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Reading sample from “Lives Interrupted – The Nazi Takeover and Autobiographical Testimonies from the 1939 Harvard Prize Competition”

Detlef Garz’s “Lives Interrupted – The Nazi Takeover and Autobiographical Testimonies from the 1939 Harvard Prize Competition” sheds light on a remarkable yet little-known collection of autobiographical accounts written by …

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“Activists for sexual and gender minorities should approach the criminalising laws as mechanisms of social control.” – Reading sample from “Joy, Reflections, Resistance – LGBTIQ+ Lived Realities in Africa”

How do LGBTIQ+ people across Africa navigate violence, exclusion and resistance? Bringing together activist and scholarly perspectives from diverse African contexts, the volume “Joy, Reflections, Resistance – LGBTIQ+ Lived Realities …

“A fundamental concern of this study is to convey that shame is not a ‘pathological’ feeling, but rather an important regulatory mechanism” – Reading sample from “Dynamics of Shame in Residential Care”

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“Shame is not a ‘pathological’ feeling, but rather an important regulatory mechanism” – Reading sample from “Dynamics of Shame in Residential Care”

What role does shame play in everyday life in residential care? Based on ethnographic research in Austrian youth care institutions, the publication “Dynamics of Shame in Residential Care. An Ethnography …

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“Governing the internet has never been a purely technical issue” – Reading sample from “Global Trends: Prospects for Development and Peace”

The publication “Global Trends: Prospects for Development and Peace. Multilateral Cooperation for People and Planet” edited by Cornelia Ulbert and Marcus Kaplan shows that rules-based multilateral cooperation remains necessary and …

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“MINUSTAH saw the introduction of new practices within the context of a UN peace operation” – Reading sample from “United Nations Peace Operations Revisited”

Can the use of coercive force by UN peace operations truly produce stability when confronting armed non-state actors? Where does stabilisation end and the erosion of peace begin? The publication …

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“The aim was to ensure that children adopted relevant values and norms and that their behavior was ‘reasonable’.” – Reading sample from “International Perspectives on the History of Early Childhood Education“

How did child protection in families come up, how did institutionalized child protection develop? Which historical narratives and conjunctures played a role for the development of child protection? Find a …

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“It is also a period in which migration politics became increasingly politicized” – Reading sample from “The Politics of Us and Them”

How did migration politics develop in Germany, France and Canada? What are the differences and how did the countries’ approaches change over time? With “The Politics of Us and Them …

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“Refugees who escape political violence constantly worry about the well-being of their remaining family members” – Reading sample from “Growing Up in Diaspora”

Miaojun She’s book “Growing Up in Diaspora – Education and Family of East African Refugees in Germany” centers on the life experiences of young East African refugees in Germany. Situated …

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“I argue that the debates were shaped by two competing logics of diversity, which I term productive and destructive diversity.” – Reading sample from “Aiming for Diversity”

How do politicians and teachers perceive the role of ethnic and religious diversity in education? Drawing on a qualitative vertical case study of Berlin’s secondary school ethics classrooms, Annett Gräfe-Geusch …

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“While ships were given female names, female workers were largely absent from the deck, and their presence was even considered ‘bad faith’ for a voyage” – Reading sample

Sitting at pivotal points of globalized economies, workers in logistical chokepoints such as ports and airports should have a lot of negotiating power. Anyhow, their working conditions in ports and …

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Reading sample from “Lives Interrupted – The Nazi Takeover and Autobiographical Testimonies from the 1939 Harvard Prize Competition”

“Activists for sexual and gender minorities should approach the criminalising laws as mechanisms of social control.” – Reading sample from “Joy, Reflections, Resistance – LGBTIQ+ Lived Realities in Africa”

“Shame is not a ‘pathological’ feeling, but rather an important regulatory mechanism” – Reading sample from “Dynamics of Shame in Residential Care”

“Governing the internet has never been a purely technical issue” – Reading sample from “Global Trends: Prospects for Development and Peace”

“MINUSTAH saw the introduction of new practices within the context of a UN peace operation” – Reading sample from “United Nations Peace Operations Revisited”

“It is also a period in which migration politics became increasingly politicized” – Reading sample from “The Politics of Us and Them”

“Refugees who escape political violence constantly worry about the well-being of their remaining family members” – Reading sample from “Growing Up in Diaspora”

“I argue that the debates were shaped by two competing logics of diversity, which I term productive and destructive diversity.” – Reading sample from “Aiming for Diversity”

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