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Should we abandon the cosmopolitan idea?
Should we abandon the cosmopolitan idea?

Zairong Xiang (Hg.)

minor cosmopolitan

Around the turn of the millennium, academics and politicians predicted that the world would grow together as one and that people would become less bound by national affiliations. Almost twenty years later, there is little left of this vision. This is not such a surprise when we consider that the cosmopolitan ideal (as articulated during the European Enlightenment) wholeheartedly embraced the promises of a globalising economy, yet has remained oblivious to, and even complicit with, capitalist exploitation, slavery, and colonialism....
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Eric Baudelaire

A for Anomie

A for Anomie

The idea that terrorism and other forms of political violence are directly related to strains caused by strongly held grievances has been one of the most common explanations to date and can be traced to a diverse set of theoretical concepts including relative deprivation, social disorganization, breakdown, tension, and anomie. Merton (1938) identifies anomie as a cultural condition of frustration, in which values regarding goals and how to achieve them conflict with limitations on the means of achievement.

Gary LaFree and Laura Dugan, “Research on Terrorism and Countering Terrorism”, Crime and Justice, Vol. 38, No. 1, 2009.

 

B for Block or Blocked

If terrorism in each of its expressions can be considered an indicator of the existence of a political block (of an impossibility of reacting if one wishes to react differently), this influences its real ability to modify the situation. Terrorism has been historically more successful when it was not...

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60 Billiarden Moleküle

Thomas Huber

60 Billiarden Moleküle

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Die Fabrikation der Fiktionen
Die Fabrikation der Fiktionen

Michel Mettler, Basil Rogger, ...

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1929 ist ein reiches Jahr in einer Zeit des Umbruchs. Spannungsfelder der Globalisierung in der Kultur zeigen sich darin wie in einem Prisma: Bronislaw Malinowski veröffentlicht seine Untersuchung über die Trobriand-Indianer, Ernst Jünger »Das abenteuerliche Herz«, Kurt Kläber sein pazifistisches Manifest »Krieg«, Robert Byron »The Byzantine Achievement«, Erika Mann zusammen mit ihrem Bruder Klaus »Rundherum. Das Abenteuer einer Weltreise«, Winston Churchill den vierten Band von »The World Crisis«. Kemal Atatürk gibt eine türkische Version des Korans in Auftrag, die Londoner »Times«...
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About ‘how we treat the others’

Artur Zmijewski

About ‘how we treat the others’

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