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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (201 Seiten)
    Dissertation note: Kumulative Dissertation Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 2025
    DDC: 630
    Keywords: Hochschulschrift ; biodiversitätsfreundliche Landwirtschaft ; Erhaltung der Biodiversität ; Agrarumweltmaßnahmen (AUM) ; Gemeinsame Agrarpolitik (GAP) ; Motivationen der Landwirte ; nachhaltige Landwirtschaft ; Umweltethik ; Fragmentierung von Habitaten ; ökologische Korridore ; biodiversity-friendly farming ; biodiversity conservation ; agri-environment measures (AEM) ; Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) ; farmer motivations ; sustainable agriculture ; environmental ethics ; habitat fragmentation ; ecological corridors ; Landwirtschaft und verwandte Bereiche ; Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: Landwirt:innen prägen Agrarlandschaften und beeinflussen die Biodiversität maßgeblich. Ein tiefgehendes Verständnis ihrer Entscheidungen zu biodiversitätsfreundlichen Maßnahmen (BFFM) ist essenziell für wirksame Biodiversitätsstrategien. Diese sollen nicht nur Anreize schaffen, sondern auch Maßnahmen auf Landschaftsebene koordinieren. Ziel dieser Dissertation ist es, die Faktoren des Biodiversitätsmanagements europäischer Landwirt:innen zu untersuchen, insbesondere ihre Verhaltensweisen, Wahrnehmungen und räumlichen Entscheidungsprozesse. Die Arbeit umfasst drei aufeinander aufbauende Studien: (i) eine systematische Literaturanalyse zu Motiven und Hindernissen für BFFM, (ii) qualitative Interviews zur Wahrnehmung von Biodiversität und deren Schutz sowie (iii) ein räumliches Entscheidungsexperiment zu Präferenzen für die Platzierung linearer Biodiversitätsmaßnahmen. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass betriebliche Entscheidungen durch ein komplexes Zusammenspiel verschiedener Faktoren beeinflusst werden. Über wirtschaftliche und praktische Gesichtspunkte hinaus sind diese Entscheidungen tief in Wertvorstellungen und der Wahrnehmung von Biodiversität verwurzelt. Wenngleich die meisten Befragten ihre landwirtschaftlichen Tätigkeiten möglichst wenig beeinträchtigen wollten, erkannten sie die ökologische Relevanz ihrer Arbeit und waren offen für Anpassungen, sofern sich Möglichkeiten zur Vernetzung bestehender Habitate ergaben. Die erheblichen regionalen Unterschiede verdeutlichen die Notwendigkeit, Biodiversitätsstrategien an spezifische sozioökonomische, kulturelle und ökologische Kontexte anzupassen. Die Berücksichtigung intrinsischer Werte und der kulturellen Verbundenheit mit dem Land kann die Akzeptanz und das Engagement fördern. Zudem kann eine gezielte Abschätzung der Bereitschaft zur Habitatvernetzung die Planung ökologischer Netzwerke optimieren und Transaktionskosten senken, indem Wildtierkorridore mit Präferenzen der Landwirt:innen abgestimmt werden.
    Abstract: Farmers are key actors in agricultural landscapes and have a profound impact on biodiversity. Understanding their decisions to adopt biodiversity-friendly farming measures (BFFM) is crucial for developing effective conservation strategies that not only motivate farmers but also coordinate their efforts to achieve greater biodiversity outcomes at the landscape scale. This dissertation aims to explore the factors that influence farmers’ biodiversity management across Europe, integrating behavioural, perceptual, and spatial dimensions of their decision-making processes. Three interrelated studies were conducted: (i) a systematic literature review synthesising evidence on motivations for and barriers to BFFM adoption, (ii) qualitative interviews exploring farmers’ perceptions of biodiversity and its management, and (iii) a spatial choice experiment investigating preferences for the placement of linear biodiversity measures. The studies show that farmers’ biodiversity management decisions are shaped by a complex interplay of factors. Beyond economic and practical concerns, these decisions are deeply rooted in farmers’ values and perceptions of biodiversity. Although most farmers sought to minimise disturbance to their farming activities, they recognised the ecological significance of their practices at the landscape level and were willing to adapt them where opportunities arose to connect habitats. The considerable regional variability indicates that biodiversity conservation strategies need to be tailored to the specific socio-economic, cultural, and environmental contexts. Conservation measures that resonate with farmers’ intrinsic values and cultural connections to the land may increase adoption and commitment. In view of the habitat fragmentation, predicting farmers’ willingness to participate in connectivity measures can inform efficient ecological network planning and reduce transaction costs by aligning potential corridors with their preferences.
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  • 2
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (44 Seiten)
    DDC: 200
    Keywords: Covid-19 ; religion ; survey ; development ; health ; spiritual support ; Religion ; Soziologie und Anthropologie ; Politikwissenschaft (Politik und Regierung)
    Abstract: Religious leaders are highly influential actors in many societies across the globe. In the singular global crisis brought upon by the Covid-19 pandemic, their perspective on the pandemic itself but also the post-pandemic future is of high relevance. Against this background, the Research Programme on Religious Communities and Sustainable Development conducted the Religious Leaders’ Perspectives on Corona Survey, a comprehensive survey of 1200 religious leaders globally, in 2020/2021. Its aim was to investigate the role of religious communities and religious leaders during the Covid-19 pandemic. This report provides an outline of the survey methodology and the resultant dataset and highlights key results. It emerges that the Covid-19 pandemic was not primarily a health crisis. Rather, in terms of its consequences Covid-19 had the characteristics of a primarily economic crisis in the global South and a primarily psychosocial crisis in the Global North. Moreover, the pandemic has had a fundamental impact on religious practice across the globe. This impact, however, seems to be highly unequal between the Global South and North. Religious communities are shown to have had an important role as civil society actors in the pandemic, providing both psychosocial and material support. Regarding the post-pandemic worlds, religious leaders envision a more equitable society and emphasize the need for environmental sustainability.
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  • 3
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (210 Seiten)
    Dissertation note: Kumulative Dissertation Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 2024
    DDC: 300
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    Keywords: Hochschulschrift ; berufliche Geschlechtersegregation ; geschlechts-untypische Berufe ; Berufseinstieg ; Berufsaustritt ; Occupational gender segregation ; Gender-atypical occupations ; Entries ; Exits ; Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: Negative Folgen daraus, dass Frauen und Männer in unterschiedlichen Berufen arbeiten, machen die Reduktion beruflicher Segregation zu einem wichtigen politischen Ziel. Die Forschung konzentriert sich jedoch primär auf Erklärungen der Segregation, während Strategien zur Desegregation von geschlechtsuntypischen Berufen weniger Beachtung finden. Des Weiteren wird berufliche Desegregation in der Öffentlichkeit und Wissenschaft vorwiegend als Vorteil für Frauen wahrgenommen, während die Abneigung von Männern, in geschlechtsuntypischen Berufen zu arbeiten, oft vernachlässigt wird. Diese kumulative Dissertation widmet sich dem Desegregationspotenzial geschlechtsuntypischer Berufe für Frauen und Männer. Die erste Studie untersucht anhand des deutschen Zivildienstes, wie geschlechtsuntypische Lernerfahrungen den Einstieg von Männern in geschlechtsuntypische Berufe fördern können. Die zweite Studie beschreibt, wie Männer und Frauen durch unterschiedliche Mechanismen aus geschlechtsuntypischen Berufen und Unternehmen, in denen das eigene Geschlecht in der Minderheit ist, verdrängt werden. Die dritte Studie untersucht den Zusammenhang zwischen der Selektion in geschlechtsuntypische Berufe und den Erfahrungen in diesen. Sie zeigt, dass sich stressresistente Personen eher in diese Berufe hineinselektieren, was sie jedoch nicht vor mentalen Gesundheitsrisiken in geschlechtsuntypischen Berufen schützt. Die Studien zeichnen die Dynamiken geschlechtsuntypischer Berufe anhand von Ein- und Austritten sowie der fehlenden Interdependenz zwischen Selektion und Erfahrungen nach. Die nach Geschlecht getrennten Analysen verdeutlichen, dass geschlechtsuntypische Berufe mit geschlechtsspezifischen Hindernissen einhergehen. Die ergänzende Betrachtung von Männern zur auf Frauen fokussierten Forschung trägt nicht nur Strategien zur Desegregation frauendominierter Berufe bei, sondern zum Verständnis geschlechtsspezifischer Hindernisse und Potenziale bezüglich beruflicher Desegregation.
    Abstract: Negative consequences arising from women and men working in different occupations render addressing occupational segregation a significant policy goal. However, most research focuses on explaining segregation; strategies to foster entries and persistence in occupations dominated by the other gender receive less attention. Furthermore, occupational integration is often viewed as beneficial for women's economic advancement. The reluctance of men to work in gender-atypical occupations, on the other hand, plays a subordinate role. In response, this cumulative dissertation hones in on the integrating potential of gender-atypical occupations for women as well as men. The first study highlights a policy potential of increasing men's entry into gender-atypical occupations based on evidence from gender-atypical learning experiences in the civilian service in Germany. The second study compares the exit from gender-atypical occupations with the exit from firms in which one's own gender is in the minority and shows that exits from gender-atypical occupations operate along gender-specific mechanisms. The third study explores the relationship between the selection into gender-atypical occupations and the experiences within them, showing that stress-resilient individuals are more likely to select into them, yet, this does protect them against negative mental health consequences of gender-atypical occupations. These studies trace the dynamics of gender-atypical occupations through entries, exits, and the interdependence between selection and experiences. The analyses reveal that each gender faces distinct obstacles when entering and working in gender-atypical occupations. Thus, complementing efforts focused on women with similar attention to men not only informs strategies for integrating female-dominated occupations but also provides a more nuanced understanding of gender-specific barriers and potentials for occupational integration.
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  • 4
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (327 Seiten)
    Dissertation note: Dissertation Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 2024
    DDC: 001
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    Keywords: Hochschulschrift ; Wikipedia ; digitale Plattform ; soziales Gedächtnis ; digitaler Diskurs ; offenes Wissen ; Wissensvorurteile ; Plattformmacht ; Wikipedia ; social memory ; digital discourse ; open knowledge ; knowledge biases ; digital platforms ; platform power ; Wissen ; Sozialwissenschaften ; Soziologie und Anthropologie
    Abstract: Wikipedia ist die weltweit am häufigsten genutzte Online-Referenzplattform mit über 60 Millionen Artikeln in mehr als 320 Sprachen. Große Technologieunternehmen nutzen sie, um KI-Systeme zu trainieren und Fakten zu definieren. Trotz ihrer Reichweite wird kaum über den Diskurs diskutiert, den Wikipedia über die Menschheit verbreitet. Mit einem Archiv von über 6 Millionen Biografien „bedeutender“ Personen erhebt Wikipedia den Anspruch auf Inklusivität durch offene Zusammenarbeit, Neutralität und Transparenz. Studien zeigen jedoch wiederholt Vorurteile zugunsten traditionell dominanter sozialer Gruppen wie Männer und Personen aus dem Globalen Norden. Diese Dissertation analysiert systematisch, wie Wikipedia das kollektive Gedächtnis der Menschheit prägt. Sie untersucht, welche Gruppen hervorgehoben werden und welcher historische Diskurs der biografischen Struktur zugrunde liegt. Die Arbeit gliedert sich in drei Teile. Teil 1 definiert zentrale Konzepte zur Analyse von Wikipedias biografischem Diskurs. Teil 2 analysiert Ungleichheiten in der Darstellung nach Geschlecht, Geburtsort und Lebenszeit, einschließlich einer Fallstudie über bedeutende Soziologen. Teil 3 untersucht, ob Wikipedia als Machtinstrument dominante Narrative verstärkt. Die zentrale These lautet, dass Wikipedias inklusive und neutrale Herangehensweise unbeabsichtigt asymmetrische Inhaltsstrukturen schafft. Dies führt zu einer „ausschließenden Inklusion“ marginalisierter Gruppen, die subtil Wahrnehmungen, Bedeutungen und Verhaltensweisen der Nutzer beeinflusst. Dank ihres Rufs für Neutralität und Transparenz legitimiert Wikipedia solche Narrative über Sprach- und Kulturgrenzen hinweg. So verstärken die biografischen Inhalte globale diskursive Ungleichgewichte – auf eine subtile und schwer erkennbare Weise.
    Abstract: Wikipedia is the most widely used online reference in the world, offering over 60 million articles in more than 320 languages. Major tech companies utilize it to train influential AI systems and rest on it to define facts. Despite its reach, limited discussion exists about the overarching discourse it promotes regarding humanity. This is surprising, since the evidence seems contradictory. With a repository of over 6 million biographies of "notable" individuals, Wikipedia claims inclusivity through policies of open collaboration, neutrality, and transparency. However, research consistently reveals the existence of biases in its content, favoring traditionally dominant social groups, such as men and individuals from the Global North. This dissertation systematically analyzes how Wikipedia shapes collective memory of humanity, focusing on which groups receive prominence and the underlying historical discourse in its biographical structure. The study comprises three parts. Part 1 defines key concepts for analyzing Wikipedia’s biographical discourse. Part 2 investigates disparities in representation by gender, birthplace, and historical period, including a case study on notable sociologists. Part 3 examines whether Wikipedia acts as a power device reinforcing dominant narratives. The central argument is that Wikipedia's inclusive and neutral approach unintentionally creates asymmetrical content structures. This results in "exclusionary inclusion" of marginalized groups in its content, subtly shaping user observations, meanings, and behaviors. By leveraging its reputation for neutrality, openness, and transparency, Wikipedia also legitimates its biased narratives across languages and cultures. Ultimately, the platform's biographical content reinforces discursive imbalances between human beings on a global scale, albeit in an understated and arguably hard-to-recognize way.
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  • 5
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (27 Seiten)
    Publ. der Quelle: : MDPI, 2024
    Angaben zur Quelle: 6,1
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: cultural heritage ; cultural values ; enugu region ; local food ; sustainability ; Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: This article explores relations between cultural heritage and cultural values for sustainable development in the Enugu region. It discusses the potential to advance a cultural approach to sustainable development of regions by examining the cultural food heritage and relating it to cultural values. Based on empirical research, the article employed a mixed-methods approach to examine the relationship between the identified major local food heritage and cultural values for sustainable regional planning and development. The study examined primary data from 380 community elders, traders, and relevant institutions—including the Ministry of Arts and Culture and the Ministry of Agriculture—through interviews, participant observation, and questionnaires. Data were analyzed using SPSS and Pearson product–moment correlation. Findings identified eight local food heritages and six cultural values. The findings suggest that promoting and preserving local food heritage can be crucial in fostering sustainable cultural values and contributing to sustainable regional development. The local food had a statistically significant influence on cultural values. The Pearson correlation result ( p -value = 0.000) shows a strong correlation between the local food heritage and cultural values for sustainable regional planning and development. However, the study also identified several challenges threatening the sustainability of local food heritage in the region, including high costs, small-scale farming, insecurity, climate change, and poor transportation. The study recommends the development and implementation of comprehensive policies and programs that prioritize the preservation and promotion of local food heritage while addressing the identified challenges.
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  • 6
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (218 Seiten)
    Dissertation note: Kumulative Dissertation Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 2024
    DDC: 301
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    Keywords: Hochschulschrift ; Geflüchtete ; Soziale Unterstützung ; Soziale Netzwerke ; Formelle Unterstützungsangebote ; Refugees ; Social support ; Social networks ; Formal support services ; Soziologie und Anthropologie ; Internationale Migration und Kolonisation ; Soziale Prozesse
    Abstract: Diese Dissertation bietet einen Überblick über verschiedene Dimensionen der sozialen Unterstützung von geflüchteten Personen und zeigt die Beziehungen und Barrieren zwischen ihnen auf. Die Arbeit entwickelt einen konzeptionellen Rahmen, der soziale Unterstützung als eine multidimensionale Ressource neben anderen Ressourcen betrachtet und sie in den Kontext von Netzwerktheorien stellt. Es werden weiter Barrieren zu verschiedenen Dimensionen sozialer Unterstützung identifiziert und Ressourcen zur Überwindung dieser Barrieren aufgedeckt. Das erste empirische Kapitel liefert Belege für ein familienzentriertes informelles soziales Unterstützungsnetzwerk von geflüchteten Personen. Während räumliche Distanz zu Familienmitgliedern negativ mit Unterstützung korreliert, variiert die Art der Unterstützung in den verschiedenen Rollenbeziehungen. Emotionale Unterstützung kann über größere Entfernungen hinweg vermittelt werden kann, während informationelle Unterstützung, die oft ortsgebundene Hilfe beinhaltet, nicht leicht übertragbar ist. Das zweite empirische Kapitel beleuchtet die Vielfalt des Bedarfs an formalen Unterstützungsleistungen und zeigt große Unterschiede bei der Inanspruchnahme in acht verschiedenen Bereichen. Es zeigt einen positiven Zusammenhang zwischen den Indikatoren von Humankapital und der Inanspruchnahme von Dienstleistungen. Gemischte Ergebnisse zu den bridging und bonding Kontakten unterstreichen die Bedeutung einer detaillierten Analyse der informellen Unterstützungsnetzwerke. Das dritte empirische Kapitel beleuchtet die Möglichkeiten formeller Unterstützungsdienstleistern zum Abbau struktureller Barrieren. Es zeigt, dass die Verfügbarkeit von nicht-staatlichen sozialen Diensten mit einem erhöhten Wissen über Asylberatungsangebote und Integrationskurse verbunden ist. Dies zeigt, dass nicht-staatlichen Dienste als wichtige Vermittler bei der Verbreitung von Informationen fungieren.
    Abstract: This dissertation provides a comprehensive view of different dimensions of social support for refugees in resettlement and outlines the connections and constraints between them. It delineates a pathway for understanding social support as both a predictor and outcome concerning needs and demands in refugee resettlement. Developing a conceptual framework that regards social support as a multidimensional resource among other resources and contextualizing it within social network theory, this dissertation identifies barriers to various dimensions of social support and uncovers resources to bridge these gaps. The first empirical chapter provides evidence for a family-centered informal social support network of recently arrived refugees. It finds that while increasing distance to family members is naturally negatively linked to support, the way support is influenced by such distances varies across different role relations. Findings indicate that emotional support can generally be conveyed across greater distances, while informational support, often entailing location-bound aid, is not as easily transmittable. The second empirical chapter sheds light on the diversity of refugees’ formal support service needs as well as large differences in utilization across eight different domains. It shows an overall positive association between indicators of human and social capital and service utilization in general while also revealing some differences. Mixed results on bonding and bridging relationships emphasize the importance of fine-grained analysis of informal support networks. The third empirical chapter also investigates formal support and sheds light on the possibilities of formal support services to reduce structural barriers. It shows that non-governmental providers of support are linked to increased knowledge about asylum advice services and integration courses, which shows that they act as important intermediaries in the dissemination of information in resettlement.
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  • 7
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (284 Seiten)
    Dissertation note: Kumulative Dissertation Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 2024
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: Hochschulschrift ; Landnutzungskonflikt ; Landnutzungsauseinandersetzung ; Landnutzungskonkurrenz ; Sozial-ökologischer Konflikt ; Konfliktverlauf ; Latenter Konflikt ; Kollaborativer Konflikt ; Eskalierter Konflikt ; Stadt-Umland-Raum ; Nachhaltige Landnutzung ; Landnutzungspolitik ; Landnutzungsplanung ; Landnutzungsmanagement ; Land use conflict ; Land use dispute ; Land use competition ; Socio-environmental conflict ; Conflict dynamics ; Latent conflict ; Collaborative conflict ; Escalated conflict ; Urban-rural fringe ; Sustainable land use ; Land use policy ; Land use planning ; Land use management ; Sozialwissenschaften ; Raumplanung und Landschaftsarchitektur ; Landwirtschaft und verwandte Bereiche
    Abstract: Weltweit ist die Nutzung von Land häufig umstritten. Ob Bergbau, Nationalparks, Forstwirtschaft oder neue Wohngebiete: Landnutzungskonflikte sind allgegenwärtig, können äußerst schädlich sein und werden in Zukunft noch bedeutender werden. Die Dissertation hebt daher Landnutzungskonflikte als eines der Schlüsselthemen sowohl der aktuellen als auch der zukünftigen Landnutzungspraxis hervor. Die Entwicklung geeigneter Strategien zum Umgang mit diesen Konflikten, basierend auf einem fundierten Verständnis ihrer Eigenschaften, zählt zu den dringlichsten Aufgaben für Politik, Planung und Landmanagement. In der aktuellen Forschungsliteratur gibt es jedoch drei wesentliche Herausforderungen, die die Entwicklung adäquater Ansätze zum Umgang mit Landnutzungskonflikten behindern: Erstens der Stand des Forschungsfeldes, das zwar umfangreich, aber fragmentiert und daher schwer zu überblicken ist; zweitens der fehlende Überblick über die in der Praxis auftretenden Landnutzungskonflikte; und drittens die bislang unzureichende Forschung zu Konfliktverläufen. Um diese Lücken zu schließen, wurde eine Literaturanalyse mit einer empirischen Studie in zwei Regionen Nordostdeutschlands kombiniert: den Stadt-Umland-Räumen von Schwerin in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern und Cottbus in Brandenburg. Mithilfe eines induktiven Ansatzes, der eine Literaturrecherche, eine Situationsanalyse und eine Analyse der Konfliktverläufe umfasst, liefert die Dissertation neue Einblicke in die Eigenschaften und Verläufe von Landnutzungskonflikten, die Akteuren aus Politik, Planung und Landnutzungspraxis helfen können, die Konflikte zu identifizieren, die angegangen werden müssen, und kollaborative Konfliktverläufe zu fördern. Sie präsentiert somit neue Strategien zur Schaffung agonistischer Arenen für die Aushandlung unterschiedlicher Landnutzungsinteressen. Die Dissertation schließt mit einer Diskussion der Grenzen der vorliegenden Ergebnisse sowie vielversprechender Ansätze für die weitere Forschung.
    Abstract: Across the globe, land use is frequently contested. From mining to national parks, from forestry to new housing estates: Land use conflicts are ubiquitous, they can be highly detrimental, and they are likely to become even more significant in the future. The dissertation therefore highlights land use conflicts as one of the key issues in both current and future land use practice, and the development of appropriate strategies to address land use conflicts, based on a thorough understanding of their nature, as one of the most pressing challenges in land use policy, planning, and management. However, there are three key challenges in the current literature that hinder the development of adequate approaches to dealing with land use conflicts: First, the state of the research field, which is vast but fragmented and thus difficult to gain an overview of, second, the lack of overview of the land use conflicts that occur in land use practice, and third, insufficient research on land use conflicts’ dynamics, which makes it difficult to adequately handle ongoing conflicts. To address these gaps, the dissertation combines literature analysis and an empirical study of land use conflicts in two urban-rural fringe regions in north-east Germany: the urban-rural fringes of Schwerin in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Cottbus in Brandenburg. Employing an inductive approach that includes a literature review, a situation analysis, and an analysis of conflict dynamics, the dissertation provides new insights into the nature and dynamics of land use conflicts that can help policy-makers, planners, and land users to identify those (types of) land use conflicts that need to be addressed, and to foster collaborative conflict dynamics. It thus presents novel strategies to create agonistic arenas for the negotiation of divergent land use interests. The dissertation closes by discussing the limits of the present results as well as promising trajectories for future research.
