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Journal articles on the topic "Germany Personal narratives"
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Sahrakorpi, Tiia. "Memory, Family, and the Self in Hitler Youth Generation Narratives." Journal of Family History 45, no. 1 (2019): 88–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0363199019880254.
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This article examines how the Hitler Youth generation (born 1925–1933) narrativizes their family stories by analyzing archived memoirs, published memoirs, and school essays from the1947–1949 period. The Hitler Youth generation’s postwar recollections of the National Socialist period vary according to medium and time. Both are key to understanding this generation’s struggle to master the Nazi past on national and personal levels. Using Fivush and Merrill’s expanded concept of ecological systems to study family stories, this article illustrates how archived memoirs transfer family stories intergenerationally. Its key finding is that these narratives act as memory tools to transmit stories of Nazi Germany family life; in turn, this reveals narrative gaps and inconsistences and occasionally the narrator’s inability to cope with compromised family members.
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Schwartz, Agatha, and Tatjana Takševa. "Between Trauma and Resilience." Aspasia 14, no. 1 (2020): 124–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/asp.2020.140109.
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This article discusses the personal narratives (both published and personal interviews collected for the purpose of this study) of female survivors of wartime rape in post–World War II Germany and postconflict Bosnia and Herzegovina. The authors examine how the women succeed in finding their words both for and beyond the rupture caused by the rapes through examples of life writing that challenge the dominant masculinist historical narrative of war created for ideological reasons and for the benefit of the nation-state. Using theories of trauma and insights by feminist scholars and historians, the authors argue that a transnational reading of survivors’ accounts from these very different geopolitical and historical contexts not only shows multiple points of mutual influence, but also how these narratives can make a significant contribution, both locally and globally, when it comes to revisiting how wartime rape is memorialized, and how lessons learned from the two contexts can be relevant and applicable in other situations of armed conflict as well.
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Gliniecki, Tomasz. "Difrences in the national (historical) memories of Germany and Russia on the example of a railway disaster in Zielonka Pasłęcka in January 1945." Masuro-Warmian Bulletin 300, no. 2 (2018): 253–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.51974/kmw-134888.
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This article presents divergent views of the national memories of the Germans and Russians, accumulated since the Second World War in two leading narratives, presenting the mnemonic syndromes of winners and losers. The railway disaster at Zielonka Pasłęcka in January 1945 and its consequences was used as a point of comparison. The author presents, amongst others, the impact of the work of the German researcher Heinz Timmreck, in the form of numerous reports from this incident, mainly highlighting the suffering of the German civilian population fleeing the region endangered by fighting. On the other side, the author presents memoirs of Soviet officers marked with personal ambitions and traces of vengeful attacks preserved in the military documentation. The juxtaposi�tion of the narratives and their comparison provides a new perspective, prompting changes in the mythologised memory of both nations.
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Binbaş, İlker Evrim. "Autobiographies and Weak Ties: Saʾin al-Din Turka's Self-Narratives". International Journal of Middle East Studies 53, № 2 (2021): 309–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020743821000362.
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As I write this essay, the forty-fourth US President Barack Obama's autobiography titled A Promised Land is the best-selling book in Germany, in both the German and the English editions. This is his second autobiographical work, following Dreams from My Father in 1995. Given Obama's prominent place in our modern political culture, this is hardly surprising, but today's publishers seem to have no specific criteria for deciding whose life and career are worthy of an autobiography. Any moderately successful individual from any walk of life can publish an autobiography today. The popularity of the genre is certainly related to the extreme glorification of individual and personal success in modern society, but it also shapes how we view premodern self-narratives: as a window into an intellectual's individuality and Bildung. This essay questions this convention and explores the opportunities that self-narratives embedded in literary and narrative sources present to historians of 15th-century Iran and Central Asia. I will argue that autobiographies and self-narratives are much more than tools for refashioning the self in the early modern period. They open a window to a much wider network of weak ties and acquaintances, a closer scrutiny of which may allow us to reconstruct transregional networks, understand the connectedness of these intellectual networks, and delineate their collective identities in the early modern period. In my discussion I will focus on a selection of 15th-century texts, most prominently the self-narratives of the Timurid intellectual Saʾin al-Dīn Turka (d. 1432).
