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This edited volume, which elaborates on the idea and concept of sustainable journalism, is the result of a perceived lack of integral research approaches to journalism and sustainable development. Thirty years ago, in 1987, the Brundtland Report pointed out economic growth, social equality and environmental protection as the three main pillars of a sustainable development. These pillars are intertwined, interdependent, and need to be reconciled. However, usually, scholars interested in the business crisis of the media industry tend to leave the social and environmental dimensions of journalism aside, and vice versa. What Is Sustainable Journalism? is the first book that discusses and examines the economic, social and environmental challenges of professional journalism simultaneously. This unique book and fresh contribution to the discussion of the future of journalism assembles international expertise in all three fields, arguing for the necessity of integral research perspectives and for sustainable journalism as the key to long-term survival of professional journalism. The book is relevant for scholars and master’s students in media economy, media and communication, and environmental communication.

Tact and the Pedagogical Relation focuses on two topics of increasing interest both in teacher education and research. It shows how questions of sensitive and attuned action as well as educators’ relations with children and the young are special—uniquely different from other relations and attunements. This collection introduces readers to both classical and contemporary texts, offering many of these in translation for the first time. These illuminate the struggles and rewards of teaching, showing teaching to be an art, simultaneously a personal and professional calling.

In the second edition of Zombie Politics and Culture in the Age of Casino Capitalism, Henry A. Giroux uses the metaphor of the zombie to highlight how America has embraced a machinery of social and civil death that chills any vestige of a robust democracy. He charts the various ways in which the political, corporate, and intellectual zombies that rule America embrace death-dealing institutions such as a bloated military, the punishing state, a form of predatory capitalism, and an authoritarian, death-driven set of policies that sanction torture, targeted assassinations, and a permanent war psychology. The author argues that government and corporate paranoia runs deep in America. While maintaining a massive security state, the ruling forces promote the internalization of their ideology, modes of governance, and policies by either seducing citizens with the decadent pleasures of a celebrity-loving consumer culture or by beating them into submission. Giroux calls for a systemic alternative to zombie capitalism through a political and pedagogical imperative to address and inform a new cultural vision, mode of individual subjectivity, and understanding of critical agency. As part of a larger effort to build a broad-based social movement, he argues for a new political language capable of placing education at the center of politics. Connecting the language of critique to the discourse of educated hope he calls for the reclaiming of public spaces and institutions where formative cultures can flourish that nourish the radical imagination, and the ongoing search for justice, equality, and the promise of a democracy to come.

Through case studies of pilot conservation projects launched by the Yunnan Provincial Archives in recent years, this book comprehensively and systematically discusses issues in the conservation of ethnic oral history material and the development of ethnic oral history resources. After an overview of ethnic oral history material in general, the book gives an introduction to the oral history material of the Bai, Hani, Lisu, Wa, Zhuang, and Qiang ethnic groups; discusses theoretical research and work practices related to ethnic oral history; elaborates upon the methods for managing and integrating ethnic oral history archives; reviews the history, current state, and existing issues of work related to ethnic oral materials; summarizes experiences gained from international collaboration in the conservation of ethnic oral materials; and reflects upon issues such as the development of ethnic oral history resources and the establishment of oral history resource systems in multi-ethnic border regions. As the result of research on the management of specialized archives and work related to oral archives, this book contributes towards the establishment of ethnic oral archival science as an academic discipline and enriching the knowledge structure of oral history and the science of managing oral archives.

Originally published in Norwegian in 1941, this is the magnum opus of one of Norway’s most celebrated philosophers, now made available in English for the first time. It examines the concept of the tragic and attempts to construct a more precise and useful definition on the basis of a "biosophical" look at the situation of organisms in their environment and their attempt to realize interests on multiple fronts through abilities they possess in a variety of degrees. This is a theory of genius, and of the dangers that frequently accompany it, and a sober account of the perils of consciousness for the human species. The robust and thorough treatment includes in-depth analysis of the relationship between real-world tragedies and those portrayed in theater and literature.The English translation of On the Tragic by the Norwegian philosopher, writer, and environmentalist Peter Wessel Zapffe is a major achievement that for the first time introduces this classic text to Anglophone readers. On the one hand, the text is highly relevant to contemporary debates on the meaning of life and anti-natalism (the view that birth and life have negative value); on the other, it is a major text in 20th century Existentialism and Pessimism that develops an original theory of the human condition (as being characterized by meaninglessness and injustice). Finally, the text is known for its high literary level, vivid descriptions, and black humor.—Roe Fremstedal, Professor of Philosophy, Norwegian University of Science and TechnologyThe translation of Zapffe’s Om det tragiske into English is a major event that shouldn’t be taken lightly. Zapffe argues that human consciousness mutated accidentally from nature as an error of overdevelopment, producing needs earthly life can never satisfy. The disillusioning insights that follow are formulated in a sophisticated everyday language and with an abundance of humor.—Jørgen Haave, Zapffe biographer and Senior Curator at the Henrik Ibsen Museum, Skien, NorwayIn this first English translation of Peter Wessel Zapffe’s On the Tragic, Dr. Ryan Showler has performed an extraordinary service to philosophy and, indeed, to the liberal arts and humanities. The Anglophone world can now appreciate the intensely original thinking of this remarkable scholar. In consequence, Zapffe will hereafter be recognized as among the most lucid and thoughtful advocates of philosophical pessimism.—Todd K. Shackelford, Distinguished Professor and Chair of Psychology, Oakland University and Founding Director of the Center for Evolutionary Psychological Science

