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The Brazilian Constitution provides a remarkable set of social rights, including the right to housing. Despite this fact, struggles for decent living conditions have become key issues in the daily urban lives of many people in Brazil. Contesting the differentiated access to housing, social movements occupy empty buildings in the cities to challenge historically-rooted and excluding urban politics. Exploring the occupants' agency, Bea Wittger draws attention to the important role of female actors within the buildings. Through oral histories of participants of two squats in Rio de Janeiro, the book delivers a deep insight "from below" into their own perspectives on citizenship and gender. »Mit ihrem Buch gibt Bea Witters dezidierte Einblicke in die alltägliche Auseinandersetzung darum wie ein Recht auf Wohnen von den Besetzer_innen verwirklicht bzw. verteidigt wird und welche An- und Widersprüche damit verbunden sind.« Katharina Schmidt, apropos, 3 (2019) »Eine lesenswerte, in Teilen gegenüber der eigenen Position als Wissenschaftlerin sehr selbstkritische Studie, die Einblicke in heterogene Lebensentwürfe und Denkweisen zweier Hausbesetzungen in Rio de Janeiro zulässt.« Katja Reuter, matices, 90 (2017) Besprochen in: C3 - Bibliothek für Entwicklungspolitik, 5 (2017) Fraunhofer IRB, 5 (2017)

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In her endeavour to overcome the established methodological, conceptual, and empirical dualism of mobility and migration, Anna Xymena Wieczorek develops a "mobilities perspective" by combining migration studies theories with approaches of the mobility studies. With the help of rich empirical data gathered among young adults of Polish heritage in Germany and Canada, Wieczorek conceptualizes three patterns of (im)mobility which illustrate the diversity of immigrants' geographical movements after their initial migration. She thus reveals the different social configurations promoting or hindering the development, maintenance or shifting of each pattern in migrants' biographical trajectories.

Polish people --- Foreign workers, Polish --- Social conditions. --- Poles --- Ethnology --- Alien labor, Polish --- Polish foreign workers --- (Im)Mobility. --- Canada. --- Germany. --- Globalization. --- Interculturalism. --- Lifestyle. --- Polish Migrants. --- Social Inequality. --- Sociology. --- Migration; (Im)Mobility; Polish Migrants; Germany; Canada; Social Inequality; Globalization; Interculturalism; Lifestyle; Sociology --- Social conditions

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Due to computers' ability to combine different semiotic modes, texts are no longer exclusively comprised of static images and mute words. How have digital media changed the way we write and read? What methods of textual and data analysis have emerged? How do we rescue digital artifacts from obsolescence? And how can digital media be used or taught inside classrooms? These and other questions are addressed in this volume that assembles contributions by artists, writers, scholars and editors such as Dene Grigar, Sandy Baldwin, Carlos Reis, and Frieder Nake. They offer a multiperspectival view on the way digital media have changed our notion of textuality.

Digital preservation. --- Information society. --- Digital media. --- Electronic media --- New media (Digital media) --- Mass media --- Digital communications --- Online journalism --- Sociology --- Information superhighway --- Computer files --- Digital curation --- Digital media --- Electronic preservation --- Preservation of digital information --- Preservation of materials --- Conservation and restoration --- Preservation --- Aesthetics. --- Cognition. --- Digital Media. --- Electronic Literature. --- Literature. --- Materiality. --- Media Aesthetics. --- Media Education. --- Media Studies. --- Textuality. --- Theory of Literature.