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Concepts for the Study of Culture (CSC)

Herausgegeben von: Doris Bachmann-Medick, Horst Carl, Wolfgang Hallet und Ansgar Nünning

ISSN: 2190-3433

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Die Reihe widmet sich zentralen neueren Konzepten und Methoden im Feld der kulturwissenschaftlichen Grundlagenforschung und inhaltlichen Fragestellungen. Sie zielt darauf, die gegenwärtige Diskussion in den Kulturwissenschaften weiter zu profilieren und sie zugleich für die Arbeit in den Disziplinen fruchtbar zu machen: durch die Ausarbeitung interdisziplinärer Schlüsselkonzepte und die Entwicklung einer transkulturellen study of culture.

Die Bände gehen überwiegend aus den Literatur-, Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften hervor, aber auch aus der Politikwissenschaft, der Soziologie und den Medienwissenschaften.

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Doris Bachmann-Medick, Horst Carl, Wolfgang Hallet, Ansgar Nünning, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen.

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Infrastructure Aesthetics

Solveig Daugaard, Cecilie Ullerup Schmidt, Frederik Tygstrup

Band 9 in dieser Reihe

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An upsurge in artworks negotiating the conditions of their own production, distribution, and reception has called attention to the infrastructural relations that shape the art world but have long been understudied. In response, this book introduces the concept of infrastructure aesthetics into the study of culture.

The concept is drawn from infrastructure studies, media theory, and aesthetic theory. This volume develops it further, addressing:

the analytical challenge of working with works that blur the boundaries between art and infrastructure, both historically and in the present,

the aesthetic problem of assessing artistic forms that operate on an infrastructural level, and

the politics of artistic agency on a social level, beyond the work's content or message.

As the relation between artworks and their institutional and social settings becomes infrastructural in nature, we need to move beyond the reductive division of the study of artworks into production, articulation, and reception. This book provides its readers with an innovative conceptual toolbox designed for precisely this task, as well as a forceful set of exemplary case studies applying the concepts in theory and practice.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783111349961
ISBN:: 9783111349961
ISBN:: 9783111350400
ISBN:: 9783111349831
Fachgebiet:: Kunst
Fachgebiet:: Epochen
Fachgebiet:: 21. Jahrhundert
Fachgebiet:: Kulturwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Medienwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Medienästhetik
Fachgebiet:: Allgemeine Kulturwissenschaften
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch Open Access 2020

Futures of the Study of Culture

Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Global Challenges

Doris Bachmann-Medick, Jens Kugele, Ansgar Nünning

Band 8 in dieser Reihe

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How can we approach possible but unknown futures of the study of culture? This volume explores this question in the context of a changing global world.

The contributions in this volume discuss the necessity of significant shifts in our conceptual and epistemological frameworks. Taking into account changing institutional research settings, the authors develop pathways to future cultural research, addressing the crucial concerns of the cultural and social worlds themselves. The contributions thereby utilize contact zones within a wide range of disciplines such as cultural anthropology, sociology, cultural history, literary studies, the history of science and bioethics as well as the environmental and medical humanities.

Examining emerging inter- and transdisciplinary points of reference, the volume invites scholars in the humanities and social sciences to take part in a conversation about theories, methods, and practices for the future study of culture.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110669398
ISBN:: 9783110669398
ISBN:: 9783110669541
ISBN:: 9783110655094
Fachgebiet:: Kulturwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Allgemeine Kulturwissenschaften
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch 2018

Migration

Changing Concepts, Critical Approaches

Doris Bachmann-Medick, Jens Kugele

Band 7 in dieser Reihe

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Recent debates on migration have demonstrated the important role of concepts in academic and political discourse.

The contributions to this collection revisit established analytical categories in the study of migration such as border regimes, orders of belonging, coloniality, translation, trans/national digital culture and memory. Exploring notions, images and realities of migration in their cultural framings, this volume sheds light on the powerful work of these concepts. Including perspectives on migration from history, visual studies, pedagogy, literary and cultural studies, cultural anthropology and sociology, it explores the complex scholarly and popular notions of migration with particular focus on their often unspoken assumptions and political implications.

