KULT_online Nr. 69 (2024)
Das Rezensionsmagazin des Gießener Graduiertenzentrums Kulturwissenschaften (GGK) und des International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC).
KULT_reviews
Review "From Joy to Negativity. Yet Another Turn in Social Theory" Bissel, David, Mitch Rose and Paul Harrison (eds.): Negative Geographies. Exploring the politics of limits. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2023. 318 pages, 35 USD. ISBN: 978-1-4962-2782-9. & Kennan Ferguson (ed.): The Big No. Minneaopolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022. 168 pages, 25 USD. ISBN: 978-1-5179-0929-1. A Review by Paul Kaletsch https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2024.1453
Review "Unraveling Masculinities. A Cultural Shift" Hammer, K. Allison: Masculinity in Transition. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2023. 336 pages, 24,95 USD. ISBN: 978-1-51-791435-6. A Review by Onur Karaköse https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2024.1430
Review "Spotlighting the Othered. The Formation of Stereotypes in Early Cinema and Their Silent Echoes Today" Lupack, Barbara Tepa: The Othering of Women in Silent Film: Cultural, Historical, and Literary Contexts. Minneapolis: Lexington Books/Fortress Academics, 2024. 344 pages. ISBN: 978-1-50-955644-1. A Review by Antonia Jungwirth https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2024.1456
Review "Can a Festschrift be feminist?" Hannah Fitsch, Inka Greusing, Ina Kerner, Hanna Meißner und Aline Oloff (Hrsg.): Der Welt eine neue Wirklichkeit geben. Feministische und queertheoretische Interventionen. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2022. 282 Seiten, 29 EUR. ISBN: 978-3-83-766168-2. A Review by Andrea Zittlau https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2024.1452
Review "Unraveling the Tapestry of the Ottoman Empire" Minawi, Mostafa: Losing Istanbul: Arab-Ottoman Imperialists and the End of Empire. Stanford: Standford University Press, 2022. 326 pages, 30 USD. ISBN: 978-1-50-363404-6. A Review by Alexandros Balatsoukas https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2024.1458
Review "Fall of Giants? Why the Memory World Champion Must Reinvent Itself" Zimmerer, Jürgen (Hrsg.): Erinnerungskämpfe. Neues deutsches Geschichtsbewusstsein. Ditzingen: Reclam, 2023. 536 Seiten, 25 EUR. ISBN: 978-3-15-0011454-4. A Review by Sandra Engels https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2024.1457
Review "Globalism before Globalization" Classen, Albrecht (ed.). Globalism in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age. Berlin/Boston: Walter De Gruyter, 2023. 650 pages, 139,95€. ISBN: 978-3-11-118907-9. A Review by Edward Djordjevic https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2024.1425
Review "The Visible Invisibles. Visual Representation of Servants and Slaves from Feudalism to Capitalism" Wolfthal, Diane: Household Servants and Slaves. A Visual History. New Haven and London: Cale University Press, 2022. 272 pages, 45 USD. ISBN: 978-0-300-23487-9. A Review by Cathérine Annette Ludwig-Ockenfels https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2024.1421
Review "Age in Children's Literature. Navigating Methodologies" Joosen, Vanessa, Michelle Anya Anjirbag, Leander Duthoy, Lindsey Geybels, Frauke Pauwels and Emma-Louise Silva: Age in David Almond’s Oeuvre: A Multi-Method Approach to Studying Age and the Life Course in Children’s Literature. New York/Oxon: Rouledge, 2023. 220 pages, Open access. ISBN: 978-1-00-226960-8. A Review by Yauheniya Lekarevich https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2024.1431
Review "Reflecting on 21st Century Literature and Autofiction as Novel Forms of Narration" Doloughan, Fiona J.: Radical Realism, Autofictional Narratives and the Reinvention of the Novel. London: Anthem Press, 2023. 180 pages, 80 GBP. ISBN: 978-1-83-998337-5. A Review by Zahra Vojgani https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2024.1455
Review "The Power of Things. The Material Turn in Neo-Victorianism" Maier, Sarah E., Brenda Ayres, and Danielle Mariann Dove (eds.). Neo-Victorian Things: Re-Imagining Nineteenth-Century Material Cultures in Literature and Film. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. 233 pages, 139,09 EUR. ISBN: 978-3-031-06200-1. A Review by Hatunnur Ciftci https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2024.1434
Review "When Bourdieu Meets the City. Approaching Trialectics of (Urban) Space" Wacquant, Loïc: Bourdieu in the City: Challenging Urban Theory. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2023. 230 pages, 67,90 EUR. ISBN: 978-1-50-955644-1. A Review by Anna Ivanova https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2024.1427
