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Von Körpermärkten
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ISBN: 3902571748 Year: 2008 Publisher: innsbruck university press

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Africa Research in Austria
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Globalization and the City: Two Connected Phenomena in Past and Present
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Facetten der Umweltkrise : Junge Zugänge zu Wachstum, Umwelt und Entwicklung
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Globalization and the city : two connected phenomena in past and present
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Year: 2013 Publisher: Innsbruck, Austria : innsbruck university press,

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The world today is far less a global village than a "global city", as global network of multidimensional urban spaces of congestion prominently forming - and also formed by - globalization. But the relevance of cities is nothing but new. They were essential for culture and civilization worldwide, they allowed a centralization of power and knowledge and they were crucial for the division of labor and for the organization of mass demand. Further, as places of intense and continuous interactions, cities are the locations par excellence for global history to take place. Thus, there is a need to study the history of cities in connection with the history of globalization from this perspective. This book is dedicated to contribute to the still underdeveloped but growing literature connecting the history of cities worldwide and their relation to global processes. The authors do so from various disciplinary backgrounds and by referring to different times and places. We visit ancient Alexandria, nineteenth century Zanzibar, and modern-day São Paolo, among others, and we view these cities not only in their globality, but also through their heritage, their economic relevance, their architecture, or financial flows connecting them. Further, the book also contains systematic considerations about "global city", especially the general role of cities in development, cities in global history teaching, and cities' relationships to global commodity chains. Die Welt ist heute viel weniger ein globales Dorf als eine globale Stadt, eine "global city". Dieses weltumspannende Netzwerk multidimensionaler urbaner Räume der Verdichtung steht dabei in einem wechselseitigen Verhältnis zu Globalisierung: es gestaltet sie zugleich, wie sie auch durch sie beständig mitgestaltet wird. Aber die Bedeutung von Städten ist alles andere als neu. Weltweit waren sie entscheidend für Kultur und Zivilisation, sie erlaubten eine Zentralisierung von Macht und Wissen und sie waren zentral für die Arbeitsteilung und die Organisation der Massennachfrage. Als Plätze der anhaltenden Interaktion waren und sind Städte außerdem prototypische Orte, an denen sich Globalgeschichte ereignet. Daher ist es nötig, die Geschichte von Städten in Zusammenhang mit der Geschichte der Globalisierung zu erzählen. Dieses Buch untersucht den Zusammenhang zwischen der Geschichte von Städten weltweit und ihre Beziehung zu globalen Prozessen. Die AutorInnen betrachten u.a. das antike Alexandria, Zanzibar im 19. Jahrhundert und das heutige São Paolo nicht nur in ihrer Globalität, sondern auch durch ihr kulturelles Erbe, ihre wirtschaftliche Bedeutung, ihre Architektur oder durch Finanzflüsse zwischen ihnen. Zudem enthält das Buch systematische Beiträge zur "globalen Stadt", insbesondere zur Rolle von Städten für die Entwicklung, den Stellenwert von Städten im Globalgeschichteunterricht und ihre Beziehung zu globalen Güterketten.


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Afrika, Kontinent der Extreme
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ISBN: 9783903122345 Year: 2011 Publisher: Innsbruck : Innsbruck University Press,

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"The publications of the interdisciplinary and internationally networked Research Platform “World Order – Religion – Violence” seek to improve our understanding of the relationship between religion, politics and violence. It therefore deals especially with the return of religious themes and symbols into politics, with the analysis of the link between political theory and religion, and finally with the critical discussion of the secularization thesis. At the centre of the research are questions concerning the causes of violent conflict, the possibilities for a just world order and the conditions for peaceful coexistence on a local, regional, national and international/worldwide scale between communities in the face of divergent religious and ideological convictions. Its task is to initiate and coordinate thematically related research-efforts from various disciplinary backgrounds at the University of Innsbruck. It creates a network between departments, research-teams and single researchers working on topics of religion, politics and violence. The overall aim of the research platform World Order-Religion-Violence is to promote excellence in social and human science research on religion and politics at the University of Innsbruck and to guarantee the diffusion of this particular competence on a national and international level." Ist Afrika ein Kontinent der Extreme? Es grenzte an Realitätsverweigerung, die zahlreichen Probleme zu negieren, mit denen die Menschen in diesem Kontinent konfrontiert sind. Gleichzeitig wäre es fahrlässig, mit kolonialem Blick darin zu verharren, Afrika ausschließlich über diese Probleme und Extreme zu definieren. Vielmehr ist der Kontinent in jeder Hinsicht vielfältig. Um seine Geschichte(n), Gegenwart(en) und Identität(en) angemessen in den Blick zu nehmen, bedarf es daher aber einer ebenso vielfältigen Herangehensweise. Diesem Ziel ist dieser Band verpflichtet, in dem sich in einem interdisziplinären Prozess verschiedene historische, politikwissenschaftliche, politökonomische, literaturwissenschaftliche und geografische Zugänge mit Fallstudien aus allen Regionen des Kontinents aufeinander zu bewegt haben. Ist also Afrika ein Kontinent der Extreme? Lesen Sie das Buch und urteilen Sie selbst.


