Anja Laukotter – författare

Learning How to Feel explores the ways in which children and adolescents learn not just how to express emotions that are thought to be pre-existing, but actually how to feel. The volume assumes that the embryonic ability to feel unfolds through a complex dialogue with the social and cultural environment and specifically through reading material. The fundamental formation takes place in childhood and youth. A multi-authored historical monograph, Learning How to Feel uses children''s literature and advice manuals to access the training practices and learning processes for a wide range of emotions in the modern age, circa 1870-1970. The study takes an international approach, covering a broad array of social, cultural, and political milieus in Britain, Germany, India, Russia, France, Canada, and the United States.Learning How to Feel places multidirectional learning processes at the centre of the discussion, through the concept of practical knowledge. The book innovatively draws a framework for broad historical change during the course of the period. Emotional interaction between adult and child gave way to a focus on emotional interactions among children, while gender categories became less distinct. Children were increasingly taught to take responsibility for their own emotional development, to find ''authenticity'' for themselves. In the context of changing social, political, cultural, and gender agendas, the building of nations, subjects and citizens, and the forging of moral and religious values, Learning How to Feel demonstrates how children were provided with emotional learning tools through their reading matter to navigate their emotional lives.

Die Debatten uber koloniale Vergangenheiten fokussieren meist auf die europaische Kolonialgeschichte des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts. Dieses Buch eroffnet eine epochenubergreifende Perspektive vom 16. Jahrhundert bis in die Gegenwart. Berucksichtigt werden neben Europa auch das spanische Kolonialreich in Sudamerika, das Russlandische Reich, Sudafrika, Sudasien sowie der Malaiische Archipel. Dadurch zeigt sich, dass das Koloniale eine lange, komplexe Geschichte hat, in der Aufstieg, Niedergang und Fortbestehen kolonialer Phanomene ineinandergreifen. Zugleich wird kritisch gefragt, was an konkreten Orten, Praktiken und Vorstellungen als kolonial gelten kann und welche Kontinuitaten, Bruche und Grauzonen sich in transepochaler Perspektive offenbaren. So regt das Buch zu einem differenzierten Verstandnis des Kolonialen an.

Das Robert Koch-Institut im Netzwerk anderer nationaler und ausländischer bio­politischer Einrichtungen während des NS-Regimes.Eine wichtige Institution der nationalsozialistischen Gesundheits- und Bevölkerungspolitik wird in ihren multiplen Aufgabenfeldern und nationalen und internationalen Beziehungsgefügen analysiert.