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  • 8
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (411 Seiten)
    Dissertation note: Dissertation Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 2023
    DDC: 780
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    Keywords: Hochschulschrift ; zeitgenössische Musik aus der Türkei ; Kulturpolitik ; kompositorische Strategien ; hybride Ästhetik ; Mobilität ; contemporary music from Turkey ; cultural policies ; compositional strategies ; hybrid aesthetics ; mobility ; Musik ; Kultur und Institutionen
    Abstract: Der Schwerpunkt dieser Dissertation liegt auf den Komponist*innen aus der Türkei, die in den letzten 30 Jahren in den europäischen und nordamerikanischen Kreisen der zeitgenössischen Musik sichtbar geworden sind und in ihren Werken auf traditionelle musikalische Referenzen aus der Türkei zurückgreifen. Obwohl dieser Ansatz seit den ersten Versuchen, eine verwestlichte Kunstmusik durch die Kulturpolitik der frühen türkisch-republikanischen Ära zu etablieren, verbreitet ist, haben sich die Strategien, Vorgehensweisen und Politiken bis heute verändert. Die ständigen Veränderungen in der internationalen Politik, die sich aus dem Aufstieg des Globalismus ergeben, haben die Kulturpolitik der letzten drei Jahrzehnten auf eine Weise beeinflusst, die eine Vielzahl von künstlerischen Reaktionen auf die Verwendung traditioneller Musikreferenzen hervorgebracht hat. Dadurch ist eine bestehende Diskussionsgrundlage wichtiger geworden, durch die Fragen der institutionellen Netzwerke sowie der künstlerischen Individualisierung, Agency und der Mobilität zu wesentlichen Fragen hinsichtlich der Auswirkungen der Kulturpolitik geworden sind. Ich untersuche diesen Bereich anhand der Biographien, Stellungnahmen und Werke ausgewählter Komponist*innen. Mit diesem transdisziplinären Ansatz konzentriere ich mich auf eine Methodik, die sowohl Archivrecherchen als auch Fallstudien sowie Tiefeninterviews und Analysen umfasst. Mit diesem theoretischen und methodischen Rahmen möchte ich eine kritische Analyse der politischen und kulturellen Positionierung von Komponist*innen entwickeln und den Begriff des „Komponistenseins“ in der Türkei im Hinblick auf sozialen Konnotationen, Selbstkonstruktionen und seine Rolle innerhalb der Kulturagentur hinterfragen. Diese Forschung soll einen Beitrag zur bestehenden Literatur leisten, als Beispiel für eine fallorientierte Analyse, die den transkulturellen Kontext und die Dynamik der zeitgenössischen Musik als kulturpolitische Agenda behandelt.
    Abstract: The focus of this dissertation lies on the composers from Turkey gaining visibility in the European and North American contemporary art music circles during the last 30 years, who make use of traditional musical references from Turkey in their compositions. Although this compositional approach has been increasingly widespread since the initial attempts aiming at establishing Westernized art music through cultural politics of the early Turkish Republican Era, the strategies, procedures, and politics that are parallel to this approach have seen significant shifts until present. The constant fluctuations in international politics resulting from the rise of globalism have affected cultural policies during the last three-decades in such a way that they generated a diverse range of artistic responses concerning the use of traditional music references. As such, an existing discussion basis has become more crucial, through which the issues of institutional networks along with artistic individualization, agency, and mobility have become substantial issues regarding the impact of cultural policies. Hereby, I analyze this scope with a close examination on the biographies, statements and works of selected composers. Following this transdisciplinary approach, I focus on a method that consists of archival research, as well as case studies along with in-depth interviews and music analysis. With this theoretical and methodological framework, I aim to develop a thorough critical analysis concerning the political and cultural positionings of composers and question the underlying notion of ‘being a composer’ in Turkey to the extent of its social connotations, self-constructions, and its role within the cultural agency. Consequently, my research aims to contribute to the existing literature as an example of a case-oriented analysis, addressing the transcultural context and dynamics of contemporary music as an agenda of cultural policies.
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  • 9
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (240 Seiten)
    Dissertation note: Dissertation Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 2022
    DDC: 301
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    Keywords: Hochschulschrift ; Infrastruktur ; Verb ; sanitär ; Jakarta ; infrastructure ; verb ; sanitary ; Jakarta ; Soziologie und Anthropologie
    Abstract: Wie infrastrukturiert man? Was bedeutet es, wie fühlt es sich an und was passiert, wenn Infrastruktur ein Verb ist? Die größte Einschränkung bei der Beantwortung dieser Fragen ist eine andauernde Flucht vor der Nominalisierung. Weitere daraus folgende Einschränkungen sind sehr wenige direkte und in-text Zitationen und vier alleinstehende Kapitel – ein Essay als Basis, Zeichnungen als Zwischenspiel, den Löwenanteil in Form eines Romans und Q&A als die Zugabe. Jedoch geht es in dieser Arbeit nicht nur darum sich verschiedenen Textformen zu widmen. Sie erwächst vor allem aus einer empirischen Studie der sanitären Infrastruktur, wobei “sanitär” als ein sozio–technischer Euphemismus für Abwasser, ein vornehmer Begriff, entschuldigen Sie, für Scheiße, steht. Der Ausgangspunkt ist dabei die Stadt Jakarta, wo die meisten Fäkalien der 10.000.000 Menschen unbehandelt bleiben. Durch polymorphes Engagement breite ich mich bis über die Stadtgrenzen aus und komme sprichwörtlich mit den Infrastrukturierenden in Kontakt: Menschen aus der ganzen Welt, die an der Infrastruktur arbeiten, mit ihr verbunden sind und aus der sie besteht. Ich trage zusammen, was sie getan haben, abstrahiere, synthetisiere und biete ein paar nominale Definitionen darüber was Infrastruktur und infrastrukturieren ist und wie man letzteres tut. All das soll ernsthaft als ein Vehikel für das “ethnographic feel” dienen, welches ich hoffe, dass es Sie tief in Ihrem Inneren berühren kann.
    Abstract: How to infrastructure? What does it mean, how does it feel, and what happens when infrastructure is a verb? The number-one writing constraint in answering these questions is sustained runaway from Nominalization. It follows that some of the other constraints are near-zero direct quotation and in-text citation, and stand-alone four chapters, that consists of Essay as the foundation, Drawing the interlude, Novel the lion’s share, and Q&As the encore. But it’s not only about writing. It grows from the empirical study of sanitary infrastructure, with "sanitary" as a sociotechnical euphemism for wastewater or sewage, itself a genteel term for, excuse me, poo. The ground zero is Jakarta, where most of the more than 10 million humans' wastes are untreated. By means of polymorphous engagement, I spider beyond the city itself and get in touch by any means with the infrastructurers, people all over the globe who are working on and connected to and constitute the infrastructure, and collate what they have been doing and abstract and synthesize and offer some nominal definitions of what is and what is to and how to infrastructure. Which actually are a vehicle for the ethnographic feel that I wish you can feel in your bones.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (142 Seiten)
    Dissertation note: Kumulative Dissertation Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 2024
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    Keywords: Hochschulschrift ; Interethnische Beziehungen ; Migrationsforschung ; SOEP ; Längsschnittanalysen ; Interethnic relationships ; Migration research ; SOEP ; Longitudinal analyses ; Soziologie und Anthropologie
    Abstract: In dieser Dissertationsarbeit werden die Determinanten interethnischer Beziehungen zwischen Nicht-Migranten und Migranten untersucht. Aus theoretisch Sicht baut die Arbeit auf der Idee auf, dass drei Mechanismen die Muster der Beziehungsbildung beeinflussen können: Kontaktmöglichkeiten, Präferenzen und das Verhalten Dritter. Der einleitende Teil der Arbeit gibt einen Überblick über die Literatur im Feld. Darauf aufbauend entwickle ich eine Forschungsagenda. Drei Beiträge tragen zu dieser Agenda bei: Gestützt auf Längsschnittanalysen zeigt der erste Beitrag, dass ein mäßig hoher Migrantenanteil in der Nachbarschaft mit mehr interethnischen Beziehungen zusammenhängt. Zusätzlich unterhalten Personen, die sich durch Einwanderung und Migranten bedroht fühlen, mit geringerer Wahrscheinlichkeit interethnische Beziehungen, während Mitgefühl mit Migranten in die entgegengesetzte Richtung wirkt. Im zweiten Beitrag wird für migrantische- und nicht-migrantische Paare untersucht, wie sich eigene Einstellungen, Ressourcen und die Zusammensetzung des sozialen Netzwerks auf die interethnischen Freundschaften und Bekanntschaften des Ehepartners auswirken. Ich stelle fest, dass Partnermerkmale eine wichtige Rolle für die interethnischen Beziehungen einer Person spielen. Im dritten Beitrag untersuche ich, ob und wie sich die interethnischen Beziehungen einer Person von ihren intraethnischen Beziehungen unterscheiden. Zusätzlich erkläre ich Unterschiede und Gemeinsamkeiten zwischen diesen. Die Ergebnisse deuten darauf hin, dass die Unterschiede zwischen interethnischen und intraethnischen Beziehungen einer Person weniger ausgeprägt sind als in der Gesellschaft im Allgemeinen. Allerdings spiegeln enge Beziehungsnetzwerke auch bis zu einem gewissen Grad die Unterschiede zwischen Migranten und Nicht-Migranten wider. Die Dissertationsarbeit schließt mit Hinweisen auf weiteres Forschungspotential innerhalb des Feldes.
    Abstract: This thesis studies the determinants of interethnic relationships between non-migrants and migrants. Theoretically, the thesis builds on the idea that three mechanisms might influence the patterns of relationship formation: opportunities, preferences, and third parties. The introductory part of the thesis reviews the literature in the field. Building on this review, I develop a research agenda. Three papers advance this agenda: Building on longitudinal analyses, the first paper shows that moderately high migrant shares in the neighbourhood are connected to more interethnic relationships. Additionally, persons feeling threatened by immigration and migrants are largely found to be less likely to have interethnic relationships, while sympathy with migrants works in the opposite direction. Considering both non-migrant and migrant couples, the second paper studies the effect of cohabiting life partners’ attitudes, resources, and social network compositions on their spouse’s interethnic friendships and acquaintances. I find that partner characteristics play an important role for a person’s interethnic relationships. In the third paper, I study if and how a person’s interethnic ties differ from their intraethnic ties. Additionally, I explain differences and similarities between them. Results suggest that differences between a person’s interethnic and intraethnic ties are less pronounced within close relationship networks than they are in society in general. However, close relationship networks mirror to some extent migrant - non-migrant differences. The thesis concludes by identifying further research potential in the field.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (24 Seiten)
    Publ. der Quelle: : Cogitatio
    Angaben zur Quelle: 13
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: disability ; Europe ; European ; comparisons ; inclusion ; labor market ; pathways ; school‐to‐work transition ; segregation ; sequence analysis ; support ; Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: Almost a fifth of the population in OECD countries report having a disability and the proportion of students classified as having special educational needs (SEN) has steadily increased over recent decades. While this group faces marginalization in schooling and employment everywhere, there are profound differences in disability‐based disadvantages across countries. However, comparative research on the labor market opportunities of persons with disabilities (PwDs) remains limited, especially regarding school‐to‐work transitions (STWT) that are crucial for subsequent labor market opportunities. Thus, lacking comparative knowledge on how institutional contexts shape these transitions also limits opportunities for policy learning and improvement of supports provided. This study addresses these gaps by analysing longitudinal data from the European Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU‐SILC). First, using sequence and cluster analysis, we classify these trajectories and provide an in‐depth analysis of labor market entry patterns for PwDs compared to those without disabilities across 31 European countries. Second, we explore whether the timing of first employment, instability during the STWT, as well as inclusionary or exclusionary transitions vary between these groups and how the disparities between persons with and without disabilities regarding these indicators are related to institutionalized segregation and support structures. Our findings highlight that PwDs usually do not transition more slowly to (some form of) employment, yet they experience more instability and less inclusion during their STWT. Segregation exacerbates disadvantages, whereas institutional support structures reduce the disadvantages youth with disabilities face when these programs actively facilitate pathways to inclusion.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (339 Seiten)
    Dissertation note: Dissertation Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 2024
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    Keywords: Hochschulschrift ; Architektur ; Design ; Bewertung ; Methodologischer Situationalismus ; Wert ; Architecture ; Design ; Methodological Situationalism ; Valuation ; Value ; Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: In "Sites of Value: An ethnography of design work" untersucht der Autor die situierte Produktion architektonischer Bewertungen in einem Architekturbüro. Die Studie verbindet die Soziologie der Architektur und des Designs, praxeologische Arbeitsplatzforschung und die neopragmatistische Soziologie der Bewertung. Ziel ist es, die sozialen Praktiken der architektonischen Entwurfsarbeit detailliert zu beschreiben und zu zeigen, dass diese im Kern eine soziale Praxis der Valorisierung ist. Dafür führte der Autor sechs Monate ethnographische Feldforschung bei David Chipperfield Architects Berlin durch, ergänzt durch Videoaufnahmen von Sitzungen. Die Analyse basiert auf situativen methodologischen Prinzipien, die die verteilte und öffentlich beobachtbare Arbeit der Teilnehmenden betonen. Ein zentrales Konzept der Studie ist der "Ort des Wertes" (site of value), der durch Praktiken der Valorisierung konstituiert wird. Die ethnographische Beschreibung beleuchtet diese konstitutive Beziehung. Die Studie untersucht Valorisierung in sieben empirischen Kapiteln und gliedert sie in drei Hauptdimensionen: Erstens, basieren Orte des Wertes auf den Erfahrungen der Teilnehmenden, die diese aktiv gestalten. Zweitens bilden spezifische Werkzeuge und Materialien die Ausrüstung, welche gesucht und genutzt werden, um die Arbeit zu unterstützen. Drittens entwickeln Teilnehmende Ausdrucksformen, die den Wert der Entwürfe vermitteln. Diese Dimensionen – Erfahrung, Ausrüstung und Ausdruck – verweben die sozialen Praktiken der Valorisierung und bilden die Grundlage für eine detaillierte Darstellung architektonischer Entwurfsarbeit.
    Abstract: In "Sites of Value: An ethnography of design work," the author examines the situated production of architectural valuations within an architecture firm. The study combines the sociology of architecture and design, praxeological workplace research, and neopragmatist sociology of valuation. Its aim is to provide a detailed description of the social practices that constitute architectural design work and to demonstrate that, at its core, this work is a social practice of valorization. To this end, the author conducted six months of ethnographic fieldwork at David Chipperfield Architects Berlin, supplemented by video recordings of office sessions. The analysis is based on situational methodological principles that emphasize the distributed and publicly observable work of participants. A central concept of the study is the "site of value," which is constituted through practices of valorization. The ethnographic description sheds light on this constitutive relationship. The study examines valorization in seven empirical chapters, structured around three main dimensions: First, sites of value are based on the experiences of participants, who actively shape them. Second, specific tools and materials form the equipment that is sought and used to support the work. Third, participants develop forms of expression that articulate the value of the designs. These dimensions—experience, equipment, and expression—interweave the social practices of valorization and form the foundation for a detailed depiction of architectural design work.
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    ISSN: 2572-3170 , 2572-3170
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (21 Seiten)
    Publ. der Quelle: : Wiley, 2025
    Angaben zur Quelle: 8,1
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: Africa ; agricultural marketing strategies ; business aspirations ; marketing channels ; small‐scale farmers ; socio‐psychological factors ; sustainable development ; value chain development ; Sozialwissenschaften ; Wirtschaft ; Management und unterstützende Tätigkeiten
    Abstract: Socio‐psychological factors, including aspirations, play a significant role in economic decisions and the sustainable development of low‐income economies. However, the interplay between business aspirations and business strategies among smallholder farmers in Africa is complex, with little known about how they develop, what motivates them, and how these aspirations affect business decisions. To address this knowledge gap, this study examines how small‐scale farmers in rural Zambia develop crop‐specific business aspirations and how these aspirations influence their agricultural marketing strategies, such as marketing channels and coordination mechanisms. Our descriptive analysis shows farmers aspire to increase maize and soybeans' income, price, value‐addition, and bargaining power within 2 years. There is, however, significant heterogeneity in the sample, as over half of the farmers reported lower aspirations for the maize business and some aspects of the soybean business. The instrumented multinomial probit analysis reveals that farmers with higher human capital and positive socio‐cognitive psychology, such as locus of control, have higher business aspirations (i.e., ambition) and aspirations gap (i.e., ambition level). Evidence also shows that farmers' business aspirations influence their agricultural marketing decisions, with ambitious farmers preferring to transact with large‐scale buyers rather than small‐scale traders and retailers, using relational contracts. The study concludes that farmers' business aspirations, particularly their business aspiration gap, strongly influence agricultural marketing strategies, but their effects vary with crops and levels of business decisions.
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (23 Seiten)
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: Bericht ; Berlin Science Survey ; Methods report ; Berlin research area ; Sample ; Science studies ; Berlin University Alliance ; Online survey ; Science survey ; Universities of Excellence ; Sozialwissenschaften
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (81 Seiten)
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: Bericht ; Berlin Science Survey ; Berlin research area ; Science studies ; Science survey ; Research quality ; Research cultures ; Promoting young talent ; Diversity ; Berlin University Alliance ; Framework Conditions in Science ; Abuse of power ; Sozialwissenschaften
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (188 Seiten)
    Dissertation note: Kumulative Dissertation Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 2023
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    Keywords: Hochschulschrift ; Rückkehrabsichten ; Viktimisierung ; gefesseltes Umzugsunternehmen ; fremdenfeindliche Proteste ; return intentions ; victimization ; tied movers ; xenophobic protests ; Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: In dieser Dissertation untersuche ich verschiedene Aspekte des Integrationsprozesses von Migranten und Flüchtlingen, insbesondere wie sich ihre Präsenz auf die Protestaktivitäten und Einstellungen von Einheimischen auswirkt. Die vier Kapitel bauen auf der bestehenden Literatur auf und zielen darauf ab, diese in mehreren Aspekten zu ergänzen. Das erste und das zweite Kapitel verbessern unser Verständnis der kausalen Auswirkungen der Bedingungen im Heimatland auf die Rückkehrabsichten und die Arbeitsmarktintegration von Migranten im Zielland sowie das Verständnis der Auswirkungen traumatischer Erfahrungen während der Flucht auf die Arbeitsmarktintegration von Flüchtlingen. Das dritte Kapitel befasst sich mit der soziokulturellen Integration von Familienmigranten in einem Land, das nicht ihre erste Wahl darstellt. Das vierte Kapitel untersucht die Auswirkungen der Anwesenheit von Ausländern auf die Protestaktivität einer bestimmten Gruppe von Einheimischen und wie sich diese Proteste auf die Besorgnis über Fremdenfeindlichkeit und Intoleranz auf nationaler Ebene auswirken. Die Ergebnisse der Dissertation sollen die politischen Entscheidungsträger über die potenziellen Nebenwirkungen der Migrationspolitik informieren und empirische Erkenntnisse liefern, die zur Verbesserung bestehender und zur besseren Gestaltung künftiger politischer Maßnahmen beitragen.
    Abstract: In this PhD thesis, I look at different aspects of the integration process of migrants and refugees, and how their presence affects the protest activity and attitudes of natives. The four chapters build on and aim to extend the existing literature along several dimensions. The first and second chapters improve our understanding of the causal effect of home country conditions on migrants' return intentions and labour market outcomes at destination and of the effect of traumatizing experiences along the journey on refugees' labour market integration. The third chapter explores the socio-cultural integration of family migrants in a country that was not their primary choice, while the fourth chapter examines the effect of the presence of foreigners on the protest activity of a particular group of natives and how these protests affect worries about xenophobia and intolerance at the national level. The findings in the dissertation aim to inform policymakers on the potential side-effect of migration policies and to provide empirical evidence that help improve existing policies and better design future ones.eral dimensions.
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    Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    In:  47,1, Seiten 20-34
    ISSN: 0343-4109 , 0343-4109
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (15 Seiten)
    Publ. der Quelle: Berlin : De Gruyter
    Angaben zur Quelle: 47,1, Seiten 20-34
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: Rezension ; Optimierung ; Selbst ; Individualismus ; Subjektivierung ; Körper ; Lebensführung ; Vergesellschaftung ; Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: Loreen Dalski / Kirsten Flöter / Lisa Keil / Kathrin Lohse / Lucas Sand / Annabelle Schülein (Hrsg.), Optimierung des Selbst: Konzepte, Darstellungen und Praktiken. Bielefeld: transcript 2022, 222 S., kt., 45,00 € Marcel Eulenbach (Hrsg.), Selbstoptimierung – Theoretische und empirische Erkundungen. Weinheim, Basel: Beltz Juventa 2022, 189 S., kt., 29,95 € Nadine Glade / Christiane Schnell (Hrsg.), Perfekte Körper, perfektes Leben? Selbstoptimierung aus der Perspektive von Geschlecht und Behinderung. Bielefeld: transcript 2022, 218 S., kt., 29,50 € Vera King / Benigna Gerisch / Hartmut Rosa (Hrsg.), Lost in Perfection: Zur Optimierung von Gesellschaft und Psyche. Berlin: Suhrkamp 2021, 338 S., kt., 25,00 €
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (145 Seiten)
    Dissertation note: Kumulative Dissertation Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 2024
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    Keywords: Hochschulschrift ; Anpassung ; Anpassungskapazität ; Nachhaltige Entwicklung ; Klimawandel ; Adaptation ; Adaptive Capacity ; Sustainable Development ; Climate Change ; Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: Anpassung ist ein komplexes soziales Phänomen, bei dem das Klimarisiko in verschiedenen sozialen und ökologischen Kontexten reduziert wird. Der 6. Sachstandsbericht des Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change zeigt eine besorgniserregende Realität: Mit zunehmender globaler Erwärmung werden der Anpassung Grenzen gesetzt sein, was darauf hinweist, dass Anpassung allein nicht ausreicht, um den Auswirkungen des Klimawandels entgegenzuwirken. Länder im globalen Süden tragen paradoxerweise die Hauptlast des Klimawandels, obwohl sie am wenigsten für sein Auftreten verantwortlich sind. Es besteht die dringende Notwendigkeit, besser zu verstehen, wo und warum Anpassung stattfindet, was ihren Erfolg beeinflusst und wie die Anpassungsfähigkeit gestärkt werden kann. Die Quantifizierung der Anpassung ist aufgrund ihrer Komplexität schwierig, aber entscheidend für fundierte Entscheidungen und globale Zusammenarbeit. Herkömmliche Klimafolgenabschätzungen vernachlässigen oft die Anpassung oder verwenden einen stark stilisierten Ansatz, was das Potenzial für Anpassung verzerrt und die Notwendigkeit des Klimaschutzes herunterspielt. Es ist wichtig, Anpassung in quantitative Bewertungen einzubeziehen, um fundierte Entscheidungen zu treffen. Diese Dissertation entwickelt Indexe für anpassungsrelevante Maßnahmen im Landwirtschaftssektor und projiziert ihre Umsetzung im 21. Jahrhundert auf der Grundlage verschiedener sozioökonomischer Szenarien. Ergebnisse zeigen die Bedeutung von Governance, Bildung und finanziellen Ressourcen für die Maximierung des Anpassungspotenzials. Länder mit geringer Entwicklung und begrenzter Anpassungsfähigkeit zeigen das größte Verbesserungspotenzial. Die Bewältigung dieser Herausforderungen wird jedoch Jahrzehnte dauern. Die Verbesserung der Anpassungsfähigkeit ist von höchster Bedeutung, nicht nur im Bereich des Klimawandels, sondern auch in breiteren Entwicklungskontexten. Diese Dissertation bietet Einblicke zur Verbesserung der Klimaresilienz und umfassenden Klimafolgenabschätzungen.
