New Orleans is unique – which is precisely why there are many Crescent Cities all over the world: for almost 150 years, writers, artists, cultural brokers, and entrepreneurs have drawn on and simultaneously contributed to New Orleans’s fame and popularity by recreating the city in popular media from literature, photographs, and plays to movies, television shows, and theme parks. Addressing students and fans of the city and of popular culture, Popular New Orleans examines three piv...

This book offers a comprehensive, multidisciplinary introduction to theme parks and the field of theme park studies. It identifies and discusses relevant economic, social, and cultural as well as medial, historical, and geographical aspects of theme parks worldwide, from the big international theme park chains to smaller, regional, family-operated parks. The book also describes the theories and methods that have been used to study theme parks in various academic disciplines and reviews the...

Hurricane Katrina blasted the Gulf Coast in 2005, leaving an unparalleled trail of physical destruction. In addition to that damage, the storm wrought massive psychological and cultural trauma on Gulf Coast residents and on America as a whole. Details of the devastation were quickly reported—and misreported—by media outlets, and a slew of articles and books followed, offering a spectrum of socio-political commentaries and analyses. But beyond the reportage and the commentary, a series of f...

Sie krochen nachts aus ihren Verstecken, als Nebelschwaden oder Fledermäuse. Terrorisierten ganze Dörfer mit ihrer Gier nach Blut und Jugend. Lebten auf alten Burgen, schliefen in Särgen. Doch das war einmal. Heutzutage ist das ewige Leben erstaunlich verbissen, wenn Blutersatzprodukte ausgehen, es Termine für die Fangzahnpflege nur bei Tageslicht gibt oder einer geregelten Arbeit nachgegangen werden muss. Sei es bei der Verbrechensbekämpfung, im Immobiliengeschäft oder dem Tourismuswesen....

Die arabische Welt ist mehr als die Summe der Länder, in denen überwiegend Arabisch gesprochen wird. Seit der Expansion des Islams bildet sie einen religiösen und kulturellen Resonanzraum mit immer wieder neuen Ansätzen zur politischen Einheit. in dieser neuen Geschichte der arabischen Welt beschreiben international renommierte Experten, wie sich diese «Welt» seit der Spätantike formiert hat, wie die arabische Kultur weit über diesen Raum hinaus – bis nach Europa und Amerika – verbreitet w...

Jugendliche zum Glauben einladen - das ist das Ziel vieler christlicher Organisationen und Kirchen. Das Handbuch missionarische Jugendarbeit setzt sich mit wichtigen Grundfragen von Mission unter Jugendlichen auseinander, reflektiert aktuelle Herausforderungen und zeigt auf, wie missionarische Jugendarbeit in der Praxis gelingen kann. Das Handbuch verbindet dabei theologische mit sozialwissenschaftlichen Perspektiven und wurde gemeinsam von Wissenschaftlern und Fachleuten aus der Praxis en...

This 3-volume set examines how suburban spaces shape and reflect human experiences in North America, Europe, and Asia, bringing together works by an international group of scholars who explore suburbia through critical analyses of literature, culture, sociology, history, politics, and urban planning. The multidisciplinary and international scope of each volume offers readers a wide breadth of perspectives. Suburbia Reconsidered thus contributes significantly to the expanding field...

This 3-volume set examines how suburban spaces shape and reflect human experiences in North America, Europe, and Asia, bringing together works by an international group of scholars who explore suburbia through critical analyses of literature, culture, sociology, history, politics, and urban planning. The multidisciplinary and international scope of each volume offers readers a wide breadth of perspectives. Suburbia Reconsidered thus contributes significantly to the expanding field...

This 3-volume set examines how suburban spaces shape and reflect human experiences in North America, Europe, and Asia, bringing together works by an international group of scholars who explore suburbia through critical analyses of literature, culture, sociology, history, politics, and urban planning. The multidisciplinary and international scope of each volume offers readers a wide breadth of perspectives. Suburbia Reconsidered thus contributes significantly to the expanding field...

This book examines the intersections of silence with immersive arts and experiences. Silence and immersion may seem antithetical: while immersion is supposedly induced by acoustic and other stimuli, silence is commonly understood as the absence or opposite of sound. Since the eighteenth century, however, silence has been established as a multifarious and polyvalent cultural concept. Immersion, in turn, though often used as a simple "all-inclusive" term, has old and complex ontological and ...

The nexus of urban governance and human migration was a crucial feature in the modernisation of cities in the Ottoman Empire of the nineteenth century. This book connects these two concepts to examine the Ottoman city as a destination of human migration, throwing new light on the question of conviviality and cosmopolitanism from the perspective of the legal, administrative and political frameworks within which these occur.Focusing on groups of migrants with various ethnic, regional...

Strenggeheime Kuchenrezepte und Freundinnen, die eine Vorliebe für pinke Unterwäsche haben, lassen den Tag ungewöhnlich turbulent werden.