This collection consists of eight essays that examine the way narratives determine our understanding of old age and condition how the experience is lived. Contributors to this volume have based their analysis on the concept of "narrative identity" developed by Paul Ricoeur, buil…
This collection consists of eight essays that examine the way narratives determine our understanding of old age and condition how the experience is lived. Contributors to this volume depart from two notions: the concept of "narrative identity" developed by Paul Ricoeur, based on…
How are individual and social ideas of late-onset dementia shaped and negotiated in film, literature, the arts, and the media? And how can the symbolic forms provided by popular culture be adopted and transformed by those affected in order to express their own perspectives? This…
The book brings together experts from Media and Communication Studies with Postcolonial Studies scholars to illustrate how the two fields may challenge and enrich each other. Its essays introduce readers to selected topics including "Media Convergence", "Transcultural Subjectivi…
Sterben und Tod sind alltägliche Vorkommnisse, die üblicherweise als außeralltäglich angesehen werden. Die Tendenz, eher von abstrakten Begriffen als von konkreten Lebensbeendigungen auszugehen, ist weit verbreitet. Eine gesamtgesellschaftliche Perspektive jedoch muss über die E…
Anschläge auf Unterkünfte von Geflüchteten, rassistische Übergriffe körperlicher und sprachlicher Art, politische Maßnahmen, um Andere sterben zu machen, pauschale Urteile über die kollektive Rückständigkeit Anderer, Wahrnehmung und Erleben der Gefahr, die von ihren Körpern ausg…
In der Interaktionslinguistik und Gesprächsforschung ist das Konzept der Ko-Konstruktion zur Beschreibung von Äußerungen entwickelt worden, die von mehreren Gesprächsteilnehmern gemeinsam formuliert werden. In diesem Band wird dieses Konzept generell erweitert auf soziale Ereign…
All around the world and throughout history resistance has played an important role - and it still does. Some strive to raise it to cause change. Some dare not to speak of it. Some try to smother it to keep a status quo. The contributions to this volume explore phenomena of resi…
The ubiquitous "cultural turn" of the 1990s did not spare the thinkers of economics - however, at the same time, economic topics have gained a new importance in cultural studies. This volume focuses on cultures of economy in regions of former Yugoslavia as part of South-Eastern …
