• Human Rights in Colombian Literature and Cultural Production

  This volume explores how Colombian novelists, artists, performers, activists, musicians, and others seek to enact-to perform, to stage, to represent-human rights situations that are otherwise enacted discursively.

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• The Complexities of Home in Social Work

  Home is a complex and multifaceted concept. This book revisions how 'home' is used in social work literature by showing how it is positioned as being discursively represented, materially experienced and embodied, and multiply imagined as symbolic and existential.

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  Human Rights in Colombian Literature and Cultural Production (eBook, ePUB)

  This volume explores how Colombian novelists, artists, performers, activists, musicians, and others seek to enact-to perform, to stage, to represent-human rights situations that are otherwise enacted discursively, that is, made public or official, in juridical and political realms in which justice often remains an illusory or promised future. In order to probe how cultural production embodies the tensions between the abstract universality of human rights and the materiality of violations on individual human bodies and on determined groups, the volume asks the following questions: How does the transmission of historical traumas of Colombia's past, through human rights narratives in various forms, inform the debates around the subjects of rights, truth and memory, remembrance and forgetting, and the construction of citizenship through solidarity and collective struggles for justice? What are the different roles taken by cultural products in the interstices among rights, laws, and social justice within different contexts of state violence and states of exception? What are alternative perspectives, sources, and (micro)histories from Colombia of the creation, evolution, and practice of human rights? How does the human rights discourse interface with notions of environmental justice, especially in the face of global climate change, regional (neo)extractivism, the implementation of megaprojects, and ongoing post-accord thefts and (re)appropriations of land? Through a wide range of disciplinary lenses, the different chapters explore counter-hegemonic concepts of human rights, decolonial options struggling against oppression and market logic, and alternative discourses of human dignity and emancipation within the pluriverse.

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  Human Rights in Colombian Literature and Cultural Production (eBook, PDF)

  This volume explores how Colombian novelists, artists, performers, activists, musicians, and others seek to enact-to perform, to stage, to represent-human rights situations that are otherwise enacted discursively, that is, made public or official, in juridical and political realms in which justice often remains an illusory or promised future. In order to probe how cultural production embodies the tensions between the abstract universality of human rights and the materiality of violations on individual human bodies and on determined groups, the volume asks the following questions: How does the transmission of historical traumas of Colombia's past, through human rights narratives in various forms, inform the debates around the subjects of rights, truth and memory, remembrance and forgetting, and the construction of citizenship through solidarity and collective struggles for justice? What are the different roles taken by cultural products in the interstices among rights, laws, and social justice within different contexts of state violence and states of exception? What are alternative perspectives, sources, and (micro)histories from Colombia of the creation, evolution, and practice of human rights? How does the human rights discourse interface with notions of environmental justice, especially in the face of global climate change, regional (neo)extractivism, the implementation of megaprojects, and ongoing post-accord thefts and (re)appropriations of land? Through a wide range of disciplinary lenses, the different chapters explore counter-hegemonic concepts of human rights, decolonial options struggling against oppression and market logic, and alternative discourses of human dignity and emancipation within the pluriverse.

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  Sakralisierung des Selbst (eBook, PDF)

  Die Vielfalt an Praktiken und Traditionen der Subjektivierung und Selbstformung, die aktuell zu beobachten sind, untersucht das Mainzer Graduiertenkolleg unter dem Titel "Ethnographien des Selbst in der Gegenwart". Ausgangspunkt ist die Beobachtung, dass gegenwärtige Formierungen des Selbst mit den Herausforderungen des digitalen Zeitalters und veränderten Möglichkeiten der Selbstinszenierung eng verbunden sind. Das Buch versammelt Beiträge aus Literaturwissenschaft, Theologie, Soziologie und Kulturanthropologie. Auf Grundlage von gedruckten Quellen und empirischem Material wird der Frage nachgegangen, in welchem Verhältnis Praktiken und Traditionen des Selbst in der Gegenwart zu Formen der Selbsterhöhung stehen. Welche Arten und Weisen der Aufladung der eigenen Lebensgeschichte mit religiöser Symbolik oder welche Formen gelebter Religiosität bzw. Spiritualität lassen sich beobachten? Wie sind sie diskursiv zu verorten? In welche kulturellen, ethischen und ästhetischen Problemhorizonte sind die gegenwärtigen "Sakralisierungen des Selbst" zu stellen? [Sacralization of the Self. Practices and traditions of subjectification] The Mainz Research Training Group "Ethnographies of the Self in the Present" examines the variety of current practices and traditions of subjectification and self-forming. Its starting point is the following observation: recent formations of the self are closely linked to the challenges of the digital age and the changing possibilities of acts of self-staging. This book compiles contributions from literary studies, theology, sociology and cultural anthropology. Based on printed sources and empirical material, it focuses on practices and traditions of the self in the present and forms of self-enhancement. Which ways and means of charging one's own biography with religious symbolism are observed? How are they discursively located? What are the cultural, ethical and aesthetic fields in which current "sacralizations of the self" are placed?

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