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Herges, Katja. "Writing autohistoria-teoría: agency and illness in German life narratives by Evelyne Leandro and Mely Kiyak." Medical Humanities 46, no. 2 (2020): e1-e1. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2019-011746.
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Health concerns by migrants have been neglected in the German healthcare system, and they are impacted by discriminating discourses of othering. By analysing two autobiographical illness narratives by immigrants in contemporary Germany, this article exposes limitations in existing discourses of migration health and argues for more relational and affirmative theories of illness and care. Evelyn Leandro’s diary The Living Death: The Struggle with a Long-Forgotten Illness (2017) describes her own drawn-out therapy against leprosy as a Brazilian in Berlin. In Mr Kiyak Thought That the Best Part of His Life Will Start Now (2013), the Turkish-German journalist Mely Kiyak narrates her father’s experience with advanced lung cancer in a German hospital. Drawing on medical anthropology, postcolonial theory and material (eco)feminism, I argue that these narratives establish migrant health and agency in transnational assemblages that include chemotherapy, lungs and skin, family networks, healthcare providers, food cultures and health policies. These assemblages of illness are connected with the narratives’ hybrid and relational aesthetics and politics: similar to Gloria Anzaldúa’s practice of autohistoria-teoría, I show how Kiyak’s and Leandro’s life writing combines personal and communal storytelling with critical theorising to include diverse voices, languages, histories and identities. By transgressing identities of self and other, German and foreign, patient and physician, human and non-human, the narratives inspire a greater sense of the extent to which (all) bodies, histories, cultures, technology and medicine are entangled in a dense network of relations. This article envisions a relational and hybrid ontology and aesthetics of migration health and thereby intervenes into the growing field of transcultural medicine and medical humanities.
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Sewali-Kirumira, Jane Namuyimbwa. "Living on the Margin:." Cultural and Pedagogical Inquiry 12, no. 1 (2021): 37–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.18733/cpi29528.
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This article uncovers the hidden stepdaughter’s odyssey to Black African Feminism against the backdrop of Kigandan subservient womanhood and Euro-Canadian racism. The first section recounts early childhood experiences of an othered stepchild, followed by teenage anti-misogynist resistance to structural second-class citizenship in a majoritized boy’s school. Subsequent sections narratively capture the lived experiences of transitioning to racialized and subjugated Black womanhood in Germany and Canada, and the becoming of a proud Black African Anti-racist Feminist. Using personal photographs in the narratives makes the experience more present while the Luganda proverbs call forth the uniqueness of an African experience. This article uncovers different strategies of how a young Black African female combats multiple layers of Kigandan cultural subordination and systemic racism in order to excel as a professional immigration consultant and emerging anti-racism and Black feminism scholar.
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Neubert, Lydia, Hans-Helmut König, and Christian Brettschneider. "Seeking the balance between caregiving in dementia, family and employment: study protocol for a mixed methods study in Northern Germany." BMJ Open 8, no. 2 (2018): e019444. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2017-019444.
