Christian Klöckner - Böcker

Die Zusammenarbeit von Forschung und den Praktikern in Kommunen scheitert oft an vielen kleinen oder grosseren Hurden. Dieses Buch gibt einen Einblick in Ergebnisse der neuesten Kindheitsforschung aus ganz Europa und skizziert deren Anwendungsmoglichkeiten in der Praxis. Dabei sind die Auswirkungen von Armut, sozialer Ausgrenzung, gesellschaftlichen Unsicherheiten, Bildungsflucht, Beziehungen zu Gleichaltrigen nur einige Themen, die dieses Buch behandelt. Zudem werden in mehreren Beitragen Ansatzmoglichkeiten entworfen, die Schwierigkeiten zwischen Forschung und Praxis zu uberwinden.

This collection of essays explores the poetics and politics of US-American poetry’s diverse and distinct investments in the imaginary space of ‘the Orient’. Reading American poets – from Emily Dickinson to Frank Bidart, from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Kimiko Hahn – the contributions show how tropes of the Orient have fabricated screens onto which we project matters by no means foreign, but very close to home. As we accompany American poets on their journeys East, we are bound to arrive in – culturally specific – territories of the West. Traversing cultural crossroads and rediscovering places as ‘exotic’ as Banyan ashrams and Bostonian living rooms, these expeditions shed new light on crucial moments of American literary and cultural history. And, on the way, they reassess what Edward Said, thirty years ago, conceived of as Orientalism, and how far this concept has travelled in the meantime.

Rather than turning backward and remembering 9/11, this book sets out to reflect on how the events of September 11, 2001, have shifted our perspectives on a whole series of political, economic, social, and cultural processes. Beyond 9/11 raises the question how the intense debates on the 2001 terrorist attacks and their aftermaths have come to shape our present moment and frame what lies ahead. At the same time, this collection acknowledges that the label «9/11» has often bracketed cultural complexities we have only begun to understand. In Beyond 9/11, contributors from the fields of American studies, political science, economics, history, theology, and the arts reappraise the cultural climate and the global impact of the United States in the second decade of the twenty-first century.