    Abstract: Adaptation is a multifaceted social phenomenon where climate risk is navigated and responded to within various social and environmental contexts. The 6th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change highlights a concerning reality: as global warming increases, there will be limits to what adaptation can accomplish, indicating that it will not always suffice to counter the escalating impacts of climate change. Countries in the Global South, often facing the greatest adaptation challenges, paradoxically, are projected to bear the major brunt of climate change despite holding the least responsibility for its occurrence. Given these prospects, there is an urgent need to better understand where and why adaptation is taking place, what drives its success in some places over others, and where efforts are vital for enhancing adaptive capacity. Furthermore, it becomes imperative to determine the upper limit of what adaptation can accomplish and which conditions are necessary to exploit its full potential, in order to fully grasp the risks posed by climate change. Quantifying adaptation is difficult due to its complex multi-level and cross-sectoral nature. Yet, it is crucial for integrating adaptation into climate impact assessments, essential for informed decision-making and global cooperation. Conventional climate impact assessments often neglect the inclusion of adaptation and adaptive capacity, or if addressed, they often adopt a highly stylized approach. This poses the risk of misrepresenting the potential for adaptation, likely overemphasizing its effectiveness while downplaying the need for climate mitigation. Projecting climate impacts without considering adaptation distorts the current reality of societal adjustments, making it essential to provide quantifiable insights into future adaptive capacity. This thesis addresses these challenges by developing three distinct indices for adaptation-relevant measures in the agricultural sector to understand the extent of their implementation and their socioeconomic determinants. These indices are projected throughout the 21st century based on various socioeconomic trajectories. My findings highlight the significance of strong governance, higher education levels, and improved financial resources as key drivers that can empower countries to maximize their adaptation potential. Throughout my analyses, a consistent pattern emerges: countries with modest socioeconomic development and limited adaptive capacity, especially in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, exhibit the greatest potential for improvement. However, overcoming these challenges will span several decades, extending well beyond the latter half of this century. Enhancing adaptive capacity and integrating it into quantitative assessments is of paramount importance not only within the climate change field but also in broader developmental contexts. This thesis encompasses a variety of subjects, providing interconnected insights to enhance the comprehension of pathways to climate resilience and improved impact assessments.
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    Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    In:  62,3, Seiten 120-123
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (4 Seiten)
    Publ. der Quelle: Oxford : Wiley
    Angaben zur Quelle: 62,3, Seiten 120-123
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: Immigration ; Germany ; Sozialwissenschaften
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    Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    In:  24,3, Seiten 238-257
    ISSN: 1463-4996 , 1463-4996
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (20 Seiten)
    Publ. der Quelle: London : Sage
    Angaben zur Quelle: 24,3, Seiten 238-257
    DDC: 320
    Keywords: Sovereignty ; extraction ; state ; governance ; dispossession ; Turkey ; Ottoman Empire ; Armenian genocide ; property ; Politikwissenschaft (Politik und Regierung) ; Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: Based on ethnographic research on an urban regeneration project targeting the historically Armenian quarter of a provincial capital in the Kurdish parts of Turkey, the article engages with two related, but separate strands of anthropological scholarship on the ‘fragmented’ nature of sovereignty to think through the relation of sovereignty and extraction. It does so, firstly, in relation to contemporary transformations of statecraft under conditions of financialised neoliberalism and authoritarianism, and secondly, in relation to the historically contingent constellation of property relations, racialisation and violence in the transition from Ottoman Empire to Turkish nation-state. The first leads me to argue that ‘fragmentation’ emerges here as a project internal to the practices of statecraft, that is, not primarily driven by market mechanisms, nor as something that extends beyond the nation-state. The historical account is offered as a case that further extends our scholarly archive of modern sovereignty as a global form intimately entangled with extraction and dispossession.
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (179 Seiten)
    Dissertation note: Dissertation Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 2024
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    Keywords: Hochschulschrift ; Übersetzbarkeit ; Verflechtungen ; Jugoslawien ; Indien ; Blockfreie-Bewegung ; Translatability ; Entanglements ; Yugoslavia ; India ; Non-Aligned Movement ; Soziologie und Anthropologie ; Kultur und Institutionen ; Internationale Beziehungen ; Personen aus den Bereichen Literatur, Geschichte, Biografie, Genealogie
    Abstract: Die vorliegende Dissertation bietet eine anthropologische Perspektive auf die Beziehungen zwischen Jugoslawien und Indien während der Zeit der Blockfreien-Bewegung. Durch die Analyse verschiedener Archivmaterialien, einschließlich offizieller, privater und biographischer Quellen aus Print- und Bildmedien, bietet die Studie ein Korrektiv zu dem weit verbreiteten Argument, dass die Bewegung der Blockfreien Staaten die Ideale des Antiimperialismus, der gegenseitigen Zusammenarbeit und des friedlichen Zusammenlebens nicht erfüllt habe. Im Mittelpunkt der Studie steht die Analyse der Rolle von Freundschaften, kulturellen Beziehungen und verflochtenen Biographien bei der Herausbildung einer "Geographie der Affinität" zwischen Indien und Jugoslawien, die durch die kulturelle Infrastruktur der Blockfreien-Bewegung ermöglicht wurde. Der indische Dichter und Übersetzer Rabindranath Tagore, dessen Werk im 20. Jahrhundert einen erheblichen Einfluss auf den jugoslawischen Kontext hatte, ist ein Beispiel für die zentrale Funktion der Übersetzbarkeit für diesen kritischen, humanistisch geprägten Internationalismus. Tagores lebenslanges Interesse an der Erforschung transnationaler Affinitäten entsprang sowohl seiner Tätigkeit als Übersetzer seiner eigenen Werke als auch seiner unerlässlichen Suche nach übersetzten Werken anderer Künstler und Schriftsteller aus aller Welt. Die persönliche Begegnung zwischen Ileana Čura, einer jugoslawischen Wissenschaftlerin, und Amrita Pritam, einer indischen Dichterin, ist ein eindrückliches Beispiel dafür, wie das Streben nach Übersetzbarkeit neue Konstellationen von Freundschaft, Reisemöglichkeiten und gemeinsam imaginierten Zukünften entstehen ließ. All dies ist nach wie vor von grundlegendem Interesse für Forscher im jugoslawischen Kontext. Diese "vergangenen Zukünfte", die von Künstlern, Kuratoren, Archivaren und Aktivisten der Region entdeckt wurden, stellen wichtige Ressourcen für die Gestaltung eines Lebens nach dem Kommunismus dar. Das Ziel dieser Studie ist es, diese verschiedenen kulturellen Stimmen zusammenzubringen, um eine neue Perspektive auf die Blockfreien-Bewegung als einen wichtigen Ort zu werfen, an dem die globalen Verflechtungen Europas aus der marginalisierten Perspektive des ehemaligen Jugoslawien neu gedacht werden können.
    Abstract: This dissertation offers an anthropological perspective on the connection between Yugoslavia and India during the period of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM). Drawing on an assemblage of archives, some official, some personal and biographical, some from print and visual media, this study offers a corrective to the widespread argument that the NAM did not live up to its ideals of anti-imperialism, mutual cooperation and peaceful coexistence. This study focuses on the role of friendships, cultural ties and intertwined biographies in shaping a “geography of affinity” between India and Yugoslavia, which was enabled by the cultural infrastructures of the NAM. A crucial part of this critical and humanist internationalism is the idea of translatability, which was exemplified by the role of the Indian poet and translator, Rabindranath Tagore, who had a notable impact on the Yugoslav region for the entire century following the 1920’s. Tagore’s lifelong interest in exploring transnational affinities was driven by his own interest in translating his own work and in his incessant search for the translated works of artists and writers from different parts of the world. The personal encounter between Ileana Čura, a scholar from Yugoslavia, and Amrita Pritam, an Indian poet, is a powerful example of the way in which the quest for translatability created possibilities for friendship, travel, and imagined futures, which continues to be of vital interest to critical thinkers in the Yugoslav region. Artists, curators, archivists and activists from this region are unearthing these “past futures” as critical resources for life after communism. This dissertation is a study which joins these cultural voices in looking at the NAM as an important site for rethinking the global entanglements of Europe, from the marginalized perspective of what used to be Yugoslavia.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (244 Seiten)
    Dissertation note: Kumulative Dissertation Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 2024
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    Keywords: Hochschulschrift ; Pragmatische Soziologie der Kritik ; Französischer Pragmatismus ; Neopragmatische Diskursanalyse ; Diskursanalyse ; Argumentationsanalyse ; Emotion ; Emotionsgeladene Sprache ; Hassrede ; Emotionalität ; Emotionale Highlighter ; Emotionssoziologie ; Affektive Neurowissenschaften ; Neurowissenschaften ; Affektive Neurolinguistik ; Mixed Methods ; Sentiment Analyse ; Pragmatic Sociology of Critique ; French Pragmatism ; Neopragmatist Discourse Analysis ; Discourse Analysis ; Argument Analysis ; Emotion ; Emotive Language ; Hate Speech ; Emotionality ; Emotional Highlighters ; Sociology of Emotion ; Affective Neuroscience ; Neuroscience ; Affective Neurolinguistics ; Mixed Methods ; Sentiment Analysis ; Populism ; U.S. Elections ; British Politics ; Sozialwissenschaften ; Politikwissenschaft (Politik und Regierung) ; Wörterbücher, Enzyklopädien, Konkordanzen ; Spezielle Themen zu Sprache ; Kommunikation (Nachrichtenübermittlung) ; Chirurgie, Medizin nach Körperregion, Zahnmedizin, Augenheilkunde, Ohrenheilkunde, Audiologie
    Abstract: Die hier vorgelegte kumulative Dissertation befasst sich mit der Frage des emotionalen Sprachgebrauchs als Teil der öffentlichen politischen Kommunikation in abendländischen Demokratien. Durch die Anwendung etablierter Erkenntnisse und Ansätze aus den Bereichen der affektiven Neurowissenschaften und der Neurolinguistik zu emotionalem Sprachgebrauch, wird versucht neue Perspektiven und Analysetechniken für die Sozial- und Politikwissenschaften herauszuarbeiten, die sich mit der rhetorischen Gestaltung und Funktion öffentlicher politischer Kommunikation befassen. Im Rahmen dieser Bemühungen habe ich einen sequenziellen Mixed-Methods-Ansatz entwickelt, eine neopragmatische Diskursanalyse (NPDA), die auf der bestehenden Methodologie der Pragmatischen Soziologie der Kritik (PSC) basiert. Diese Methode ermöglicht es, die Argumentationsstrategien und -muster von Akteuren abzuleiten und ihre Verwendung von hochgradig erregender emotionaler Sprache (via HAEWWörterbuch) nachzuzeichnen. In zwei separaten Fallstudien habe ich diesen neu entwickelten Ansatz angewendet, um (1) die US-Präsidentschaftswahlkämpfe 2016 von Trump und Clinton zu analysieren sowie (2) öffentliche Reden britischer Parteiführer:innen der Conservative und der Labour Party von 1900 bis 2019. Ich habe festgestellt, dass emotionale Sprache in der gesamten untersuchten (politischen) Kommunikation vorkommt und dass sie hauptsächlich eine Highlighter-Funktion in den Argumentationen der Akteure einnimmt. Politische Kommunikation, als eine spezifische Ausformung menschlicher Kommunikation, scheint immer ‚emotional‘ zu sein.
    Abstract: This cumulative dissertation addresses the issues of emotive language use as part of public political communication in occidental democracies. By applying established findings and approaches from the fields of affective neuroscience and neurolinguistics on emotive language use, the here presented dissertation intends to offer new perspectives and analytical techniques for the social and political sciences, concerned with understanding the rhetorical design and function of public political communication. As part of these efforts, I developed a sequential mixed methods approach, a neopragmatist discourse analysis (NPDA), which is based on the existing methodology associated with the Pragmatic Sociology of Critique (PSC). This method allows for the deduction of actors’ argumentative strategies and patterns and to detect their use of highly arousing emotive language (via HAEW dictionary). In two separate case studies I applied this newly developed approach, analysing (1) the 2016 U.S. presidential election campaigns of Trump and Clinton as well as (2) public speeches of British party leaders from the Conservative and Labour Party from 1900 – 2019. I found that emotive language appeared throughout all analysed (political) communication and that it mainly served a highlighting function within actors’ argumentations. Political communication, as a specific form of human communication, seems to always be ‘emotional’.
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (166 Seiten)
    Dissertation note: Kumulative Dissertation Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 2024
    DDC: 550
    Keywords: Hochschulschrift ; Reissektor ; Burkina Faso ; Ethnographie ; Praxistheorie ; Wachstumspol ; rice sector ; Burkina Faso ; ethnography ; practice theory ; growth pole ; Geowissenschaften ; Geowissenschaften Afrikas ; Geschichte, Geografie und Hilfswissenschaften ; Soziologie und Anthropologie ; Sozialwissenschaften ; Soziale Prozesse
    Abstract: Unter dem Druck zunehmender Ressourcenknappheit konzentrieren sich inter- und transnationale Optimierungsanstrengungen für effiziente Land- und Wassernutzung insbesondere auf den Globalen Süden. Raumentwicklungsinstrumente wie Wachstumspole und Entwicklungskorridore, die Afrikas Landwirtschaft revolutionieren und die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung stärken sollen, werden auf dem gesamten Kontinent geplant und umgesetzt. Die vorliegende Arbeit gewährt ethnographische Einblicke in eines dieser Megaprojekte, das Bagré-Wachstumspolprojekt in Burkina Faso. Basierend auf einer insgesamt neunmonatigen Feldforschung werden die historischen und globalen Verflechtungen des Projektes herausgestellt und mit lokalen Arrangements und Aktivitäten analytisch verknüpft. So entsteht ein umfassendes Bild der Entfaltung des Bagré-Wachstumspolprojekts im Spiegel eines globalisierten Reismarktes. Entlang von vier empirisch fundierten ergänzt die Arbeit den Fokus auf (1) lokal-globale Wechselwirkungen um die (2) Analyse des dem Wachstumspolprojekt inhärenten Zukunftsimperativ und die Konsequenzen zeitlicher Ordnungsmuster für die Ausgestaltung konkreter Projektbestandteile. Danach wird (3) dargelegt, wie Praktiken installiert werden, die der Aufrechterhaltung, Stabilisierung und zeitlichen Koordination von Reisproduktionspraktiken dienen. Es schließt sich (4) eine vergleichende Perspektive an, die dem burkinischen Beispiel eine Beschreibung des Reissektors Uruguays an die Seite stellt. In der Zusammenschau entwickeln die Kapitel dieser Arbeit praxistheoretisches Denken in der Humangeographie weiter. Sie leisten einen empirischen Beitrag zur humangeographischen Entwicklungsforschung anhand einer Fallstudie aus dem frankophonen Westafrika und bieten ein vertiefendes Verständnis von Reisproduktionssystemen.
    Abstract: Encountering an increasing global pressure on natural resources, inter- and transnational efforts to optimize water and land use for food production are made and spatial development tools to revolutionize African agriculture are therefore planned and implemented across the continent. This thesis provides ethnographic insights into one such a megaproject: the Bagré Growth Pole Project (BGPP) in Burkina Faso. Based on altogether 9 months of fieldwork it traces the project’s temporal and spatial entanglements. First, it contrasts localized arrangements, activities, and understandings related to rice production with global systemic configurations of a rice economy. Arguing that it is amongst these poles that the BGPP in its specific form unfolds, it suggests a combination of different analytical frameworks to grasp its local-global dynamics. Second, it dissects the future imperative inherent to the BGPP and interrogates its consequences for how the project implementation proceeds. Third, this work sheds light on attempts to coordinate rice production in space and time. It develops the notion of coordination work to account for the practical accomplishment of tuning and timing different actors, activities and arrangements related to rice production. Finally, it adds a comparative moment to the analysis by contrasting Burkina Faso’s rice sector to the rice sector of Uruguay. Altogether the chapters of the thesis advance practice theoretical thinking in human geography. Empirically, the thesis provides firsthand observations of how the BGPP touches ground, thereby reshaping the everyday life and landscape in Bagré. It adds to the growth pole and corridor literature by focusing on francophone West Africa, thereby deepening our understanding of transnational interventions into rice production systems in Africa.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (254 Seiten)
    Dissertation note: Kumulative Dissertation Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 2023
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    Keywords: Hochschulschrift ; Populismus ; gesellschaftliche Unzufriedenheit ; politische Beteiligung ; politische Kommunikation ; Wahlforschung ; politische Einstellungen ; politische Partizipation ; Populism ; societal discontent ; political communication ; political behavior ; political attitudes ; politische Partizpation ; Politikwissenschaft (Politik und Regierung) ; Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: Populistische Ideen haben in den letzten 20 Jahren in westlichen Demokratien immer mehr Unterstützer:innen gefunden. Doch wieso ist populistische Politik gerade jetzt so erfolgreich? Grundsätzlich verstärken Populist:innen negativ geprägte Wahrnehmungen der politischen, ökonomischen und kulturellen Verhältnisse im Kontext gesellschaftlicher Liberalisierungsschübe. Um Legitimitätsprobleme repräsentativer Demokratien zu heilen und verwandte gesellschaftliche Krisen zu überwinden, fordern sie mehr direkte Beteiligung nach dem Majoritätsprinzip. In diesem Kontext liefern soziale Medien eine ideale Plattform, um populistische Unzufriedenheiten zu artikulieren und (neue) Wähler:innen zu mobilisieren. Vor diesem Hintergrund fragt diese Arbeit wie populistischen Mobilisierungsprozesse funktionieren. Zwei Papiere untersuchen, wie sich unterschiedliche Spielarten populistischer Unzufriedenheit auf politische Beteiligung und die populistische Parteiwahl auswirken. Das dritte Papier analysiert, wie politische Parteien populistische und krisenhafte Kommunikation in sozialen Medien nutzen. Der vierte Beitrag vergleicht den Einfluss von Parteikommunikation und politischen Einstellungen auf das politische Engagement. Für die empirischen Analysen wurden drei eigene Datenerhebungen durchgeführt (zwei Online-Umfragen der deutschen Wahlbevölkerung [N= 2.038; N= 2.024] und eine manuelle Inhaltsanalyse der Facebook-Kommunikation deutscher Parteien [N= 3.500]). Insgesamt erweitert diese Dissertation den Forschungsstand auf mehrfache Weise: Erstens bietet sie ein dynamisches Modell, dass die Determinanten populistischer Mobilisierung aus Angebots- und Nachfrageseite miteinander verknüpft. Zweitens klärt sie das Verhältnis von Populismus und krisenhafter Unzufriedenheit. Drittens widerspricht sie der Annahme, dass populistische Aktivierung die Probleme politischer Beteiligung heilt. Stattdessen wirkt Populismus primär als Entscheidungshilfe zugunsten populistischer Parteien bei Wahlen.
    Abstract: In the past 20 years, populist ideas fell on fertile ground in many Western democracies. But why is populist politics so successful right now? Basically, populists reinforce negative perceptions of political, economic and cultural conditions in the context of societal liberalization. To cure legitimacy problems of representative democracies and overcome related societal crises, they demand more direct participation according to the principle of majority rule. In this context, social media provide an ideal outlet for articulating populist dissatisfaction and mobilizing (new) voters. Against this background, this dissertation asks how populist mobilization processes work: The first two papers examine how different varieties of populist dissatisfaction among voters affect different modes of political engagement and populist voting. The third paper analyzes how political parties use populist and crisis-related communication in social media. Finally, the fourth article applies an experimental design to compare the effect of parties’ online communication and political attitudes on political engagement. For the empirical analyses, I conducted three self-collected datasets. I exploited data from two online surveys (paper I and paper II: N= 2,038; paper IV: N= 2,024) among the German electorate. For the third contribution, I conducted a manual content analysis (N= 3,500) of the Facebook communication of German political parties. This dissertation extends the body of research threefold: First, it provides a dynamic model linking various determinants of populist mobilization from the supply- and demand-side of the electoral market. Second, it updates state-of-the-art literature by disentangling the relationship between populism and crisis-related discontent. Third, it contradicts the idea that populist activation necessarily cures problems of political participation. Instead, populism primarily serves as a decision-making tool in favor of populist parties in elections.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (180 Seiten)
    Dissertation note: Dissertation Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 2022
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    Keywords: Hochschulschrift ; Georgien ; Arbeit ; Vermarktlichung ; Gegenbewegung ; Polanyi ; Gramsci ; Georgia ; labor ; marketization ; countermovement ; Polanyi ; Gramsci ; Politikwissenschaft (Politik und Regierung) ; Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: Im Zeitraum 2004-2006 wurde in Georgien eine beispiellose Deregulierung des Arbeitsmarktes vorgenommen, um die internationale Wettbewerbsfähigkeit zu verbessern. Diese Maßnahmen waren Teil umfassenderer Vermarktlichung- und Privatisierungsbemühungen, die von den so genannten "Rosenrevolutionären" Eliten angeführt wurden. Diese Studie, die sich auf Karl Polanyis Konzept der Arbeit als "fiktive Ware" stützt, untersucht, wie eine solche Kommodifizierung die Wirtschaft von der Gesellschaft entkoppelt und gesellschaftliche Gegenbewegungen hervorruft, die sich gegen die Expansion des Marktes schützen wollen. Polanyis "Doppelbewegung" beschreibt gesellschaftspolitische Kräfte, die eine demokratische Kontrolle des politischen und wirtschaftlichen Lebens anstreben und die künstliche Trennung zwischen beiden in Frage stellen. Die wichtigsten empirischen Fragen lauten, ob die georgische Gesellschaft auf die Marktöffnung reagiert hat und welche Konflikte daraus entstanden sind. Die Studie beleuchtet zwei Protestbewegungen, die sich gegen die Marktideologie wandten und versuchten, die schädlichen Auswirkungen der Deregulierung des Arbeitsmarktes abzumildern. Trotz ihrer Bemühungen gelang es diesen Bewegungen nicht, eine breitere demokratische Kontrolle über das Wirtschaftsleben zu etablieren. Wenn es diesen Bewegungen nicht gelungen ist, die Wirtschaft wieder in die Gesellschaft einzubinden, wie kann dann eine demokratische Kontrolle der wirtschaftlichen Sphäre theoretisiert und erreicht werden? Die Studie bezieht die Gramscianischen Analysen der "Beziehungen der sozialen Kräfte" mit ein und argumentiert, dass die Infragestellung der marktgetriebenen Ordnung mehr als nur spezifische, themenbezogene Antworten erfordert. Durch die Integration von Polanyi und Gramsci schlägt die Studie die Notwendigkeit eines politisch sinnvolleren Ansatzes vor, um der Marktideologie zu begegnen und eine demokratische Kontrolle über die Wirtschaft zu etablieren.
    Abstract: In the period of 2004-2006, Georgia underwent unprecedented labor deregulation to enhance international competitiveness and attract foreign investments. These policies, leaving most workers unprotected, were part of broader marketization and privatization efforts led by the so-called "Revolutionary" political elites following the Rose Revolution. This study, drawing on Karl Polanyi's concept of labor as a "fictitious commodity," explores how such commodification disembedds the economy from society, prompting societal countermovements seeking to protect against market expansion. Polanyi's "double movement" describes sociopolitical forces aiming for democratic control over political and economic life, challenging the artificial separation between the two. The key empirical questions addressed are whether Georgian society responded to labor marketization and what social conflicts ensued. The study focuses on two protest movements—the Tbilisi Metro strikes and Chiatura miners’ strike—which opposed market ideology and sought to mitigate the harmful effects of labor deregulation. Despite their efforts, these movements failed to establish broader democratic control over economic life, representing "corporatist re-embedding" and "pre-political" responses rather than achieving full "re-embedding" of the economy into society. The study poses a theoretical question: if these movements couldn't successfully re-embed the economy in society, how can democratic control over the economic sphere be theorized and achieved? To address this, the work incorporates Gramscian analyses of “relations of social forces” and hegemony, arguing that challenging market-driven order requires more than specific issue-driven responses. By integrating Polanyi with the Gramscian framework, the study suggests the need for a politically meaningful approach to countering market ideology and establishing democratic control over the economy.
