Neuerwerbungen (Auswahl) SoSe 2023

Lisa Bauer-Zhao: Creating memories - japanese photographs

Dresden, 2023

Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts wurde Japan zu einem Sehnsuchtsziel vieler westlicher Reisender. Das Land, das sich gut 200 Jahre abgeschottet hatte, öffnete sich Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts unter dem militärischen Druck der US-Marine dem Handel mit dem Westen. In der Folge strömten immer mehr Reisende in das Land. Insbesondere Fotografien von typischen Japan-Ansichten, die vor Ort von den zahlreichen Souvenirläden und Fotoateliers zum Kauf angeboten wurden, entwickelten sich zu beliebten Souvenirs, die von westlichen Reisenden in aller Welt verbreitet wurden. Die zarte Farbigkeit der in großer Kunstfertigkeit handkolorierten Bilder von Landschaften, Tempelanlagen, Stadtansichten, von Genreszenen oder Menschen in traditioneller Berufskleidung beeinflussen und prägen bis heute den Blick auf das Land. Rund hundert dieser Fotografien der Ethnologischen Sammlung des Museums Natur und Mensch werden erstmals in diesem Katalog der Öffentlichkeit präsentiert.

Lokale Signatur: O.As.645

Fabio Santos: Bridging fluid borders - entanglements in the French-Brazilian borderland

London, 2022

Interweaving rich ethnographic descriptions with an innovative theoretical approach, this book explores and unsettles conventional maps and understandings of Europe and the Americas. Through an examination of the recently inaugurated cross-border bridge between France’s overseas department of French Guiana and Brazil’s northern state of Amapá, which effectively acts as a one-way street and serves to perpetuate inequalities in a historically deeply entangled region, it foregrounds the ways in which borderland inhabitants such as indigenous women, illegalised migrants, and local politicians deal with these inequalities and the increasingly closed Amazonian border in everyday life. A study that challenges the coloniality of memory, this volume shows how the borderland along and across the Oyapock River, far from being the hinterland of France and Brazil, in fact illuminates entangled histories and their concomitant inequalities on a large scale. As such, it will appeal to scholars of sociology and border studies with interests in postcolonialism, memory, and inequality.

Lokale Signatur: S.Am.1161

Edward Simpson: The political biography of an earthquake - aftermath and amnesia in Gujurat, India

London, 2013

For those so-minded, the aftermath of an earthquake presents opportunities to intervene. Thus, in Gujarat, following the disaster of 2001, leaders were deposed, proletariats created, religious fundamentalism incubated, the state restructured, and industrial capitalism expanded exponentially. Rather than gazing in at those struggling in the ruins, as is commonplace in the literature, this book looks out from the affected region at those who came to intervene. Based on extensive research amid the dust and noise of reconstruction, the author focuses on the survivors and their interactions with death, history, and with those who came to use the shock of disaster to change the order of things. Edward Simpson takes us deep into the experience of surviving a ‘natural’ disaster. We see a society in mourning, further alienated by manufactured conditions of uncertainty and absurdity. We witness arguments about the past. What was important? What should be preserved? Was modernisation the cause of the disaster or the antidote? As people were putting things back together, they also knew that future earthquakes were inevitable. How did they learn to live with this terrible truth? How have people in other times and places come to terms with the promise of another earthquake, knowing that things will fall apart again?

Lokale Signatur: S.As.485

Bonnefoy, Laurent: Yemen and the world - beyond insecurity

London, 2018

"Contemporary Yemen has an image problem. It has long fascinated travellers and artists, and to many embodies both Arab and Muslim authenticity; it stands at important geostrategic and commercial crossroads. Yet, strangely, global perceptions of Yemen are of an entity that is somehow both marginal and passive, yet also dangerous and problematic.The Saudi offensive launched in 2015 has made Yemen a victim of regional power struggles, while the global ‘war on terror’ has labelled it a threat to international security. This perception has had disastrous effects without generating real interest in the country or its people. On the contrary, Yemen’s complex political dynamics have been largely ignored by international observers—resulting in problematic, if not counterproductive, international policies.'Yemen and the World' offers a corrective to these misconceptions and omissions, putting aside the nature of the world’s interest in Yemen to focus on Yemen’s role on the global stage. Laurent Bonnefoy uses six areas of modern international exchange—globalisation, diplomacy, trade, migration, culture and militant Islamism—to restore Yemen to its place at the heart of contemporary affairs. To understand Yemen, he argues, is to understand the Middle East as a whole." (Verlagsbeschreibung)

Lokale Signatur: W.As.484

Jasmijn Rana: Punching back - gender, religion and belonging in women-only kickboxing

New York, 2023

"In the Netherlands, girls and young women are increasingly active in women-only kickboxing. The general assumption, in the Netherlands and in western Europe more broadly, is that women's sport is a form of secular, feminist empowerment. Muslim women's participation would then exemplify the incongruence of Islam with the modern, secular nation-state. Punching Back provides a detailed ethnographic study that contests this view by showing that young Muslim women who kickbox establish agentive selves by playing with gender norms, challenging expectations, and living out their religious subjectivities"--

Lokale Signatur: Vk.Ag.4091

Rosana Pinheiro-Machado: The rise of the Radical Right in the Global South

Abington, 2023

"The Rise of the Radical Right in the Global South is the first academic study-adopting an interdisciplinary and international perspective-to offer a comprehensive and groundbreaking framework for understanding the emergence and consolidation of different radical-right movements in Global South countries in the twenty-first century. From deforestation and the anti-vaccine movement in Bolsonaro's Brazil to the massacre of religious minorities in Modi's India, the rise of the radical right in the Global South is in the news every day. Not long ago, some of these countries were globally celebrated as emerging economies that consolidated vibrant democracies. Nonetheless, they never overcame structural problems including economic inequality, social violence, cultural conservatism, and political authoritarianism. Featuring case studies from Brazil, India, the Philippines, and South Africa, and more generally from Africa and Latin America, this book analyses future scenarios and current alternatives to this political movement to the radical right. It proposes a shift of focus in examining such a trend, adopting a view from the Global South; conventional theoretical tools developed around the experience in Global North countries are not enough. The authors show that the radical right in the Global South should be analysed through specific lenses, considering national historical patterns of political and economic development and instability. They also warn that researching these countries may differ from contexts where democratic institutions are more reliable. This does not mean abandoning a transnational understanding of the radical right; rather, it calls for the opposite: the chapters examine how the radical right is invented, adapted, modified, and resisted in specific regions of the globe. This volume will be of interest to all those researching the radical right and the politics of development and the Global South"--

Lokale Signatur: Vk.Ag.4093