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Men and masculinities provides an engaging, accessible and provocative introduction to histories of masculinity for all readers interested in contemporary gender politics. The book offers a critical overview of ongoing historiographical debates and the historical making of men’s lives and identities and ideas of masculinity between the 1890s and the present day. In setting out a new agenda for the field, it makes an ambitious argument for the importance of writing histories which are present-centred and politically engaged. This means that the book engages head-on with ferocious debates about men’s social position and the status of masculinity in contemporary public life. In establishing a critical genealogy for the proliferation of this crisis talk, it sets out new ways of understanding how men’s lives and ideas of masculinity have changed over time while patriarchy and male power have persisted.

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Der Band thematisiert die sprachliche und allgemein semiotische Dimension von Vigilanz, verstanden als Setzung von Wachsamkeitspflichten im Individuum und Koppelung zwischen individueller Aufmerksamkeit mit kulturell vermittelten, überindividuellen Zielsetzungen einerseits, mit konkreten Handlungs- und Kommunikationsoptionen andererseits. Den Ausgangspunkt bildet dabei die Überlegung, dass Zeichensysteme, indem sie soziale Funktionen ausüben, eine entscheidende Rolle in Prozessen und Kulturen der Vigilanz spielen. Wie die Beiträge des vorliegenden Bandes zeigen, können Sprachen der Wachsamkeit die Relationen zwischen den Akteuren verändern, normative Funktionen und regulative Effekte haben, der Markierung von Gefahren sowie der Orientierung von Aufmerksamkeit dienen, aber auch deren Intensität skalieren. Hier erweist sich, dass Sprachen der Wachsamkeit nicht nur Sprachen im linguistischen Sinne bezeichnen, sondern auch Symbolsprachen, Ton-, Bild-, und Körpersprachen, narrative Muster, Rhetoriken und Mythologien bis hin zur Gestik, Mimik und deren Kombinationen, Erprobungen und Erweiterungen etwa in Film und Theater. Dabei können diese vielfältigen Zeichensysteme sowohl Gegenstand von Wachsamkeit sein als auch als Instrument von Wachsamkeit fungieren und schließlich selbst zum Reflexionsmedium von Wachsamkeit werden. Der Band versammelt Beträge aus den Literatur-, Rechts-, Geschichts- und Theaterwissenschaften sowie aus der Theologie und Theologiegeschichte, in denen Phänomene der Sprachen der Wachsamkeit in unterschiedlichen Räumen, Epochen und Diskursen auf innovative Weise untersucht werden. This volume examines the linguistic dimension of vigilance in different contexts. The focus is on the social potentials, normative and regulative effects of languages as well as their use for marking dangers and orienting attention. This shows that language can be both an object and an instrument of vigilance and can itself become a medium of reflection of vigilance.

HISTORY / Social History. --- mindfulness. --- monitoring. --- vigilance.