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    In:  18,2, Seiten 181-198
    ISSN: 1749-9755 , 1749-9755
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (18 Seiten)
    Publ. der Quelle: London [u.a.] : Sage
    Angaben zur Quelle: 18,2, Seiten 181-198
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: deep story ; financial crisis ; narrative ; post-socialism ; sociology of emotions ; temporality ; Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: In this introduction to the special issue, we explore the political salience of emotions in times of large-scale social change, emphasizing the role of personal narratives in understanding and framing these transformations. We introduce the concept of ‘deep transformations’ to analyse radical shifts in various aspects of life and their emotional and cultural implications. Focusing on cases from the post-socialist world and one contribution from post-2008 Spain, the issue provides novel insights into the interplay between emotions, signification, and social change. We present our contributions as addressing three distinct levels, each underscoring the importance for integrating the sociology of emotions with cultural sociology more closely: remembering change, adapting to change, and imagining change.
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    In:  29,2, Seiten 227-245
    ISSN: 1359-1835 , 1359-1835
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (19 Seiten)
    Publ. der Quelle: London [u.a.] : Sage Publ.
    Angaben zur Quelle: 29,2, Seiten 227-245
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: death ; funerals ; Ewe ; Ghana ; plastic ; materiality ; synthetic materials ; Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: Plastics are as positively durable as they are easily breakable, almost impossible to mend and hard to get rid of. They promise eternal life, but their immortality may quickly turn them into the undead. This paper discusses the use and role of plastics in Ghanaian funerary contexts, specifically in a small-town community in the Ghanaian Volta Region. It investigates plastics’ agency as materials that may potentially either contain death successfully or become uncontained matter out of place, just as the dead may become contained or left wandering among the living. Different perspectives on plastics are brought into focus, highlighting how attributed qualities and meanings play into the making of ‘good’ or ‘bad’ death. The paper shows that plastics and persons jointly become subject to moral and temporal assessments in the realm between good and bad, finitude and durability. Beyond the ethnographic case study, the paper discusses the political potential of death and plastics within the larger global context of a cultural economy that reflects the ongoing effect of colonialism.
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    In:  25,5, Seiten 761-780
    ISSN: 1467-2960 , 1467-2960
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (20 Seiten)
    Publ. der Quelle: Oxford [u.a.] : Wiley-Blackwell
    Angaben zur Quelle: 25,5, Seiten 761-780
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: angler ; angling ; hyperstability ; motivation ; rewards ; satisfaction ; Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: Why do people fish for recreation? Social science literature suggests that both catch (e.g., number or sizes of fish) and non‐catch dimensions (e.g., nature experience, temporary escape) play a role. After reviewing the literature from environmental psychology, neuroscience, anthropology, recreational fisher motivation research as well as popular fishing books, I find that the opposite of catching fish, more specifically the uncertainty of the catch, maybe another, perhaps fundamental force that explains the attraction of the activity to millions of people. There appears to be strong utility in the gaming nature of the activity. This quality may contribute to explain various patterns that are well known, e.g., the overinvestment of time and money by recreational fishers that drastically exceed the market value of fish, the lack of self‐regulation of a local recreational fishery in terms of effort being spent also on low stock sizes, the disutility associated with providing certain catch probability information, diminishing marginal utility return for increasing catch rates, management regulations that make fishing harder than necessary, suboptimal satisfaction despite rising catch rates, and finally the dominance of men among populations of recreational fishers. I present a serious of testable propositions and call for a novel research focus that seeks to better understand what makes catch ambiguity attractive psychologically and emotionally.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (162 Seiten)
    Dissertation note: Kumulative Dissertation Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 2024
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    Keywords: Hochschulschrift ; Konflikt ; Religion ; Ethnizität ; Nigeria ; Conflict ; Religion ; Ethnicity ; Nigeria ; Personengruppen ; Religion ; Sozialwissenschaften ; Kultur und Institutionen
    Abstract: Gewaltsame Konflikte sind nach wie vor ein drängendes Problem in Nigeria. Da die nigerianische Bevölkerung entlang ethnischer und religiöser Linien polarisiert ist, werden Konflikte, die nichts mit ethnischer Zugehörigkeit und Religion zu tun haben, aufgrund der ethnischen und religiösen Identitäten der Konfliktakteure oft ethnoreligiös. Dadurch werden die Konflikte oft gewalttätiger und unlösbarer. Obwohl einige Studien über die ethnisch-religiöse Dimension von Gewaltkonflikten in Nigeria durchgeführt wurden, sind die meisten von ihnen qualitativ. Generell mangelt es an quantitativen Studien, die die ethnoreligiöse Dimension von Gewaltkonflikten in Nigeria untersuchen. In dieser Dissertation verwende ich große N-Erhebungsdaten und ökonometrische Techniken, um diese Lücke zu schließen. Ich konzentriere mich speziell auf zwei aktuelle Konflikte in Nigeria, nämlich den Sezessionskonflikt in der Ostregion Nigerias und die Gewalt zwischen nomadischen Hirten und ansässigen Gemeinschaften (insbesondere denjenigen, die Ackerbau betreiben) um Land und Wasserressourcen. Die drei empirischen Kapitel dieser Dissertation zeigen, dass Ethnizität und Religion für das Verständnis der gegenwärtigen Konflikte in Nigeria von entscheidender Bedeutung sind. Die Themen Ethnizität und Religion sind zwar umstritten, aber ihre Vernachlässigung bei der Analyse von Gewaltkonflikten verhindert ein ganzheitliches Verständnis des Problems. Lösungen können manchmal dort gefunden werden, wo wir am wenigsten bereit sind zu suchen.
    Abstract: Violent conflicts remain a nagging problem in Nigeria. Because Nigeria’s population is polarized along ethnic and religious lines, conflicts that have nothing to do with ethnicity and religion often turn ethnoreligious owing to the ethnic and religious identities of the conflict actors. This often makes conflicts more violent and intractable. Although some studies have been conducted on the ethnoreligious dimension of violent conflicts in Nigeria, most of them are qualitative. There is generally a dearth of quantitative studies examining the ethnoreligious dimension of violent conflicts in Nigeria. In this dissertation, I use large-N survey data and econometric techniques to fill this gap. I focus specifically on two contemporary conflicts in Nigeria—i.e., the secessionist conflict in Nigeria’s Eastern Region and the intercommunal violence between nomadic pastoralists and resident communities (especially those engaged in crop cultivation) over land and water resources. The three empirical chapters in this dissertation show that ethnicity and religion are crucial in understanding contemporary conflicts in Nigeria. While the topics of ethnicity and religion are contentious, their neglect in the analysis of violent conflicts prevents a holistic understanding of the problem. Solutions can sometimes be found in the places where we are least willing to look.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (257 Seiten)
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: marching ; ritual ; Turnen movement ; school Ceremonies ; Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: This book explores the entangled relationship between marching and political ceremonies in schools for the consolidation of the nation-state in Germany and Japan in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Through addressing the relationship between the individual marching body, gymnastics classes in schools, and political ceremonies in public spaces, this book aims to crystalize the ways in which the authorities choreographed the ideal gait, transmitted it to students and deployed it in political ceremonies. By analyzing archived sources written in German and Japanese, Ami Kobayashi investigates the transnational character of the marching ceremony and the knowledge transfers behind it. She explores the process of nation-state building primarily in terms of cultural performance, arguing that the collective upright gait was a form of political choreography orchestrated by political authorities and performed by youth.
    Note: The publication of this work was supported by the Open Access Publication Fund of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
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    In:  3
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (17 Seiten)
    Publ. der Quelle: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    Angaben zur Quelle: 3
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: autobiographical memory studies ; autotopography ; memory and censorship ; evocative objects ; platformisation of memories ; Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: This paper is based on research conducted in February–April 2022. It describes and illuminates what was happening with tech-savvy educated people between 20 and 40 years old in Russia, while their usual digital tools and places for the autobiographical process were changing in the spring of 2022. Facing censorship of platforms, surveillance, and the inability to pay for services, people who were keeping important memories of their lives online were deleting their profiles, migrating to other platforms, censoring themselves, and creating archives of autobiographically meaningful materials. The paper examines these disruptions as a case that illuminates the role of online platforms in autobiographical memory and expands some concepts within autobiographical memory studies, such as evocative objects and autotopography.
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    In:  15,10
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (30 Seiten)
    Publ. der Quelle: Basel : MDPI
    Angaben zur Quelle: 15,10
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: TikTok ; Islam ; Muslims ; Germany ; content creators ; extremism ; Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: This study explores the representation of radical and anti-radical ideologies among German Islamic TikTok creators, analyzing 2983 videos from 43 accounts through qualitative content analysis. The results reveal two main content clusters: religious practice involving social/lifestyle issues and political activism around Muslim grievances. Victimization, found in 150 videos, was the most common indicator associated with radicalization and emerged as a source of political activism and subversive discourse. Overall, indicators of radicalism were scarce, suggesting that visible mainstream Islamic creators do not exhibit high levels of radical ideology. However, this also reflects a selection bias in the design of this study, which systematically overlooks fringe actors. In addition, religious advocacy was the most common topic (1144 videos), serving as a source of guidance and motivation, but was occasionally linked to sectarianism and rigid religious interpretations. Male creators posted more religious/theological videos; female creators posted more lifestyle videos. However, gender distinctions are limited due to the low representation of female creators (6). Some topics, such as the hijab, served as an intersection between religious practice and politicized narratives. This study highlights TikTok’s role in promoting diverse ideological views and shaping community engagement, knowledge sharing, and political mobilization within Germany’s Muslim digital landscape.
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    Note: The article processing charge was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) – 491192747 and the Open Access Publication Fund of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
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    In:  30,3, Seiten 555-570
    ISSN: 1359-0987 , 1359-0987
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (16 Seiten)
    Publ. der Quelle: Oxford [u.a.] : Wiley-Blackwell
    Angaben zur Quelle: 30,3, Seiten 555-570
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: Material pressures on privatized households are commonly absorbed through a family ideology, according to which members must pool resources and care for each other, while the family relations they thereby nurture are inherently valuable and constitute their own reward. Drawing on my fieldwork on family-based eldercare in Germany, I explore the implications of this ideology. Specifically, I argue that it mollifies family caregivers’ unease about the injustices of Germany's eldercare system. Family members are entangled in this system as employers of mostly low-paid, migrant caregivers; as performers of unremunerated care work at high personal costs; and, if they are women, as reproducers of a gendered division of care labour they object to and resent. Because this entanglement is filtered through the lens of family ideology, the focus of family caregivers shifts away from these broader injustices and towards co-caregiver conflicts as well as expectations from and commitments towards other family members.
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    In:  15,11
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (29 Seiten)
    Publ. der Quelle: Basel : MDPI
    Angaben zur Quelle: 15,11
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: Engaged Buddhism ; Thich Nhat Hanh ; mindfulness ; environmental activism ; Earth Holder Berlin ; Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: This study explores the intersection of mindfulness practice and environmental activism within the Earth Holder Berlin (EHB) group, a part of the Order of Interbeing (O of I) inspired by Thich Nhat Hanh. EHB, established in 2020, integrates the principles of engaged Buddhism and endeavors to advance social and ecological justice through mindful actions. Using a qualitative methodology, this research employs semi-structured interviews and participant observation to investigate the experiences of EHB members. The findings demonstrate the transformative potential of Buddhism in ecological discourse, illustrating how EHB members embody epistemic entanglement, intertwining their Buddhist backgrounds with climate knowledge. This integration not only enhances personal transformation but also serves as a catalyst for social and ecological justice, enriching our understanding of engaged Buddhism in contemporary environmental movements.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (15 Seiten)
    Publ. der Quelle: Basel : MDPI
    Angaben zur Quelle: 16,7
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: pro-environmental behavior (PEB) ; intentions ; socioeconomic status (SES) ; vegetarianism ; population-based sampling ; gender ; Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: Pro-environmental behaviors (PEBs) such as climate-friendly mobility and eating habits hold great promise in terms of reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and, thus, are important goals for addressing climate change from a population perspective. Yet, sociodemographic correlates and differences in PEB intentions have to be considered in designing messages and behavior change interventions. This study implemented a quota-sampling survey (N = 979, 511 women, 468 men, age M = 50.4, SD = 17.2) of the German population and found that, overall, participants exhibit strong intentions to engage in various PEBs, with the exception of cycling and adopting a vegetarian diet. Moreover, women displayed higher intentions to engage in PEBs compared to men, particularly in adopting a vegetarian diet. The relationships between socioeconomic status (SES) and PEB intentions, as well as the combined effects of gender and SES, were inconsistent for different PEB intentions. We conclude that on a population level, intention-building interventions are necessary for vegetarianism and cycling, while for the other PEBs, interventions may focus on closing the intention–behavior gap. There is a need to further research the interplay of different PEBs in diverse groups and for interventional studies targeting the discrepancy in eating habits across genders.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (14 Seiten)
    Publ. der Quelle: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    Angaben zur Quelle: 7
    DDC: 550
    Keywords: adaptation and mitigation ; earth systems (land, water and atmospheric) ; land use ; nature-based solutions ; social sciences and humanities ; integrated assessment models ; climate change ; modelling and simulation ; Geowissenschaften ; Sozialwissenschaften ; Politikwissenschaft (Politik und Regierung)
    Abstract: Information on social aspects of climate change intervention, such as behavioral choices and public acceptance, are often not included in global climate models. As a result, they have been critiqued for not adequately reflecting ‘real world’ conditions. At the same time, these models are important and influential policy tools. To improve these models, calls are being made for more interaction – or integration – between the social science and modelling research communities. Yet, it remains unclear how to achieve this. Responding to this gap, we explore what kind of integration is currently taking place, how, and opportunities for further development.
    Abstract: The importance of social drivers of climate change interventions, or social aspects, is currently underrepresented in computational modelling projections. These parameters are largely excluded from estimates of technical mitigation potential, feasibility, and tools like integrated assessment models (IAMs) and other large-scale models that influence the development of climate policies and notable bodies like the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. This paper contributes to calls being made within the research community to address this gap and strengthen linkages between modelling practices and social science insights. Using nature-based solutions (NbS) as a framing, we present the results of a critical literature review and interviews with multidisciplinary experts reflecting on the current state of integration around IAMs and opportunities to better capture social aspects within large-scale modelling processes. Our findings confirm the need to incorporate social aspects in IAMs, but highlight that how this happens in practice may depend on context, project objectives, or pragmatic choices rather than conceptual notions about what ‘good’ integration is. Nevertheless, some integration strategies are better than others, and concerns about data limitations and low capacity of the IAM community for engaging in integration can be overcome with sufficient support and complementary efforts from the broader research community.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (202 Seiten)
    Dissertation note: Dissertation Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 2021
    DDC: 301
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    Keywords: Hochschulschrift ; Nachhaltiges Leben ; Konvivialität ; Kosmopolitisierung ; China ; Taiwan ; Risiken ; Sustainable living ; Conviviality ; Cosmopolitanization ; China ; Taiwan ; Risk ; Soziologie und Anthropologie
    Abstract: Basierend auf der Grundlage der Theorie der Kosmopolitisierung als Forschungsrahmen von Ulrich Beck untersucht diese Doktorarbeit, wie das globale Risiko die Weltanschauung und die Alltagspraktiken verändert hat, um ein nachhaltiges Leben in Peking und Taipeh zu sichern. Zur Analyse der von Umweltschützern und ihren grünen Gruppen in diesen beiden großchinesischen Gemeinden propagierten Praktiken eines nachhaltigen Lebensstils, schlage ich den Begriff der ökologischen Konvivialität vor, der sich auf ein friedliches Leben und symbiotische Beziehungen zwischen Mensch und Natur als Mittel zur Bekämpfung des unbegrenzten Wachstums der industriellen Produktivität und des Massenkonsums bezieht. Die Studie knüpft an die jüngste Diskussion über die reale Existenz des Lebens-mit-Unterschied an, indem sie die Konvivialität im Rahmen nachhaltiger Lebensbeziehungen weiter verortet. Die Forschungsergebnisse betonen die ökologische Konvivialität des nachhaltigen Lebens als Alternative zu den dominierenden, aber konfliktreichen Diskursen, indem sie das nachhaltige Leben als ein Instrument der neoliberalen Gouvernementalität oder als Aktion der Lebensstilbewegung betrachten. Der zweite Teil der Dissertation zeigt nicht nur, wie sich die Teilnehmer der Umweltbewegung von der Antizipation globaler Katastrophen in ökologische Konvivialität verwandelt haben, sondern erläutert auch drei Formen konvivialer Prekarität, die in den friedlichen Beziehungen zwischen Mensch und Natur verankert sind. Insbesondere wird herausgearbeitet, wie unterschiedliche soziale Klassenpositionen einen nachhaltigen Lebenshabitus ermöglichen oder einschränken, welche regionalen kulturellen Elemente für und gegen ökologische Konvivialität hilfreich sind und wie genau unterschiedliche politische Felder die konviviale Small-P-Politik über die Taiwanstraße prägen.
    Abstract: This doctoral study draws upon Ulrich Beck’s theory of cosmopolitanization as a research framework to securitize sustainable living in Beijing and Taipei and examine how global risk has metamorphosed the worldview and daily practices. I propose the notion of ecological conviviality as a lens through which to analyze the sustainable lifestyle practices promoted by environmentalists and their green groups in these two Greater Chinese communities. Ecological conviviality refers to peaceful living and symbiotic relationships between humans and nature as a way to combat the unlimited growth of industrial productivity and mass consumption. This study echoes recent discussion on the real existence of living-with-difference by situating conviviality further within sustainable living relationships, which include social relationships between peoples, nature, and the future. The research findings cast light on the conviviality of sustainable living as an alternative to dominating but conflicting discourses by seeing sustainable living as a tool of neoliberal governmentality or the action of lifestyle movement. In addition to revealing how environmentalist participants have metamorphosed from the anticipation of global catastrophe into ecological conviviality, the latter part of this dissertation explicates three forms of convivial precariousness that are ingrained in peaceful relationships between humans and nature. Specifically, it unravels how social class position(-ing) either enables or limits eco-habitus, how regional cultural elements impact ecological conviviality, and how different political fields shape convivial small-p politics across the Taiwan Strait. This study suggests that the sustainable living movement could nurture ecological conviviality. However, ecological conviviality is subject to the three precarious factors that are essential to examining the prospects and limitations of sustainable living for Greater Chinese communities and beyond.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (138 Seiten)
    Dissertation note: Kumulative Dissertation Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 2024
    DDC: 300
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    Keywords: Hochschulschrift ; Klimaschäden ; Klimawandel ; Klimaverhandlungen ; Gerechtigkeit ; loss and damage ; climate change ; international negotiations ; climate justice ; Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: Auf der 27. Vertragsstaatenkonferenz der Klimarahmenkonvention der Vereinten Nationen (UNFCCC) im Jahr 2022 gelang es den Entwicklungsländern, einen Verlust- und Schadensfonds (engl. „Loss and Damage“ - L&D) einzurichten. L&D, umrissen als die unvermeidbaren Risiken und Auswirkungen des Klimawandels, hat für Entwicklungsländer, deren Vulnerabilität und Exposition gegenüber dem Klimawandel besonders hoch ist, hohe Priorität bei gleichzeitig dünner Beweislage. Die vorliegende Promotion richtet ihr Augenmerk auf diesen Mangel an L&D „Beweisen“ um die Rolle von Evidenzen im Rahmen der L&D Verhandlungen zu verstehen und Ansätze zu entwickeln, die negative Folgen ihres Mangels für Entwicklungsländer begrenzen. Der erste Teil dieser Arbeit zeigt, wie Verhandlungsführerinnen und -führer aus Entwicklungsländern generische Erkenntnisse zu Klimaauswirkungen nutzten, um eine hermeneutische Ungerechtigkeit zu überwinden. Politischer Nutzen von Evidenzen kann Akteuren ein Gefühl der Legitimität zu vermitteln, jedoch ohne Überzeugung der Gegenseite. Der zweite Teil dieser Arbeit hinterfragt die Rolle von Attributionswissenschaften im neuen L&D-Fonds und liefert eine normative Analyse, anhand derer rein qualitativ getroffene Attributionsaussagen einen Anspruch auf Gelder aus dem L&D Fond hinreichend legitimieren. Die Rolle von Vulnerabilität und Exposition sollten demnach keine Rolle bei der Verteilung der Gelder spielen, jedoch bei deren Verwendung in Betracht gezogen werden. Der letzte Teil dieser Promotion befasst sich mit klimatischen Risiken auf die Anpassungsfähigkeit in Entwicklungsländern und deren Konsequenzen im Rahmen von Klimarisikobewertungen. Ein Protokoll wird entworfen, um Annahmen über Anpassungsfähigkeit angesichts erwarteter Klimaschäden, einzugrenzen – was ein verringertes Risiko einer Unterschätzungen zukünftiger L&D in Klimarisikobewertungen zur Folge hätte.
    Abstract: At the 27th Conference of the Parties in 2022, developing countries succeeded in establishing a Loss and Damage (L&D) Fund under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). L&D, here understood as the residual risks and impacts of climate change that cannot be avoided, has been of high priority to developing countries, who also experience a lack in L&D evidence. This thesis takes the lack of L&D evidence into focus to understand the role of evidence in L&D negotiations and develop approaches to limit adverse consequences of its lack for developing countries. The first part of this thesis shows how developing country negotiators worked to overcome a hermeneutic injustice that had resulted from a lack of L&D evidence. By using publications on climate impacts to claim these risks were “beyond adaptation” negotiators managed to establish L&D as a theme under the UNFCCC. The analysis shows how the political use of evidence can strengthen the resolve of individual negotiators by giving them a sense of legitimacy, although it does not lead to persuasion of political opponents. The second part of this thesis focuses on the role of event attribution in funding decisions under the L&D fund and provides the normative basis for legitimizing claims to the L&D fund with purely qualitative attribution statements. It challenges the view that vulnerability and exposure ought to be considered in L&D funding decisions, and argues that these factors ought to inform spending decisions. Finally, this thesis turns to evidence of climatic risks on adaptive capacity. It develops a protocol for constraining assumptions on adaptive capacity in qualitative climate risk assessments, which, if implemented, could reduce the risk of underestimating future L&D in developing countries.
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    ISBN: 978-1- 80539-503- 4
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (278 Seiten)
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: death ; Peki ; colonialism ; death-related practices ; Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: In Peki, an Ewe town in the Ghanaian Volta Region, death is a matter of public concern. By means of funeral banners printed with synthetic ink on PVC, public lyings in state, cemented graves and wreaths made from plastic, death occupies a prominent place in the world of the living. Rest in Plastic gives an insight into local entanglements of death, synthetic materials and power in Ewe community. It shows how different materials and things that come to shape power relations, exist in a delicate balance between state and local governance, kin and outsiders, death and life, the invisible and the visible, movement and containment.