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IntroductionThe debate on reconciliation between childcare and working has to be expanded to caregiving for the elderly, since the importance of informal caregiving will increase in the future due to populations’ ageing and women’s increasing labour force participation. Informal caregivers who are caring for the rising number of persons with dementia (PwD) are often female and subjected to high caregiving requirements. These are added to further demands emerging from their family and work life. How affected caregivers seek to balance those requirements depends on, inter alia, their own characteristics and the informal caregiving network to whom they relate. Both aspects were not yet considered in previous studies. This mixed methods study thus aims to explore the reconciliation between caregiving in dementia, family and employment by including different members of caregiving networks of home-dwelling PwD and by considering their personal characteristics.Methods and analysisBy purposive sampling, we include at least five caregiving networks of home-dwelling PwD; each of them consisting of at least three informal caregivers living in Northern Germany. Narrative interviews of participants will be recorded, transcribed verbatim and interpreted according to the Documentary Method (QUAL). By completing standardised questionnaires, participants will provide sociodemographic and psychographic data concerning themselves and the networks from whom they arise (quan). This supplemental, descriptive information will give further background to the themes and types emerging from the interviews. Hence, the quan-data enrich the QUAL-data by exploring the narratives of participants in the light of their personal and network-related characteristics.Ethics and disseminationEthical approval was obtained from the Ethics Committee of the German Society of Nursing Sciences. Study results will be disseminated through conference presentations and publications in peer-reviewed journals.Trial registration numberDRKS00012929.
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Kasperiuniene, Judita, and Ilona Tandzegolskiene. "Smart learning environments in a contemporary museum: a case study." Journal of Education Culture and Society 11, no. 2 (2020): 353–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.15503/jecs2020.2.353.375.
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Aim. The modern museum becomes an attractive learning place and space where the visitor, depending on age and competence, develops personal experience, and constructs the learning process based on personalized goals. The article aims to reveal how spaces in museums are exploited, in what ways visitors are involved in a narrative that connects the present and the past.
 Concept. The research uses a case-study method to investigate the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews (Poland), Ruhr Museum (Germany), and Vienna Technical Museum (Austria). Within the smart learning environment context, this study explains how to encourage museum visitors to learn and seek answers.
 Results and conclusion. Four main directions are emphasized: the construction of a narrative through the creation of spaces and places, the creation of a historical narrative through simulacra, the educational effect of smart solutions, and the edutainment. The findings show that change in the museum by combining design solutions, historical narrative, time experience, and smart technologies leads to cognitive, engaging learning, touching, feeling, and experiencing different emotions, encouraging a return to the museum, inviting to learn, and shaping one's personal experience.
 Cognitive value. Contemporary museums invite visitors to a new experience combining artistic space design, storytelling, individual time management, and the use of smart learning environments. These challenges are shifting museum narratives and influencing non-formal learning programs. Authors raise a discussion of how, by exploiting museum spaces, the visitors are involved in the stories, and how the smart learning environment is created in a modern museum.
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Easingwood, Ruth. ""La fine del mondo civile": reazioni ai bombardamenti sulla Germania 1945-1949." MEMORIA E RICERCA, no. 39 (May 2012): 175–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.3280/mer2012-039011.
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Responses to the bombing of Germany 1945-1949 Personal testimonies constitute an unexplored dimension in the debate on bombing. As these testimonies were organized around a particular moment, or moments, they reflect the intense feeling aroused by the sight of such overwhelming devastation. The narratives recorded in the British Zone between 1945 and 1947 reinforce those communicated to me years later and serve to contextualize those memories by providing them with a chronological frame of reference. In this way British women are linked across time by the common experience of bearing witness to the bomb damage and the sense of awe this engendered in them.
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Schreiter, Katrin. "Revisiting Morale under the Bombs: The Gender of Affect in Darmstadt, 1942–1945." Central European History 50, no. 3 (2017): 347–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0008938917000632.