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In June 1959, the British established the office of Yang di-Pertuan Negara (He Who is Made Lord) to replace the colonial governorship and represent Queen Elizabeth II in Singapore. Muhammad Suhail explores the divergent attempts to invest meaning in the Yang di-Pertuan Negara. In doing so, he weaves a rich story about the contesting ideas of sovereignty during the global age of decolonization. He Who is Made Lord is a captivating take on Singapore's emergence as a postcolonial nation, providing a gateway into the island's past as part of the Malay World, the British Empire and the Commonwealth of Nations."The Yang di-Pertuan Negara is a subject that has received only passing mentions in the Singapore Story. This book is the first detailed study to reveal not only the politics of its creation but also the cultural significance of the office. By delving into its multifaceted meanings, this insightful account offers readers a fascinating treatise on the office's connection with the momentous final years of British rule in the colony and Singapore's brief interlude in Malaysia." -- Associate Professor Albert Lau, Department of History, National University of Singapore"The end of the British Empire wrought considerable change across the globe, but it also left many legacies and questions such as what or who would replace the omnipotent Crown. He Who is Made Lord examines the neglected but fascinating story of how Singapore grappled with this issue, which was more delicate, nuanced and far reaching than most supposed. Muhammad Suhail has made an original, well-researched, and valuable study of the position of Head of State in Singapore during the last stages of colonialism and shows vividly that far from being of ceremonial or administrative interest, it touched on wider and deeper issues in Singaporean and Southeast Asian history and society, reflecting tensions of identity and hopes for the future." -- Dr Harshan Kumarasingham, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh"In this ground-breaking book, Muhammad Suhail has meticulously scoured, scrutinized, and synthesized archival official records, newspaper articles, government publications, pictures, and websites to peel and expose the many layers of the hitherto overlooked office of the Yang di-Pertuan Negara of Singapore to reveal the contradictions, contestations, and constructions of the created office in the context of the tumultuous period of decolonization. Suhail also has laid bare the complex personality of the man who held this office, Yusof Ishak, exposing the myriad of faces, appearances, and roles he represented and was made to represent, appreciating his triumphs and weaknesses, but most importantly, humanizing him." -- Associate Professor Sher Banu A.L. Khan, Department of Malay Studies, National University of Singapore.

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Eine modernen Standards genügende Erfassung, Dokumentation und Erforschung der materiellen Hinterlassenschaften des Steinkohlenbergbaus steckt vielerorts erst in den Anfängen. Die Publikation enthält die Beiträge einer Ende 2017 vom Montanhistorischen Dokumentationszentrum (montan.dok) am Deutschen Bergbau-Museum Bochum veranstalteten Tagung, die es sich zum Ziel gesetzt hatte, Vertreter aus verschiedenen Museen und musealen Einrichtungen zusammenzubringen, um Sammlungen und Objekte im Spannungsfeld von Musealisierung, Digitalisierung, Restaurierung und Objektforschung zu diskutieren. Die Beiträge greifen dieses breite Themenspektrum auf und loten die Möglichkeiten einer methodisch reflektierten Montangeschichte aus. Dies mit Blick auf die Objektforschung und die Nutzung objektbezogener archivalischer Quellen wie auch in Hinsicht auf die Präsentation von objektbezogener Forschung in der digitalen Welt. Das Buch richtet sich daher im engeren Sinne an Forschende auf dem Gebiet der Montan- und Technikgeschichte sowie allgemein an diejenigen, die sich mit einer materiell basierten Erinnerungskultur beschäftigen. The essays published in this volume, taken from a 2017 conference at the German Mining Museum in Bochum, examine mining heritage with regard to museumization, digitalization, restoration, and object research. At the same time, the volume reflects the diversity of mining’s historical legacy, which extends from associations to large museums of technology.

Bergbaugeschichte. --- Digitalisierung. --- Restaurierungsforschung. --- material culture studies. --- HISTORY / Social History.

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"Most of us give little thought to the back of the book-it's just where you go to look things up. But as Dennis Duncan reveals in this delightful and witty history, hiding in plain sight is an unlikely realm of ambition and obsession, sparring and politicking, pleasure and play. In the pages of the index, we might find Butchers, to be avoided, or Cows that sh-te Fire, or even catch Calvin in his chamber with a Nonne. Here, for the first time, is the secret world of the index: an unsung but extraordinary everyday tool, with an illustrious but little-known past. Charting its curious path from the monasteries and universities of thirteenth-century Europe to Silicon Valley in the twenty-first, Duncan uncovers how it has saved heretics from the stake, kept politicians from high office, and made us all into the readers we are today. We follow it through German print shops and Enlightenment coffee houses, novelists' living rooms and university laboratories, encountering emperors and popes, philosophers and prime ministers, poets, librarians and-of course-indexers along the way. Revealing its vast role in our evolving literary and intellectual culture, Duncan shows that, for all our anxieties about the Age of Search, we are all index-rakers at heart-and we have been for eight hundred years"--

HISTORY / Social History. --- Indexes --- Indexes. --- Indexing --- Indexing. --- History. --- Book history