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Ice and Snow in the Cold War
The history of the Cold War has focused overwhelmingly on statecraft and military power, an approach that has naturally placed Moscow and Washington center stage. Meanwhile, regions such as Alaska, the polar landscapes, and the cold areas of the Soviet periphery have received little attention. However, such environments were of no small importance during the Cold War: in addition to their symbolic significance, they also had direct implications for everything from military strategy to natural resource management. Through histories of these extremely cold environments, this volume makes a novel intervention in Cold War historiography, one whose global and transnational approach undermines the simple opposition of “East” and “West.”
Negotiating Personal Autonomy
Negotiating Personal Autonomy offers a detailed ethnographic examination of personal autonomy and social life in East Greenland. Examining verbal and non-verbal communication in interpersonal encounters, Elixhauser argues that social life in the region is characterized by relationships based upon a particular care to respect other people’s personal autonomy. Exploring this high valuation of personal autonomy, she asserts that a person in East Greenland is a highly permeable entity that is neither bounded by the body nor even necessarily human. In so doing, she also puts forward a new approach to the anthropological study of communication. An important addition to the corpus of ethnographic literature about the people of East Greenland, Elixhauser‘s work will be of interest to scholars of the Arctic and the North, Greenland, social and cultural anthropology, and human geography. Her conclusion that, in East Greenland, the ‘inner’ self cannot be separated from the ‘public’ persona will also be of interest to scholars working on the self across the humanities and social sciences.
Tourismusforschung in Bayern
Dieses Buch ist das erste, das einen aktuellen Überblick über die breitgespannte Tourismus- und Freizeitforschung in Bayern gibt, d.h. die vielfältigen Projekte, die an bayerischen Hochschulen und angegliederten Institutionen betrieben werden. Der Band konzentriert sich auf einige der derzeit meistdiskutierten und wichtigsten Themata. Er macht deutlich, wie wichtig die angewandte Tourismuswissenschaft in Bayern mittlerweile geworden ist und welche Beiträge, Konzepte, Perspektiven die sozialwissenschaftlich orientierte Freizeit- und Tourismuswissenschaft leisten kann. Das Buch ist Überblick, aber auch Nachschlagewerk. Inhalt: VORWORT der Herausgeber I. DIE GESCHICHTE DER TOURISMUSFORSCHU...
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