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A new feature of World War II was the physical proximity of a growing number of women to death and destruction. Britain and the United States bombed Germany with the hope that the bombs would demoralize the population and thus defeat the Third Reich from within. Yet, even during the heaviest bombings between 1943 and 1945, no widespread organized dissent formed against the Nazi regime. Taking into account affect concepts of morale, this article examines the gendered experience of bombing in Darmstadt, a small town near Frankfurt am Main. It is based on largely unexamined home-front narratives from 1945, namely, transcribed United States Strategic Bombing Survey (USSBS) interviews with Germans who had recently lived through a period of intense air warfare. The experience with deadly force, as well as the gendered and generational preparation with which individuals encountered and made sense of it, shaped morale and social reorganization in a hopeless war. The affective dialogue between the personal sphere of survival and the public sphere of warfare revealed increasingly fluid gender roles in a besieged Third Reich. The bombing set the stage for a period of female self-sufficiency from as early as 1942, which means that increasing opportunities for female agency—usually associated with the “hour of the woman” during the final days of the war and the Allied occupation in postwar Germany—had appeared much earlier.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Germany Personal narratives"
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Baker, Ruth Lynette. "Relations between Jewish and non-Jewish Germans 1933-1945: A case study in the use of evidence by historians." Thesis, University of Canterbury. School of Humanities, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/2956.
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Of all fields of historical enquiry, Germany’s Third Reich is perhaps the richest in sources and historiography. Therefore, it is logical to assume that this is where we see history done at its best. The chief interest of this dissertation is how historians select their sources and how they use the evidence they find in their sources. I have taken relations between Jewish Germans and non-Jewish Germans as a case study because of the enormous quantity of primary source material and because so many historians have commented on the issue. I do not attempt to make any claims about what happened between Jewish Germans and their non-Jewish compatriots nor do I make a moral assessment of behaviours and attitudes among the ‘ordinary’ people of Germany under the Third Reich. Rather, this is a technical exercise to examine how well the historians have done history in this particular area.
My systematic review of the historians’ methodologies reveals that many either distort the evidence they cite or put forward arguments that go well beyond what the evidence warrants, perhaps because of pre-conceived theories which shape their approaches to the evidence. Moreover, they fail to make the best possible use of some types of source such as personal narratives. In order to ascertain whether these sources can be better used, I systematically analyse a selection of personal narratives which are sometimes quoted by historians, in particular the 1933-1945 diaries of Victor Klemperer. My question is: Do these testimonies really say what the historians claim they say about relations between Jewish and non-Jewish Germans? And if not, how can we analyse them to determine what they actually do say?
The two kinds of problems which emerge are how to select a balanced range of sources and how to use them properly. My argument is that there are six methodological principles that should underpin good historical practice. Because historians are not scrupulous to apply these common-sense rules, their arguments are methodologically flawed and they do not use some sources to the full extent of their value. This raises the question of whether these problems are confined to this particular field or whether they are endemic to the history profession as a whole.
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Asnis, Lisa. "My Journey." Fogler Library, University of Maine, 2011. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/AsnisL2011.pdf.
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Martin, Caroline. "Memoir and memory : the papers of a pre-war German - Alfred Huhnhäuser, 1885 to 1950." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/24389.
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The personal archive of Dr Alfred Huhnhäuser (1885-1950), a German civil servant, is examined with regard to this thesis. The archive consists of an unfinished personal memoir, Aus einem reichen Leben, five chapters of a political memoir concerning Huhnhäuser's time in Norway during the German occupation, publications edited by Huhnhäuser and other personal documents. A full catalogue of the contents of the archive has been included in this thesis. An attempt has been made to identify the significance of the Huhnhäuser archive within a literary framework and, therefore, a brief analysis of the study of autobiographical writings has been undertaken. The importance of the archive within the context of social history has also been stressed, for Huhnhäuser was an "ordinary" German and not one of the Great and the Good. The personal memoirs operate on three levels - personal, worldstage and cultural- and extracts from the archive have been used to illustrate this. A brief historical summary of events in Norway prior to and immediately after the German occupation is given in order to place the events described by Huhnhäuser in context. The contents of the personal and political memoirs are summarized and analyzed in this thesis. Recurring themes are identified and examined. Perhaps the most significant is Huhnhäuser's repeated claim that he is an inherently ''unpolitisches We sen". Evidence has been obtained from the Bundesarchiv in Berlin which proves that Huhnhäuser joined the NSDAP on 1 May 1933. Huhnhäuser does not refer in the memoirs to his membership of this party, claiming instead that he has never voluntarily been involved in party politics. A second volume of materials has been included in this thesis in order to provide more detailed information as regards to the composition and contents of the archive. Extracts from the memoirs and letters have also been selected.
