Klaus Eder - Böcker

Is there a common ground on which a European citizenship can be constructed? This volume looks at four foundations of citizenship in Europe: the legacy of national identities, current designs and projects for social and political citizenship in Europe, a transitional public space as the basis of an active European Citizenship in Europe, and a transitional collective identity as a symbolic boundary marker for European citizenship. Such options raise the theoretical question of how to conceive citizenship in a transnationalizing world. Since the idea of European citizenship cannot escape the problem of defining who is a European citizen and who is not, the theoretical problem is tackled by defining the collective bonds of European citizens beyond primordial or traditional bonds that have dominated European history.

Is it possible to create a collective European identity? In this volume, leading scholars assess the link between collective identity construction in Europe and the multiple memory discourses that intervene in this construction process. The authors believe that the exposure of national collective memories to an enlarging communicative space within Europe affects the ways in which national memories are framed. Through this perspective, several case studies of East and West European memory discourses are presented. The first part of the volume elaborates how collective memory can be identified in the new Europe. The second part presents case studies on national memories and related collective identities in respect of European integration and its extension to the East. This timely work is the first to investigate collective identity construction on a pan-European scale and will be of interest to academics and postgraduate students of political sociology and European studies.

Is it possible to create a collective European identity? In this volume, leading scholars assess the link between collective identity construction in Europe and the multiple memory discourses that intervene in this construction process. The authors believe that the exposure of national collective memories to an enlarging communicative space within Europe affects the ways in which national memories are framed. Through this perspective, several case studies of East and West European memory discourses are presented. The first part of the volume elaborates how collective memory can be identified in the new Europe. The second part presents case studies on national memories and related collective identities in respect of European integration and its extension to the East. This timely work is the first to investigate collective identity construction on a pan-European scale and will be of interest to academics and postgraduate students of political sociology and European studies.

In this unique and agenda-setting examination of the relation between nature and culture, Klaus Eder demonstrates our ideas of nature are culturally determined, and explains how the relation between modern, industrial societies and nature is increasingly violent and destructive.

Through an analysis of symbolism, ritual and taboo, Eder questions the view of nature as an object. Showing how nature is socially constructed, he presents a critique of Marx and Durkheim while offering a radical reinterpretation of the relationship among society, culture and nature.

Eder concludes with an examination of the symbolic order of society and of the role of religion in modern culture. Using a culturalist interpretation, he explains how environmentalism, and the social construction of nature, is a key index of social order and structure.

In this unique and agenda-setting examination of the relation between nature and culture, Klaus Eder demonstrates our ideas of nature are culturally determined, and explains how the relation between modern, industrial societies and nature is increasingly violent and destructive.

Through an analysis of symbolism, ritual and taboo, Eder questions the view of nature as an object. Showing how nature is socially constructed, he presents a critique of Marx and Durkheim while offering a radical reinterpretation of the relationship among society, culture and nature.

Eder concludes with an examination of the symbolic order of society and of the role of religion in modern culture. Using a culturalist interpretation, he explains how environmentalism, and the social construction of nature, is a key index of social order and structure.

Are contemporary societies organized by class? In recent years the apparent fragmentation of established class structures and the emergence of new social movements - in particular the women's movement and environmentalism - have altered the traditional expressions of class in society. At the same time, these changes have posed fundamental questions for the concept of class in sociology and political science.

In this major reassessment, Klaus Eder offers a new perspective on the status of class in modernity. Drawing on a critique of Bourdieu, Touraine and Habermas, he outlines a cultural conception of class as the basis for understanding contemporary societies. His model reevaluates the role of the middle classes, traditionally the crux of class analysis, and links class to social theories of power and cultural capital. The result is a cultural theory of class which incorporates the changing forms of collective action and the new social movements of contemporary societies.

Egal, ob kleine Sch�rfwunde oder gr��ere Gelenkverletzung - egal, ob Jugendmannschaft oder die Stars der Nationalmannschaft: Verletzungen auf dem Fu�ballplatz passieren immer wieder.

Klaus Eder (u.a. Chef-Sportphysiotherapeut der deutschen National-Elf) und sein Autoren-Team zeigen, welche fu�ballspezifischen Verletzungen h�ufig auftreten, wie Erste Hilfe am Spielfeldrand aussieht und welche Therapieschritte ggf. eingeleitet werden m�ssen.

Der Leser erf�hrt au�erdem alles �ber die M�glichkeiten das Verletzungsrisiko zu reduzieren (aufw�rmen, richtiges Tapen, Ern�hrung, Kleidung u.v.m.

Neu in der 2. Auflage:

Neues Kapitel "Return-to-Sport" -wann kann der Spieler wieder trainieren, wann wieder spielen? Neues Massage-Kapitel Zahlreiche neue Abbildungen

Okologische Kommunikation bezieht sich nicht nur auf industriell erzeugte Selbstgefahrdungen moderner Gesellschaften. Sie stellt auch einen symbolischen Fokus der Neudefinition gesellschaftlicher Identitaten und Ordnungsvorstellungen dar. Diese Studie fragt, wie sich das symbolische Interaktionsfeld dieser Debatten mit der Institutionalisierung okologischer Risikokommunikation verandert hat. Sie rekonstruiert die spezifische "Rahmung" von Umweltproblemen in der deutschen Medienoffentlichkeit und untersucht die Herausbildung eines neuen Typus offentlichkeitsvermittelter, "dialogischer" Interaktion zwischen Umweltbewegung, Politik und Wirtschaft.