statement: Cultural Heritage Studies
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    DDC: 363.69
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    The Play of Language in Ancient Greek Comedy : Comic Discourse and Linguistic Artifices of Humour, from Aristophanes to Menander (2024)
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    Description / Table of Contents: Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- Metaphors and Personifications Onstage -- Imaginary Wor(l)ds: Comic Language and the Construction of Fantasy -- A Less Maculate Muse -- Like a Rabid Dog: Animal Metaphors and Similes in Aristophanes -- The Shop of Aristophanes the Carpenter: How Comic Poets Assembled (and Disassembled) Words -- "When He Should Have Said..." The Treatment of Humour παρ' ὑπόνοιαν in the Aristophanic Scholia -- Rhyme in Greek Comedy -- Three Words in Aristophanes' Wealth (999, 1037, 1083) -- Spoudaiogeloion Revisited: Homeric Text between a Scholar and a Cook -- Proper Names, Nicknames, Epithets: Aspects of Comic Language in Middle Comedy -- Strategies of Verbal Humour in Menander's Dyskolos: From Linguistics to Dramaturgy -- List of Contributors -- Index Nominum et Rerum -- Index Locorum -- Index of Notable Greek Words and Phrases.
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    Pages: 1 online resource (446 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    ISBN: 9783111295282
    Series Statement: Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes Series v.154
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    DDC: 882.0109
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    Emerging Subjectivity in the Long 19th-Century Middle East : Philological Approaches (2024)
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    Description / Table of Contents: Intro -- Contents -- Part I: Background / Settings -- 1 Arab perspectives on the late Ottoman Empire -- 2 The simultaneity of the non-simultaneous -- Part II: Linguistic aspects The language of the Nahḍa -- 3 Morpho-semantic evidence of emerging subjectivity in the language of the Nahḍa -- Part III: Transitions: Continuity and rupture New attitudes / genres in the making -- 4 Adab as the art to make the right choice between local tradition and Western values: A comparative analysis of Khalīl al-Khūrī's Way, idhan lastu bi-Ifranjī! (1859) and Aḥmed Midḥat's Felāṭūn Beğ ile Rāḳım Efendī (1875) -- 5 Concepts that changed the world -- 6 What does it mean to design a plot? -- 7 From water-carrying camels to modern storytellers -- Part IV: The emerging subject seeking to assert itself -- 8 Even in a maqāma! The shift of focus from "trickster" to "narrating subject" in Fāris al-Shidyāq's al-Sāq ʿalà l-sāq (1855) -- 9 The modern subject sensing its agency -- 10 "Wa-hākadhā kāna ka-Iblīs": Satan and social reform in a novel by Salīm al-Bustānī (Bint al-ʿaṣr, 1875) -- 11 "Fa-ghrawraqat ʿuyūnuhum bi-l-dumūʿ...": Some notes on the flood of tears in early modern Arabic fiction -- Part V: The Nahḍa at its zenith Nation building and "Yes, we can!" enthusiasm -- 12 A manifesto of early adab qawmī: ʿĪsà ʿUbayd's programmatic preface to "Miss Ihsan" - Introduction and translation -- 13 Maḥmūd Taymūr (1894-1973) -- 14 The Modern School and global modernity: The example of an Egyptian ghost story of the mid-1920s (Maḥmūd Ṭāhir Lāshīn's Qiṣṣat ʿifrīt -- 15 Aspects of literary representation in Reşat Nuri Güntekin's Çalıkuşu -- Part VI: From "upswing" to crisis and demise: 100 years of Middle Eastern modernity - Thematic threads.