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Rozītis, Juris. "Displaced Literature : Images of Time and Space in Latvian Novels Depicting the First Years of the Latvian Postwar Exile." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för baltiska språk, finska och tyska, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-607.
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In the years immediately following the Second World War, the main part of Latvian literature was produced by writers living outside Latvia. To this day Latvian literature continues to be written outside Latvia, albeit to a much smaller extent. This study examines those Latvian novels, written outside Latvia after the Second World War, which depict the realities of the early years of exile. The aim of the study is to describe the image of the world of exile as depicted in these novels. Borrowing from Bakhtin's concept of the chronotope, images relating to time and space in these novels are examined in order to discern a mental topography of exile common to all these novels - a chronotope of exile. The novels are read as part of a collective narrative, produced by a particular social group in unordinary historical circumstances. The novels are regarded as this social group’s common perception of its own experience of this historical reality. The early years of exile fall into two distinct periods: first, the period of flight from Latvia and life in and around the Displaced Persons camps of postwar Germany; second, the early years of settling in a new country of residence after emigration from Germany. A model of the perceived world is constructed in order to compare these two periods, as well as their divergence from a standard perception of oneself in the world. This model consists of various time-spaces radiating concentrically out from the individual – ranging from the physically and psychologically near-lying time-spaces of one’s personal and intimate life, through everyday social time-spaces, as well as formal societal time-spaces, to the more distant abstract and conceptual perceptions of one’s place in the universe. Basic human concepts such as home, family, work, intimate relationships, social administration, and most notably the homeland – Latvia – are plotted at various points within these models. Divergences between the models describing the perception of time and space in the two early periods of exile thus become apparent.
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Shantall, Hester Maria. "A heuristic study of the meaning of suffering among holocaust survivors." Thesis, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/16020.
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Is there meaning in suffering or ts suffering only a soul-destroying experience from which nothing positive can emerge? In seeking to answer this question, a heuristic study was made of the experiences and views of
the famous Auschwitz survivor, Viktor Frankl, supplemented by an exploration of the life-worlds of
other Nazi concentration camp survivors. The underlying premise was that if meaning can be found in
the worst sufferings imaginable, then meaning can be found in every other situation of suffering.
Seeking to illuminate the views of Frankl and to gain a deeper grasp of the phenomenon of
suffering, the theoretical and personal views of mainstream psychologists regarding the nature of man
and the meaning of hi.~ sufferings were studied. Since the focus of this research was on the suffering of the Holocaust survivor, the Holocaust as the context of the present study, was studied as a crisis of meaning and as psychological adversity. In trying to establish the best way to gain entry into the life-world of the Holocaust survivor, the research methods employed in Holocaust survivor studies were reviewed and, for the purposes of
this study, found wanting. The choice and employment of a heuristic method yielded rich data which illuminated the fact that, through a series of heroic choices Frankl, and the survivors who became research participants,
could attain spiritual triumph in the midst of suffering caused by an evil and inhumane regime. Hitherto unexplored areas of psychological maturity were revealed by these heroes of suffering from which the following conclusions could be drawn:
Man attains the peaks of moral excellence through suffering. Suffering can have meaning.
Suffering can call us out of the moral apathy and mindlesness of mere existence.
The Holocaust, one of the most tragic events in human history, contains, paradoxically, a
challenge to humankind. Resisting the pressure to sink to the level of a brute fight for mere
survival, Frankl and the research participants continued to exercise those human values
important to them and triumphantly maintained their human dignity and self-respect. Evidence
was provided that man has the power to overcome evil with good.<br>Psychology<br>D. Litt. et Phil. (Psychology)
Books on the topic "Germany Personal narratives"
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Walter, Marianne. The poison seed: A personal history of Nazi Germany. Book Guild, 1991.
