Johannes Becker – författare

Everyday Life in the Old City of Jerusalem: Historical Transformations and Biographical Emplacements offers an intimate, ground-level exploration of everyday life in one of the world’s most contested and symbolically charged urban spaces.Moving beyond the dominant focus on Jerusalem’s political and religious significance, this book examines how individuals and communities navigate the complex realities of emplacement within the Old City’s dense and shifting environment. Through a unique combination of biographical narratives and spatial sociology, the chapters investigate how personal life stories intersect with urban space, family ties, political occupation, religious identity, and social hierarchies. From small neighbourhood dynamics and the challenges faced by Palestinians in the enlarged Jewish Quarter, to the involuntary emplacement of international monks, the book uncovers the diverse ways inhabitants experience belonging, exclusion, and adaptation in Jerusalem’s Old City. It also traces the city’s evolving socio-political landscape since 1948, offering a rich, historically informed account of daily life under occupation and intercommunal tension.A significant contribution to urban studies, Middle East studies, and the sociology of space, this book is essential reading for scholars of Jerusalem, conflict studies, and the lived experiences of divided cities.

This book demonstrates the analytical power of the concept of fragility as a central and defining aspect of global migration processes. To this end, the book brings together authors from the Americas, South Asia, the Middle East, and Europe, fostering a global dialogue on the social structuring of migration fragility in and between the Global North and the Global South. The various chapters of the book focus on two aspects. First, it discusses the multiplicity of the migrant as a social figure. There is not just one type of migrant, but a multiplicity of different fragile configurations that lead to the migrantization of people. Secondly, the same applies to the process of migration itself. There is a plethora of different articulations of fragility in crossing borders and organizing a new life somewhere else. Both perspectives show that the fragility of migration is not an aberration from “normality”. Fragility is an intrinsic part of the stabilization of social inequalities of migration between different migrants and different countries and regions of the globe. As such, this book is an important resource for researchers and students interested in the study of migration processes.

Die Autoren arbeiten die verfahrensrechtlichen Probleme auf, die sich in den letzten Jahren für den Bereich der Verrechnungspreise ergeben haben. Dazu analysieren sie aus empirischer und normativer Perspektive, welche praktische Relevanz die Dokumentationspflichten haben, wo sich welche Rechtsunsicherheiten im Verfahrensrecht der Verrechnungspreise ergeben, wie gewichtig sie sind, wie sie sich reduzieren lassen und wie der Zugang zu behördlichem, gerichtlichem und zwischenstaatlichem Rechtsschutz verbreitert werden kann.