Publications
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Elitesklavereien und Profifußball
(2024)
The concept of elite slavery describes the practice of abducting and then spending years training and disciplining children, who were then placed in high-level positions, sometimes amassing huge wealth. These features can ...
Playing American
(2023)
Tracing a practice called "playing American" through the stages of videogame development, gameplay, and reception, this book delineates how aspects of American culture are reproduced transnationally through popular open-world ...
New Hollywood and Countercultural Whiteness
(2024)
This book uses the New Hollywood as a case study for affective and discursive transformations of white masculinity between the 1950s and the 1970s. It identifies a subject position of countercultural whiteness that emerged ...
Watchful Lives in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
(2023)
The book shows how Chicanx, Latinx and otherwise watched and "othered" people in San Diego, close to the US-Mexico border, respond to racism and surveillance. Watchfulness goes beyond counter-surveillance, as it is understood ...
Kalter Krieg auf dem indischen Subkontinent
(2020)
1971 was a critical year for India and Pakistan and also for West and East Germany. The Third India–Pakistan War led to the independence of Bangladesh, at the same time that the German–German policy of détente sought to ...
Left-Kantianism in the Marburg School
(2024)
Widmer sheds light on a neglected aspect of the Western philosophical tradition. Following an era of Hegelianism, the members of the neo-Kantian "Marburg School," such as Friedrich Albert Lange, Hermann Cohen, Rudolf ...
Das römische Spielewesen in der Spätantike
(2014)
Daily life in Late Antiquity was heavily influenced by the tradition of Roman games. This is the first comprehensive study of the world of games in Late Antiquity, with special attention to specific forms of games in the ...
Christliches Leben und die Verbesserung des Menschen
(2022)
Self-optimization is all the rage. What do theology and the church have to say about it? Should they issue a warning and strike up a cultural pessimistic tune? Maybe they could activate their own resources, which have the ...
Günter Grass und die Berliner Republik
(2023)
Günter Grass has primarily been perceived by research and the public as an author. But he was also an influential political actor. His political work was not just limited to the Brandt era but also helped to define the ...
Diplomatische Wissenskulturen der Frühen Neuzeit
(2018)
The methodology of cultural history opens new pathways for researching diplomatic figures and structures in the premodern era. However, until now, early modern knowledge cultures have not been researched in terms of their ...