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Constabel, Hans. Hol nieder Flagge: Ereignisse um ein Standgericht. Convent Verlag, 2001.
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Constabel, Hans. Hol nieder Flagge: Ereignisse um ein Standgericht. Nordwestdeutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, 1989.
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Jähnert, Erhard. Mal oben--mal unten: Einer, der immer dabei war : ein Sturzkampfpilot erzählt, 1935-1945. Remer Heipke, 1992.
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Schüssler, Hans. Vorwärts, Kameraden: Die Wehrmacht im Krieg : Erinerungen eines Frontoffiziers. Frieling, 1997.
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John, Stieber. Against the odds: Survival on the Russian Front, 1944-45. Poolbeg, 1995.
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Theilen, I. "Illness and Health of Turkish “Citizens” in West Germany as Seen Against the Background of Their Personal Life Narratives." In Primary Health Care in the Making. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1985. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69977-1_60.
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Premat, Christophe Emmanuel. "The Praxis of Cultural Narratives in International Mobility." In Advances in Media, Entertainment, and the Arts. IGI Global, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-4903-2.ch008.
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Many discourses encourage the international mobility of students as a proof of intercultural openness. The studies abroad are included in all the curricula and satisfy the international profile of future candidates coming in the labour market. In this context, the international mobility of high school pupils is also promoted to acquire a form of personal autonomy with the acquisition of a new language. There is a strong mobility of international pupils that spend a year abroad in another educational system. In Sweden, the choice of a high school depends on the grades obtained earlier but also on what the high schools offer in terms of short international mobility (study trip to England). The programme “One Year in France/Spain/Germany/Austria” was created at the end of the 1980s with the board of international programmes from the Swedish Ministry of Education, some embassies and cultural centres from the concerned countries, the Swedish Institute in Paris. The chapter analyzes the narratives of the students who took part in the programme.
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Premat, Christophe Emmanuel. "The Praxis of Cultural Narratives in International Mobility." In Advances in Media, Entertainment, and the Arts. IGI Global, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-4903-2.ch008.
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Many discourses encourage the international mobility of students as a proof of intercultural openness. The studies abroad are included in all the curricula and satisfy the international profile of future candidates coming in the labour market. In this context, the international mobility of high school pupils is also promoted to acquire a form of personal autonomy with the acquisition of a new language. There is a strong mobility of international pupils that spend a year abroad in another educational system. In Sweden, the choice of a high school depends on the grades obtained earlier but also on what the high schools offer in terms of short international mobility (study trip to England). The programme “One Year in France/Spain/Germany/Austria” was created at the end of the 1980s with the board of international programmes from the Swedish Ministry of Education, some embassies and cultural centres from the concerned countries, the Swedish Institute in Paris. The chapter analyzes the narratives of the students who took part in the programme.
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Russo, Eriberto. "Questioning the Border in Yoko Tawada’s Poetics of Trans-Formation: Akzentfrei (2016) and Ein Balkonplatz für flüchtige Abende (2016)." In Narratives Crossing Borders: The Dynamics of Cultural Interaction. Stockholm University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.16993/bbj.d.