Revisiting established analytical tools in the study of migration, the interdisciplinary contributions explore new approaches and point to the importance of conceptual nuance extending beyond academic discourse.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110600483
ISBN:: 9783110600483
ISBN:: 9783110682809
ISBN:: 9783110597677
ISBN:: 9783110599039
Fachgebiet:: Kulturwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Ausgewählte Themen in den Kulturwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Gesellschaft
Fachgebiet:: Gedächtnis, Erinnerung
Fachgebiet:: Andere Forschungsthemen
Fachgebiet:: Sozialwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Soziologie
Fachgebiet:: Soziologie der Migration
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch 2016

The Humanities between Global Integration and Cultural Diversity

Hans G. Kippenberg, Birgit Mersmann, Owen Gurrey

Band 6 in dieser Reihe

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Modernization and digital globalization have proven to mark major thresholds where paradigmatic shifts and realignments take place. This volume aims to capture the reconfiguration of humanistic study between the forces of global integration and cultural diversification from a full range of disciplines within the humanities and social sciences.
The key issue is discussed in three major parts. The first chapter examines transnational interpolations of the humanities as potential indicator for a globalizing humanistic research. The second chapter deals with humanistic revisions of modernity with and against globality. The third chapter discusses the ambiguous constitution of cultural diversity as a complement and counter-movement to global integration, ideologically moving between social cohesion and exclusion. The final chapter outlines what the threshold-crossing from modern to global humanities will mean for the future of humanistic research.
The multidisciplinary study of culture within the history of the humanities documents and reflects the mobility and migration of its concepts and methods, moving and translating between disciplines, research traditions, historical periods, academic institutions, and the public sphere.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110452181
ISBN:: 9783110452181
ISBN:: 9783110440751
ISBN:: 9783110451115
Fachgebiet:: Kulturwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Kulturtheorie
Fachgebiet:: Gesellschaftstheorie
Fachgebiet:: Allgemeine Kulturwissenschaften
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch 2015

Structures of Feeling

Affectivity and the Study of Culture

Devika Sharma, Frederik Tygstrup

Band 5 in dieser Reihe

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Raymond Williams coined the notion "structure of feeling" in the 1970s to facilitate a historical understanding of "affective elements of consciousness and relationships." Since then, the need to understand emotions, moods and atmospheres as historical and social phenomena has only become more acute in an era of social networking, ubiquitous media and a public sphere permeated by commodities and advertisement culture.

Concomitantly, affect studies have become one of the most thriving branches of contemporary humanities and social sciences. This volume explores the significance of the study of affectivity for already thriving fields of cultural analysis such as media studies, memory studies, gender studies and cultural studies at large.

The volume is divided into four sections. The first part, Producing Affect, brings together contributions which explore some of the ways in which new media works to produce and intensify affectivity. The essays making up the second part, Affective Pasts, explore the significance of affect to the ways we remember, commemorate and in other ways get hold of things in our recent and not so recent past – or fail to do so. The essays engage the affective production of presence in contexts such as 9/11, the emotional culture of the eighteenth century, and literary auto-fiction. The third part, Affective Thinking, examines various concepts, theories, and forms of thinking not so much to show how the thinking in question may inform the field of affect studies but rather in order to draw attention to the way in which these modes of thinking are themselves already attuned to matters of affect. New social relations and ways of being in a networked world are the common themes of the essays in the final part of the volume, Circulating Affect.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110365481
ISBN:: 978-3-11-036951-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-036548-1
ISBN:: 9783110391329
Fachgebiet:: Kulturwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Kulturtheorie
Fachgebiet:: Allgemeine Kulturtheorie
Fachgebiet:: Ausgewählte Themen in den Kulturwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Emotion
Fachgebiet:: Allgemeine Kulturwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Ausgewählte Themen der Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Emotion
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch 2014

The Trans/National Study of Culture

A Translational Perspective

Doris Bachmann-Medick

Band 4 in dieser Reihe

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This volume introduces key concepts for a trans/national expansion in the study of culture. Using translation as an analytical category, it explores what is translatable and untranslatable between nation-specific approaches such as British/American cultural studies, German Kulturwissenschaften and other traditions in studying culture.
The range of articles included in the book covers both theoretical reflections and specific case studies that analyze the tensions and compatibilities amongst contemporary perspectives on the study of culture. By testing various key concepts – translation, cultural transfer, travelling concepts – this volume reflects on an essential vocabulary and common points of reference for scholars seeking new frameworks and methodologies for the foundation of a trans/national study of culture that is commensurate with the entangled nature of our world society.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110333800
ISBN:: 978-3-11-033369-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-033380-0
ISBN:: 9783110454697
ISBN:: 9783110372601
Fachgebiet:: Kulturwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Kulturtheorie
Fachgebiet:: Allgemeine Kulturtheorie
Fachgebiet:: Allgemeine Kulturwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Literaturtheorie
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch 2012

