Joachim Scharloth – författare

A concise reference for researchers on the protest movements of the 1960s and 1970s, this book covers the history of the various national protest movements, the transnational aspects of these movements, and the common narratives and cultures of memory surrounding them.

"Too often the protests of the 1960s are narrowly confined to the events of one year - 1968 - or to the same familiar set of countries. This welcome book offers broader vistas that includes European countries, big and small, from both sides of the Iron Curtain. In doing so, the authors allow us to transcend worn national narratives and reflect more broadly on how a whole continent was changed by the promise of global change and revolution. This book is thus an important addition for anyone seriously studying Europe in the postwar period." * James C. Kennedy, Author of Building New Babylon: The Netherlands in the 1960s, Professor of Dutch History since the Middle Ages, University of Amsterdam "A wonderful work of collaborative and comparative history, truly international in scope. The authors teach at universities in nine different European nations, plus the United States and Japan. (...)The book will be of immense value to a wide range of specialists and can also be profitably read by anyone who lived through and wants to understand better the excitement, pain, trauma, and occasional triumphs of 1968, looking backward to 1960 and ahead to 1980 to place that extraordinary year in perspective." * David L. Schalk, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of History, Emeritus Vassar College Abandoning the usual Cold War-oriented narrative of postwar European protest and opposition movements, this volume offers an innovative, interdisciplinary, and comprehensive perspective on two decades of protest and social upheaval in postwar Europe. It examines the mutual influences and interactions among dissenters in Western Europe, the Warsaw Pact countries, and the nonaligned European countries, and shows how ideological and political developments in the East and West were interconnected through official state or party channels as well as a variety of private and clandestine contacts.Focusing on issues arising from the cross-cultural transfer of ideas, the adjustments to institutional and political frameworks, and the role of the media in staging protest, the volume examines the romanticized attitude of Western activists to violent liberation movements in the Third World and the idolization of imprisoned RAF members as martyrs among left-wing circles across Western Europe.

Protest is a ubiquitous and richly varied social phenomenon, one that finds expression not only in modern social movements and political organizations but also in grassroots initiatives, individual action, and creative works. It constitutes a distinct cultural domain, one whose symbolic content is regularly deployed by media and advertisers, among other actors. Yet within social movement scholarship, such cultural considerations have been comparatively neglected. Protest Cultures: A Companion dramatically expands the analytical perspective on protest beyond its political and sociological aspects. It combines cutting-edge synthetic essays with concise, accessible case studies on a remarkable array of protest cultures, outlining key literature and future lines of inquiry.

Protest is a ubiquitous and richly varied social phenomenon, one that finds expression not only in modern social movements and political organizations but also in grassroots initiatives, individual action, and creative works. It constitutes a distinct cultural domain, one whose symbolic content is regularly deployed by media and advertisers, among other actors. Yet within social movement scholarship, such cultural considerations have been comparatively neglected. Protest Cultures: A Companion dramatically expands the analytical perspective on protest beyond its political and sociological aspects. It combines cutting-edge synthetic essays with concise, accessible case studies on a remarkable array of protest cultures, outlining key literature and future lines of inquiry.

Focusing on the sociolinguistic history of Germanic languages, the current volume challenges the traditional teleological approach of language historiography. The 30 contributions present alternative histories of ten ‘big’ as well as ‘small’ Germanic languages and varieties in the last 300 years. Topics covered in this book include language variation and change and the politics of language contact and choice, seen against the background of standardization processes of written and oral text genres and from the viewpoint of larger sections of the population.

The series Sprache und Wissen [Language and Knowledge] is a publication platform for high-quality papers on German linguistics with interdisciplinary focus. The series takes on current trends in the scientific community from a linguistic perspective in order to show how general and expert knowledge are made possible through language and gain perspective through it. The linguistic treatment of discursive knowledge formats aims to advance the field of linguistics and other sciences interested in language in an innovative way. The series presents papers with semantic, pragmatic, and syntactic approaches from the perspective of variety-specific as well as text- and discourse-linguistic cognitive interest. The series welcomes monographs as well as systematically-structured anthologies and conference proceedings. Editorial Board:Markus HundtWolf-Andreas LiebertJuliane SchröterBerbeli WanningIngo H. WarnkeMartin Wengeler

