Tabubruch und Entgrenzung: Kindheit und Sexualität nach 1968. Edited by Meike Sophia Baader, Christian Jansen, Julia König and Christin Sager. Cologne: Böhlau Verlag. 2017. 330 pp. €40.00 (softcover).

Review of an edited collection of essays in German on childhood and sexuality since 1968

After Encounters with Feelings: Outcomes and Further Issues

Concluding chapter in a volume on the role of emotions in transcultural encounters

Queere Nähe aus der Ferne

Aus queer-historischer Perspektive verkompliziert dieser Debattenbeitrag die Figur des Intimen. Er spielt mit dem Gedanken des Öffentlichen. Und er wirft die Frage des Ländlichen auf, um die Infrastrukturen städtischer Intimität besser begreifen zu können

Subjects, Citizens, and Others: Administering Ethnic Heterogeneity in the British and Habsburg Empires, 1867-1918

Bosnian Muslims, East African Masai, Czech-speaking Austrians, North American indigenous peoples, and Jewish immigrants from across Europe—the nineteenth-century British and Habsburg Empires were characterized by incredible cultural and racial-ethnic diversity. Notwithstanding their many differences, both empires faced similar administrative questions as a result: Who was excluded or admitted? What advantages were granted to which groups? And how could diversity be reconciled with demands for national autonomy and democratic participation? In this pioneering study, Benno Gammerl compares Habsburg and British approaches to governing their diverse populations, analyzing imperial formations to reveal the legal and political conditions that fostered heterogeneity

Encountering Feelings - Feeling Encounters

Introduction to a volume on the role of emotions in transcultural encounters

Feeling Differently. Approaches and their Politics

Brings together rules-based, practice-theoretical, psycho-analytical and affect-theoretical approaches. • Feelings can undermine established differences, constitute difference, and mark, intensify or naturalise differences. • Navigating the seeming gap between the unfathomable quality of feeling and a critical analysis is key. • The polyvalent nature of feeling differently invites continued interrogations into power effects that accompany our research