    Note: The publication of this work was supported by the Open Access Publication Fund of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (18 Seiten)
    Publ. der Quelle: Lausanne : Frontiers Media
    Angaben zur Quelle: 5
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: refugees ; forced migration ; selection ; migration processes ; mobility ; individual-level data ; fatality data ; Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: Introduction: An ample scholarly literature on voluntary migration has shown that migration is a highly selective process, resulting in migrant populations that often differ significantly from their respective population of origin in terms of their socio-demographic characteristics. The literature attributes these differences to either migrants' active choice and agency in the migration decision (i.e., self-selection), or to selectively applied external constraints. Although the socio-demographic make-up of forced migrant populations has received significant attention in public discourses in receiving countries such as Germany and Turkey, the literature on migrant selection largely focuses on voluntary migration and self-selection mechanisms. As a result, the selection mechanisms of forcibly displaced persons are less well-understood. Particularly in the context of forced migration, the conditions for migration fluctuate heavily within a relatively short time span, e.g., regarding immigration policies and border controls. In this study we contribute to that literature by exploring the changing conditions under which Syrians sought international humanitarian protection between 2013 and 2017 and linking them to the selection outcomes in three major receiving countries: Lebanon, Turkey, and Germany. Methods: Based on novel household survey data, we compare age, gender, socio-economic background, and family context of the Syrian populations in Lebanon, Turkey, and Germany by arrival cohort (2013–2017). In a narrative approach, we combine the cohort analysis of Syrians in Lebanon, Turkey, and Germany with contextual analyses of the (changing) frameworks governing refugee migration in transit and destination countries and descriptive analyses of changing risk levels along migration routes into Europe. Results: Our analyses reveal that higher external barriers coincide with a stronger selection in migrants' socio-demographic make-up. In particular, riskier routes and higher entry barriers are associated with a lower share of female migrants, a lower share traveling with family members, and a higher socio-economic background. Discussion: In this study, we describe differences in forced migrants' selection outcomes in countries of first refuge neighboring the origin country, relative to a reception country in the global north. By establishing legal and political frameworks as well as the accessibility of routes as external barriers to forced migration we expand on the existing theoretical approaches to selection effects and identify a need for policy intervention to ensure equitable access to humanitarian protection.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (275 Seiten)
    Dissertation note: Dissertation Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 2023
    DDC: 378
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    Keywords: Hochschulschrift ; Forschungsförderung ; Hochschulforschung ; Research Councils ; Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft ; research funding ; higher education research ; Research Councils ; Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft ; Hochschulbildung (Tertiärbereich) ; Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: Die Dissertation befasst sich mit der Forschungsförderung durch die britischen Research Councils AHRC und ESRC und die DFG. Sie analysiert, ob diese Förderorganisationen von ihren jeweiligen Regierungen gesteuert werden und ob dies in ihrer Arbeitspraxis und ihren Förderentscheidungen sichtbar ist. Darüber hinaus betrachtet die Dissertation die Perspektive der wissenschaftlichen Community sowohl als Empfänger von Fördermitteln als auch als Mitglieder der verschiedenen Gremien der Förder-organisationen. In der Arbeit wird ein vergleichender Ansatz angewandt, der die spezifischen Merkmale des AHRC, des ESRC und der DFG als intermediäre Organisationen untersucht. Das Konzept der Intermediäre basiert auf den Forschungsergebnissen von Braun (1993), Braun und Guston (2003) und van der Meulen (2003). Die Autorin führte Experteninterviews mit wissenschaftlichen Mitgliedern des AHRC, ESRC und der DFG und führte eine Delphi-Befragung unter Wissenschaftlern aus kunst-, geistes- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Fachbereichen an Hochschulen in GB und Deutschland durch. Aus der Analyse der Daten lässt sich schließen, dass die Teilnahme an oder die Durchführung von Programmen und Initiativen, die Ausdruck einer Regierungspriorität sind, dem Image der Fördereinrichtung in der wissenschaftlichen Community schaden kann. Im Rahmen der Prinzipal-Agent-Theorie wurde den wissenschaftlichen Mitgliedern der Förderorganisation eine starke und einflussreiche Rolle zugeschrieben. Diese Hypothese wurde durch die Datenanalyse bestätigt. Die Dissertation bestätigt auch, dass Wissenschaftler ihre Forschung an Förderformate und Erfolgsaussichten anpassen und ausrichten. In ihrer Rolle als Intermediäre unterliegen Förderorganisationen Verpflichtungen gegenüber ihrem Prinzipal und gegenüber ihren Agenten. Die formellen (satzungsgemäßen) Verpflichtungen müssen mit den informellen Verpflichtungen (Vertrauen und Loyalität) in Einklang gebracht werden. Dies ist der Schlüssel zu ihrer Vermittlungsfunktion.
    Abstract: The PhD thesis focusses on research funding by the British Research Councils AHRC and ESRC and the German DFG. It discusses whether these funding agencies are steered by their respective governments and whether this is visible in their working practice and their funding decisions. In addition, the PhD thesis addresses the perspective of the scientific community both as recipients of funding and as members of the different bodies of the funding agency. The thesis uses a comparative approach, examining the specific characteristics of the AHRC, ESRC and the DFG as intermediary organisations in order to uncover their differences and similarities. The concept of intermediaries is based on research by Braun (1993), Braun and Guston (2003), and van der Meulen (2003). The author conducted expert interviews with academic members of the AHRC, ESRC and the DFG and carried out a Delphi survey among scholars from arts, humanities and social science departments at HEIs in the UK and Germany. Concluding from the data, the participation in or implementation of programmes and initiatives which are expressions of a government priority, can easily lead to the impression that the funding agency is being steered by government. For the DFG as well as the AHRC and the ESRC, one challenge was similar: that of finding a balance between short- term political considerations and long-term scientific priorities. Within the framework of principal-agent theory, a strong and influential role was ascribed to the academic members of the funding agency. This hypothesis was confirmed in the data analysis. The thesis also confirmed that scholars adapt and align their research to funding formats and the prospects of success. In their role as intermediaries, funding agencies are subject to commitments towards their principal and towards their agents. Formal (by Statutes) commitments need to be brought in line with informal commitments (trust and loyalty). This is key to their mediating function.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (22 Seiten)
    Publ. der Quelle: Basel : MDPI
    Angaben zur Quelle: 14,6
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: valuation processes ; rural community development ; social innovation ; collaborative valuation ; Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: Social innovation has been associated with contributing to ‘valuable’ rural development; however, usually, the impact of social innovation has been identified in the aftermath of its development or implementation. This might be too narrow an approach, as an ongoing social innovation process in itself may already lead to effects that contribute to regional and social changes in a local community and beyond. This paper argues that collaborative valuation processes are embedded in social innovation processes, generating effects that contribute to rural development. Focusing on a case study that exemplifies social innovation processes in agriculture and food production carried out by a rural collaborative community in southern Italy, we demonstrate how three valuation phases, such as contestations and negotiations of norms, symbolic capital accumulation and recognition of actions, as well as re-definitions of values, impact community development through joint sense-making, empowerment and societal change. Our empirical results suggest the close intertwining of both social innovation and valuation processes. The empirical results demonstrate how collective valuation processes have micro-effects on the agro-economic system, on local socio-cultural processes, and on place-making activities. Methodologically, this paper builds on ethnographic methods, including participatory observations, semi-structured interviews, oral histories, and socio-spatial analysis investigating moments of valuation embedded in daily collaborative practices.
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    ISSN: 0042-0980 , 0042-0980
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (17 Seiten)
    Publ. der Quelle: London : Sage Publications Ltd.
    Angaben zur Quelle: 61,10, Seiten 1951-1967
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: city ; language ; sonic ethnography ; sound ; soundscape ; urban ethnography ; 城市 ; 语言 ; 声音民族志 ; 声音 ; 音景 ; 城市民族志 ; Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: Matters of sound and listening are increasingly being attended to across the social sciences and humanities, reflecting what has been termed a ‘sonic turn’ since the early 2000s. In urban ethnographic research, scholars are starting to pay attention to the role of sound in social relations, in expressions of identity and senses of belonging, as well as in processes of othering. In this paper, we explore the theoretical and methodological opportunities of sonic urban ethnography, that is, an urban ethnography that foregrounds sound and listening in theoretical and methodological ways. We argue that the promise of sonic urban ethnography lies in its ability to interrupt the predominant focus on text and the visual by developing expanded practices of listening for alternative ways of knowing and engaging with the urban. We share four empirical vignettes from Shanghai, Berlin and London that illustrate, in their different ways, the power exercised through sound in the urban environment. Our discussion of the empirical cases highlights three key ‘lessons’ for doing sonic urban ethnography.
    Abstract: 声音和听觉问题越来越受到社会科学和人文科学的关注,反映了自二十一世纪初以来所谓的“声音转向”。在城市民族志研究中,研究者们开始关注声音在社会关系、身份和归属感表达以及他者化过程中的作用。在本文中,我们探讨了声音城市民族志的理论和方法论机会,即以理论和方法论方式强调声音和听觉的城市民族志。我们认为,声音城市民族志的前景在于它能够通过扩展听觉实践来寻找了解和参与城市的替代方式,从而打破对文本和视觉的主要关注。我们分享了来自上海、柏林和伦敦的四个实证案例,这些案例以不同的方式说明了在城市环境中通过声音所行使的权力。我们对实证案例的讨论强调了进行声音城市民族志的三个关键“教训”。
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    In:  14,7
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (19 Seiten)
    Publ. der Quelle: : MDPI
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    DDC: 300
    Keywords: social innovation ; impact ; valuation ; value ; dissonance ; rural areas ; Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: Social innovation (SI) has been credited with fostering novel solutions to the socio-economic challenges many rural areas face. The quest for a substantiated understanding of its potential for regional development has spawned a rich literature on SI impact assessments. Yet, having been instrumental, these assessments harbour several ambiguities as they seek to unveil objective impacts in a results-oriented manner. First, SI processes take diverse directionalities, questioning the idea of them being ‘straightforward facts’ and giving leeway to a more constructivist understanding. Second, a results-oriented perspective tends to obscure social processes that initially contribute to the emergence of impacts. In response to such concerns, we suggest a valuation perspective that explores how SI impacts are constructed iteratively throughout the innovation process. To do so, we operationalise the notion of dissonance as a critical factor embedded in innovative activities in three instances: impulses, turning points, and lock-ins. This perspective allows us to study how value is experienced, assigned, and strategically attracted while shedding light on how SI processes and their impacts are co-constructed in valuation processes. The article uses empirical vignettes from selected case studies with SI initiatives in Northern Germany.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (20 Seiten)
    Publ. der Quelle: Lausanne : Frontiers Media
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    Keywords: social field ; social configuration ; global field theory ; configurational field analysis ; Pierre Bourdieu ; indeterminacy ; Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: This paper advances the theory of Configurational Field Analysis (CFA) as a reconfiguration of Pierre Bourdieu’s field theory, aiming to address the limitations of Global Field Theory in analyzing the complexities of global and transnational phenomena. While the concept of the Global Field extended Bourdieu’s ideas to transnational and global arenas, it has been critiqued for its structural determinism, Eurocentrism, and its inability to fully capture the fluid, indeterminate, and contingent nature of global social dynamics. In response, this paper introduces social configurations as dynamic, relational constructs that emerge from specific historical and contextual conditions, rather than as fixed and universal structures. By integrating the concept of social configurations into field theory, CFA reconceptualizes social spaces as fluid and contested arenas where power, capital, and influence are continually negotiated. The paper proceeds by revisiting the foundations and critiques of Global Field Theory, followed by the introduction of social configurations and their theoretical advantages. Finally, it presents Configurational Field Analysis as a comprehensive framework, detailing its analytical steps and demonstrating its applicability to contemporary global issues. This framework not only addresses the methodological and analytical gaps in Global Field Theory but also offers a more adaptable and context-sensitive approach for understanding the complexities of global interactions.
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    In:  10,1, Seiten 171-188
    Language: English
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    Publ. der Quelle: New York, NY : De Gruyter Mouton
    Angaben zur Quelle: 10,1, Seiten 171-188
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    Keywords: counterfactual conditionals ; emotion ; perspective ; sentence completion ; COVID-19 ; Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic turned into a global crisis. Focusing on the deterioration in people’s mental health, we conducted two experiments, one in Germany and one in the UK, in January and February 2021, when both countries were in lockdown. Using a COVID-19-themed sentence completion task, we tested the direction of counterfactual thoughts in relation to egocentric (self-focused) versus non-egocentric (other-focused) perspective-taking. Results show that in both samples, more upward counterfactuals (mental simulation of better counterfactual worlds, relating to negative emotions) than downward counterfactuals (mental simulation of worse counterfactual worlds, relating to positive emotions) were produced in the egocentric condition. An opposite pattern was found in the non-egocentric condition. We conclude that emotions as expressed in counterfactual language are perspective-dependent.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (36 Seiten)
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    Keywords: COVID-19 ; religion ; religious leaders ; pandemic ; spiritual support ; post-pandemic future ; development ; survey ; Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: Religious leaders are highly influential actors in many societies across the globe. In the singular global crisis brought upon by the COVID-19 pandemic, their perspective on the pandemic itself but also the post-pandemic future is of high relevance. Against this background, we conducted the Religious Leaders’ Perspectives on Corona Survey, a comprehensive survey of 1200 religious leaders globally, in 2020/2021. Its aim was to investigate the role of religious communities and religious leaders during the COVID-19 pandemic. This article provides an in-depth outline and discussion of the survey methodology and the resultant dataset, thereby paving the way for future research using the survey data. Moreover, the first set of key results is highlighted. It emerges that the COVID-19 pandemic was not primarily a health crisis. Rather, in terms of its consequences, COVID-19 had the characteristics of a primarily economic crisis in the Global South and a primarily psychosocial crisis in the Global North. Moreover, the pandemic has had a fundamental impact on religious practice across the globe. This impact, however, seems to be highly unequal between the Global South and North. Religious communities are shown to have had an important role as civil society actors in the pandemic, providing both psychosocial and material support. Regarding the post-pandemic world, religious leaders envision a more equitable society and emphasize the need for environmental sustainability.
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    In:  36,2, Seiten 1-32
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (32 Seiten)
    Publ. der Quelle: Pietermaritzburg : Association for the Study of Religion
    Angaben zur Quelle: 36,2, Seiten 1-32
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    Keywords: Iraq ; internally displaced people ; Christians ; humanitarian aid ; ethno-religious identity ; conflict ; Ninewa Plain ; Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: The emergence of the terrorist group, Daesh in 2014 and the international military campaign against it caused both a humanitarian crisis and mass displacement in Iraq. About 5.8 million people became internally displaced, and as of 2021, 1.2 million of them still remain in displacement. This article engages with the question of what motivates people to return from displacement to their area of origin. It investigates the role that religion played in the decision of internally displaced Christians to return to Baghdeda in the Ninewa Plain, Iraq's largest Christian town. Based on qualitative interviews, the article examines the factors influencing people's decisions to return. We find that religion contributes to an array of pull factors positively influencing the decision to return, within the nexus of other considerations such as security, reconstruction, and economic opportunities. Religion was found to contribute to the return decision through the respondents' Christian identity, the encouragement to return by religious leaders, and the reconstruction efforts led by the churches. However, while these factors contributed to motivating people to return, these alone are not sufficient to motivate Christians to stay in Baghdeda in the long-term if other important conditions like the security situation and economic opportunities are not in place.
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    Dissertation note: Dissertation Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 2024
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    Keywords: Hochschulschrift ; Infrastruktur ; Syrien ; Migration ; Wasserversorgung ; Müllentsorgung ; Aleppo ; Aleppo ; Syria ; infrastructure ; migration ; waste disposal ; water provision ; Naher Ostens (Mittlerer Osten) ; Soziologie und Anthropologie
    Abstract: Dieses Dissertationsprojekt befasst sich mit der Bedeutung von urbaner Infrastruktur für syrische Stadtbewohner:innen vor Beginn des Krieges, der auf die friedlichen Proteste im Jahre 2011 folgte. Fokus der Arbeit liegt auf den Infrastrukturnetzwerken Wasserversorgung und Müllentsorgung in der Stadt Aleppo im Nordwesten Syriens. In den Interviews, die für die Forschungsarbeit mit aleppinischen Exilant:innen geführt wurden, zeigte sich, dass die beiden Netzwerke auch über ihren Zusammenbruch im Kontext kriegerischer Auseinandersetzungen in Aleppo (insbesondere zwischen 2012 und 2016) hinaus Funktionen im Leben der Befragten erfüllten – nun mehr weit weg von Aleppo im westeuropäischen Exil. Beispielsweise diente die Beschreibung von privaten Praktiken und institutionalisierten Abläufen der Müllentsorgung auch im Exil der Einteilung der aleppinischen Bevölkerung in bestimmte soziale Gruppen. Auch die politische Bedeutung der Wasserversorgung überdauerte den infrastrukturellen Kollaps. Vor diesem Hintergrund diskutiert diese Dissertation mit Hinblick auf insbesondere Literatur inspiriert durch die actor-network theory die zeitliche Verortung und Entstehung von Infrastrukturen. Insbesondere wird hinterfragt, ob die sozialen und materiellen Komponenten, die gemeinsam ein Infrastrukturnetzwerk bilden, notwendigerweise in Raum und Zeit koexistieren müssen. Hier schlägt die Arbeit ein Konzept von Infrastruktur vor, die zu verschiedenen Zeitpunkten (dispersed in time) und, im Migrationskontext, auch an verschiedenen Orten entsteht.
    Abstract: This dissertation project focuses on the meaning of urban infrastructure for Syrian city dwellers before the beginning of the war that followed the peaceful protests in 2011. The project thereby focuses on the infrastructural networks of water supply and waste disposal in the city of Aleppo in northwestern Syria. Interviews conducted with Aleppans in exile showed how the two networks continued to play role in the interlocutors’ lives in Western Europe also beyond the infrastructural breakdown in the context of armed conflict in Aleppo (especially between 2012 and 2016). For example, the description of private practices and institutionalized processes of garbage disposal still served to divide the Aleppan population into specific social groups in exile. Likewise, the political meaning of water supply in Aleppo survived the infrastructural collapse of the provision of water in the city. Against this background, this dissertation discusses the temporality of the emergence of infrastructures with regard to literature inspired by actor-network theory. In particular, it questions whether the social and material components that in their interactions form an infrastructural network necessarily need to coexist in time and space. Here, the work proposes a concept of infrastructure that emerges at different points in time (infrastructure as dispersed in time), and, in the context of migration, also in different places.
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    Keywords: Well-being ; Refugee ; Turkey ; Health ; Earthquake ; Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: Key points: (1) Social and economic disadvantages and poor living conditions of Syrians in Turkey prior to the earthquakes made them particularly vulnerable to the destructive force of the earthquakes. (2) Syrians have less social, financial and material resources to cope with the earthquake-related losses and damages, amplifying inequalities and vulnerabilities. (3) Rather than receiving the social and economic support that could help compensate for existing inequalities, some Syrians report experiences of discrimination and serious problems because of inadequate aid.
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    In:  65,2, Seiten 292-308
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (17 Seiten)
    Publ. der Quelle: London : Sage
    Angaben zur Quelle: 65,2, Seiten 292-308
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    Keywords: family structure ; gender ; health outcomes ; longitudinal methods ; well-being ; Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: We investigate how loneliness develops over the marital dissolution process in older age (i.e., transition at or after age 50) while paying close attention to heterogeneities by the dissolution pathway—widowhood and separation—and gender. Using data from over 8,000 Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia survey respondents, we assess the association of interest using fixed effects regressions. Findings indicate that loneliness increased in the year before widowhood or separation among both women and men. Levels spiked in the year of dissolution, particularly for widowhood but less for separation. Widowed men were substantially more affected than widowed women, and gender differences were negligible for separation. Although loneliness levels gradually declined, widowed men remained vulnerable for remarkably long periods. Such chronic loneliness might be linked to other health disadvantages. These findings highlight the importance of long-term and gender-specific approaches to social support and integration after marital dissolution.
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    ISSN: 0022-2445 , 0022-2445
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (21 Seiten)
    Publ. der Quelle: Oxford [u.a.] : Wiley-Blackwell
    Angaben zur Quelle: 86,5, Seiten 1586-1606
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: family theory ; inequalities ; international ; lifespan development ; longitudinal research ; theory ; Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: Objective We propose a life course theoretical framework for understanding variation in family life courses between birth cohorts (historical time), societies (place), and social groups (social location). Building on the life course paradigm, we explain how key predictors on different levels of analysis can reinforce, precondition, counteract, preclude, or alter each other's influence on family life courses in specific contexts. The proposed framework re-organizes and extends core principles of the life course paradigm into family life course predictors and outcomes on the individual, relational, and population levels. Background The life course approach is a well-recognized interdisciplinary paradigm in family research but often remains too abstract to guide hypotheses about family life course variation. Method We demonstrate the utility of the proposed framework with a qualitative case study on family life courses in Senegal and a quantitative case study on family life course change between Baby Boomer and Millennial cohorts in the United States using sequence analysis. Results Findings of the two example applications support that fertility decline in Senegal was primarily driven by material considerations and not by ideational change and that family life course de-standardization was greater between White Baby Boomers and Millennials compared to Black Boomers and Millennials. Conclusion Developing narrower mid-range theories that fill the basic life course principles with substantive content and target specific fields of application, such as family life courses, is promising to advance life course theory.
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    Dissertation note: Kumulative Dissertation Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 2023
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    Keywords: Hochschulschrift ; Reflexive Bibliometrie ; Forschungsevaluation ; Forschungsverhalten ; Rational Choice Framework ; Akademische Kultur ; Publikationsdruck ; Foschungsqualität ; wissenschaftliches Fehlverhalten ; Reflexive Metrics ; Research Evaluation ; Research Behaviour ; Rational Choice Framework ; Academic Culture ; Publication Pressure ; Research Quality ; Research Misconduct ; Soziologie und Anthropologie ; Astronomie und zugeordnete Wissenschaften ; Organisationen und Management ; Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaften
    Abstract: Diese Dissertation aus der Sparte der Reflexiven Bibliometrie erforscht die Rückwirkungen der Verwendung von quantitativen Indikatoren in der Wissenschaftsevaluation auf die Wissensproduktion und Forschungsqualität in der Astronomie. Eine qualitative Analyse der strukturellen Bedingungen der akamdeischen Astronomie anhand des Rational Choice Frameworks führen zur Beobachtung eines "Evaluation Gap" zwischen dem, was Indikatoren messen und dem, was Forscher unter Forschungsqualität verstehen. Die Analyse offenbart weiters einen Balanceakt, in dem Astronomen zwischen Publikationsdruck und Forschungsintegrität Kompromisse finden. Weiterführende quantitative Untersuchungen unter Einbezug von Organisational Culture Theories und Self-Determination Theory zeigen, dass kontrollierte Formen von Motivation zu einem erhöhten Publikationsdruck und wissenschaftlichem Fehlverhalten führen, während autonome Formen von Motivation das Gegenteil bewirken. Schließlich skizziert die Arbeit Wege zur Transformation der Forschungskultur hin zu mehr Vielfalt und Partizipation, einschließlich der Einführung offener Wissensmanagement-Infrastrukturen und kontinuierlicher, reflexiver Evaluationsprozesse.