The Cultural Life of Catastrophes and Crises

Carsten Meiner, Kristin Veel

Band 3 in dieser Reihe

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Catastrophes and crises are exceptions. They are disruptions of order. In various ways and to different degrees, they change and subvert what we regard as normal. They may occur on a personal level in the form of traumatic or stressful situations, on a social level in the form of unstable political, financial or religious situations, or on a global level in the form of environmental states of emergency. The main assumption in this book is that, in contrast to the directness of any given catastrophe and its obvious physical, economical and psychological consequences our understanding of catastrophes and crises is shaped by our cultural imagination. No matter in which eruptive and traumatizing form we encounter them, our collective repertoire of symbolic forms, historical sensibilities, modes of representation, and patterns of imagination determine how we identify, analyze and deal with catastrophes and crises.This book presents a series of articles investigating how we address and interpret catastrophes and crises in film, literature, art and theory, ranging from Voltaire’s eighteenth-century Europe, haunted by revolutions and earthquakes, to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda to the bleak, prophetic landscapes of Cormac McCarthy.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110282955
ISBN:: 978-3-11-028283-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-028295-5
Fachgebiet:: Kulturwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Kulturtheorie
Fachgebiet:: Allgemeine Kulturtheorie
Fachgebiet:: Allgemeine Kulturwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Ausgewählte Themen der Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Einzelne Motive, Motivforschung
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch 2012

Travelling Concepts for the Study of Culture

Birgit Neumann, Ansgar Nünning

Band 2 in dieser Reihe

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Bringing together innovative and internationally renowned experts, this volume provides concise presentations of the main concepts and cutting-edge research fields in the study of culture (rather than the infinite multitude of possible themes). More specifically, the volume outlines different models for the study of culture, explores avenues for interdisciplinary exchange, assesses key concepts and traces their travels across various disciplinary, historical and national contexts. To trace the travelling of concepts means to map both their transfer from one discipline, approach or culture of research to another, and also to identify the transformations which emerge through these processes of transfer. The volume serves to show that working with (travelling) concepts provides a unique strategy for research and research design which can open up a wide range of promising perspectives for interdisciplinary exchange. It offers an exemplary overview of an interdisciplinary and international approach to the travelling concepts that organize, structure and shape the study of culture. In doing so, the volume serves to initiate a dialogue that exceeds disciplinary and national boundaries and introduces a self-reflexive dimension to the field, thus affording a recognition of how deeply disciplinary premises and nation-specific research traditions affect different approaches in the study of culture.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110227628
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022761-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022762-8
ISBN:: 9783110488524
Fachgebiet:: Kulturwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Kulturtheorie
Fachgebiet:: Allgemeine Kulturtheorie
Fachgebiet:: Allgemeine Kulturwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Volkswirtschaft
Fachgebiet:: Volkswirtschaft, andere
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Literaturtheorie
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch 2010

Cultural Ways of Worldmaking

Media and Narratives

Vera Nünning, Ansgar Nünning, Birgit Neumann

Band 1 in dieser Reihe

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Taking as its point of departure Nelson Goodman’s theory of symbol systems as delineated in his seminal book “Ways of Worldmaking”, this volume gauges the possibilities and perspectives offered by the worldmaking approach as a model for the study of culture. Its main objectives are to explore the usefulness and scope of the approach for the study of culture and to supplement Goodman’s philosophy of worldmaking with a number of complementary disciplinary perspectives, literary and cultural approaches, and new questions and applications. It focuses on three key issues or concepts which illuminate ways of worldmaking and their interdisciplinary relevance and ramifications, viz. (1) theoretical approaches to ways of worldmaking, (2) the impact of media on ways of worldmaking, and (3) narratives as ways of worldmaking. The volume serves to demonstrate how specific media and narratives affect the worlds that are created, and shows how these worlds are established as socially relevant. It also illustrates the extent to which ways of worldmaking are imbued with cultural values, and thus inevitably implicated in power relations.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110227567
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022755-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022756-7
ISBN:: 9783110486032
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein
Fachgebiet:: Literaturtheorie
Verlag:: De Gruyter