What You See Is What You Get? Images of Central and Eastern Europe in Managerial Discourses since 1990

Drawing on a systematic close reading of all relevant articles published in three leading management journals since 1990, the paper analyzes the images of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) circulating in the business community at the turn of the twenty-first century. It suggests that a mere stocktaking of Western perceptions of 'the East' is not enough, arguing that CEE images in the post-Cold War managerial discourses should be analyzed in both their cultural embeddedness and their epistemological function for the construction of knowledge about CEE. The methodological approach combines a poststructuralist discourse analysis with imagological theories originating in the field of literary criticism to reconstruct the images CEE and investigate into their communicative function in processes of managerial meaning-making and knowledge construction. As such, the paper aims at an analysis of managerial meta-discourses and the very premises and assumptions that generated them

Biographieforschung im Kontext transnationaler und globaler Geschichtsschreibung

"Der Beitrag liefert einen Überblick über die aktuelle Theoriediskussion im Feld der historischen und kulturwissenschaftlichen Biographieforschung sowie dem der transnationalen Geschichte/Global History. Darauf aufbauend wird im Lichte der Beiträge zum Schwerpunktthema dieses Heftes der epistemologische Mehrwert erörtert, den biographische Ansätze für die Erkenntnisinteressen einer transnationalen, auf grenzüberschreitende Beziehungs-, Verflechtungs- und Transferprozesse ausgerichteten Geschichtsschreibung haben können." (Autorenreferat

Li Gerhalter, Tagebücher als Quellen: Forschungsfelder und Sammlungen seit 1800

Focusing on Germany and Austria from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, this erudite and thorough study aims at historicizing the use of diaries as scholarly evidence and historical sources in the academic disciplines of pedagogy and early childhood research, youth psychology, and the new cultural history emerging in the 1980s. For each of these disciplines, Li Gerhalter, the long-time curator and now director of the ‘Sammlung Frauennachlässe’ at the University of Vienna (https://sfn.univie.ac.at/hauptmenue/bestand/), traces whose diaries were collected, when, by whom, for which scholarly purposes, and to what effect for the formation and transformation of the respective academic discipline under scrutiny. In addition, the individual chapters shed light on the donors of diaries, the culture and practices of diary writing, and the different communicative and epistemological functions that diaries had for their writers and researchers

Demokraten, aufgepasst! Archie Brown denkt über politische Führung in schwierigen Zeiten nach

Archie Brown: Der Mythos vom starken Führer: Politische Führung im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert. Berlin: Propyläen Verlag 2018. 978-3-549-07493-

Vom rechten Glauben: Frances FitzGerald beschreibt den Aufstieg der "Christlichen Rechten" in den USA

Frances FitzGerald: The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America. New York: Simon & Schuster 2017. 978143913133

Ein schwieriges Genre: Zum Ort der Biografik in der Arbeitergeschichtsschreibung

The article examines the development of biographical research in general and particularly in labour history. Considering the impact of the cognitive sciences biographical research provides different trajectories for historical, social-historical and cultural-historical approaches. Sudies on labour movements, however, are still based on biographical research that is conducted as traditional historical social research with an emphasis on milieu theory, generational studies or a general lack of theory. The articel advocates new perspectives on biographical studies in labour history that go beyond the topics of milieus and generations and underlines the need to deduce from the individual historical person

„Sowie ich den Erdgeruch von Proletariern spüre…“: Politische Ideengeschichte als Erfahrungsgeschichte

Morina C. „Sowie ich den Erdgeruch von Proletariern spüre…“: Politische Ideengeschichte als Erfahrungsgeschichte. In: Depkat V, ed. Biografische Ansätze zur Geschichte der Arbeiterbewegung im 20. Jahrhundert . Mitteilungsblatt des Instituts für Soziale Bewegungen. Vol 45. Essen: Klartext-Verl.; 2011: 73-88