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Blick, macht und geschlecht in annette von droste-hulshoffs verserzahlungen
No full textIn my thesis I examine the significance of the gaze in Annette von Droste-Hülshoff's epic poems. Whereas previous research has regarded these texts as mere moralistic tales about the struggle between 'good' and 'evil' forces, my analysis shows how Droste uses her poetic personas to express her awareness of the correlations between power, gender and the gaze. The thesis is written in German. I differentiate between two types of gaze; gazing at nature and gazing at people and analyse each of these with reference to its 19th-century context. Thereby the gaze at nature is investigated in relation to advances in contemporary natural sciences, in particular how the gaze was used to come to terms with, unify and control the large amount of new scientific findings. For the gaze at people I refer to Michel Foucault's work on power, especially his concept of the 'panopticon' and its impact on disciplinary practices. In the epic poem Das Hospiz auf dem grossen St. Bernhard I analyse the motif of the gaze with relation to early 19th-century geological findings and theories that call the biblical account of genesis into question. The poem's protagonist Benoit gets lost in the Alps and feels at the mercy of natural phenomena that can longer be interpreted as symbolic of the presence of God in his creation. In order to combat this loss Benoit searches desperately of the light of the hospice as a sign of safety and salvation. Benoit uses his gaze selectively so as to endow his surroundings with religious significance. In doing so he tries to control a situation that threatens his life and his belief. In the second epic poem Des Arztes Vermächtnis Droste draws on the romantic stereotype of femininity and deconstructs it by employing a male persona - a doctor who is kidnapped by a band of robbers - who changes his gender identity depending on his ability to see. Being deprived of the power of the gaze the doctor loses the control over his body, his power to heal and takes on feminine gender characteristics.</p
Taphozous flaviventris Peters 1867
No full textTaphozous flaviventris Peters, 1867a Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1866: 430. (April 1867). Common name. Yellow-bellied Sheath-tailed Bat. Current name. Saccolaimus flaviventris (Peters, 1867a), following Jackson & Groves (2015). Holotype. PA.137 by subsequent determination. Male adult, skull, skin in alc., received in exchange from F. G. Waterhouse, South Australia [= SAM], collector and collection date not indicated. Condition. Damaged cranium: fractures in right parietal, right occipital area and right auditory capsule all of which appear to have been glued in position, most of right auditory bulla missing; a hole in the right frontal and in right basiphenoid pit. Soft palate retained on the skull. Dentaries complete. Alc. skin, both wing membranes are torn. Type locality. Northern Territory, Australia (see Mahoney & Walton, 1988a: 114). Comments. Peters based his description on a single male specimen for which he provided external but no cranial measurements and gave the locality as “ Australia ”. Troughton (1925) traced the history of PA.137, which was received in exchange by the Australian Museum in 1871 from F. G. Waterhouse, South Australia. According to Troughton, this was the specimen examined by Peters. The specimen was sent by Waterhouse to John Gould, who forwarded it to Peters.Published as part of Parnaby, Harry E., Ingleby, Sandy & Divljan, Anja, 2017, Type Specimens of Non-fossil Mammals in the Australian Museum, Sydney, pp. 277-420 in Records of the Australian Museum 69 (5) on page 389, DOI: 10.3853/j.2201-4349.69.2017.1653, http://zenodo.org/record/523780
Rezension zu Christian Peters: Skateboarding. Ethnographie einer urbanen Praxis – von Sebastian Schweer
No full textDer Geograph Christian Peters legt mit der vorliegenden Publikation seine Dissertationsschrift vor, die sich der Ethnographie der Praxis des Skateboardens in Köln widmet. Im Laufe der sechs Jahre währenden Untersuchung (2007-2013) sollte sich der Fokus auf die Stadt Köln für Peters Studie als Glücksfall entpuppen, da sich hier in seinem Untersuchungszeitraum die interessantesten und kontroversesten Entwicklungen bundesdeutscher Skateboardgeschichte vollzogen haben. Die Skateboarder wurden von..
