This book gives explanations for the growing gap in wealth and income and the rise of anti-democratic movements. The power of the elites today is supposedly founded on merit (education, intelligence etc.), but a closer look shows that a well-marked-out pool is just self-re-producing. The power these in-groups wield often leads to moral insensibility, made worse by a condescending attitude towards people further down the food chain. The pre-dominance of the model of the nation-state, with i...

For well over a century cinema has exerted enormous influence, yet many questions regarding its fascination remain unanswered. Films work so well because the viewers tend to unconsciously identify with the actors/actresses. The desire to become another, substituting identity by identification, can be traced to the illusion that the filmic heroes/heroines are immortal – identifying with them raises the possibility of gaining «deathlessness.» Viewers can, without real life risks, experiment ...

What can you remember of your childhood? This was the question put to a number of ‘seniors’ asked to start from as far back as they could get, and go as far as the onset of adolescence. Their answers are in this unusual book.Topics naturally include their physical self; their parents, siblings, grandparents, friends, playmates, teachers, classmates, pets; their manners, training, rewards and punishments; food; play, toys; likes, dislikes; schools, kindergarten, elementary; outings, ...

We forget all kinds of things, trivial and important ones; and not just things but also topics and techniques, and we forget in different ways. Inconvenient as it is to forget your to-do list, forgetting grave political factors can lead to repeating the same mistakes. Foolish as it is to let proven solutions fall by the wayside, repression, both on a personal as on a political level, will lead to catastrophe. This book enumerates many things already forgotten (or in the process of being fo...

Provenienzforschung ist so viel mehr als die Suche nach Herkunft: Sie öffnet Perspektiven auf Objekte, Sammlungen, ihre Geschichten und die facettenreichen Beziehungen, die in ihnen angelegt sind. Das Museum der Kulturen Basel untersucht seine Sammlung systematisch auf Kolonialität und verdeutlicht, wie zentral die Zusammenarbeit mit Communities des Globalen Südens ist. Dabei zeigt sich auch, wie vielschichtig und fordernd ethnologische Provenienzforschung ist. Dieser Band wirft "wegweisen...

Die erste umfassende Dokumentation des Leben uns Wirkens des Musikers Otto Ulf.Otto Ulf (1907–1993) gehörte zu jenen herausragenden Musikern und Pionieren, die um die Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts die zunehmende Musealisierung des klassischen-romantischen Musikbetriebes als Einengung empfanden und sich in der Folge der Alten Musik zuwandten. Ulf tat dies mit erstaunlicher Konsequenz: Seine stets im besten Sinne "nachhaltigen" Initiativen zielten nicht nur auf die Wiederbelebung eines ...

Avec la mondialisation qui affaiblit leurs frontières et leurs souverainetés, les États seraient-ils désormais marginaux sur la scène du monde ? Le débat sur « la fin des États » a pu le laisser croire ; mais on assisterait plutôt à une prolifération des « désirs d’États », divers et contradictoires. Politique étrangère s’interroge sur le rôle et le destin de ces États, si différents selon leurs histoires et leurs environnements.États à reconstruire (Syrie, Irak), chancela...

La Turquie, à travers les élections de ce printemps, s’est encore montrée emblématique du temps. Un temps où nombre de régimes politiques oscillent entre formes démocratiques et concentration autoritaire du pouvoir. Où l’inflation et la récession succèdent à d’impressionnantes périodes de croissance. Où le dérèglement international ouvre les voies de diplomaties tous azimuts, balançant entre fidélités politiques variées. Face à la guerre d’Ukraine, Ankara joue toutes ses cartes en élargiss...

Provenance research is so much more than a search for origin: It offers new perspectives on objects, collections, their histories, and the multifaceted relationships embedded within them. The Museum der Kulturen Basel is systematically examining its collection for coloniality and highlighting the central importance of collaborating with communities in the Global South. This work also reveals how complex and demanding ethnological provenance research is. This volume "raises groundbreaking q...

This anthology of poems is an emotional exploration of climate change and its underlying attitudes. The poems lie at the intersection of climate change due to global warming and inner transformation. The poems are meaningful, powerful, and thought-provoking. The reader goes on a journey from despair and chaos, ending in a place of quiet optimism. This is a book for the sensitive, the conscious, the eco-warriors, and the introspective nature lovers among us. Intermixing essays with poetry a...

Dans ce numéro exceptionnel, la revue Politique étrangère projette l’héritage de la Grande Guerre sur notre avenir. États et nationalismes, coopérations ou déséquilibres régionaux, organisation du commerce international, stratégies et appareils militaires : des données largement héritées du premier conflit mondial, violemment interpellées par l’actualité.

Winter tourism has seen increased levels of investment in recent times, in an effort to reduce economic risk, address environmental concerns and adapt to the effects of global warming. New ski destinations are developing and merging with traditional ones to increase spatial distribution, while many established leading resorts are adapting their management models. Climate change adaptation processes are supported by the reduction of CO2 emissions and energy consumption in ski resorts. Curre...