Theories of Communication is the realization of a project begun in the 1970s with Marshall McLuhan and now brought to completion by his son, Eric McLuhan. This collection of short essays assembles theories of communication from a diverse range of famous people – from Thomas Aquinas and Francis Bacon to Wyndham Lewis and Ezra Pound – and ends with an essay on Marshall McLuhann’ own theory of communication. While the majority of the essays have been previously published, all are seminal pieces in the field. Their presence together in one volume is a significant contribution to the overall task of understanding culture and communication in our time, and will appeal to both scholars and students interested in the work of Marshall McLuhan.

This volume aims to deepen our understanding of the dynamic intersections of war and media in the rapidly transforming media ecology and the reordered geopolitical context. Since Russia’s fullscale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, a new set of media practices and actors have entered the field of contemporary war. The volume examines the ways in which the digital media and communication environment is involved in and shape the war in Ukraine. The chapters in the volume analyse the expanding mesh of media—from mainstream broadcasting and press to social media platforms, and the latest digital technologies—and address four key themes: media infrastructures and the interplay between platforms, technologies, institutions and civic actors; open-source intelligence contributing to (dis)information about the war; the everyday life of war performed and documented on social media; and different interplays between the local and the global in the news coverage of the war.Open Access Chapter 8 is available here.Open Access Chapter 3 is available here.

Erika and Klaus Mann: Living with America provides new insights into the lives of Thomas Mann’s two eldest children, by focusing on their years in America. It begins with Erika and Klaus Mann’s self-promotional tour of the United States in 1927–1928, and follows up with their return in 1936 as voluntary exiles determined to fight the spread of Nazism in Europe. As children of privilege and considerable personal charm, Erika and Klaus Mann quickly became highly visible representatives of the German exile community.In examining their lives in America, the United States plays a central role. Just as the Manns’ views of America evolved between 1936 and 1952, so did American public opinion and government policy. This study examines Erika and Klaus Mann’s public and private statements, while also examining statements made about them by American journalists, politicians, book critics, and F.B.I. and immigration officers. It follows the Mann siblings’ rise in America as celebrity representatives of an "other," better Germany, and the forces that began to rally against them even before the outbreak of the war. It shows the many concrete actions the Mann siblings took to persuade Americans to view their country as one linked to European interests, and it describes their various war activities, with Erika becoming a U.S. war correspondent and Klaus an American soldier. Finally, it portrays their fears for America as the war drew to a close, America deployed the atom bomb, and the nation quickly transformed itself from Russian ally to Cold War combatant.

In The Relational Dimension of the Teaching Profession, we follow four teachers who meet their students in a particularly evolving way. Deploying what is described as pedagogical tact and stance, the author has filmed teachers in order to observe how they create pedagogical meeting spaces wherein the teachers and students meet as people, thus developing an understanding of trustful, relational teaching in practice.The relational dimension of the teaching profession is something that has hitherto played a hidden role in teacher education. Nevertheless, well-functioning teacher-student relationships are a fundamental part of successful teaching. Including a multi-relational perspective on teaching and education (Pedagogical Relational Teachership, or, PeRT) as well as a taxonomy with an observation scheme for student teachers and researchers, this book is aimed at student teachers at undergraduate and advanced levels and is also suitable for teachers in practice."Dr. Ljungblad’s new book is a significant contribution to the emerging field of relational pedagogy. Both her theorizing and her exquisite empirical work amply demonstrate what a possibility opens if we take relationships in education seriously. It is a must-read for all interested in the teaching profession and in education."—Alexander M. Sidorkin, Dean and Professor, College of Education, California State University Sacramento

