Brigitte Hipfl - Böcker

This edited volume explores the idea of Europe through a focus on its margins. The chapters in the volume inquire critically into the relations and tensions inherent in divisions between the Global North and the Global South as well as internal regional differentiation within Europe itself. In doing so, the volume stresses the need to consider Europe from critical interdisciplinary perspectives, highlighting historical and contemporary issues of racism and colonialism.While recent discussions of migration into ‘Fortress Europe’ seem to assume that Europe has clearly demarcated geographic, political and cultural boundaries, this book argues that the reality is more complex. The book explores margins conceptually and positions margins and centres as open to negotiation and contestation and characterized by ambiguity. As such, margins can be contextualized in relation to hierarchies within Europe, with different processes involved in creating boundaries and borders between different kinds of Europes and Europeans. Deploying case studies from different places, such as Iceland, Italy, Poland, Spain, Turkey, the UK, Romania, Cyprus, Greece, Sicily, European colonies in the Caribbean and the former Yugoslavia, the contributors analyse how different geopolitical hierarchies intersect with racialized subject positions of diverse people living in Europe, while also exploring issues of gender, class, sexuality, religion and nationality. Some chapters draw attention to the fortification of Europe’s ‘borderland,’ while others focus on internal hierarchies within Europe, critiquing the meaning of spatial boundaries in an increasingly digitalized Europe. In doing so, the chapters interrogate the hierarchies at play in the processes of being and becoming ‘European’ and the ongoing impacts of race and colonialism.This timely and thought-provoking collection will be of considerable significance to those in the humanities and social sciences with an interest in Europe.Chapters 1, 11 and 12 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

This edited volume explores the idea of Europe through a focus on its margins. The chapters in the volume inquire critically into the relations and tensions inherent in divisions between the Global North and the Global South as well as internal regional differentiation within Europe itself. In doing so, the volume stresses the need to consider Europe from critical interdisciplinary perspectives, highlighting historical and contemporary issues of racism and colonialism.While recent discussions of migration into ‘Fortress Europe’ seem to assume that Europe has clearly demarcated geographic, political and cultural boundaries, this book argues that the reality is more complex. The book explores margins conceptually and positions margins and centres as open to negotiation and contestation and characterized by ambiguity. As such, margins can be contextualized in relation to hierarchies within Europe, with different processes involved in creating boundaries and borders between different kinds of Europes and Europeans. Deploying case studies from different places, such as Iceland, Italy, Poland, Spain, Turkey, the UK, Romania, Cyprus, Greece, Sicily, European colonies in the Caribbean and the former Yugoslavia, the contributors analyse how different geopolitical hierarchies intersect with racialized subject positions of diverse people living in Europe, while also exploring issues of gender, class, sexuality, religion and nationality. Some chapters draw attention to the fortification of Europe’s ‘borderland,’ while others focus on internal hierarchies within Europe, critiquing the meaning of spatial boundaries in an increasingly digitalized Europe. In doing so, the chapters interrogate the hierarchies at play in the processes of being and becoming ‘European’ and the ongoing impacts of race and colonialism.This timely and thought-provoking collection will be of considerable significance to those in the humanities and social sciences with an interest in Europe.Chapters 1, 11 and 12 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

This is a collection of studies conducted in cross-cultural collaboration over the course of ten years that theorizes "youth fantasy" as manifested through the media of TV, film and computer games. The authors employ both Lacanian and Kleinian psychoanalytic concepts to attempt to make sense of teen culture and the influence of mass media. The collection includes case studies of "X-Files" fans, the influence of computer games and the "Lara Croft" phenomenon, and the reception of Western television by Tanzanian youth. The authors see this book as a much-needed reconciliation between cultural studies and Lacanian psychoanalysis, and attempt to highlight why Lacan is important to note when exploring youth fantasy and interest in the media, especially in shows like "X-Files".

Youth Fantasies is a collection of studies conducted in cross-cultural collaboration over the past ten years that theorizes 'youth fantasy';

Using the economic crisis as a starting point, Messy Europe offers a critical new look at the issues of race, gender, and national understandings of self and other in contemporary Europe. It highlights and challenges historical associations of Europe with whiteness and modern civilization, and asks how these associations are re-envisioned, re-inscribed, or contested in an era characterized by crises of different kinds. This important collection provides a nuanced exploration of how racialized identities in various European regions are played out in the crisis context, and asks what work "crisis talk" does, considering how it motivates public feelings and shapes bodies, boundaries and communities.

Using the economic crisis as a starting point, Messy Europe offers a critical new look at the issues of race, gender, and national understandings of self and other in contemporary Europe. It highlights and challenges historical associations of Europe with whiteness and modern civilization, and asks how these associations are re-envisioned, re-inscribed, or contested in an era characterized by crises of different kinds. This important collection provides a nuanced exploration of how racialized identities in various European regions are played out in the crisis context, and asks what work “crisis talk” does, considering how it motivates public feelings and shapes bodies, boundaries and communities.

Das Verhaltnis von Medienpadagogik und Politik ist in den letzten Jahren nur noch wenig thematisiert worden. Dieser Band belegt die Aktualitat dieser Fragestellung und stellt den Stand der Diskussion dar. Theoretisch wird nach Hypothesen zum Zusammenhang politischer, medialer und padagogischer Logiken gefragt. Vor diesem Hintergrund wird die Aufgabe der Medienpadagogik angesichts der Verflechtung von Politik und Medien neu definiert - dies unter Einbezug der Moglichkeiten und Chancen der Herstellung alternativer Offentlichkeiten uber traditionelle Medien und uber die neuen Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien.

Der Band bietet einen systematischen Überblick über die Grundlagen, Theorien und empirischen Befunde der feministischen Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaft. Die Beiträge behandeln die Entwicklungen und den aktuellen Stand der gesamten Breite der kommunikationswissenschaftlichen Geschlechterforschung: Informations- und Unterhaltungsangebote der Medien, Fernseh- und Filmgenres, Social Media, Journalismus, Werbung, Öffentlichkeitsarbeit, Medienpolitik, Medienpädagogik, Medienpsychologie und Medienethik aus Geschlechterperspektive werden ebenso systematisch dargestellt wie die Themen der Frauenbewegung, Gewalt, Körper- und Sexualitätsdiskurse in Medien.

This title offers a systematic overview of the foundations, theories and empirical findings of feminist communication and media studies with special focus on the German speaking context. The contributions deal with historical developments and the current status of the entire spectrum of feminist and gender communication and media studies: information and entertainment in the media, television and film genres, social media, journalism, advertising, public relations, media policy, media education, media psychology and media ethics from a gender perspective are presented just as systematically as the topics of the women's movement, violence, body and sexuality discourses in the media.