Review "Feminist Traces of Memory Studies in Latin America and the Caribbean" Fronseca Santos, Melody/ Georgina Rivas Hernández/ Tito Mitjans Alayón (eds.): Memoria y feminismos: cuerpos, sentipensares y resistencias. Buenos Aires: CLASCO/Siglo XXI, 2023. 429 pages, Open Access. ISBN: 978-987-813-461-1. A Review by Tatiana Quintero https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2024.1435
Review ""History, but normal!" On the Derailment of the Present from the Tracks of History" Rhein, Philipp. Rechte Zeitverhältnisse. Eine Soziologische Analyse von Endzeitvorstellungen im Rechtspopulismus. Frankfurt am Main: Campus Verlag, 2023. 401 Seiten, 45 EUR. ISBN: 978-3-593-51750-6. A Review by Henning Tauche https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2024.1424
Review "Inside or Outside the Village? Remembering and Forgetting along Social Borders" Laumer, Angelika: Am Horizont. Kinder von NS-Zwangsarbeit_innen und das alltägliche Erinnern und Vergessen in der deutschen ländlichen Gesellschaft. Beltz Juventa. Weinheim, 2024. 327 Seiten, 68 EUR. ISBN: 978-3-7799-7584-7. A Review by Katharina Hacker https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2024.1460
Review "How Well Prepared Are We for the Next Pandemic?" Mezes, Carolin: Monitoring Pandemic Preparedness: Global Health Security’s Politics of Accountability, Development and Infrastructure. Frankfurt (Main): Campus Verlag, 2024. 260 pages, 45,00 EUR. ISBN: 978-3-59-351897-8. A Review by Ievgen Bilyk https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2024.1429
Review "Imagined Migrations, Transmitted Knowledges" Leetsch, Jennifer, Middelhoff, Frederike, and Wallraven, Miriam: Configurations of Migration. Knowledges, Imaginaries, Media. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2023. 229 pages, 89,95 EUR. ISBN: 978-3-11-078379-7. A Review by Mortada Haidar https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2024.1428
Review "Temporary Cities. Urban Emergency Planning and the Right to a City" Al-Shoubaki, Hind: War Victims and the Right to a City: From Damascus to Zaatari. Cham: Springer, 2022. 125 pages, 117,69 EUR. ISBN: 978-3-03-104601-8. A Review by Reiqa Salem Qubailat https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2024.1423
Review "Who Are the Rightful Inhabitants of this Earth? A Critical Analysis of Migration Representations and Border Practices" Chouliaraki, Lilie and Myria Georgiou: The Digital Border. Migration, Technology, Power. New York: University Press, 2022. 230 pages, 30 USD. ISBN: 978-1-47-987340-1. A Review by Janina Schlüsselburg https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2024.1439
Review "Do We All Arrive in the Same State of Mind? Understanding Migration to the U.S. from a Psychological Perspective" Rich, Grant J., Judy Kuriansky, Uwe P. Gielen and Daniel Kaplin: Psychosocial Experiences and Adjustment of Migrants. Coming to the USA. San Diego: Academic Press 2023. 498 pages, 132,17 EUR. ISBN: 978-0-12-823794-6. A Review by Anjuli Trautmann https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2024.1438
Review "Pop Avatars. A Fragmented History of Popular Music" Siddiqi, Asif (ed.): One-Track Mind: Capitalism, Technology, and the Art of the Pop Song. London: Routledge, 2023. 308 pages, 31,99 GDP. ISBN: 978-0-36-755373-9. A Review by Helene Elisabeth Heuser https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2024.1459
Review "Jesus, Why Does the Body Matter? Connecting the Passion of Christ and Peruvian Transgender Women through the Body" Pahud de Mortanges, Elke: Bodies of Memory and Grace. Der Körper in den Erinnerungskulturen des Christentums. Zürich: Theologischer Verlag, 2022. 238 Seiten, 29,80 EUR. ISBN: 978-3-290-22062-4. A Review by Ana Marija Spasojević https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2024.1454
Review "Microbial Thinking. A Way of Collaboration" Benezra, Amber: Gut Anthro: An Experiment in Thinking with Microbes. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2023. 282 pages, 25 USD. ISBN: 978-1-51-790130-1. A Review by Siyu Li https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2024.1443
Review "Sufi (Women) in Ritual. An Embodied Experience of Selfhood" Rodrigues, Jamila: Sufi Women, Embodiment, and the ‘Self’: Gender in Islamic Ritual. London and New York: Routledge, 2023. 170 pages, 120 GBP. ISBN: 978-0-36-737400-6. A Review by Burcu Bacanak Sahin https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2024.1432