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    Pages: 1 online resource (518 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    ISBN: 9783111350837
    Series Statement: Studies on Modern Orient Series v.51
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    Musical Composition in the Context of Globalization : New Perspectives on Music History in the 20th and 21st Century (2021)
    Bielefeld : transcript Verlag
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    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: 1 online resource (543 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    ISBN: 9783839450956
    Series Statement: Musik und Klangkultur Series v.43
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    Knowing in Performing : Artistic Research in Music and the Performing Arts (2021)
    Bielefeld : transcript Verlag
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    Pages: 1 online resource (224 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    ISBN: 9783839452875
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    DDC: 780.72/1
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    Entangled Future Im/mobilities : Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mobility Studies (2024)
    Bielefeld : transcript Verlag
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    Description / Table of Contents: Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- I. Mobility Studies and Conceptions of the Future -- II. Interdisciplinary Approaches to Futures: Entanglements of Materiality and Meaning -- Moving Forward? -- Coming to a Halt -- Circulating -- Acknowledgments -- Funding -- References -- Moving Forward? -- Astropelagic Afrofuturism -- I. Introduction -- II. Moving towards an Afrofuturist Astropelago: Theoretical Considerations -- III. Astropelagic Poetics of Mobility in "Voodoo Hypothesis" -- IV. Conclusion -- References -- Resurrecting the Past to Save the Future? -- I. Extinction between Ecocide and Genocide -- II. Mobilizing the Thylacine through Cloning and Digital Archives -- III. Breeding Back the Past for the Future -- IV. Genome Editing and the Quest for Future Immortality -- V. Conclusion: Mobile Afterlives, Biopolitics and Necropolitics -- References -- Coming to a Halt -- When the World Comes to a Halt -- I. Disappearing Futures -- II. Acceleration / Polar Inertia -- III. A New Turn to Stillness? -- IV. Imagining Im/mobilized Futures -- E.M. Forster: The Machine Stops (1909) -- Marlen Haushofer: The Wall (1963) -- Thomas Lehr: 42 (2005) -- V. Conclusion -- References -- "You Have to Know How to Wait" -- I. Introduction -- II. Waiting: Im/mobilities, Temporalities and Aspirations -- III. The Uruguayan National Relocation Plan (NRP) -- Setting the Scene: La Chacarita de los Padres -- IV. Methodology and Methods -- V. Living and Waiting in La Chacarita before Relocation -- Waiting to (Be) Relocate(d) -- PCVU - or When the Most Privileged Might Wait the Longest -- The Immobilizing Effect of Announcing Mobility (for Some) -- VI. Post‐Relocation: Formally Waiting for Life to Begin -- Waiting to be Settled Down or "Cada Casa es un Mundo" -- From Partial to Full Relocation? Waiting to be Continued -- VII. Conclusion -- References -- Staying in the Village.
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    Pages: 1 online resource (229 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    ISBN: 9783839473801
    Series Statement: Vernetzen - Bewegen - Verorten. Kulturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven Series
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    Mediating the Real : Self-Reflection in Recent American Reportage (2024)
    Bielefeld : transcript Verlag
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    Description / Table of Contents: Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Mediating Mediatized Realities -- A Postmodern Approach -- The Mediality of Literary Journalism -- Mediatization and Reportage -- The Critique of Technical Mediation -- Writers as Human Media -- Presence and Production -- Self‐Reflection in Recent American Reportage -- 1 Reportage and Mediation -- 1.1 The Complications of 'Literary Journalism' -- Hierarchical Distinctions and Blurred Boundaries -- Against the Idealization of Literary Journalism -- 1.2 The Human Qualities of Reportage -- Perception Against Profession: The Beginnings of Reportage -- Observation and Experiment -- Reportage's Political Turn -- Fascism and the Writer as Producer -- 1.3 The Human Medium Inspecting Itself -- The Mediality of Witness and Reporter -- Self‐Reflection: Embodied Interplay of Confirmation and Critique -- 2 On Real Communing: Mediating Coordinated Experience -- 2.1 Authenticity and Uncertainty in Touristic Experience -- 2.2 The Desperate Medium in David Foster Wallace's "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again" (1997) -- A Pseudojournalist -- The Recording Human -- The Objectified Human Subject -- The Desperately Dialoguing Narrator -- Self‐Reflection Against Alienation -- 2.3 The Believing Medium in George Saunders's "The New Mecca" (2005) -- Paid-or Not-to Have Fun-or Not -- The Subjective Effect of Objective Experience -- Confusion and Possibility -- Potentially Bonding Text -- Basic Belief -- 2.4 The Incapable Medium in John Jeremiah Sullivan's "Upon This Rock" (2012) -- The Willing Recruit Themselves: Experience as (Near) Accident -- The Accepting Writer Anticipates a Doubtful Reader -- Past and Future to Make Sense of the Present -- Strong Weakness -- 2.5 Uncertainties and the Negotiation of Trust in Communing -- 3 On Real Bodies: Mediating Other Human Media.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: 1 online resource (307 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    ISBN: 9783839473269
