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Jürgen Klein, Christlich-Muslimische Beziehungen in Äthiopien. Interreligiöse Situation – Konflikträume – Verstehenszugänge
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Single Motherhood, Sexuality, and Mediated Intimacies on Dating Apps
Full text linkThe article explores the nuanced and multifaceted experiences of single mothers who use dating apps. Drawing on autoethnographic reflection and participant observation of online community groups, it examines the emotional, psychological, and sociocultural dimensions that influence single mothers’ engagements with dating apps. It unpacks the complicated relationship of motherhood and sexuality, challenging prevailing cultural and social stereotypes such as the myth of mothers being asexual beings. The core questions are: What type of intimacies exist in this context? And how does the tension between single motherhood, single womanhood, and sexuality impact subjectivity and self-representation? By examining how single mothers navigate their roles as parents, women, and individuals seeking intimacy in online dating cultures, the study contributes to a broader understanding of contemporary social dynamics and the interplay between technology and identity. The article discusses self-representation, constructions of sexuality, sexual agency, the negotiation of connection and boundaries, and privacy. It argues that when single mothers engage on dating platforms, they navigate the complex terrain of sexual capital through strategies of visibility. In sum, the article delves into the increasing role of technology in the everyday lives, experiences of intimacy, and formations of connections by a contested yet diverse community of single mothers
Gradual Realities: Making Authentically Strange Connections via Tinder in Cape Town
Full text linkTinder’s streamlined profile set-up and the dating app’s binary swipe system create an illusion of instant realities and neat distinctions. However, engaging with Tinder’s selection process in a meaningful way is much less straightforward than it appears. In Cape Town, a city with a historical legacy of categorical divisions, Tinder serves as a tool to connect with the unfamiliar and the strange, despite the prevalent atmosphere of suspicion. The stories shared with me during my ethnographic research on Tinder in Cape Town reveal that exploring ideals, desires, and degrees of strangeness involves renegotiating past experiences and future expectations. In a cyclical usage, tensions and ambiguities that form part of tindering are negotiated in line with what Katrien Pype has called the ‘technology contract’, changing with every new download. Expectations become blurred and realities gradually formed through these ongoing (re)negotiations and new encounters with relative strangers. In this manner, Tinder becomes a means through which to reflect on one’s own experiences and human interconnections in Cape Town more broadly. Nevertheless, there is a tendency to contrast Tinder experiences with romanticised ideals of authenticity, rendering it tempting to flatten them to simplistic anecdotes and view the app as a metaphor for ‘modern-day dating’
Sieg im Kulturkampf vs. realpolitische Niederlage einer erneuerten Landwirtschaft: Rückschau auf die Demontage des McDonald’s und den Protest von Millau im August 1999
Full text linkZiel dieses Beitrags ist es, die von Bauern zusammen mit ihrem Hauptprotagonisten José Bové mit der lokalen Confédération paysanne initiierte kollektive Aktion am 12. August 1999 als Schwellenmoment zwischen dem Ende einer klassischen alten bäuerlichen (i.S.v. einer von kleinen landwirtschaftlichen und selbstständigen Produktionseinheiten geprägten) Welt und der Politisierung der „(agri)kulturellen“ Frage im französischen sowie im globalen Kontext zu erläutern. Unter dem Begriff der „(agri)kulturellen Frage“ wird hier das neue gesellschaftliche und politische Verhältnis zur Landwirtschaft verstanden: Sie wird in der Folgezeit von Millau durch neue grundlegende Merkmale wie z.B. Nahrungsmittelqualität, Umweltschutz oder die Opposition lokal vs. global neu definiert. Diese Bedeutung des Ereignisses soll herausgearbeitet werden, indem Millau rund 20 Jahre später rückblickend in den Kontext des Frankreichs der 1990er Jahre eingeordnet wird.The aim of this article is to explain the collective action initiated by farmers together with their main protagonist José Bové with the local Confédération paysanne on 12 August 1999 as a threshold moment between the end of a classic old peasant world (in the sense of a world characterised by small agricultural and independent production units) and the politicisation of the “(agri)cultural” question in the French and global context. The term “(agri)cultural question” is used here to refer to the new social and political relationship to agriculture: It is subsequently redefined by Millau through new fundamental characteristics such as food quality, environmental protection or the opposition local vs. global. This significance of the event will be analysed by looking back on Millau 20 years later and placing it in the context of France in the 1990s.TB
Die Vielfalt der „rumänischen Literaturen“ – entlassen aus der „Vormundschaft der Ideologie des Nationalstaates“ : CONSTANTINESCU, Romanița & Iulia Dondorici (ed.). 2023. Ost und West in der Romania. Globale und regionale Vernetzungen der rumänischen Literaturen/Entre Est et Ouest. Interconnexions globales et régionales des littératures roumaines. Berlin: Frank & Timme.
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The Ethiopic Homily on Holy Easter attributed to John Theologos and its Arabic Vorlage (CPG 4163.2)
Full text linkIn the standard reference works for Ethiopian and Eritrean studies, one finds a Homily on Holy Easter (CAe 1265) attributed to Gregory of Nazianzus and identified as one of his Orations (CPG 3010). Both the attribution and identification are, however, incorrect. Rather, this Homily on Holy Easter, which is actually attributed to an otherwise unknown John Theologos in the earliest recoverable layer of the Ethiopic tradition, is to be identified as an Ethiopic version of a homily, recorded as CPG 4163.2, attested in two Arabic manuscripts, one where it is attributed to Ephrem and the other where it is anonymous