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Yoko Tawada, an established author with a Japanese background, is one of the most important writers of contemporary Germany. Her personal experience as a migrant – the first and major border - has played a central role in her literary activity. Her literary production oscillates between two styles: narratives and essays, which make full use of both ordinary and surreal aspects. In other words her works start from a ritual aspect of ordinary life and create a new dimension, which can be identified as the dimension of the border. The border becomes, this way, the dialectic device, through which texts transform and translate themselves into the otherness. My paper aims to analyze the concept of border in Tawada’s poetics, with particular attention to the border as a liminal space, as it displays itself in her last works Akzentfrei (2016) and Ein Balkonplatz für flüchtige Abende (2016). In both works borders play a central role, as they transform themselves after flowing and being crossed by identitary suggestions. Akzentfrei is to be seen as an imaginary journey into the In-betweenness, during which, we, as readers, discover a new world made up of accents and translations, leading to the understanding of the condition of a writer, who writers in the ‘ravine of language’. Through an extraordinary desire to excavate the secrets of the words and the objects, which a writer on the threshold can encounter on his/her way, Tawada tells her reader about the way she tries to go beyond the border, which has actually turned out to be the writer herself. Ein Balkonplatz für flüchtige Abende, a poetic novel, can be understood as the synthesis of Tawada’s contact with the spaces of the borders. At the centre of the narration we find the figure of the Loreley, a siren, who loses her way and strands on the Elbe, in Hamburg. The siren and the other figures we encounter in the work do not possess fixed identities: in fact, they keep flowing through a translating otherness, which manifests itself through ordinary spaces (streets, canteens) hiding secrets and getting crossed by unfamiliar landscapes and worlds.
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Leh, Almut, and Doris Tausendfreund. "Archiving Audio and Video Interviews." In Online Research Methods in Urban and Planning Studies. IGI Global, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-0074-4.ch021.
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This chapter explores developments in and prospects for the online archival storage and retrieval of oral history interviews—with a focus on experiences and projects in Germany. The introductory section examines the contemporary history research method, oral history, which has led to extensive collections of interviews with witnesses of different historical periods, including survivors of Nazi persecution. To characterize the nature of oral history interviews, attention is given to their narrative form and the biographical dimension. Emphasizing the specific value of this material, the authors discuss the demands involved in archiving such material framed by the expectations on both sides, witnesses as interview partners and researchers and other interested persons as archive users. A German example for state-of-the-art online archiving strategies called the “Forced Labor 1939-1945. Memory and History” archive, is presented, outlining the technical challenges and research features as well as research functionality and further enhancements. Possible avenues for further development within the field are outlined: a meta-search engine covering multiple databases and an open online archive. A crucial ethical question is also presented in this chapter: How can a responsible online access policy ensure the protection of the contemporary witnesses’ personal rights?
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Marazia, Chantal, Heiner Fangerau, Thomas Becker, and Felicitas Söhner. "‘Visions of another world’." In Basaglia's International Legacy: From Asylum to Community. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198841012.003.0014.
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This chapter explores Franco Basaglia’s relation with German psychiatry, from his early infatuation with the anthropo-phenomenological tradition to the disputes with the social psychiatric movement during the 1960s and 1970s. After an overview of Basaglia’s criticism of German psychiatric schools and institutions, the chapter focuses on his personal links, most notably with progressive psychiatrists and with the anti-psychiatric movement SPK (Sozialistisches Patientenkollektiv). Finally, it analyses Basaglia’s reception, by both the medical establishment and the actors of psychiatric reform. Contrary to the current narrative of a mutual influence, the chapter argues that Basaglia can hardly be regarded as a genuine inspiration for German psychiatric reform, and was retrospectively refashioned as such.
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Pollock, Emily Richmond. "Placement and Displacement." In Opera After the Zero Hour. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190063733.003.0002.
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This chapter explores the historical and institutional basis for the West German renewal of opera in the postwar period. The chapter presents narratives of individuals involved in the creation of opera to contextualize opera’s restoration after 1945. Significant personnel continuity in the operatic ecosystem before, during, and after the Third Reich meant that the postwar opera industry was populated by men and women whose recent experiences included National Socialist ideology, military service, Allied bombing, the loss of family members, displacement, hunger, forced labor, imprisonment, and denazification. The chapter also sketches the institutional basis of contemporary opera, discussing seven opera companies and surveying the position of new and recent works within the postwar repertoire. From this survey, we see how the production of new operas enhanced companies’ prestige and was motivated by a perceived duty to promote modern composers, to challenge audiences, and to advance opera as a living art form.