    Abstract: This dissertation from the field of Reflexive Bibliometrics, investigates the constitutive effects of utilizing quantitative metrics in research evaluation on knowledge production and research quality in astronomy. Embedded in the Rational Choice Framework to analyze the structural conditions within academic astronomy, a qualitative analysis reveals an "Evaluation Gap" between what metrics measure and researchers' perceptions of research quality. Furthermore, the analysis unveils a balancing act where astronomers navigate compromises between publication pressures and research integrity. Subsequent quantitative analyses, incorporating Organizational Culture Theories and Self-Determination Theory, demonstrate that controlled forms of motivation exacerbate publication pressure and scientific misconduct, while autonomous motivations yield contrasting effects. Lastly, the study outlines pathways towards transforming research culture towards greater diversity and participation, including the adoption of open knowledge management infrastructures and continuous, reflexive evaluation processes.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (12 Seiten)
    Publ. der Quelle: London : Sage Publishing
    Angaben zur Quelle: 23
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: insider/outsider ; field research ; positionality ; social justice ; intersectional transnegritude ; Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: This article explores the challenges and complexities of a cross cultural PhD student conducting research in West Africa. I discuss how I navigated, negotiated and blurred my insider/outsider experiences as a Congolese-American woman as I engaged with themes oscillating between power, legitimacy, language, gender, and my decolonial and social justice commitments. Reflexive research on Africans studying a secondary non-native African country is seldom discussed or researched. As such, I utilised an intersectional transnegritude theoretical framework to centre and complicate the shared transcolonial struggles and neocolonial realities of myself and my participants. I conclude by positing that, despite the challenges of doing transnational work, reflexively recognising our positionality lends to a liberatory and critical transnational exchange that encourages new approaches to knowledge production for social justice. This article contributes to ongoing discussions of insider/outsider research, positionality, decolonising research, and comparative case study to articulate and dearticulate power dynamics in neocolonial contexts.
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    Publ. der Quelle: Basel : MDPI
    Angaben zur Quelle: 14,3
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    Keywords: cosmopolitanization ; indeterminacy ; post-foundationalism ; social configuration ; Iranian youth ; Iranian everyday life ; IRI’s politics of identity ; the politics of hybridity ; Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: An emerging disparity within contemporary social science highlights a disconnection between the world in the process of metamorphosing and cosmopolitanization and the knowledge of the social world that is still trapped in the cognitive assumptions of modern episteme, which provided the conditions for the emergence of modern social sciences a century ago. This divide inhibits the efficacy of social analysis in comprehending and elucidating contemporary phenomena. This article advocates for a shift in the ontology of social theory and science towards the cosmopolitanization of the world, characterized by the prioritization of indeterminacy and fluidity in the construction of social phenomena. It investigates the epistemological implications and prerequisites of this ontological transformation, favoring a post-foundationalist approach as the most suitable epistemological framework. In response to the challenges posed by the uncertainty and indeterminacy of cosmopolitanization, after reviewing some of the existing theoretical efforts to address and provide alternatives to this challenge, the article proposes the examination of social configurations as the most fitting subjects for study. This approach necessitates the suspension of conventional, given, regulated categories, and trans-historical theories. It underscores the importance of recognizing configurations as incomplete, contingent units shaped within specific historical contexts and moments. The fluidity, relationality, and indeterminacy of configurations situated between the universal and the singular make them suitable for analysis at the level of particular. After elaborating on the most important features of social configurations, finally, by employing the proposed theoretical framework, this article aims to investigate its effectiveness in analyzing the process of identity construction among Iranian youth in Tehran in the context of the cosmopolitanization of reality, particularly in the face of the Islamist regime of Iran’s official politics of identity. Through a review and revision of selected empirical studies on youth identity construction in the consumer spaces of Tehran, based on the idea of social configurations within the framework of cosmopolitanization, it is argued that the genuine understanding of identity politics in contemporary Iran is not rooted in conventional analytical norms and categories but rather in a comprehensible conceptual apparatus characterized by fluidity and indeterminacy, capable of effectively making sense of the conflict between the politics of determinacy and indeterminacy in Iranian everyday life.
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    Publ. der Quelle: Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage
    Angaben zur Quelle: 72,3, Seiten 548-596
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: assisted reproduction ; gay fathers ; Germany ; Israel ; non-normative families ; normalisation ; (legal) recognition ; surrogacy ; Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: Over the past two decades, recognition of same-sex relationships and non-normative families has increased alongside greater access to reproductive technologies. Despite this progress, surrogacy, a potential path to parenthood for gay couples, remains banned in many countries. Research indicates that gay couples, facing legal restrictions, often seek reproductive services abroad, navigating complex legal, political and sociocultural contexts in both their home and destination countries. However, existing research lacks cross-country comparisons that explore how different contexts shape gay couples’ reproductive practices. This study enhances our theoretical understanding of the intricate interplay between social structure and social interactions. It explores how normative family conceptions, ingrained in legal frameworks, societal norms and cultural values at the macro level, profoundly influence the (normalising) practices of couples at the micro level. Empirically, this study compares Germany and Israel, where gay couples face starkly different challenges. Germany universally prohibits surrogacy, while Israel permits it, although not for gay men during my interviews. Drawing on interviews with couples from both countries who engaged surrogates abroad, this study analyses their struggles for legal recognition and social visibility as ‘gay father families’. In both countries, couples navigate legal, political and sociocultural contexts differently, encapsulated in a process termed ‘becoming a gay father family’, involving concealing surrogacy and appropriating heteronormative family narratives. The data indicate that the couples’ social interactions reflect and reinforce a discernible normative shift from heteronormativity to repronormativity in the context of assisted reproduction.
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    In:  24,2, Seiten 213-249
    ISSN: 1536-867X , 1536-867X
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (37 Seiten)
    Publ. der Quelle: Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage Publishing
    Angaben zur Quelle: 24,2, Seiten 213-249
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: st0745 ; twostep ; hierarchical model ; mixed model ; multilevel analysis ; two-step modeling ; two-stage regression ; estimated dependent variable regression ; EDV ; exploratory data analysis ; EDA ; cross-level interaction ; Sozialwissenschaften ; Informatik
    Abstract: In this article, we describe the package twostep, a bundle of programs to perform analyses of hierarchical data applying the two-step approach. We consider a two-level data setup in which “microlevel” units are nested within “macrolevel” units. One-step models (which can be fit using, for example, mixed) are the most common approach to modeling two-level data. The two-step approach is an alternative in which parameters associated with microlevel and macrolevel predictors are estimated separately for each level. It can be used as an alternative to one-step models if the estimand is a cross-level interaction. We also show how the two-step approach usefully complements one-step approaches by providing exploratory data analysis, descriptive graphs, and regression diagnostics.
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    Angaben zur Quelle: 67, Seiten 49-53
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: macro-paintings ; Latin America ; urban studies ; transformation ; Sozialwissenschaften
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    In:  87, Seiten 119-130
    Language: English
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    Publ. der Quelle: Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2024
    Angaben zur Quelle: 87, Seiten 119-130
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    Keywords: care ; compost ; more-than-human ; ecosystem services ; soil ; Sozialwissenschaften ; Soziologie und Anthropologie
    Abstract: In compost, the relationship between humans, more-than-humans and the environment is diffuse because it involves the active participation of an entire food web. The entanglements embedded in the composting process(es) can be studied by attempting to understand the care needed to keep a compost active and how this relates to more-than-humans. We conducted interviews with two composting advocates in Berlin and visited the Peace of Land’s composting facility. In our work, we discuss the different perspectives of the two to shed light on their motivations for the care work they provide. In doing so, we combine their responses based on practical experience with theoretical reflections. Both interviewees expressed a similar view about the reciprocal relationship between humans and more-than-humans, suggesting that composting is a simple practice that allows us to “give back” to the earth rather than just take from it. Further, the interviewees described composting as a continuous learning process that requires constant work, learning, and maintenance. Finally, the act of composting involves an ongoing interconnectedness between humans and more-than-humans. This entanglement leads us to the need to redefine anthropocentric concepts such as the concept of ecosystem services, where the role of more-than-humans has been less discussed.
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    Publ. der Quelle: Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2024
    Angaben zur Quelle: 87, Seiten 105-117
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: urban soils ; community gardens ; green infrastructure ; awareness ; care and attentiveness ; Sozialwissenschaften ; Soziologie und Anthropologie
    Abstract: „The ethic and practice of attentiveness is key to the ethic and practice of care”, states Anna Krzywoszynska, an environmental social scientist researching the relationship between humans and soils in rural contexts. For urban settings, however, a lack of soil awareness as identified by soil scientists and STS scholars seems to contrast with residents’ manifold practices of care for more-than-human matters, entities and species that are dependent on soil. This contribution draws on interviews with community gardeners and residents in two Berlin neighbourhoods – Neukölln and Mitte – where soils have figured either in the context of planting and cultivating, or in the context of soil unsealing and green infrastructure projects. From our research, we suggest that the study of certain mediators amidst the human-soil relationship – in our case dogs and plants – provides new insights into the entanglements of soil awareness, attentiveness, and care in urban settings.
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    In:  87, Seiten 95-104
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (10 Seiten)
    Publ. der Quelle: Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2024
    Angaben zur Quelle: 87, Seiten 95-104
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: urbaniziing soil ; Berlin Teufelsberg as leaky archive ; Sozialwissenschaften ; Soziologie und Anthropologie
    Abstract: In this contribution, we argue that the material process of urbanizing soil is not limited to the transformation of a “natural” into an “urban” element. Rather, soil is produced in and from cities. This is exemplified through the case of Teufelsberg, a rubble mound in the southwest of Berlin, created from 26 cubic metres of city rubble from the early 1950s onwards. We accompany soil scientists on an excursion to trace the scientific debates and troubles around classifying urban soil, studies about sulphate leaching from bricks, and recent ideas of resignifying the experimental rubble mound as a soil monument of both scientific and cultural significance. The Teufelsberg process of rubble pedogenesis confronts us with an imaginary of soils as leaky archives of human activity. Through their hybridity as both material and lively, organic and technogenic, rubble soils trouble imaginaries of elemental “purity”.
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    In:  87, Seiten 51-62
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (12 Seiten)
    Publ. der Quelle: Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2024
    Angaben zur Quelle: 87, Seiten 51-62
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: more-than-human ; temporalities ; urban soils ; SF writing ; multispecies ethnography ; Berlin ; care and attentiveness ; Sozialwissenschaften ; Soziologie und Anthropologie
    Abstract: The following article makes a claim for a way of thinking that considers the entangled web of living and non-living facing the challenges of the anthropocene. More specifically, it considers urban soil life as a matter of care and a matter of of representation. Inspired by the work of e.g. Haraway and Puig de la Bellacasa, and taking an interdisciplinary approach between physical and human geography, as well as gender studies, this article aims to point out the (im)possibility of gaps in the (re)production of scientific knowledge. It does so by focusing on science fiction stories, thus opening up a space for thinking care politically by imagining (im)possible futures set in the area of the Floating University, in Berlin.
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Villalobos Portilla, Ernesto Normalization of social inequality and its implications: the case of Zaachila Oriente in Oaxaca
    Dissertation note: Dissertation Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 2024
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    Keywords: Soziale Ungleichheit ; Armut ; Normalisierung ; Ungleichheit ; Rasse ; Mexico ; Oaxaca ; Normalization ; Inequality ; Race ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift
    Abstract: Die Normalisierung der Ungleichheit in Oaxaca, Mexiko, ist ein Prozess, der sich seit der Kolonialzeit entwickelt hat, als Konzepte wie Rasse die bestehende soziale Trennung zwischen Europäern und indigenen Gemeinschaften definierten. Diese Entwicklung setzte sich in der postkolonialen Ära fort, wo die Marginalisierung gefährdeter Gruppen bis in die Gegenwart andauert. Im modernen Mexiko haben die politischen und wirtschaftlichen Eliten verschiedene Mechanismen der Ungleichheit entwickelt, die die soziale Mobilität der schwächsten Bevölkerungsgruppen einschränken. Daher werden in dieser Fallstudie drei wichtige Mechanismen auf verschiedenen Ebenen identifiziert. Der erste wird als subnationaler Autoritarismus bezeichnet und zeigt, wie verschiedene Strategien, z. B. das Aufbrechen sozialer Bindungen, es den Eliten ermöglichen, ihre Macht zu konsolidieren und klare Grenzen zwischen den sozialen Klassen zu ziehen. Der andere Mechanismus sind die Sozialprogramme, die zu Veränderungen in den Praktiken der Menschen führen, die Zugang zu ihnen haben, und individualistische Praktiken fördern, die auch dem Erwerb von Sozialkapital schaden. Schließlich wird der Familienindividualismus identifiziert, dessen Hauptziel darin besteht, das Wohlergehen der Menschen innerhalb des Familienkerns zu sichern, aber außerhalb des Familienkerns ist die Schaffung anderer Arten von Kapital aufgrund des Fehlens schwacher Bindungen und der Produktion anderer Arten von Kapital schwierig. Diese Mechanismen haben nicht nur Auswirkungen auf die Alltagspraktiken, sondern auch auf die Herausbildung eines Habitus bei den Menschen in Zaachila Oriente.
    Abstract: Englische Version: The normalization of inequality in Oaxaca, Mexico has been a process that has been developing since colonial times, where concepts such as race defined the existing social division between Europeans and Indigenous communities. This later moved into the post-colonial era where marginalization of vulnerable groups continued into the present day. During modern Mexico, political and economic elites have designed different mechanisms of inequality that restricts social mobility for the most vulnerable classes. Therefore, this cases study identifies three important mechanisms at different scales. The first is named subnational authoritarianism and it shows how different strategies, such as the rupture of social ties, allow elites to consolidate power and establish clear limits among social classes. The other mechanism identified are the social programs, these lead to changes in the practices of the people who have access to them and encourage individualistic practices that also harm the acquisition of social capital. Finally, family individualism is identified, the main objective is to safeguard the welfare of people within the family core, but outside the family nucleus, the creation of other types of capital is difficult due to the absence of weak ties and the production of different types of capital. These mechanisms have implications not only for everyday practices but also for the production of habitus within the people in Zaachila Oriente.
    Note: Datum der Verteidigung: 16.05.2024. - Der Text enthält eine Zusammenfassung in deutscher und englischer Sprache.. - Veröffentlichung der elektronischen Ressource auf dem edoc-Server der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin: 2024
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    Publ. der Quelle: Taylor & Francis : London [u.a.], 2024
    Angaben zur Quelle: 20,1
    DDC: 301
    Keywords: Epistemic agonism ; social ecological systems ; participatory modelling ; subjectivity ; performativity ; interdisciplinarity ; Soziologie und Anthropologie
    Abstract: In this paper we extend the use of a relational approach to simulation modelling, a widely used knowledge practice in sustainability science. Among modellers, there is awareness that model results can only be interpreted in view of the assumptions that inform model construction and analysis, but less systematic questioning of those assumptions. Moreover, current methodological discussions tend to focus on integrating social and ecological dynamics or diverse knowledges and data within a model. Yet choices regarding types of modelling, model structure, data handling, interpretation of results and model validation are not purely epistemic. They are entangled with values, contexts of production and use, power relations, and pragmatic considerations. Situated Modelling extends a relational understanding of the world to scientific knowledge production and with that to modelling itself in order to enable a systematic interrogation of these choices and to research social-ecological transformations relationally. To make tangible the situatedness of simulation modelling, we build on existing practices and describe the situatedness of three distinct modelling approaches. We then suggest four guiding principles for Situated Modelling: 1. attending to the apparatus of knowledge production that is socially and materially embedded and produced by e.g. research infrastructures, power relations, and ways of thinking; 2. considering how agency is distributed between model, world, data, modeller in model construction; 3. creating heterogenous collectives which together occupy the formerly individualised subject position; and 4. using agonism as an epistemic virtue to retain and work with significant differentiations of social-ecological dynamics throughout the modelling process.
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    In:  89, Seiten 25-42
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    Angaben zur Quelle: 89, Seiten 25-42
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    Keywords: German memory culture ; difficult heritage ; Multidirectional Memory ; Museum of European Cultures ; (post)migrant society ; deutsche Erinnerungskultur ; schwieriges Erbe ; multidirektionale Erinnerung ; Museum Europäischer Kulturen ; (post)migrantische Gesellschaft ; Soziologie und Anthropologie
    Abstract: The founding of the Museum of European Cultures (Museum Europäischer Kulturen, MEK) is the product of a complex process of fusion and transformation. In 1992, in the aftermath of German unification, the state folklore museums of East and West Berlin – Museum für Volkskunde and Museum für Deutsche Volkskunderespectively – were merged to form a united Museum of Folklore (Museum für Volkskunde). In 1999, the latter merged with the European Department of the Museum of Ethnology (Abteilung Europa des Museums für Völkerkunde) and was named the Museum of European Cultures. This article addresses the tension between the continuous marginalization of the MEK with its “difficult heritage” (Macdonald 2009, 1) in the shadow of the German Historical Museum (Deutsches Historisches Museum) and the Humboldt Forum, and the political history of its founding process after 1989. Looking at the history of this museum’s transformation in light of Michael Rothberg's (2021 [2009]) multidirectional memory-political dynamics, it becomes clear how different vectors of memory have overlapped and influenced each other in the process, including memories of the Second World War, East-West division of Germany, and the country’s subsequent unification. At the same time, a fundamental change in museum practice can be observed in the course of the museum’s 'European' transformation, which is inscribed in the memory-cultural dynamics of a (post)migrant society.
    Abstract: Die Gründung des Museums Europäischer Kulturen (MEK) ist das Ergebnis eines komplexen Fusions- und Transformationsprozesses. Im Zuge der deutschen Wiedervereinigung wurden 1992 die staatlichen Volkskundemuseen Ost- und Westberlins – das Museum für Volkskunde bzw. das Museum für Deutsche Volkskunde – zu einem gemeinsamen Museum für Volkskunde zusammengeführt. Letzteres wurde 1999 mit der Abteilung Europa des Museums für Völkerkunde zusammengelegt und erhielt den Namen Museum Europäischer Kulturen. Der Beitrag thematisiert das Spannungsverhältnis zwischen der anhaltenden Marginalisierung des MEK und dessen "schwierigem Erbe" (Macdonald 2009, 1) im Schatten des Deutschen Historischen Museums und des Humboldt Forums und der politischen Geschichte seines Gründungsprozesses nach 1989. Bei der Betrachtung der Transformationsgeschichte dieses Museums vor dem Hintergrund von Michael Rothbergs (2021 [2009]) multidirektionaler Erinnerung wird deutlich, wie sich verschiedene Erinnerungslinien überlagern und gegenseitig beeinflussen, unter anderem die Erinnerung an den Zweiten Weltkrieg, die Ost-West-Teilung Deutschlands und die anschließende Wiedervereinigung des Landes. Zugleich lässt sich im Rahmen der "europäischen" Transformation des Museums ein grundlegender Wandel in der Museumspraxis beobachten, der in erinnerungskulturelle Dynamiken der (post)migrantischen Gesellschaft eingeschrieben ist.
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    In:  89, Seiten 3-24
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (22 Seiten)
    Publ. der Quelle: Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2024
    Angaben zur Quelle: 89, Seiten 3-24
    DDC: 301
    Keywords: Germany ; Holocaust ; memoryscape ; postcolonial ; postmigrant ; postsocialist ; Deutschland ; Holocaust ; Erinnerungslandschaft ; postkolonial ; postmigrantisch ; postsozialistisch ; Soziologie und Anthropologie
    Abstract: This essay introduces the 89th issue of Berliner Blätter entitled Germany’s Changing Memoryscape. Postsocialist, Postmigrant, and Postcolonial Dynamics. The introduction, as well as the issue as a whole, is dedicated to how German remembrance is being transformed by various posts, first and foremost those invoked in the title. It argues that while postmigrant, postsocialist, and postcolonial memories have still to make considerable inroads into changing the existing Holocaust-centered memory regime in Germany, they have already changed the country’s broader memoryscape and are continuing to do so. The issue’s focus is on ways in which this transformation is experienced in practice, and the following introductory remarks present the editors’ key arguments, contextualizing them within German memory as it developed after World War II (WWII) and substantiating them with the volume’s contributions.
    Abstract: Dieser Beitrag leitet die 89. Ausgabe der Berliner Blätter mit dem Titel Germany’s Changing Memoryscape. Postsocialist, Postmigrant, and Postcolonial Dynamics ein. Die Einleitung wie auch die gesamte Ausgabe sind der Frage gewidmet, wie sich die deutsche Erinnerungskultur durch verschiedene, insbesondere die im Titel genannten, Dynamiken wandelt. Es wird argumentiert, dass es postmigrantische, postsozialistische und postkoloniale Erinnerungen zwar noch schwer haben, das bestehende Holocaust-zentrierte Erinnerungsregime in Deutschland zu verändern, dass sie aber die breitere Erinnerungslandschaft des Landes bereits verändert haben und dies auch weiterhin tun. Der Schwerpunkt der Ausgabe liegt auf der Frage, wie sich dieser Wandel in der Praxis gestaltet. Die folgenden einleitenden Überlegungen stellen die wichtigsten Argumente der Herausgeber:innen vor, kontextualisieren sie vor dem Hintergrund der deutschen Erinnerungskultur, wie sie sich nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg entwickelt hat, und verbinden sie mit den Beiträgen dieser Ausgabe.
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    Keywords: Zeitschrift ; Soziologie und Anthropologie
    Abstract: Germany’s memoryscape is transforming. Long structured by a focus on the Nazi past and the Holocaust, in which other memories tended to be marginalized out of concern that they might relativize this terrible history, it is increasingly incorporating – and being changed by – other strands of collective remembrance. In particular, Germany’s socialist and colonial pasts, and its multiple histories of migration are gaining significant public presence. How do these mnemonic impulses come together and interact? What are the implications for the dynamics of public remembering? Drawing on ethnographic and other original research, this issue provides new insights into the ongoing transformation.
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    Keywords: Bericht ; Ethnology ; Cultural Anthropology ; Colonialism ; Postcolonialism ; Colonial Contexts ; Libraries ; Archives ; Museums ; University collections ; Provenance research ; Finding Aid ; Kultur und Institutionen ; Internationale Migration und Kolonisation ; Museumswissenschaft (Museologie) ; Allgemeine Bibliotheken und Archive
    Abstract: The paper provides an overview of resources for researching materials from colonial contexts in libraries, archives and museums and university collections. It is based on the authors’ presentations at the digital information meeting "Provenance research and funding opportunities in Germany“ which was organized by the Network Colonial Contexts on 14 and 16 February 2024.
    Abstract: Das Arbeitspapier gibt einen Überblick über Ressourcen zur Forschung zu Materialien aus kolonialen Kontexten in Bibliotheken, Archiven und Museen sowie Universitätssammlungen. Es basiert auf den Vorträgen der Autor:innen auf der digitalen Informationsveranstaltung "Provenienzforschung und Fördermöglichkeiten in Deutschland", die vom Netzwerk Koloniale Kontexte am 14. und 16. Februar 2024 veranstaltet wurde.
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    Publ. der Quelle: Lausanne : Frontiers Media, 2024
    Angaben zur Quelle: 6
    DDC: 301
    Keywords: TikTok ; Muslim women ; third space theory ; influencers ; marginalized groups ; intersectionality ; Germany ; Soziologie und Anthropologie
    Abstract: Introduction: Social media has become a central part of everyday life, providing spaces for communication, self-expression, and social mobilization. TikTok, specifically, has emerged as a prominent platform for marginalized groups, providing opportunities for activism and representation. However, research falls short in examining the specific role of TikTok for Muslim women in Germany who face intersecting forms of marginalization. This shortcoming reflects a broader lack of research on the experiences of marginalized groups within TikTok’s logics and affordances, and what functions the platform fulfills for these communities. Against this backdrop, this study examines TikTok’s role as a platform for Muslim female content creators in Germany and its broader implications for marginalized communities. Our research is guided by the following questions: (a) What are the main themes and topics that are being brought forward by Muslim women content creators on TikTok? (b) What technical affordances do they use to communicate their content? (c) What functions does TikTok fulfill for Muslim women as an intersectionally marginalized group?. Methods: We analyze 320 videos from 32 public TikTok accounts identified through snowball sampling. Data collection includes automated web scraping, manual transcription, and qualitative coding. This allows us to identify main topics, video formats, and content types to answer our research questions. Results: Our findings show that Muslim women produce diverse content on TikTok, ranging from beauty and lifestyle to religious education and social justice. They shape the platform’s functionalities through creative use, while TikTok’s algorithm and virality logic drive creators to blend entertainment with personal content. The hijab emerges as a unique issue, framed within both political and fashion discourses. Overall, TikTok functions as a “third space” where Muslim women challenge mainstream stereotypes and offer alternative interpretations of their identity. While TikTok provides empowerment and visibility, it also exposes Muslim women to hate speech and harassment. The platform provides tools to counter these issues, but the underlying social hierarchies often limit their visibility, making TikTok both a site of empowerment and vulnerability. Discussion: This study highlights the need for further research into the role of social media for marginalized groups, particularly across platforms, gender, and religion.