Frau Wickerts Arbeit untersucht das Thema Heros und heroisches Zeitalter in seiner Bedeutung fuer die gesellschaftspolitische Ein- stellung Kleists, die sich der ueblichen regressiven oder progressiven Etiquettierung entzieht und sich als politisch weltfremd erweist. Sie ist, wie gezeigt wird, am Ideal absoluter Freiheit bei absoluter Bindung orientiert, ein Ideal, das von Kleist als Natur qua heroische Zeit vergoettert und vor allem in den Dramen als kritisch-utopisches Gegenbild zur eigenen Zeit dargestellt wird. Entwicklung und Abwandlung dieses Themas werden in den entsprechenden Dramen interpretiert. Auch der sozial-politische Unterschied zu den die Staendestruktur des Mittelalters idealisierenden Romantikern wird deutlich gemacht. Mit diesen Ergebnissen bietet Dr. Wickerts Arbeit einen wichtigen neuen Beitrag zum Verstaendnis Kleists.

Ein wichtiger Aspekt in der Lyrik Johannes Bobrowskis ist die Manipulation von Zeit in seinen Gedichten. Bobrowski benutzt Zeit nicht im metaphysischen Sinne, sondern als ein Medium, mit dessen Hilfe er die geschichtliche Vergangenheit des europaeischen Ostens rekonstruiert. In diesem Zusammenhang erhaelt aufgehobene Zeit eine dreifache Bedeutung: (1) Wie ein Sammler liest Bobrowski Gegenstaende in dieser Landschaft auf, die im Nachhinein eine historische Bedeutung erhalten, (2) historische Zeit wird durch das Benennen dieser Objekte aufbewahrt, (3) die Illusion auf einen Punkt gebuendelter (aufgehobener) Zeit wird durch das Ueberlagern der verschiedenen historischen und persoenlich erlebten Zeitebenen erreicht. Aufgabe dieser Arbeit ist es, die Zeitstruktur und Zeit- elemente in Johannes Bobrowskis Lyrik zu analysieren und gleich- zeitig die verschiedenen Methoden zu untersuchen, mittels deren er in einem einzigen Erkenntnismoment das Bewusstsein von Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Zukunft hervorruft.

Die Arbeit setzt sich zum Ziel, die Anordnung und kuenstlerische Ge- staltung des biographischen Materials aufzuzeigen, ein Aspekt, der bei den ersten Besprechungen des Hoelderlin vernachlaessigt worden ist. Die Frage zur Gattung des Werks wird dabei explizit beantwortet. Die Analyse verdeutlicht jedoch die Verschmelzung von Roman und Biographie und veranschaulicht, was die Kombination von Fiktionalem und Faktischem leistet.

Waehrend der Epoche zwischen 1890-1914 ermutigte Clara Zetkin sozial- demokratische Parteimitglieder zur Aufrechterhaltung einer autonomen, sozialistischen Literaturtradition. Dies widersprach der Kultur- politik sowohl ihrer linken wie der rechten Parteigenossen, die damals den Wert der Literatur fuer den Klassenkampf verneinten. Die Arbeit stellt Zetkins Literaturarbeit in Praxis und Theorie dar und bietet eine Erklaerung fuer Zetkins oppositionelle Position an: Zetkins Literaturpolitik hatte letzten Endes ihre Wurzeln in ihrer Hauptarbeit, naemlich der Organisation von proletarischen Frauen, deren Interessen und Beduerfnisse Zetkin in allen Bereichen, auch in kulturellen, beruecksichtigte und verteidigte.

Die Arbeit loest einige Kleist-Raetsel. - Zur Wuerzburger Reise werden neue Quellen aufgezeigt, die sich auch z.T. in Kleists Werk wieder- finden. - Die Umstaende der Urauffuehrung des Zerbrochenen Krugs werden einer gruendlichen Pruefung unterzogen. Dabei spielen das Faust-Fragment Goethes und der Kupferstich Faust von Rembrandt eine entscheidende Rolle. Der Beitrag klaert die Bedeutung des magischen Zeichens in diesem Stich, ist also auch ein Beitrag zur Rembrandt-Forschung. - Die dritte Studie stellt eine Quelle zu Kleists Findling vor und klaert die Identitaet des dort erwaehnten Portraets. Sie ist damit ein Beitrag zur Ikonographie des heiligen Aloysius Gonzaga.