The German Linguistic Studies Series is a comprehensive and outstanding forum in its field. It has borne the name of its subject in its title since the foundation of the series in the eighth decade of the last century.The series is comprehensive in the broad spectrum of topics covered (language levels, varieties, communication forms, epochs) in the range of research perspectives (theoretical and empirical studies, fundamental research and applications, interdisciplinarity with psychology, the social sciences etc.) and methodologies (the sole criterion is quality), in the rhythm of research (trends are perceived and also set, achievements are secured) and in the forms of presentation (monographs, textbooks, collected volumes, dictionaries).Professorial theses, outstanding doctoral theses, pioneering research findings from wider contexts, but also the surprising ‛stroke of genius’ set the standards for inclusion in the series. Call for Book Proposals: https://blog.degruyter.com/call-for-book-proposals-reihe-germanistische-linguistik/

Die 68er polarisieren noch heute: Politisch gescheitert, erfolgreich in der Entwicklung neuer Lebensstile? Dabei gingen Kulturrevolution und Medienevolution Hand in Hand. Presse, Rundfunk und Fernsehen stilisierten Rudi Dutschke, die Kommune I, Che Guevara oder Mao neben den Rolling Stones oder Jimi Hendrix zu Ikonen einer jugendlichen Protestkultur. War die 68-Bewegung mehr als die Inszenierung von Ereignissen im Medienformat? Entlang der Stichworte Happening, Sit-in, Diskussionsfieber, Protestinszenierung u. a. vermittelt das Handbuch einen neuen Blick auf eine politische Strömung, die die Jahrzehnte danach entscheidend verändert und geprägt hat.

Thema des Bandes ist sprachliche Gewalt in ihren verschiedenen Ausprägungen – von der Unhöflichkeit, über subtile Formen der sprachlichen Entwertung und Herabsetzung bis hin zu Diskriminierung und Hate Speech. Die Beiträge untersuchen die sprachlichen, argumentativen und diskursiven Formen der invektiven Kommunikation und nehmen auch deren gesellschaftliche Effekte in den Blick: die Abwertung von Autoritäten, die Pluralisierung von Wahrheit, die Radikalisierung von Diskursen. Dabei werden die beschriebenen Phänomene nicht als sprachkritisch zu behandelnder Sonderfall, sondern als allgegenwärtige Modi der Kommunikation betrachtet. Die Beiträge ergeben so ein facettenreiches Bild davon, welche Funktionen herabwürdigendes Sprechen in unserer gegenwärtigen Gesellschaft hat.

Die Debatte um die Norm des Hochdeutschen im letzten Drittel des 18. Jahrhunderts wurde nicht nur mit linguistischen Argumenten geführt, sondern auch mit kulturkritischen und moralischen. Gegen die Dominanz der Sächsischen Sprachkundler formierte sich mit Friedrich Karl Fulda, Johann Gottlieb Hartmann und Johannes Nast in Schwaben eine Opposition, die durch eine alternative Sprachnorm eine sittliche Erneuerung Deutschlands erreichen wollte. Die Studie fragt, wie es zu so unterschiedlichen Ausprägungen im Sprachdenken einer Zeit kommen kann. Durch die Verschränkung verschiedener sozial-konstruktivistischer Theorien (Wissenssoziologie, Kulturelles Gedächtnis und linguistische Diskursanalyse) wird ein Modell der Genese von Sprachbewußtsein entwickelt, das es erlaubt, Denkweisen über Sprache aus mentalitären Dispositionen zu erklären. Die tiefensemantische Analyse von sprachreflexiven, aber auch feuilletonistischen, literarischen und kulturhistorischen Texten und Druckgraphiken des 18. Jahrhunderts zeigt, wie allgemeine Denk- und Bewertungsschemata die Debatte über die Frage »Was ist Hochdeutsch?« präformierten und organisierten. Das Denken über Sprache entfaltete sich demnach in den argumentativen und semantischen Rahmen des kulturkritischen Diskurses. Die Sprachnormendebatte wird so als Streit über die sittliche Verfassung und die nationale Identität Deutschlands lesbar gemacht.