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    In:  155,1, Seiten 14-28
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    Publ. der Quelle: Berlin : Gesellschaft für Erdkunde, 2024
    Angaben zur Quelle: 155,1, Seiten 14-28
    DDC: 301
    Keywords: downsizing ; home swapping ; elderly ; housing consumption ; housing policy ; Soziologie und Anthropologie
    Abstract: The current global trend of increasing per capita living space in combination with more and smaller households will intensify resource and energy consumptions in the housing sector. Scientific scholars, thus, unanimously plead for a reduction of per capita living consumption. Since the demographic trend of aging will further contribute to a high increase of single households and cause further under-occupation of living space, the potential to spatially downsize is particularly high among those older age cohorts. However, the often-limited housing choices for seniors do not allow for a large-scale downsizing development. Beyond that, the discourse on housing downsizing lacks a discussion of distinct strategies of how to effectively offer options for older people to do so. Hence, the paper at hand presents the distinct instrument of home swapping which has lately been introduced by several German municipalities to more adequately allocate the existing housing space. Since a profound scientific debate of this approach is still pending, this contribution discusses home swapping as a suitable strategy to incentivize older households to downsize on their living space. In order to do so, the home swapping schemes of four German cities have been analyzed to add scientific evidence on the potentials and challenges of the instrument to downsize housing consumption.
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    In:  89, Seiten 61-70
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    Publ. der Quelle: Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2024
    Angaben zur Quelle: 89, Seiten 61-70
    DDC: 301
    Keywords: Africa ; Ethnological Museum ; Humboldt Forum ; Matters of Perspective ; postcolonialism ; Afrika ; Ethnologisches Museum ; Humboldt Forum ; Ansichtssache(n) ; Postkolonialismus ; Soziologie und Anthropologie
    Abstract: In this exhibition review I discuss the curatorial choices employed in the installation Matters of Perspective in the Humboldt Forum’s Ethnological Museum, Berlin. I examine the exhibition’s key framing elements, analyze the sub-installation entitled Das Deutsche in mir ist indirekt, and conclude with a discussion of the adjacent artwork Township Wall, interpreting its role in shaping perceptions about the African collections. I argue that Matters of Perspective is strident in revealing aspects of the German colonial past pertinent to the encounter with ethnological collections at a time of roiling public debate. It boldly introduces historical issues of race, difference, and German colonial legacies, and does especially well at profiling socialist histories of transnational solidarity during the Cold War. Yet, overall, the exhibition deals in a language of contrition that, while familiar in a German cultural context, from other vantage points may appear to some viewers as more self-congratulatory than critical. In other words, the exhibition’s framing of perspectives is rather out of focus with the substantive matters of power, history, and structural racism at stake when addressing colonial legacies in a museum setting such as this one.
    Abstract: In dieser Ausstellungsrezension diskutiere ich die kuratorischen Entscheidungen, die im Rahmen der Installation Ansichtssache(n) im Ethnologischen Museum des Humboldt Forums in Berlin getroffen wurden. Ich untersuche die Kernelemente der Ausstellung, analysiere die Teilausstellung Das Deutsche in mir ist indirekt und schließe mit einer Diskussion des angrenzenden Kunstwerks Township Wall, wobei ich die Rolle dieses Kunstwerks in Bezug auf die Wahrnehmung der afrikanischen Sammlungen interpretiere. Ich argumentiere, dass Ansichtssache(n) Aspekte der deutschen kolonialen Vergangenheit aufzeigt, die für die Auseinandersetzung mit ethnologischen Sammlungen in einer Zeit hitziger öffentlicher Debatten relevant sind. Die Ausstellung behandelt auf mutige Weise historische Themen wie race, Differenz und deutsches Kolonialerbe und stellt besonders gut die sozialistische Geschichte der transnationalen Solidarität während des Kalten Krieges dar. Doch insgesamt bedient sich die Ausstellung einer Sprache der Reue, die in der deutschen Kulturlandschaft zwar nicht unbekannt ist, die aber aus manchen Blickwinkeln eher selbstgefällig als kritisch erscheint. Mit anderen Worten sind die Perspektiven der Ausstellung nicht auf die wesentlichen Fragen von Macht, Geschichte und strukturellem Rassismus gerichtet, um die es bei der Auseinandersetzung mit kolonialem Erbe in einem Museum wie dem vorliegenden eigentlich gehen sollte.
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    In:  89, Seiten 43-60
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    Publ. der Quelle: Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2024
    Angaben zur Quelle: 89, Seiten 43-60
    DDC: 301
    Keywords: colonialism ; Germany ; material culture ; memory ; provenance ; restitution ; Kolonialismus ; Deutschland ; materielle Kultur ; Erinnerung ; Provenienz ; Restitution ; Soziologie und Anthropologie
    Abstract: What does it mean in Germany for colonial history to acquire the status of a new phase of coming to terms with the past alongside, and often in tension with, the memory of the National Socialist and East German pasts? This article explores this politics of memory through the changing role of material restitution at the governmental level. Governments play a central role in shaping and enabling (or disabling) what becomes part of a country’s public memory through state-sanctioned discourses and institutional structures, which we can call memory infrastructures. This article specifically inquires into how provenance research, once a relatively obscure art-historical method, has come to play a critical role within German memory culture. Through examining government discourses that shape the discursive field, I show how a memory infrastructure for colonial reckoning builds on the centrality of provenance research in reckoning with Nazi looted art and adapts it for confronting the colonial past. I suggest we might call this provenance-centered reckoning, and that it has begun to reshape the contours of reckoning with the past in Germany.
    Abstract: Was bedeutet es, dass in Deutschland der Kolonialgeschichte eine neue Phase der Vergangenheitsbewältigung neben der Erinnerung an die nationalsozialistische und ostdeutsche Vergangenheit – und oft in Spannung zu dieser – beigemessen wird? Dieser Artikel untersucht die Erinnerungspolitik anhand der sich wandelnden Rolle materieller Restitution auf staatlicher Ebene. Regierungen spielen eine zentrale Bedeutung bei der Gestaltung und Ermöglichung (oder Verhinderung) dessen, was durch staatlich sanktionierte Diskurse und institutionelle Strukturen, die als Erinnerungsinfrastrukturen bezeichnet werden können, Teil der öffentlichen Erinnerung eines Landes wird. In diesem Artikel wird insbesondere untersucht, wie die Provenienzforschung, einst eine relativ obskure kunsthistorische Methode, eine entscheidende Stellung in der deutschen Erinnerungskultur erlangt hat. Durch die Analyse staatlicher Diskurse, die das diskursive Feld prägen, demonstriere ich, wie eine Erinnerungsinfrastruktur für die koloniale Aufarbeitung auf der zentralen Bedeutung der Provenienzforschung für die Aufarbeitung der NS-Raubkunst aufbaut und sie für die Auseinandersetzung mit der kolonialen Vergangenheit adaptiert. Ich schlage vor, dies als provenienzzentrierte Aufarbeitung zu bezeichnen, und zeige, dass diese begonnen hat, die Konturen der Vergangenheitsaufarbeitung in Deutschland neu zu gestalten.
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    Keywords: afrikanische Diaspora ; Afro-Abstammung ; Rassendemokratie ; afrolateinamerikanische Identität ; African Diaspora ; Afro-descendance ; Racial Democracy ; Afro-Latin Identity ; Soziologie und Anthropologie
    Abstract: Wissenschaftler*innen haben zwei unterschiedliche Kategorien der afrikanischen Diaspora identifiziert. Um diese zu analysieren, bedarf es den Gebrauch verschiedener Parameter. Bei der ersten handelt es sich um die Historische Diaspora aus Afrika stammender Menschen, die aus dem transatlantischen Sklavenhandel und seinen ,Begleiterscheinungen' - wie die Ausbeutung afrikanischer Männer, Frauen und Kinder, die aus Afrika als versklavte Population und als Zwangsarbeiter nach Amerika verschleppt wurden - hervorging. Diese systematische Diasporisierung erstreckte sich über einen Zeitraum vom 16. bis hin zum 19. Jahrhundert und führte zu dem, was heute als afronachkommende Bevölkerung der heutigen Nationen Lateinamerikas und der Karibik, einschließlich den USA bezeichnet wird. Die zweite Kategorie ist das Ergebnis eines neueren Phänomens, das als Wirtschaftliche Diasporisierung von Menschen afrikanischer Herkunft beschrieben wird, die auf der Suche nach besseren Lebensbedingungen vereinzelt ins selbst gewählte Exil in den Globalen Norden gehen. Ein hauptsächlicher Unterschied zwischen beiden Kategorien ist der Fakt, dass Mitglieder*innen der wirtschaftlichen Diaspora Gruppe eine offene und konstante Beziehung zu ihrer afrikanischen Heimat aufrechterhalten. So pflegen sie weiterhin konkrete Verwandtschafts-, ethnische und nationale Bindungen mit dem Land, dessen afrikanische Nationalität sie haben. Sie nehmen am täglichen Leben der Nation, einschließlich durch soziale Medien, teil. Zudem werden sie von den, auf dem Kontinent zurückgebliebenen Angehörigen, aufgrund ihrer Fremdwährungsüberweisungen an Familie und Freunde in der Heimat, als reale oder potenzielle Wohltäter*innen angesehen. Außerdem erfüllen sie weiterhin bürgerschaftliche Verantwortung, wie die Teilnahme am Wahlprozess in ihren Heimatländern. Umgekehrt sind Mitglieder*innen der historischen afrikanischen Diaspora in den Amerikas so einer engen Beziehung zu Afrika beraubt. Grund dafür ist die historische Trennung von einem bestimmten Ort in Afrika, welcher durch den systematischen Abbruch ihrer Verwandtschaftsbeziehungen zu Afrika verursacht wurde. In der Tat ist es virtuell unmöglich ihre Wurzeln zu einer bestimmten Abstammung, einem bestimmten Ort oder Nationalität im gegenwärtigen Afrika zurückzuverfolgen. Daher ist das Wort „Afro“ in der Identität der Afrobrasilianer*innen, Afrokolumbianer*innen oder Afro-Puerto Ricaner*innen, usw. nur zu einer symbolischen Zugehörigkeit, denn ihre afrikanische Nationalität ist bestenfalls vorgestellt oder ausgelebt, ohne dass die Möglichkeit besteht, den Pass eines afrikanischen Staates als Erbe ihrer direkten Eltern oder Großeltern mitzuführen. Diese Antrittsvorlesung ist eine Einschätzung der Mühen und des Prozesses der Konstruktion einer Afroidentität durch die Mitglieder*innen der historischen afrikanischen Diaspora, welche heute die afronachkommende Bevölkerung der dreiunddreißig Nationen umfassend der lateinamerikanischen und karibischen Regionen ausmacht. Schlussendlich hinterfragt diese Vorlesung die long durée ihres Strebens nach vollen und kompletten Staatsbürgerechten und -privilegien im modernen lateinamerikanischen und karibischen Ländern, wie Brasilien, Kuba, Kolumbien, Trinidad und Tobago, die Dominikanische Republik, Puerto-Rico, Mexiko, Venezuela, usw.
    Abstract: Researchers have identified two distinct categories of the African Diaspora which must be analysed using different parameters. The first is the Historic Diaspora of African peoples occasioned by the Trans-Atlantic Slavery and its correlates such as the exploitation of African men, women and children sequestered from Africa as enslaved populations and indentured labourers in the Americas. This systematic diasporisation of Africans lasted from the 16th to the 19th Centuries and resulted in what is today considered the Afro-descendant populations of modern day nations of Latin America and the Caribbean, including the USA. The second category is the product of a more recent phenomenon which has been described as the economic diasporisation of African peoples through a sporadic self exile towards the Global North in quest of better living conditions. A major difference between the two categories is the fact that members of the Economic Diaspora group maintain an open and constant access to their African homeland. In fact, they continue to preserve concrete kinship, ethnic and national links with the country of their African nationality. They participate in the daily life of the nation including via the social media, and are looked upon as real or potential benefactors by the loved ones left behind on the continent thanks to their foreign currency remittances to family and friends back home. Furthermore, they continue to fulfil civic responsibilities such as participation in electoral processes in their home country. Conversely, members of the Historic African Diaspora located in the Americas are deprived of such intimate relationship with Africa because of the historic disconnection with any specific location in Africa occasioned by the systematic rupture of their direct kinship ties with Africa. Indeed, it is virtually impossible to trace their Roots in Africa to any specific lineage, location or nationality in contemporary Africa. This is what makes the “afro” in the identity of Afro-Brazilians, Afro-Columbians or Afro-Puerto-Ricans, etc. only a symbolic belonging because their citizenship of Africa is at best imagined and lived out without the possibility of carrying the passport of any African state as an inheritance from their direct parents or grand-parents. This Inaugural Lecture is an appraisal of the travails and the process of afro-identity contruction by the members of the Historic African Diaspora who, today, make up the Afro-descendant populations of the thirtythree nations comprising the Latin American and Caribbean regions. Ultimately, the Lecture interrogates the long durée of their quest for full citizenship rights and privileges in modern Latin-American and Caribbean countries such as Brazil, Cuba, Colombia, Trinidad and Tobago, the Dominican Republic, Puerto-Rico, Mexico,Venezuela, etc.
    Note: Antrittsvorlesung am 19. Juli 2023 von Prof. Dr. Félix Ayoh' OMIDIRE, Gastprofessor für "African Diaspora Studies" am Institut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
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  • 74
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    Angaben zur Quelle: 87, Seiten 159-166
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    Keywords: heat ; waves ; cooling infrastructure ; future imaginaries ; climate change ; Sozialwissenschaften ; Soziologie und Anthropologie
    Abstract: This paper is an exploration into future imaginaries of heat. In May 2022, Elisabeth and Jorge, the authors of the paper, met Juli, a heat researcher, who invited them into a time travel to a future world where and when heat is at the core of public life. In their imaginary journey they travel across three different loops, each of them increasingly hotter. In their travel they encounter multiple knowledges and technologies that future citizens of the world have invented and developed to cope with and mitigate heat, and they somehow experience them.
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    In:  87, Seiten 143-157
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    Keywords: unhoused ; homeless ; heatwaves ; Anthropocene ; problematization ; Sozialwissenschaften ; Soziologie und Anthropologie
    Abstract: Increasing temperatures during summer put the health of unhoused people at risk in Berlin. This article examines an NGO heat relief project as a specific problematization of the phenomenon of urban heat. The paper combines qualitative interviews with unhoused activists, potential clients, and project staff with participant observation as a volunteer at the heat relief project. It finds that the heat relief project employs an experimental approach that attempts to enroll a variety of actors to join its problematization. However, this problematization is contested by activists and unhoused people, as they have their own strategies for dealing with urban heat. Another finding is that due to its seasonal nature and unpredictability, urban heat holds the potential to engage and disengage actors and shape political action. This paper contributes to research on climate change's effects on so-called 'vulnerable' communities and the different ways urban heat holds political potential.
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    In:  87, Seiten 131-141
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    Angaben zur Quelle: 87, Seiten 131-141
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    Keywords: urban gardening ; urban planning ; public spaces ; comfort ; care ; Munich ; Sozialwissenschaften ; Soziologie und Anthropologie
    Abstract: In recent years, many cities in Germany have reevaluated the role of urban gardening projects in the context of broader concerns with the sustainability of food systems. Using the example of three different urban gardening projects in Munich we take a look at obstacles, resistances and conflicts that urban gardening encounters when moving into open public spaces. Our inquiry seeks to address the following questions: What challenges do urban gardening projects face? Can they be integrated into open urban spaces? And, if so, what challenges do these projects pose to design ideals of urban public space? Gardening contradicts current norms and imaginaries of what constitutes a “good” public space, which is supposed to be designed for (human) comfort. We suggest that comfort in public spaces must be re-imagined as the outcome of active engagement in the production and maintenance of urban gardens and should include the production of a comfortable space for non-human urban inhabitants. We conclude that urban gardening promotes a careful and caring use of public space.
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  • 77
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    Angaben zur Quelle: 87, Seiten 43-50
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    Keywords: rainwater retention basin ; Floating e.V. ; three-way hybrid ; Sozialwissenschaften ; Soziologie und Anthropologie
    Abstract: This paper explores the concept of emerging hybrid urban realms by capturing a notion of hybridity. The focus is on a rainwater retention basin that has been transformed into a space for events and workshops by the Floating e. V., an artist-run association. Using a more-than-human perspective, this work highlights the importance of understanding the relational networks that shape our world and adopting a humble observing position to comprehend emerging modern categories in spaces like this. The hybrid spatial perspective offers an alternative to the divisions created by the poles of modernity, emphasising the interconnected system of relationships and responses. In this context, the paper discusses the Floating e. V.'s utilisation of the "three-way hybrid" and the concept of "response" in line with the perspectives of Whatmore and Latour on hybridity. The paper concludes by emphasising the need to acknowledge that conditions are continually evolving due to the actions of all participants, and a hybrid understanding of these realms offers a valuable lens through which we can better understand the complexities of our changing world.
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    In:  87, Seiten 3-9
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    Keywords: urban elements ; critical zones ; urban anthropology ; climate crises ; planetary care ; Sozialwissenschaften ; Soziologie und Anthropologie
    Abstract: Introductory remarks to the volume "Elemental Urbanism"
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  • 79
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    Additional Information: Berlin : Gesellschaft für Ethnographie (GfE), Institut für Europäische Ethnologie der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2024 ,87
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    Keywords: Zeitschrift ; modern urbanism ; urban landscapes ; air pollution ; soil pollution ; climate crisis ; urban anthropology ; Sozialwissenschaften ; Soziologie und Anthropologie
    Abstract: The Western world has traditionally viewed cities in opposition to the natural elements, constructing modernist urban spaces to resist the forces of water, air, fire, and earth. Today, urban societies are haunted again by the overflows and burning presences of the elements they have tried to ban. In the face of ongoing climate crises, social sciences and humanities often treat "nature" and natural elements as urbanized, shaped by urban processes rather than influencing them. How can urban anthropology develop a more integral perspective on the interaction of cities and the elementals, one that acknowledges their vitality and agency? An elemental urbanism positions cities as crucial sites in the so-called critical zone, where bodily, conceptual and political attunements to the delicate flows and interdependencies of planetary processes take shape.
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    In:  89, Seiten 113-116
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    Angaben zur Quelle: 89, Seiten 113-116
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    Keywords: Algeria ; Berlin ; demonstrations ; GDR ; Hirak ; Kabylia ; multidirectional memories ; Algerien ; Berlin ; Demonstrationen ; DDR ; Hirak ; Kabylei ; multidirektionale Erinnerungen ; Soziologie und Anthropologie
    Abstract: In this letter to her grandmother, who is based in Algeria’s region of Kabylia, the author travels across national boundaries, and across various posts, in a way that is deeply personal but speaks to the experience and memories of many who live in Germany today.
    Abstract: In diesem Brief an ihre Großmutter, die in der algerischen Region der Kabylei lebt, reist die Autorin über nationale Grenzen und verschiedene 'posts' hinweg. Dies passiert auf eine Art und Weise, die sehr persönlich ist, aber auch die Erfahrungen und Erinnerungen vieler Menschen berührt, die heute in Deutschland leben.
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    In:  89, Seiten 117-128
    Language: English
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    Keywords: anticolonial movements ; coloniality of power ; experimental cartography ; multidirectional imagination ; philosophy of relation ; Antikoloniale Bewegungen ; Kolonialität der Macht ; experimentelle Kartografie ; multidirektionale Imagination ; Philosophie der Relation ; Soziologie und Anthropologie
    Abstract: This essay describes the social context, main intentions and theoretical considerations that informed the production of the map Across the Lines.
    Abstract: Dieses Essay beschreibt den gesellschaftlichen Kontext, die Hauptintentionen und theoretischen Überlegungen, die die Produktion der Karte Grenzgänge beinflusst haben. 
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    Dissertation note: Masterarbeit Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 2024
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    Keywords: Hochschulschrift ; LGBTQ+ ; Queer Economics ; wage gap ; Oaxaca-Blinder Decomposition ; OLS Mincer wage regression ; sexual orientation ; LGBTQ+ ; Queer Economics ; wage gap ; Oaxaca-Blinder Decomposition ; OLS Mincer wage regression ; sexual orientation ; Soziologie und Anthropologie
    Abstract: Diese Studie untersucht den Einfluss der sexuellen Orientierung auf das Einkommen im deutschen Arbeitsmarkt. Anhand von Daten aus der Sozio-oekonomischen Panelstudie aus dem Jahr 2020 analysiere ich die Lohnunterschiede zwischen heterosexuellen und nicht-heterosexuellen Arbeitnehmern. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass nicht-heterosexuelle Männer etwa 7,7% weniger verdienen als ihre heterosexuellen Kollegen, während lesbische oder bisexuelle Frauen einen Einkommensvorteil von 4,22% erfahren, obwohl dieser statistisch nicht signifikant ist. Weitere Analysen, die sich auf europäisch geborene Vollzeitbeschäftigte konzentrieren, bestätigen diese Trends, wenn auch mit geringerer statistischer Signifikanz. Die Oaxaca-Blinder-Dekomposition hebt Faktoren hervor, die zur Lohnlücke beitragen, wobei Diskriminierung und berufliche Segregation die Haupttreiber hinter den Lohnunterschieden sind. Darüber hinaus betont diese Studie die Notwendigkeit weiterer Forschung und politischer Maßnahmen, um derartige Ungleichheiten auf dem Arbeitsmarkt anzugehen.
    Abstract: This study investigates the impact of sexual orientation on earnings in the German labour market. Using data from the Socio-Economic Panel survey from the year 2020, I analyse wage differentials between heterosexual and non-heterosexual workers. The findings reveal that nonheterosexual men earn approximately 7.7% less than their heterosexual counterparts, while lesbian or bisexual women experience a 4.22% income premium, though statistically insignificant. Further analysis focusing on European-born full-time workers confirms these trends, although with reduced statistical significance. Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition highlights factors contributing to the wage gap, with discrimination and occupational sorting being the main drivers behind the wage disparities. Furthermore, this study emphasises the need for further research and policy interventions to address labour market inequalities of this kind.
