KULT_online Nr. 63 (2021)
https://journals.ub.uni-giessen.de/kult-online/issue/view/94
Das Rezensionsmagazin des Gießener Graduiertenzentrums Kulturwissenschaften (GGK) und des International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC)
KULT_berichte
Conference Report on “Solidarity in Times of Crisis” Digital Annual Conference of the Giessener Graduiertenzentrum Sozial-, Wirtschafts- und Rechtswissenschaften (GGS), organized by the section “Democracy and Human Rights,” December 3-4, 2020, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany A Report by Edward Djordjevic, Christoph Held, Simon Rothers and Miriam Yosef https://journals.ub.uni-giessen.de/kult-online/article/view/1080
KULT_rezensionen
A Non-Conventional Encyclopedia on the Anthropocene: Dissecting a Concept from Philosophy to Poetry Krogh, Marianne (ed.). Connectedness. An Incomplete Encyclopedia of Anthropocene. Copenhagen: Strandberg Publishing, 2020. 416 pages, 349,95 DKK. ISBN: 978-87-93604-86-5. A Review by Stefano Rozzoni https://journals.ub.uni-giessen.de/kult-online/article/view/1075
What Lay in the Abyss – A Faint Light in the Dark of Beyond the World’s End: Arts of Living at the CrossingDemos, T.J. Beyond the World’s End. Arts of Living at the Crossing. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2020. 272 pages, 55 illustrations, 26,95 USD. ISBN: 978-1-4780-0957-3. A Review by Candace Goodrich https://journals.ub.uni-giessen.de/kult-online/article/view/1081
Against Parasitic Capital: Ending the Coronavirus Pandemic and Climate Wartime Mobilization Malm, Andreas. Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency. War Communism in The Twenty-First Century. London/New York: Verso, 2020. 224 pages, 7,69 GBP. ISBN: 978-1-83976-215-4. A Review by Fabrício Belsoff https://journals.ub.uni-giessen.de/kult-online/article/view/1092
Toward A European Dream: Literary and Cultural Resources of Resilience in Encounters with Crises Polland, Imke; Michael Basseler; Ansgar Nünning and Sandro M. Moraldo (eds.) (in collaboration with Mareike Glier). Europe’s Crises and Cultural Resources of Resilience. Conceptual Explorations and Literary Negotiations. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2020. 339 pages. 42,50 EUR. ISBN: 978-3-86821-851-0. A Review by Somaye Rezaei https://journals.ub.uni-giessen.de/kult-online/article/view/1173
Fiction as Imagining: How Possible Worlds Theory Escaped the Prison of Language Bell, Alice, and Marie-Laure Ryan (ed.). Possible Worlds Theory and Contemporary Narratology. Lincoln/London: University of Nebraska Press, 2019. 341 pages, 60,00 USD. ISBN: 978-0-8032-9499-8. A Review by Juulia Jaulimo https://journals.ub.uni-giessen.de/kult-online/article/view/1204
How Lives Come to Matter – Rethinking Mediation and Materiality in Autobiography Poletti, Anna. Stories of the Self. Life Writing after the Book. New York: New York University Press, 2020. 240 pages, 27,99 EUR. ISBN: 978-1-4798-3666-6. A Review by Robin Schmieder https://journals.ub.uni-giessen.de/kult-online/article/view/1082
Der Traum vom Totalen Kino entspringt einer literarischen Idee Janker, Karin. Der Traum vom Totalen Kino. Wie Literatur Filmgeschichte schrieb. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2019. 448 Seiten, 49,99 EUR. ISBN: 978-3-8376-4756-3. Eine Rezension von Tobias Bieseke https://journals.ub.uni-giessen.de/kult-online/article/view/1069
Yet Another ‘Feminist’ Perspective on Art History? Reckitt, Helena. Art of Feminism. Images That Shaped the Fight for Equality. London: Tate Publishing, 2019. 272 pages, 30,00 GBP. ISBN: 978-1-84976-649-4. A Review by Jacqueline Sim https://journals.ub.uni-giessen.de/kult-online/article/view/1188
An Academic Experiment in Utopia Fecher, Benedikt (ed.). TWENTYFORTY. Utopias for a Digital Society. Berlin: Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, 2020. 256 pages, 28,99 EUR. ISBN: 978-3-7529-3568-4. A Review by Edward Djordjevic https://journals.ub.uni-giessen.de/kult-online/article/view/1112
Bildung durch Wissenschaft gestalten: trotz, wider und mit Bologna Schlaeger, Jürgen und Heinz-Elmar Tenorth. Bildung durch Wissenschaft. Vom Nutzen forschenden Lernens. Berlin: BWV Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, 2020. 165 Seiten, 36,00 EUR. ISBN: 978-3-8305-5014-3. Eine Rezension von Lena Nüchter https://journals.ub.uni-giessen.de/kult-online/article/view/1073
Digital Cultural Heritage – an Overview of the Field Kremers, Horst (ed.). Digital Cultural Heritage. Cham: Springer, 2020, 447 pages, 128,39 EUR. ISBN: 978-3-030-15200-0. A Review by Stefan Trajković-Filipović https://journals.ub.uni-giessen.de/kult-online/article/view/1078
Internationalizing Soviet Preservationism: A New Perspective on the Practices of Heritage Conservation in Russia Corinne, Geering. Building a Common Past. World Heritage in Russia under Transformation, 1965–2000. Göttingen: V&R Unipress, 2019. 454 pages, 88,00 EUR. ISBN: 978-3-8470-0959-7. A Review by Margarita Pavlova https://journals.ub.uni-giessen.de/kult-online/article/view/1076
Between Hitler and Stalin: Lessons from the History of Ukraine Beck, Marieluise (ed.). Ukraine Verstehen. Auf den Spuren von Terror und Gewalt. Berlin: Zentrum Liberale Moderne, 2020. 146 pages. A Review by Iryna Tarku https://journals.ub.uni-giessen.de/kult-online/article/view/1079
“People Are Missing.” And What Can Performance Do? Vujanović, Ana and Livia Andrea Piazza (eds.). A Live Gathering: Performance and Politics in Contemporary Europe. Berlin: B_Books, 2019. 256 pages, 20,00 EUR. ISBN: 978-3-942214-29-2. A Review by Tatsiana Artsimovich https://journals.ub.uni-giessen.de/kult-online/article/view/1111
The Zoological Threshold of Slavery Därmann, Iris. Undienlichkeit. Gewaltgeschichte und politische Philosophie. Berlin: Matthes & Seitz, 2020. 512 pages, 38.00 EUR. ISBN 978-3-95757-874-7. A Review by Juan Camilo Brigard https://journals.ub.uni-giessen.de/kult-online/article/view/1074
Womanhood, Female Agency, and Jewish Identities in the Nineteenth-Century Italian and German (Trans)National States Baumeister, Martin; Lenhard, Philipp and Ruth Nattermann (eds.). Rethinking the Age of Emancipation. Comparative and Transnational Perspectives on Gender, Family and Religion in Italy and Germany, 1800-1918. New York: Berghahn Books, 2020. 444 pages, 149.00 GBP. ISBN: 978-1-78920-632-6. A Review by Laura Popa https://journals.ub.uni-giessen.de/kult-online/article/view/1061
The Man and the Office: How Kenyatta Shaped Presidential Power in Kenya Angelo, Anaïs. Power and the Presidency in Kenya. The Jomo Kenyatta Years. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 306 pages, 22.99 GBP. ISBN: 978-1-108-62516-6. A Review by Riley Linebaugh https://journals.ub.uni-giessen.de/kult-online/article/view/1070