Die Lebensmittelproduktion treibt ökologische Krisen voran: Sie ist energieintensiv, schadstoffreich und eng mit gesellschaftlichen Konflikten verbunden. Technologien wie die Aquaponik versprechen Abhilfe durch geschlossene, nachhaltige Kreisläufe. Doch was, wenn diese Vorstellungen trügerisch sind? Jan Bartsch interpretiert Aquaponik als Stoffwechselapparatur, in der Pflanzen, Fische, Technik und […]

The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) has extended funding for the Research Training Group 2686 »Contradiction Studies« for a further four and a half years. We are delighted by this decision, which enables us to continue the successful work of the Research Training Group and to further […]

In this paper, we analyze the term reconciliation as well as Versöhnung in political and religious communication. Against this background, we are interested in how far political as well as religious dimensions of the terms come together, which we describe as a process of conceptual […]

When debating academic freedom in Germany, the term cancel culture, originating from North-American contexts, is commonly used to express concerns about a threat to academic freedom as posed by a narrowing of boundaries of discourse. In the semantic battels regarding Wissenschaftsfreiheit (academic freedom), this perspective […]

Mehrsprachigkeit wird gleichermaßen gefeiert, problematisiert, gefördert, gefordert und zu verhindern versucht. Sie gilt als Ziel von Bildung, als Übergang zu Einsprachigkeit, als Problem wie auch als Ressource – je nach Kontext, Kombination der Sprachen oder sprachlichen Varietäten und abhängig von deren jeweils zugeschriebenem Prestige. Trotz […]

These political decisions are linked to the question of the institutional location and the further development of artistic research in terms of content and aesthetics. The latter is addressed in the volume Permeations – Interpenetrations between Artistic Research and Aesthetic Theory, published by Spector Books […]

Mission collections throughout Germany represent the material and ideological colonial legacy of the churches. Franziska Moosmann shares her impressions of her analysis of a mission museum exhibition and invites readers on a tour of selected rooms. In doing so, she asks how postcolonial theology and the culture of remembrance can be challenged and transformed by the objects on display.

Contemporary television news programmes are often complex examples of hybrid communication (see Bucher, ‘Multimodal understanding or reception as interaction’, 2011). Television news presents related as well as unrelated information in both a linear and non-linear fashion by combining the news read with a variety of […]

We explore how cultural heritage impacts climate policies in UNESCO World Heritage cities, where changes to the built environment are limited. Drawing on qualitative case study research in the German World Heritage cities of Lübeck, Regensburg, and Bamberg, we reveal that significant departmental conflicts between […]