Johannes Paulmann – författare

For as long as humanitarianism has been understood as a distinct human endeavor, mass media have helped to shape its forms, strategies, and contexts, whether mobilizing public sentiment over suffering in distant lands or influencing perceptions of heroism and villainy during periods of conflict. From early Christian missionary publications to the BBC's approach to charities, this interdisciplinary collection explores commonalities and novel developments in the interactions of humanitarianism and media across the long twentieth century, revealing that many seemingly new features of this relationship in fact have long historical legacies.

From Christian missionary publications to the media strategies employed by today’s NGOs, this interdisciplinary collection explores the entangled histories of humanitarianism and media. It traces the emergence of humanitarian imagery in the West and investigates how the meanings of suffering and aid have been constructed in a period of evolving mass communication, demonstrating the extent to which many seemingly new phenomena in fact have long historical legacies. Ultimately, the critical histories collected here help to challenge existing asymmetries and help those who advocate a new cosmopolitan consciousness recognizing the dignity and rights of others.

“This volume is interesting both because of its global focus, and its chronology up to the present, it covers a good century of changes. It will help define the field of gender studies of humanitarianism, and its relevance for understanding the history of nation-building, and a political history that goes beyond nations.” - Glenda Sluga, Professor of International History and ARC Kathleen Laureate Fellow at the University of Sydney, AustraliaThis volume discusses the relationship between gender and humanitarian discourses and practices in the twentieth century. It analyses the ways in which constructions, norms and ideologies of gender both shaped and were shaped in global humanitarian contexts. The individual chapters present issues such as post-genocide relief and rehabilitation, humanitarian careers and subjectivities, medical assistance, community aid, child welfare and child soldiering. They give prominence to thebeneficiaries of aid and their use of humanitarian resources, organizations and structures by investigating the effects of humanitarian activities on gender relations in the respective societies. Approaching humanitarianism as a global phenomenon, the volume considers actors and theoretical positions from the global North and South (from Europe to the Middle East, Sub-Saharan Africa, South and South East Asia as well as North America). It combines state and non-state humanitarian initiatives and scrutinizes their gendered dimension on local, regional, national and global scales. Focusing on the time between the late nineteenth century and the post-Cold War era, the volume concentrates on a period that not only witnessed a major expansion of humanitarian action worldwide but also saw fundamental changes in gender relations and the gradual emergence of gender-sensitive policies in humanitarian organizations in many Western and non-Western settings.

“This volume is interesting both because of its global focus, and its chronology up to the present, it covers a good century of changes. It will help define the field of gender studies of humanitarianism, and its relevance for understanding the history of nation-building, and a political history that goes beyond nations.” - Glenda Sluga, Professor of International History and ARC Kathleen Laureate Fellow at the University of Sydney, AustraliaThis volume discusses the relationship between gender and humanitarian discourses and practices in the twentieth century. It analyses the ways in which constructions, norms and ideologies of gender both shaped and were shaped in global humanitarian contexts. The individual chapters present issues such as post-genocide relief and rehabilitation, humanitarian careers and subjectivities, medical assistance, community aid, child welfare and child soldiering. They give prominence to thebeneficiaries of aid and their use of humanitarian resources, organizations and structures by investigating the effects of humanitarian activities on gender relations in the respective societies. Approaching humanitarianism as a global phenomenon, the volume considers actors and theoretical positions from the global North and South (from Europe to the Middle East, Sub-Saharan Africa, South and South East Asia as well as North America). It combines state and non-state humanitarian initiatives and scrutinizes their gendered dimension on local, regional, national and global scales. Focusing on the time between the late nineteenth century and the post-Cold War era, the volume concentrates on a period that not only witnessed a major expansion of humanitarian action worldwide but also saw fundamental changes in gender relations and the gradual emergence of gender-sensitive policies in humanitarian organizations in many Western and non-Western settings. 

“This volume is interesting both because of its global focus, and its chronology up to the present, it covers a good century of changes. It will help define the field of gender studies of humanitarianism, and its relevance for understanding the history of nation-building, and a political history that goes beyond nations.” - Glenda Sluga, Professor of International History and ARC Kathleen Laureate Fellow at the University of Sydney, AustraliaThis volume discusses the relationship between gender and humanitarian discourses and practices in the twentieth century. It analyses the ways in which constructions, norms and ideologies of gender both shaped and were shaped in global humanitarian contexts. The individual chapters present issues such as post-genocide relief and rehabilitation, humanitarian careers and subjectivities, medical assistance, community aid, child welfare and child soldiering. They give prominence to thebeneficiaries of aid and their use of humanitarian resources, organizations and structures by investigating the effects of humanitarian activities on gender relations in the respective societies. Approaching humanitarianism as a global phenomenon, the volume considers actors and theoretical positions from the global North and South (from Europe to the Middle East, Sub-Saharan Africa, South and South East Asia as well as North America). It combines state and non-state humanitarian initiatives and scrutinizes their gendered dimension on local, regional, national and global scales. Focusing on the time between the late nineteenth century and the post-Cold War era, the volume concentrates on a period that not only witnessed a major expansion of humanitarian action worldwide but also saw fundamental changes in gender relations and the gradual emergence of gender-sensitive policies in humanitarian organizations in many Western and non-Western settings.