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Pollin-Galay, Hannah. "The Victim-Perpetrator Encounter." In Ecologies of Witnessing. Yale University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300226041.003.0004.
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This chapter explores witnesses’ notions of culpability and justice in the victim-perpetrator encounter. Within the Yiddish-Lithuanian corpus, the act of identifying guilty parties figures prominently. These locally focused conversations make less room for German perpetrators. Neighbors are both the most human and the most deplorable Holocaust perpetrators. By contrast, the personal-allegorical genre in the American context does not promise to produce the names of guilty parties. Witnesses blame a crisis of values, hate, or antisemitism rather than individual people. Geographic distance makes it less relevant to list the names of guilty neighbors. Contemporary political and economic advantages, being an American citizen, make it less moral to seek retribution. For those participating in the Israeli ecology, depicting the perpetrator often leads to a critique of the Jewish response to victimization. Narratives dwell upon the strategy of the perpetrator—on identifying the system behind his aggression and evaluating it. Some narrators in this ecology emphasize how Holocaust perpetration is common knowledge in Israeli life: The facts of anti-Jewish persecution are already well known, tamed within the space of the national archive, and thus require less forensic energy.
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Mitcham, Carl. "Ethics Is Not Enough." In Civil and Environmental Engineering. IGI Global, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-9619-8.ch058.
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This chapter argues for understanding engineering ethics in terms of three principles—but then going beyond ethics to political theory. A simplified prefatory comparison between engineering and science points to the importance of ethics in engineering. Section 1 provides a historico-philosophical overview of engineering ethics in the United States, on the premise that American experience can be generally illuminating. The narrative traces a trajectory of commitments from company loyalty to public responsibility, with the public responsibility promoting public engagement. Section 2 considers three influential American cases that together suggest a duty to public disclosure. Section 3 broadens the analysis through selective reviews of engineering ethics profiles in Germany, The Netherlands, Japan, Chile, and in transnational professional engineering organizations, on the basis of which is articulated a duty not only to avoid harm but also to do good. Section 4, a critical reflection on engineering in the intensive form of research and design, posits a synthesis of the principles of participation, disclosure, and beneficence into a duty plus respicare, to take more into account. A concluding section nevertheless suggests the inadequacy of limiting engineering ethics to ethics. Ethics in engineering like ethics generally implicates political theory. Ethics in the absence of politics demands unrealistic personal heroism; political theory without any foundation in ethics promotes tyranny.
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Mitcham, Carl. "Ethics is Not Enough." In Advances in Civil and Industrial Engineering. IGI Global, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8130-9.ch005.
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This chapter argues for understanding engineering ethics in terms of three principles—but then going beyond ethics to political theory. A simplified prefatory comparison between engineering and science points to the importance of ethics in engineering. Section 1 provides a historico-philosophical overview of engineering ethics in the United States, on the premise that American experience can be generally illuminating. The narrative traces a trajectory of commitments from company loyalty to public responsibility, with the public responsibility promoting public engagement. Section 2 considers three influential American cases that together suggest a duty to public disclosure. Section 3 broadens the analysis through selective reviews of engineering ethics profiles in Germany, The Netherlands, Japan, Chile, and in transnational professional engineering organizations, on the basis of which is articulated a duty not only to avoid harm but also to do good. Section 4, a critical reflection on engineering in the intensive form of research and design, posits a synthesis of the principles of participation, disclosure, and beneficence into a duty plus respicare, to take more into account. A concluding section nevertheless suggests the inadequacy of limiting engineering ethics to ethics. Ethics in engineering like ethics generally implicates political theory. Ethics in the absence of politics demands unrealistic personal heroism; political theory without any foundation in ethics promotes tyranny.