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    ISSN: 1098-092X , 1098-092X
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (20 Seiten)
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    DDC: 300
    Keywords: Masculinity ; Femininity ; Gender ideals ; Migrant youth ; Racial othering ; Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: The debates at the nexus of migration and gender often focus on the supposedly diverging ideals Muslims and Christians have about gender. Migrant femininities and masculinities are framed in contrast to liberal, Western values and they undermine the efforts for more gender equality in Western societies. Only a few studies have addressed non-Muslim migrants' construction of, and their perceptions of, the femininities and masculinities of others. To fill this gap, we present the findings of a qualitative social research project where 43 young people aged 16 to 29 shared with us their perceptions regarding gender ideals. In our analysis, we utilize theories developed within women's studies and critical men and masculinities scholarship and adopt an intersectional lens to investigate how young first- and second-generation migrants in Berlin with roots in different world regions imagine their own and others' ideals of masculinity and femininity. Like non-migrant youth, our research participants want their life partnerships to be based on gender equality. Contrary to this, their ideals of femininity and masculinity embrace traditional gender roles, and they mirror the racialized relations in German society. We do not argue that the migrant youth's gender ideals are significantly shaped by their ethnic or religious belonging, and thus they do differ from those of non-migrant youth. However, racial othering is relevant for these migrants' images of their life partners and should be taken under consideration while designing specific policies aimed at increasing levels of gender equality in multi-diverse societies.
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    In:  53,5, Seiten 1119-1149
    ISSN: 0304-2421 , 0304-2421
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (31 Seiten)
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    Angaben zur Quelle: 53,5, Seiten 1119-1149
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    Keywords: Conflict ; Dynamics ; Escalation ; Reconciliation ; Democratic theory ; Sozialwissenschaften ; Wirtschaft
    Abstract: While democratic societies experience intense conflicts about topics such as migration and climate action, there is no sound theory of democratic conflict. Agonistic theories emphasize the importance of conflict for democracy, but disregard conflict dynamics. Conflict sociology has focused on international or violent conflicts and neglects democratic conflicts. This article shows how this lacuna can be overcome. First, it develops an innovative, empirically informed processual approach to democratic conflicts. To this end, it draws on a broad range of scholarship from sociology and social psychology, and integrates relevant insights into a processual framework for analyzing democratic conflicts that explores mechanisms of escalation, de-escalation, and reconciliation. Second, the article illustrates how this approach can ground a more elaborated democratic theory of conflict that concretizes how and when conflicts are beneficial to democracy, and explores the practices and institutions that democracies employ to cope with different conflict dynamics.
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    Keywords: Fertility ; Labor market entry ; Fixed-term employment ; Recession entry ; Optimal full matching ; Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: The conditions upon which young adults enter the labor market have been demonstrated to affect various later-life employment and family formation outcomes. After the 2008–2009 Global Financial Crisis, a thick strand of the literature has shown that precarious initial employment leads to postponed childbearing and higher ultimate childlessness. However, it is not only individual conditions that matter. Broader macroeconomic conditions upon entry also matter. The “scarring” literature has illustrated the consequences of entering the labor market during a recession on later life outcomes. Speaking to both strands and using detailed employment and birth histories of labor market entrants in Germany, this paper examines the effects of initial conditions, operationalized using fixed-term employment and recession year entry, on subsequent fertility behavior. To partly address bias from endogenous selection into initial conditions, we employ a two-step estimation strategy combining a non-parametric optimal full matching step and a parametric event history modeling step using the matched data. Results suggest that entering the labor market with a fixed-term contract is persistently and negatively associated with first births up to a decade after entry, and this pattern is pronounced only among women, whereas entering during a recession has persistent negative associations only among men.
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    Angaben zur Quelle: 11,1
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    Keywords: Development studies ; Environmental studies ; Geography ; Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: Within the migration system, the seminal Foresight report highlighted that climate change can have significant implications for staying populations. Yet research on this remains limited. This study aims to fill this gap by assessing the impacts of sustained outmigration on staying farmer communities in the Indian Himalayan Region, affected by incremental climate change. Employing an empirical qualitative approach, new data is collected through semi-structured interviews ( n  = 72). Staying communities describe migration as good, bad, and necessary with the majority (46%) noting negative impacts such as fewer people to do agriculture, abandoned assets, more tasks for women, loss of community, disrupted household structures, mental health implications for the elderly, and disinvestment in public services. While remittances from migration have positive impacts, they are primarily used for meeting everyday needs (81%) and not invested in climate change adaptation. In addition to migration impacts, changing weather patterns, agricultural shifts, and societal transformations further exacerbate the vulnerabilities of staying populations. Without policy support to address these vulnerabilities, the benefits of migration may not effectively contribute to climate change adaptation. The findings here are likely applicable to staying populations in other mountain areas, facing similar pressures from migration and climate change, underscoring the need for targeted interventions to build long-term adaptive capacity.
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    In:  87,11, Seiten 2935-2965
    ISSN: 0924-6460 , 0924-6460
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (31 Seiten)
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    Angaben zur Quelle: 87,11, Seiten 2935-2965
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: Local provision of public goods ; Political economy ; Voters ; Lobbyists ; Co-benefits ; Private costs of carbon ; Sozialwissenschaften ; Wirtschaft ; Landflächen, Naturräume für Freizeit und Erholung, Naturreservate, Energie
    Abstract: Cities increasingly address climate change, e.g. by pledging city-level emission reduction targets. This is puzzling for the provision of a global public good: what are city governments’ reasons for doing so, and do pledges actually translate into emission reductions? Empirical studies have found a set of common factors which relate to these questions, but also mixed evidence. What is still pending is a theoretical framework to explain those findings and gaps. This paper thus develops a theoretical public choice model. It features economies of scale and distinguishes urban reduction targets from actual emission reductions. The model is able to explain the presence of targets and public good provision, yet only under specified conditions. It is also able to support some stylized facts from the empirical literature, e.g. on the effect of city size, and resolves some mixed evidence as special cases. Larger cities chose more ambitious targets if marginal net benefits of mitigation rise with city size—if they set targets at all. Whether target setting is more likely for larger cities depends on the city type. Two types are obtained. The first type reduces more emissions than a free-riding city. Those cities are more likely to set a target when they are larger. However, they miss the self-chosen target. Cities of the second type reach their target, but mitigate less than a free-riding city. A third type does not exist. With its special cases, the model can thus guide further empirical and theoretical work.
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  • 88
    ISSN: 0199-0039 , 0199-0039
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (30 Seiten)
    Publ. der Quelle: : Springer Nature, 2024
    Angaben zur Quelle: 46,1
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: Migration ; Climate change ; Disasters ; Poverty ; Shocks ; Tanzania ; Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: Disruptive events and calamities can have major consequences for households in the predominantly agrarian communities of Eastern Africa. Here, we analyze the impacts of environmental and non-environmental shocks on migration in Tanzania using panel models and longitudinal data from the Tanzania National Panel Survey between 2008 and 2013. Shocks are defined as events that lead to losses in income, assets, or both. We find shocks resulting from changes in environmental conditions to be positively related to migration over time with more recent shocks exerting the strongest impact. According to our estimates, the probability of having a household member absent increases by 0.81% with each additional environmental shock encountered in the past 12 months. Different types of shocks have differential effects on migration with the strongest effects being observed for shocks with an immediate impact on household livelihoods, including through livestock losses and crop damage. Households in the sample are differently affected with rural, agriculturally dependent, and poor households without alternative income sources showing the strongest changes in their migration behavior in response to shocks. Our study adds important insights into the relationship between disruptive events and migration in Eastern Africa considering a broad time window and the compounding influence of different shock types. Our findings have a range of policy implications highlighting the need for a comprehensive perspective on household responses in times of distress that considers the interplay of different shock types as well as the role of context in shaping mobility patterns.
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  • 89
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    Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    In:  171
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (24 Seiten)
    Publ. der Quelle: Amsterdam : Elsevier, 2025
    Angaben zur Quelle: 171
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: Digitalization ; Elasticity of substitution ; Productivity ; Endogenous technology choice ; Technology frontier ; Task-based production ; Sozialwissenschaften ; Wirtschaft
    Abstract: How does digitalization transform the macroeconomic production function? Using a model where firms can choose their technology, we find that sectors with more digital capital exhibit a higher elasticity of substitution between value added and intermediate inputs and between capital and labor. This shift in the elasticity of substitution is consistent with a higher complementarity of input-specific technologies on the technology frontier. We further show that the link between technological complementarity and digital intensity can be rationalized using a task-based approach. Out of the three types of digital capital, only the levels of information technology and software/databases have a significant impact on the production function, whereas communication technology has no effects. We also find that digital technical change in value added is Hicks-neutral.
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  • 90
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (16 Seiten)
    Publ. der Quelle: Amsterdam : Elsevier, 2025
    Angaben zur Quelle: 114
    DDC: 150
    Keywords: Person-situation relations ; Narcissistic states ; RI-CLPM ; Situation perceptions, Narcissism dynamics ; Psychologie ; Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: This study investigated the dynamic interplay between narcissistic states—narcissistic agency, antagonism, and vulnerability—and situation perceptions using the DIAMONDS framework. Participants (N = 183) engaged in weekly online group discussions over six weeks, simulating the natural acquaintance process. Results showed significant co-occurrences: situation perceptions of Positivity related to heightened narcissistic agency, while Duty and Negativity perceptions were linked to narcissistic antagonism and vulnerability. Random-Intercept Cross-Lagged Panel Models revealed first causal relations, with situation perceptions often preceding changes in narcissistic states. For example, perceptions of Intellect and Positivity increased narcissistic agency, while Intellect, Duty, and Negativity triggered higher-than-usual narcissistic antagonism. Findings highlight the role of situation perceptions in shaping the momentray manifestations of narcissisism.
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  • 91
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (10 Seiten)
    Publ. der Quelle: Amsterdam : Elsevier
    Angaben zur Quelle: 346
    DDC: 610
    Keywords: Mental health ; Refugees ; Lebanon ; Turkey ; Discrimination ; Social determinants of health ; Comparative studies ; Medizin und Gesundheit ; Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: Refugees are frequently shown to have worse mental health outcomes than non-displaced populations. This fact is commonly attributed to traumatic pre-displacement experiences. While important, the focus on trauma risks overlooking the role socioeconomic living-conditions in different arrival and transit contexts can play in determining refugees’ mental distress. Building on the ecological model of refugee distress, we investigate how social ecological conditions relate to the mental distress of Syrians in Lebanon and Turkey. Both countries present important spaces of arrival and transit for millions of displaced Syrians, each with a specific historical, political, social and economic context. The empirical analysis is based on data gathered in early 2021 in face-to-face surveys among displaced Syrians in Lebanon (N = 1127) and Turkey (N = 1364). Individual mental distress is evaluated using the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-8) score as the dependent variable in a multivariate regression analysis. Social ecological factors do not only differ in their extent of deprivation between Lebanon and Turkey. They also differ in their relationship with individual mental health outcomes. In Lebanon, limited access to the health care system and having family in the same city are major risk factors for elevated mental distress, whereas in Turkey, these are low education, poverty, unemployment as well as employment as day laborer. Discrimination and social isolation emerge as relevant predictors in both countries. Based on this analysis, we argue that a context-specific understanding of mental distress amidst the social ecology refugees face in countries of refuge and transit is necessary. This approach needs to be pursued to provide adequate support and alleviate refugees’ mental distress both, in the country of first refuge and after possible onward migration. In addition to clinical implications, the study particularly highlights the important role anti-discrimination and social inclusion policies could play in promoting refugee mental health.
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  • 92
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (13 Seiten)
    Publ. der Quelle: Amsterdam : Elsevier
    Angaben zur Quelle: 91
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: Germany ; Panel regression ; Temporary employment ; UK ; Wage consequences ; Sozialwissenschaften ; Wirtschaft
    Abstract: This study investigates wage outcomes of former temporary workers by distinguishing workers obtaining permanent jobs with the same employer from those who find permanent work with a new employer. With this distinction, we build on studies investigating the wage consequences of temporary jobs, which have thus far mainly focused on cross-sectional wage gaps and longer-term wage consequences without considering employer changes. We compare Germany and the UK as two prime examples of different labour market settings and look at labour market subgroups relevant for social stratification. We estimate fixed effects individual slopes regression with data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (1995–2021), the British Household Panel Study (1992–2008), and the UK Household Longitudinal Study (2010–2021). Results show that in the rigid German and in the more flexible UK labour market, wage increase of former temporary workers is larger if the permanent job is obtained with the same employer, but only if it coincides with a job change within the firm. For transitions occurring on the same job, only workers in Germany experience wage increase. This wage increase is not higher compared to the wage increase of workers who switch employers. These patterns are similar across subgroups, with the largest deviances found for older workers in Germany.
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  • 93
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    Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    In:  37,2
    ISSN: 0933-1433 , 0933-1433
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (31 Seiten)
    Publ. der Quelle: : Springer Nature
    Angaben zur Quelle: 37,2
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: Stress ; Child health ; Iraq ; I12 ; J13 ; O15 ; Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: This paper examines the impact of exposure to violence during pregnancy on anthropometric and cognitive outcomes of children in the medium run. I combine detailed household-level data on more than 36,000 children with geo-coded information on civilian casualties in the aftermath of the US invasion of Iraq between 2003 and 2009 and exploit within-mother differences in prenatal exposure to violence. I find that one violent incident during pregnancy decreases height- and weight-for-age z-scores by 0.13 standard deviations and lowers cognitive and behavioral skills of children. Leveraging information on the severity, type and perpetrator of violence, I isolate the effect of stress from access to prenatal care. The analysis reveals that stressful events, particularly those involving direct threats to personal safety (violence directed at the civilian population and involving execution and torture), exert an even larger negative impact on child health than those incidents that disrupt health infrastructure and access to prenatal care.
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  • 94
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    Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    In:  56,1, Seiten 7-23
    ISSN: 0047-2786 , 0047-2786
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (17 Seiten)
    Publ. der Quelle: : Wiley, 2025
    Angaben zur Quelle: 56,1, Seiten 7-23
    DDC: 100
    Keywords: Philosophie, Parapsychologie und Okkultismus, Psychologie ; Sozialwissenschaften
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    Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    In:  56,1, Seiten 5-6
    ISSN: 0047-2786 , 0047-2786
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (2 Seiten)
    Publ. der Quelle: : Wiley, 2025
    Angaben zur Quelle: 56,1, Seiten 5-6
    DDC: 100
    Keywords: Philosophie, Parapsychologie und Okkultismus, Psychologie ; Sozialwissenschaften
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  • 96
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (126 Seiten)
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    Keywords: Bericht ; Ethnology ; Cultural Anthropology ; Colonialism ; Postcolonialism ; West Africa ; Togo ; Ghana ; Ethnological museums and collections ; Cultural property ; Art - Provenance ; Mission ; Togo ; Ghana ; Afrique de l'Ouest ; Colonialisme ; Postcolonialisme ; Ethnologie ; Musées ethnographiques ; Patrimoine culturel ; Provenance des oeuvres d'art ; Mission ; Museumswissenschaft (Museologie) ; Soziologie und Anthropologie ; Internationale Migration und Kolonisation ; Kultur und Institutionen
    Abstract: "Researching Colonial Provenances" is a slightly abridged version of the final report of the research project on the provenances of the collections from Togo under German colonial rule, currently in the holdings of the museums of the Staatliche Ethnographische Sammlungen Sachsen (Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden). The project, funded by the German Lost Art Foundation, focused on a collection of 700 "objects" and photographs that were acquired for or donated to the Museum für Völkerkunde Dresden and the GRASSI Museum für Völkerkunde zu Leipzig between 1899 and 1939. The project focused on the stories of their appropriation in connection with the activities of German members of the colonial police force, scientists, traders and colonial officials in Togo under German colonial rule from 1884 to 1914. The colonial actors in question are Adolf Diehl, Hans Gruner, Harry Grunitzky, Ernst F. Gütschow, Oskar Marx, Valentin von Massow, Adam Mischlich and Gaston Thierry. They acted within the context of colonial injustice, which was characterised by annexation expeditions, wars of conquest, missionary work and the appropriation of cultural items. The results of the research are published in the Online Collection of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden and in a more detailed version of the final report in the Proveana database of the German Lost Art Foundation. Situated in the more recent field of post-colonial provenance research, the report is intended as a contribution to research into the history of ethnological museums and their extensive networks in a colonial context. With its findings on the close connection between museums and the project of colonial expansion and rule, it also emphasises the responsibility that museums have in accounting for their entanglement with colonial history.
    Abstract: "Rechercher les provenances coloniales" est une version légèrement abrégée du rapport final du projet de recherche sur les provenances des collections provenant du Togo sous la domination coloniale allemande, qui se trouvent aujourd'hui dans les musées des Staatlichen Ethnographischen Sammlungen Sachsen (Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden). Le projet, soutenu par le Deutsches Zentrum Kulturgutverluste, était centré sur un ensemble de 700 "objets" et photographies qui ont été achetés ou donnés au Museum für Völkerkunde Dresden et au GRASSI Museum für Völkerkunde zu Leipzig entre 1899 et 1939. Le projet s'est penché sur les histoires de leur appropriation, en lien avec les activités des membres de la police coloniale allemande, des scientifiques, des commerçants et des fonctionnaires coloniaux au Togo sous la domination coloniale allemande de 1884 à 1914. Les acteurs coloniaux en question sont Adolf Diehl, Hans Gruner, Harry Grunitzky, Ernst F. Gütschow, Oskar Marx, Valentin von Massow, Adam Mischlich et Gaston Thierry. Ceux-ci agissaient dans le cadre du contexte d'injustice coloniale, marqué par des expéditions d'annexion, des guerres de conquête ainsi que par le prosélytisme et l'appropriation de biens culturels. Les résultats de la recherche sont publiés dans la Online Collection des Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden et, dans une version plus détaillée du rapport final, dans la base de données Proveana du Deutsches Zentrum Kulturgutverluste. Situé dans le domaine plus récent de la recherche postcoloniale sur la provenance des biens, le rapport se veut une contribution à l'étude de l'histoire des musées d'ethnographie et de leurs vastes réseaux dans le contexte colonial. En découvrant les liens étroits entre les musées et le projet d'expansion et de domination coloniale, il souligne également la responsabilité des musées dans le traitement de l'histoire coloniale.
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    Note: German Version: https://doi.org/10.18452/27457 ; French Translation: https://doi.org/10.18452/27459 ; Translated from the German by: Geraldine Schuckelt , Further authors: Emery Patrick Effiboley: 0000-0003-4604-0465 Toni Hanel: 0009-0003-2471-6126 Katja Hofmann: 0009-0008-8845-0642 Léontine Meijer-van Mensch: 0009-0005-2826-8695 Julia Pfau: 0009-0009-8548-8976 Messan Tossa: 0009-0008-0508-7084
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  • 97
    ISSN: 0022-2445 , 0022-2445
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (24 Seiten)
    Publ. der Quelle: : Wiley, 2025
    Angaben zur Quelle: 87,2, Seiten 566-589
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: child care ; employment ; longitudinal research ; mothers ; Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: Objective: Aiming to generate evidence on how contextual conditions shape individuals' opportunities and constraints and, ultimately, life courses, we focus on a period of childcare expansion in reunified Germany. We investigate differences in employment trajectories around mothers' first childbirths to identify potential East–West convergence. Background: During Germany's division (1949–1990), universal public childcare and female full‐time employment were the norm in East Germany, while the male breadwinner model was dominant in the West. These differences, although declining, persisted even decades after reunification. In 2008, a reform aimed at expanding childcare availability to facilitate mothers' employment throughout the country. Methods: We measure East–West differences in employment trajectories around childbirth pre‐ (1990–2007) and post‐reform (2008–2021) in terms of timing, order, and duration of events over time. We use data on 359 East and 986 West German first‐time‐mothers from the German Socio‐Economic Panel and sequence analysis tools. Results: Before the reform, employment trajectories between East and West German mothers differed both in timing and duration of employment states. After the reform, these differences decreased, showing a general convergence in the prevalence of post‐birth part‐time employment. Nonetheless, longer maternity leave is still more prevalent among West German mothers, while East German mothers are more likely to maintain full‐time jobs. Conclusion: Our findings show how policy settings and reforms shape life courses in a context‐dependent fashion. They illustrate the importance of a methodological approach that focuses on process outcomes and supports a theoretical perspective that highlights how historical time and place shape life courses.
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  • 98
    ISSN: 0049-1241 , 0049-1241
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (60 Seiten)
    Publ. der Quelle: : Sage, 2025
    Angaben zur Quelle: 54,2, Seiten 646-705
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: sequence analysis ; Kitagawa–Oaxaca–Blinder decomposition ; gender ; pensions ; life course ; SHARE data ; gender pension gap ; Sozialwissenschaften ; Bräuche, Etikette, Folklore
    Abstract: Processes that unfold over individuals’ life courses are often associated with inequalities later in life. The literature lacks methodological approaches to analyze inequalities in outcomes between groups, for example, between women and men, in a life-course-sensitive manner. We propose a combination of methods—of sequence analysis, which enables us to study the multidimensional complexity of life courses with Kitagawa–Oaxaca–Blinder decomposition. This approach allows us to distinguish the share of inequalities between groups that is due to group-specific life courses from the share that is due to group-specific returns to similar life courses. We illustrate the combination of the two methods by analyzing work–family life courses and gender pension gaps in Italy and Germany. Our contribution is to systematically compare possible core analytical choices when combining typologies derived using sequence analysis with the Kitagawa–Oaxaca–Blinder decomposition. For future applications, we propose a set of practical guidelines for sequence analysis–Kitagawa–Oaxaca–Blinder decomposition.
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  • 99
    ISSN: 0022-3506 , 0022-3506
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (19 Seiten)
    Publ. der Quelle: : Wiley, 2025
    Angaben zur Quelle: 93,2, Seiten 197-215
    DDC: 150
    Keywords: ergodicity ; experience‐sampling ; self‐compassion ; states ; traits ; within‐person analysis ; Psychologie ; Bräuche, Etikette, Folklore
    Abstract: Objective: Theories about within‐person (WP) variation are often tested using between‐person (BP) research, despite the well‐established fact that results may not generalize across levels of analysis. One possible explanation is vague theories that do not specify which level of analysis is of interest. We illustrate such a case using the construct of self‐compassion. The factor structure at the BP level has been highly debated, although the theory is actually concerned with relationships at the WP level. Method: Multilevel confirmatory factor analysis was applied to experience‐sampling data of self‐compassion ( N  = 213, with n  = 4052 measurement occasions). Results: At both levels of analysis, evidence for a two‐factor model was found. However, the factors were moderately related at the WP level ( r  = 0.37, p  〈 0.001) but largely independent at the BP level ( r  = 0.04, p  = 0.696). Exploratory analyses revealed considerable heterogeneity in the WP relationship among individuals. Conclusion: We discuss how our results provide new impulses to move the debate around self‐compassion forward. Lastly, we outline how the WP level—which is of major interest for self‐compassion and other constructs in psychology—can guide the conceptualization and assessment to promote advancements of the theory and resulting applications.
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  • 100
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (9 Seiten)
    Publ. der Quelle: : Springer Nature, 2024
    Angaben zur Quelle: 11
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: Complex networks ; Sociology ; Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: Opinion formation within society follows complex dynamics. Towards its understanding, axiomatic theory can complement data analysis. To this end, we propose an axiomatic model of opinion formation that aims to capture the interaction of individual conviction with social influence in a minimalist fashion. Despite only representing that (1) agents have an initial conviction with respect to a topic and are (2) influenced by their neighbours, the model shows the emergence of opinion clusters from an initially unstructured state. Here, we show that increasing individual self-reliance makes agents more likely to align their socially influenced opinion with their inner conviction which concomitantly leads to increased polarisation. The opinion drift observed with increasing self-reliance may be a plausible analogue of polarisation trends in the real-world. Modelling the basic traits of striving for individual versus group identity, we find a trade-off between individual fulfilment and societal cohesion. This finding from fundamental assumptions can serve as a building block to explain opinion polarisation.
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