Olaf Stieglitz – författare

This book examines the many, varied historical entanglements between pop cultures and ecstatic, euphoric, and intoxicated bodies, focusing on the period between the 1950s and the 1980s. Charting a new course by bringing together pop culture studies, the history of bodies, and the history of emotions, the volume unites new historical perspectives on different forms of corporeal pleasure and offers novel methods for studying the social and cultural politics of ecstasy.Chapter "The “love thugs”: Ecstasy, Homosociality, and the Decline of Foot-ball-related Violence in 1990s England" is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

This book examines the many, varied historical entanglements between pop cultures and ecstatic, euphoric, and intoxicated bodies, focusing on the period between the 1950s and the 1980s. Charting a new course by bringing together pop culture studies, the history of bodies, and the history of emotions, the volume unites new historical perspectives on different forms of corporeal pleasure and offers novel methods for studying the social and cultural politics of ecstasy.Chapter "The “love thugs”: Ecstasy, Homosociality, and the Decline of Foot-ball-related Violence in 1990s England" is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Verlassen liegen sie da.Niemand hat sie seit Jahren betreten.Kein Mensch kümmert sich mehr darum.Die Grabsteine sind verwittert, die Inschriften oft kaum mehr lesbar. Gras, Moos, einst auf den Gräbern gepflanzter Efeu, wild aufgegangene Bäumchen oder Sträucher dominieren das Bild …Doch nicht nur diese von der Welt fast vergessenen Friedhöfe bergen die verschiedensten Geheimnisse. Auch hinter einzelnen Grabstätten stecken oft mysteriöse bis gruselige Geschichten. Und manchmal ist sogar ein verwildertes Stück Land oder ein Gebäude etwas anderes, als es zu sein scheint.Neugierig geworden? Dann folgt uns einfach und betretet die einzelnen Friedhöfe. Lasst euch überraschen, welche Mysterien die Geschichten jeweils aufdecken werden.

In American history, animals are everywhere. They are a ubiquitous presence in myriad historical, literary, biographical, scientific and other documents and narratives of the American past – a past that, just like the present, was shaped by a multiplicity of relations between humans and other creatures ranging from coexistence and conviviality to hostility, subjugation and extermination. While such quintessentially American species as the bison, the mustang or the grizzly continue to roam the discursive, imaginary and, now to a much lesser degree, the geographical spaces of the nation, the less iconic creatures of civilization – the various species of domesticated working and companion animals – have arguably played an even more critical role in the genesis of modern American culture and society throughout the ''long nineteenth century.''Until recently, however, despite their ubiquity in historical documents, social relations and cultural productions, animals have rarely been of serious interest to mainstream historians. American Beasts argues that an adequate understanding of American history, and indeed of ''human'' history more broadly, requires a sustained engagement with its multifaceted more-than-human dimensions.The contributions collected here offer various insights into the broad relevance of animality and human-animal relations – from the culture of pet-keeping and the role of animals and animality in the context of slavery and abolition to the emergence of animal athletes at the turn of the twentieth century – as aspects that have always influenced all areas of American society. In addition, by highlighting the ways in which human-animal relations crucially shaped the relations (of power) between different groups of humans, American Beasts shows that a stronger concern with animals and animality also allows us to address the complex intersections between the history of human-animal relations and the histories of (for example) race, class and gender in the United States in the time from the early national period to the Progressive Era.