    Series Statement: Gegenwartsliteratur Series
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    Securitising Decolonisation : The Silencing of Ewe and Togoland Unification under United Nations Trusteeship, 1945-1960 (2024)
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    Description / Table of Contents: Cover -- Contents -- List of Photographs, Figures, and Maps -- List of Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Secessionist Conflict in "Western Togoland" -- The Division of Togoland -- A Reawakened Western Togoland Nationalism -- The Division of the Volta Region -- Securitising "Western Togoland" Secessionism -- Final Act? -- 1.2 Research Puzzle &amp -- Goal -- 1.3 Argument &amp -- Approach -- 1.4 Relevance &amp -- Contribution -- 1.5 Outline -- 2. State of the Art -- 2.1 Neo‐Trusteeship &amp -- (In)Security -- 2.1.1 Antecedents: From Transitional to Structural Problems (1960-1970s) -- 2.1.2 The 1st Generation: Of 'Quasi' &amp -- 'Failed States' -- Human Security &amp -- the Responsibility to Protect -- Reactivating the Trusteeship Council? -- 2.1.3 The 2nd Generation: From Peace‐Keeping to State‐Building -- 2.1.4 The 3rd Generation: Colonial Reminiscence -- Post‐Liberal Critique -- Accountability Deficit -- Securitisation of Failed States -- Colonial Reminiscence -- Historical Scholarship -- 2.1.5 The 4th Generation: The Local Turn -- 2.1.6 The 5th Generation? Decolonising State‐Building -- 2.1.7 Postcolonial Security Studies -- Postcolonialism &amp -- Securitisation -- 2.2 Trusteeship &amp -- (De)Colonisation -- 2.2.1 Origins of Trusteeship -- "A Sacred Trust"? Petitioning and Accountability -- 2.2.2 The United Nations Trusteeship System &amp -- Security -- Colonialism &amp -- the Advent of the United Nations -- The 'Colonial Question' &amp -- Global Security -- The 'Colonial Question' &amp -- the Cold War -- Decolonisation &amp -- Nation‐State‐Building -- 2.3 Togoland -- 2.3.1 State‐ &amp -- Nationhood -- German Togoland -- Early Post‐Independence Works -- Constructed Nationalisms: Togoland &amp -- Ewe Nationalism -- 2.3.2 Security -- British Togoland -- French Togoland.
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    Pages: 1 online resource (423 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    ISBN: 9783839473061
    Series Statement: Postcolonial Studies
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    The Capitalist Economy and Its Prosthetics : Necessity, Evolution and Dilemmas of a Brotherhood (2024)
    Bielefeld : transcript Verlag
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    Description / Table of Contents: Cover -- Contents -- -- Foreword -- A deep‐level and long‐term understanding of capitalist society -- The theoretical approach of this book and mainstreams' economics -- Marx and other predecessors, truisms, banalities, centaurs and pans in economics -- Productive and sterile economy -- Deficient producive spending -- Prosthetics, their evolution and dilemmas -- Money creation vs no money creation, fiat money vs commodity money -- Novelty in this book -- Credentials -- Part I: Introduction to elementary economics of profit economies -- Chapter I. Praeter‐Economics: Wealth procurement by violence -- Chapter II. Value, money and the economic system -- Section 1. Value and value attribution -- Value‐in‐use‐attribution -- Use‐relatedness of objects -- Subject‐relatedness and the systemic character of values‐in‐use -- The state and time horizons for values‐in‐use -- Value‐in‐exchange‐attribution -- The state, owner power, and value‐in‐exchange -- Theory of value and theory of "deal‐making" and pricing -- (Monomial) theory of value: Seller's value, buyer's value and bystander's value -- (Binomial) theory of deal‐making and pricing -- Nominalism and reflexivity in the theory of value‐in‐exchange -- Attribution of value‐in‐exchange and "esoteric", "effectual", and "effective" demand -- Merchant heroes and trade systems -- The pacegeneticity and bellogeneticity of trade systems -- Section 2. Money and money creation -- Money -- Indirect exchange, media of exchange, and the origin of commodity money -- Commodity money, credit money, and fiat money -- The value of state fiat money and the reasons for its acceptance -- State taxes, legal tender, and fiat money -- Additional comments on state fiat money -- Money creation -- Creation of commodity money, credit money and fiat money -- Money creation and reserve holding vs credit money and solvency.
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    Pages: 1 online resource (533 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    ISBN: 9783839472781
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