Travelling concepts for the study of culture / edited by Birgit Neumann, Ansgar Nunning.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Neumann, Birgit, 1974-

Nünning, Ansgar.

Series:

Concepts for the Study of Culture (CSC)

Concepts for the study of culture ; 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media and culture.

Discourse analysis, Narrative.

Culture--Study and teaching.

Culture.

Collective memory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (428 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Bringing together innovative and internationally renowned experts, this volume provides concise presentations of the main concepts and cutting-edge research fields in the study of culture (rather than the infinite multitude of possible themes). More specifically, the volume outlines different models for the study of culture, explores avenues for interdisciplinary exchange, assesses key concepts and traces their travels across various disciplinary, historical and national contexts. To trace the travelling of concepts means to map both their transfer from one discipline, approach or culture of research to another, and also to identify the transformations which emerge through these processes of transfer. The volume serves to show that working with (travelling) concepts provides a unique strategy for research and research design which can open up a wide range of promising perspectives for interdisciplinary exchange. It offers an exemplary overview of an interdisciplinary and international approach to the travelling concepts that organize, structure and shape the study of culture. In doing so, the volume serves to initiate a dialogue that exceeds disciplinary and national boundaries and introduces a self-reflexive dimension to the field, thus affording a recognition of how deeply disciplinary premises and nation-specific research traditions affect different approaches in the study of culture.

Contents:

Front matter

Preface and Acknowledgments

Table of Contents

I. Theoretical Frameworks: Models for the Study of Culture

Travelling Concepts as a Model for the Study of Culture / NEUMANN, BIRGIT / NÜNNING, ANSGAR

Translation - A Concept and Model for the Study of Culture / BACHMANN-MEDICK, DORIS

Cultural Transfer / WENDLAND, ANNA VERONIKA

Emergence as a Model for the Study of Culture / TRANINGER, ANITA

II. KEY CONCEPTS FOR THE STUDY OF CULTURE

The Underlying Logic of the Study of Culture / WIRTH, UWE

Culture as Text: Reading and Interpreting Cultures / BACHMANN-MEDICK, DORIS

Metaphorical Anastomoses: The Concept of 'Network' and its Origins in the Nineteenth Century / FRIEDRICH, ALEXANDER

Narrativist Approaches and Narratological Concepts for the Study of Culture / NÜNNING, ANSGAR

Identity, Alterity and the Work of the Narrative: A Transdisciplinary Discourse Report / MÜLLER-FUNK, WOLFGANG

Gender as a Travelling Concept: A Feminist Perspective / OLSON, GRETA

Cultural Memory and Memory Cultures / NEUMANN, BIRGIT / ZIEROLD, MARTIN

Performativity and Performance / VELTEN, HANS RUDOLF

'Stimmung': The Emergence of a Concept and Its Modifications in Psychology and Physiology / WELSH, CAROLINE

Visuality and Visual Culture / HORSTKOTTE, SILKE

Space and Cultural Geography / GÜNZEL, STEPHAN

From Media Anthropology to Media Ecology / BERENSMEYER, INGO

Mass Media, Media Culture and Mediatisation / ZIEROLD, MARTIN

Material Culture and Materiality / AUSLANDER, LEORA

Transnational and Global Perspectives as Travelling Concepts in the Study of Culture / BÖSCH, FRANK / BÜSCHEL, HUBERTUS

Conceptual Transfer: A Cognitive Approach to the Construction, Re-Interpretation and Re-Contextualisation of Academic Concepts / HALLET, WOLFGANG

Notes on Contributors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781283856515

1283856514

9783110227628

3110227622

OCLC:

820787562