In the past 25 years or more, political observers have diagnosed a crisis of the sovereign nation state and the erosion of state sovereignty through supranational institutions and the global mobility of capital, goods, information and labour. This edition of the European History Yearbook seeks to use "cultural sovereignty" as a heuristic concept to provide new views on these developments since the beginning of the 20th century.

'Arisierung' und Wiedergutmachung werden in der historischen Forschung oft getrennt voneinander betrachtet. Dieser Band nimmt beide Prozesse in den Blick und verbindet damit aktuelle Ergebnisse zu diesen beiden Forschungsfeldern. Im Mittelpunkt steht der Umgang der deutschen Städte mit 'Arisierung' und 'Wiedergutmachung', schließlich berührten beide Vorgänge die Kommunen unmittelbar. Die einzelnen Beiträge spüren den lokalen Unterschieden nach und analysieren das Verhalten von Stadtverwaltungen sowie anderen Akteuren vor Ort. Dabei spannt der Band einen weiten Bogen von der Vernichtung jüdischer Gewerbetätigkeit in deutschen sowie österreichischen Städten und der 'Arisierung' von Kunstsammlungen über die finanzielle Ausplünderung und die 'Verwertung' von jüdischem Besitz nach den Deportationen bis hin zur Soforthilfe für jüdische Überlebende nach 1945 und den Entschädigungsleistungen durch die Bundesrepublik Deutschland.

Das Jahrbuch für Europäische Geschichte stellt sich vor: als Forum für Experten aus den europäischen Ländern, die zu herausragenden Themen, Problemen und Grundsatzfragen der europäischen Geschichte Stellung nehmen; als Podium für ausgewiesene Kenner aus Europa und Übersee, die Forschungstrends und Forschungsergebnisse aus ihren Ländern vorstellen; als Arena für Originalbeiträge vorwiegend jüngerer Wissenschaftler. Der erste Band des Jahrbuchs hat das Schwerpunktthema "Europa - eine Bilanz des 20. Jahrhunderts".

Das Jahrbuch für Europäische Geschichte ist · Forum für Experten aus den europäischen Ländern zu Themen, Problemen und Grundsatzfragen der europäischen Geschichte, · Podium für die Diskussion von Forschungstrends und Forschungsergebnissen aus Europa und Übersee, · Arena für Originalbeiträge vorwiegend jüngerer Wissenschaftler.

das Jahrbuch für Europäische Geschichte ist ein Forum für Experten au sden europäischen Ländern zu Themen, Problemen und Grundsatzfragen der europäischen Geschichte, ein Podium für die Diskussion von Forschungstrends und Forschungsergebnissen aus Europa und Übersee und eine Arena für Originalbeiträge vorwiegend jüngerer Wissenschaftler. Schwerpunktthema: "Europäische lieux de mémoire?" Beiträge von Peter Funke, Bernd Schneidmüller, Jean-Marie Moeglin, Robert J. W. Evans, Günther Lottes und Gustavo Corni, weitere Beiträge Volker Jarren: Europäische Diplomatie im Zeitalter Ludwigs XIV. Das Beispiel Johann Daniel Kramprichs von Kronenfeld (1622-1693); Wolfgang Burgdorf: "Süße Träume". Vorbehalte gegen europäische Einigungskonzeptionen in der Frühen Neuzeit; Marie-Emmanuelle Reytier: Die deutschen Katholiken und der Gedanke der europäischen Einigung 1945-1949. Wende oder Kontinuität?; Karl Otmar Freiherr von Aretin: Die deutsch-sowjetischen Historikerkolloquien in den Jahren 1972-1981. Ein Erfahrungsbericht; Forschungsbericht: Roman Czaja: Europäische Städteatlanten Europa-Institute und Europa-Projekte: Das Nanovic-Institute for European Studies an der University of Notre Dame; Auswahlbibliographie.

After the Volkskammer elections, on April 12, 1990, the last and only democratically elected government in the GDR was sworn in under Prime Minister Lothar de Maizière. Their aim was to negotiate and develop the domestic and foreign policy framework for the accession of the GDR to the Federal Republic. To this end, 22 ministries were formed or restructured. Each ministry had at least one, but mostly several state secretaries or parliamentary state secretaries, although the public is hardly aware of them as political actors in the political transformation process of the GDR. In addition to a detailed introduction, the volume contains eyewitness interviews with five state secretaries of the last GDR government: 1) Hans Misselwitz, Parliamentary State Secretary in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs 2) Dr. Helmut Domke, State Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs 3) Dr. Petra Erler, State Secretary in the Prime Minister's Office 4) Almuth Berger, State Secretary in the Prime Minister's Office 5) Helga Kreft, State Secretary in the Ministry for Family Affairs and Women's Affairs

Kulturelle Souveränität – ist das nicht ein Widerspruch? Lassen sich das flüchtige und prozesshafte Verständnis von Kultur und der häufig monolithisch verstandene Begriff der Souveränität überhaupt sinnvoll zueinander in Bezug setzen? In ihren Beiträgen zu Nation, Religion und Kultur argumentieren die Autorinnen und Autoren zugunsten eines neuen Instruments für die historische Analyse von Souveränitätspraktiken jenseits des Staates. Kulturelle Souveränität erschließt gesellschaftliches und politisches Handeln aus Sicht der jeweiligen Akteure und entwickelt so einen kulturwissenschaftlichen Zugang zu einem zentralen Konzept europäischer Geschichte.