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Von Körpermärkten
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"The valorization of the human body is of particular relevance in times of global market liberalization and reform debates on health systems. In one case, it is also about the often unabashed sale from the ""spare parts man"", the other is about the affordability of medical, often vital services. But all of this has a long history, from which one can draw conclusions for current debates and which we want to trace back to antiquity. We begin by discussing the increase in value through self-mutilation and the sale of human parts (with and without the consent of those affected), both of which show clear parallels to today's developments. We continue with the memory of younger (and also local) history, if we remember the treatment of mentally ill people in Tyrol a century and a half ago and the not so long history of transplantation medicine. This is followed by economic and bioethical explanations, which will be interesting, but not only for the insurance industry and reproductive medicine. Finally, there are two additional extras: the summary of the panel discussion, which was part of the symposium on ""Organknappheit? How to solve? ""And a compilation of different"" price lists ""for body and body parts over time.With contributions by Andreas Exenberger, Kordula Schnegg, Valentin Gröbner, Maria Heidegger, Marlene Hopfgartner, Andrea Leiter, Magdalena Thöni, Hannes Winner, Gabriele Werner-Felmayer, Matthias Stöckl and Josef Nussbaumer."


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Africa Research in Austria
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Year: 2016 Publisher: innsbruck university press

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"Africa research in Austria is multifaceted, multidisciplinary and multilocal. Besides the continuous output of many scholars, this is also shown by the activities of the research group “African Studies at Austrian Universities”, established in 2013. The book Africa Research in Austria: Approaches and Perspectives is a product of this fruitful engagement. The collection assembles contributions to the second workshop of the research group, which was held in Innsbruck, 19-20 March 2015. The topics covered span from pan-Africanism and popular culture, the use of research films in African studies, and reflections on the Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to students’ exchange between Tanzania and the two German states, the role of the UN in the Congo Crisis, and post-colonial conflicts and limited access orders in Africa. It contains contributions by Eric Burton (Vienna), Birgit Englert (Vienna), Andreas Exenberger (Innsbruck), Maximilian Feldner (Graz), Thomas Lechner (Graz), Silvia Lercher (Innsbruck), Ulrich Pallua (Innsbruck), Arno Sonderegger (Vienna) and Thomas Spielbüchler (Linz)."


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Globalization and the city : two connected phenomena in past and present
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The world today is far less a global village than a "global city", as global network of multidimensional urban spaces of congestion prominently forming - and also formed by - globalization. But the relevance of cities is nothing but new. They were essential for culture and civilization worldwide, they allowed a centralization of power and knowledge and they were crucial for the division of labor and for the organization of mass demand. Further, as places of intense and continuous interactions, cities are the locations par excellence for global history to take place. Thus, there is a need to study the history of cities in connection with the history of globalization from this perspective. This book is dedicated to contribute to the still underdeveloped but growing literature connecting the history of cities worldwide and their relation to global processes. The authors do so from various disciplinary backgrounds and by referring to different times and places. We visit ancient Alexandria, nineteenth century Zanzibar, and modern-day São Paolo, among others, and we view these cities not only in their globality, but also through their heritage, their economic relevance, their architecture, or financial flows connecting them. Further, the book also contains systematic considerations about "global city", especially the general role of cities in development, cities in global history teaching, and cities' relationships to global commodity chains. Die Welt ist heute viel weniger ein globales Dorf als eine globale Stadt, eine "global city". Dieses weltumspannende Netzwerk multidimensionaler urbaner Räume der Verdichtung steht dabei in einem wechselseitigen Verhältnis zu Globalisierung: es gestaltet sie zugleich, wie sie auch durch sie beständig mitgestaltet wird. Aber die Bedeutung von Städten ist alles andere als neu. Weltweit waren sie entscheidend für Kultur und Zivilisation, sie erlaubten eine Zentralisierung von Macht und Wissen und sie waren zentral für die Arbeitsteilung und die Organisation der Massennachfrage. Als Plätze der anhaltenden Interaktion waren und sind Städte außerdem prototypische Orte, an denen sich Globalgeschichte ereignet. Daher ist es nötig, die Geschichte von Städten in Zusammenhang mit der Geschichte der Globalisierung zu erzählen. Dieses Buch untersucht den Zusammenhang zwischen der Geschichte von Städten weltweit und ihre Beziehung zu globalen Prozessen. Die AutorInnen betrachten u.a. das antike Alexandria, Zanzibar im 19. Jahrhundert und das heutige São Paolo nicht nur in ihrer Globalität, sondern auch durch ihr kulturelles Erbe, ihre wirtschaftliche Bedeutung, ihre Architektur oder durch Finanzflüsse zwischen ihnen. Zudem enthält das Buch systematische Beiträge zur "globalen Stadt", insbesondere zur Rolle von Städten für die Entwicklung, den Stellenwert von Städten im Globalgeschichteunterricht und ihre Beziehung zu globalen Güterketten.


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Africa Research in Austria
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"Africa research in Austria is multifaceted, multidisciplinary and multilocal. Besides the continuous output of many scholars, this is also shown by the activities of the research group “African Studies at Austrian Universities”, established in 2013. The book Africa Research in Austria: Approaches and Perspectives is a product of this fruitful engagement. The collection assembles contributions to the second workshop of the research group, which was held in Innsbruck, 19-20 March 2015. The topics covered span from pan-Africanism and popular culture, the use of research films in African studies, and reflections on the Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to students’ exchange between Tanzania and the two German states, the role of the UN in the Congo Crisis, and post-colonial conflicts and limited access orders in Africa. It contains contributions by Eric Burton (Vienna), Birgit Englert (Vienna), Andreas Exenberger (Innsbruck), Maximilian Feldner (Graz), Thomas Lechner (Graz), Silvia Lercher (Innsbruck), Ulrich Pallua (Innsbruck), Arno Sonderegger (Vienna) and Thomas Spielbüchler (Linz)."

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