Institutionalizing ASEAN: celebrating Europe through network governance
No full textThis article provides a new piece for two of the puzzles of institutionalized cooperation in Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). First, with regard to the organization's four decades of existence, there has always been a marked gap between ASEAN's rhetorical goals of cooperation and its actual achievements. What explains these systematic failures of implementation? Second, from the outset, ASEAN was criticized for its light institutionalization, which failed to deliver the substantial cooperation goals. Despite selected institutional reforms, ASEAN's autonomy has not increased remarkably and it has not made any major institutional innovations. Why does ASEAN design institutions it does not use? Why does this transformation gap occur? The author suggests a sociological institutional explanation and argues that major impulses for cooperation have come from outside Southeast Asia, most importantly from Europe. By mimicking the European integration process, ASEAN member states have effectively created an isomorphic organization. The Association's institutional development reflects a concern for international legitimacy and less an objective functional demand arising from the specific interactions of member states. This copying process has led to network governance within the organization
The Vietnamese Theatrical Tradition in the Plot of Monsun, by Anja Hillin
No full textFrom the dramatic text Monsun by the German author Anja Hilling, this article analyzes the construction of a plot using elements of the Asian theater, in this specific case the Vietnamese tradition, identifying its presence inthe structure beyond the constant references to the context of that country, starting with the title of the play itself and the trip of one of the characters to Vietnam.A partir do texto dramático Monsun, da autora alemã Anja Hilling, este artigo analisa a construção de uma trama que se utiliza de elementos do teatro asiático, neste caso específico a tradição vietnamita, identi cando a sua presença na estrutura, além das men- ções constantes ao contexto daquele país, começando pelo próprio título da peça e pela viagem de uma das personagens ao Vietnam. 
Gender Ideologies and Workplace Diversity Policies: Are Voluntary Women’s Quotas and Mentoring Programmes Associated with Employees’ Gender Ideologies?
No full textPeters E, Abendroth A. Gender Ideologies and Workplace Diversity Policies: Are Voluntary Women’s Quotas and Mentoring Programmes Associated with Employees’ Gender Ideologies? Work, Employment and Society. 2025
Discussing Anja Štefan`s fairytales in the first year of primary school
No full textFairytales are an indispensable part in children's lives. They stimulate the development of imagination, fantasy; they help to enrich children’s vocabulary and with expressing feelings. There are different types of fairytales and it is very important that children get to know the variety of them. I firstly presented a youth author Anja Štefan and her literary works in my diploma paper. Later on I continued with the presentation of youth literature and I defined the theory of a fairytale, wrote about the origin, its meaning and classification of fairytales which I have also described in greater detail. I stated and described authorial prose work of Anja Štefan: picture book Lešniki, lešniki and classic fairytales Kotiček na koncu sveta, Melje, melje mlinček and Štiri črne mravljice, which can be defined as animal fairytales. I was interested in the receptive development of children in the period of intuitive intelligence, which I thoroughly described. In the empirical part of my diploma I wrote lesson plans for discussing and teaching three Anja Štefan’s animal fairytales in the first grade of primary school. 25 children took part in the research. I found out that pupils distinguish between real and unreal life (imaginative life), they are capable of identifying themselves with a literary person and they perceive animals as literary persons and they identify themselves with them
The impact of populism on European public policy
No full textPublished: May 2025This special issue includes 4 articles in Open Access, available on the journal's website.-- Introduction : The impact of ‘populism’ on European Public Policy, Anja Thomas & Erik Jones
-- Populist agenda-setting : Shaping the narrative, framing the debate, captivating the ‘people’, upending the mainstream, capturing power, Vivien A. Schmidt
-- What they say and what they do: populist distraction and dual-use political technologies in the European union, Kim Lane Scheppele
-- Populism and cultural heritage policies: public statues in Europe, Mark Thatcher
-- What shapes populists’ economic policy impact? An analysis of financial market reform in Hungary and Poland, Nils Oellerich & Dorothee Bohle
-- How the Eurozone shapes populism: a comparative political economy approach, Philip Rathgeb & Jonathan Hopkin
-- Beyond ‘economic nationalism’? The (limited) influence of populist parties on public procurement in France and Germany, Miriam Hartlapp
-- Lower taxes at all costs? Evidence from a survey experiment in four European countries, Björn Bremer & Reto Bürgisser
-- Establishing trust and distrust when states leave international organisations: the case of Brexit, Ben Christian & Dirk Peters
-- Balancing reputational strategies in the European administrative space: how private actors and agencies talk about regulation, Simon Fin
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