School of Culture and Society
Organisational unit: Faculty
Organisation profile
The School of Culture and Society continues an almost thirty-year tradition of teaching and research in cultural studies at Leuphana University of Lüneburg. At the faculty, more than one hundred scholars from disciplines such as art history, literary studies, media studies, philosophy, sociology, geography and history teach and conduct research in a total of five institutes. The faculty currently offers three majors ("Cultural Studies," "Studium Individuale", and "Digital Media") and four minors ("Philosophy," "Digital Media / Information Technology and Culture", and "Studium Individuale") at Leuphana College and four master's degrees ("Critical Studies - Arts - Theory - History", "Media and Digital Cultures", "Culture and Organization" and "Theory and History of Modernity").
Topics
Die Wissenschaftsinitiative Kulturforschung fragt nach den historischen und kulturellen Grundlagen, Praktiken und Werten der Zivilgesellschaft im 21. Jahrhundert. Aus der Perspektive der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften verbindet die Initiative zwei anwendungsorientierte Forschungsschwerpunkte (Kunst & visuelle Kultur, Medienkultur & Kommunikation) mit einem starken Kernbereich Integrativer Kulturforschung. Beteiligt sind derzeit etwa 20 Professuren aus den Disziplinen Kunst, Medien, Philosophie, Geschichte, Literatur, Soziologie, Politik, Informatik und Geographie/Raumwissenschaft.
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Transformation as Differentiation: The Diversity of Representation in the European Union
Friedrich, D. & Kröger, S., 2012, The Challenge of Democratic Representation in the European Union. Friedrich, D. & Kröger, S. (eds.). 1 ed. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 259-273 15 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter › peer-review
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Two languages, two children’s literatures: Translation in Ireland today
O'Sullivan, E., 01.09.2020, Children's Literature in Translation: Texts and contexts. van Coillie, J. & McMartin, J. (eds.). Leuven: Leuven University Press, p. 55-70 16 p. (Translation, Interpreting and Transfer; vol. 2).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter › peer-review
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(Urban) Sacred Places and Profane Spaces—Theological Topography in T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land
Keidel, V., 2020, Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies: Narrating Spaces, Reading Urbanity. Kindermann, M. & Rohleder, R. (eds.). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 45-64 20 p. (Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter › peer-review
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Walt O’Disney and the Little People: Playing to the Irish-American Diaspora
O'Sullivan, E., 01.01.2022, On Disney: Deconstructing Images, Tropes and Narratives. Dettmar, U. & Tomkowiak, I. (eds.). Berlin, Heidelberg: J.B. Metzler, p. 115-129 15 p. (Studien zu Kinder- und Jugendliteratur und -medien; vol. 9).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter › peer-review
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Water, rivers and wetlands: Governance paradigms and principles
Challies, E. & Newig, J., 25.03.2022, Routledge Handbook of Global Environmental Politics, Second Edition. Harris, P. G. (ed.). Taylor and Francis Inc., p. 512-525 14 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter › peer-review
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“We are here to stay”: Reflections on the struggle of the refugee group “Lampedusa in Hamburg” and the Solidarity Campaign, 2013-2015
Borgstede, S. B., 01.01.2016, Migration, Squatting and Radical Autonomy: Resistance and Destabilization of Racist Regulatory Policies and B/Ordering Mechanisms. Mudu, P. & Chattopadhyay, S. (eds.). Taylor and Francis Inc., p. 162-182 21 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter › peer-review
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West Africa
Elischer, S., 2015, Africa Yearbook, Volume 11: Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara in 2014. Hofmeier, R., Melber, H., Elischer, S., Elischer, S. & Mehler, A. (eds.). Brill, p. 33-55 23 p. (Africa Yearbook; vol. 11).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter › peer-review
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When Privacy Goes Public: New Media and the Transformation of the Culture of Confession
Burkart, G., 01.01.2010, Modern Privacy : Shifting Boundaries, New Forms. Blatterer, H., Johnson, P. & Markus, M. R. (eds.). Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 23-38 16 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter › peer-review
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Where do the data live? Anonymity and Neighborhood Networks
Heinrichs, R., 2021, Book of Anonymity. Collective, A. (ed.).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter › peer-review
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Where there is no World and no Epoch: Bernard Stieglerüs Thinking of the Entropocene
Hörl, E., 25.01.2024, Bernard Stiegler: Memories of the Future. Buseyne, B., Tsagdis, G. & Willemarck, P. (eds.). Bloomsbury Publishing Plc., p. 107-123 17 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter › peer-review
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1. A Secular Age? The ‘Modern World’ and the Beginnings of the Sociology of Religion
Knöbl, W., 2019, Negotiating the Secular and the Religious in the German Empire: Transnational Approaches. Habermas, R. (ed.). Berghahn Books Inc., p. 31-55 25 p. (New German Historical Perspectives; vol. 10).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter
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Aspekte der Maschinenästhetik
Broeckmann, A., 12.12.2022, Technik-Ästhetik : Zur Theorie techno-ästhetischer Realität. Ruf, O. & Grabbe, L. (eds.). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, p. 125-144 20 p. ( Medien- und Gestaltungsästhetik; vol. 12).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter
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A Thinking of Suspension: Melancholy and Politics Where There Is No Epoch
Hörl, E. & Schott, N. F. (Translator), 08.02.2024, On Bernard Stiegler: Philosopher of Friendship. Nancy, J-L. (ed.). 1 ed. London: Bloomsbury Academic, p. 63-80 18 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter
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“Circuits of Commons”: Exploring the Connections Between Economic Lives and the Commons
Dalla Chiesa, C., Morea, V. & Sabatini, F., 2023, Living Better Together: Social Relations and Economic Governance in the Work of Ostrom and Zelizer. Haefele, S. & Storr, V. H. (eds.). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland AG, p. 51-76 26 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter
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Denmark: “De Grønne”
Schüttemeyer, S., 2019, New Politics in Western Europe: The Rise and Success of Green Parties and Alternative Lists. Müller-Rommel, F. (ed.). Taylor and Francis Inc., p. 55-60 6 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter
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Die Fotobefragung
Wuggenig, U., 01.01.1988, Pragmatische Soziologie: Beiträge zur wissenschaftlichen Diagnose und praktischen Lösung gesellschaftlicher Gegenwartsprobleme. Kreutz, H. (ed.). Opladen: Verlag Leske + Budrich, p. 333-354 22 p. (Forschungen zur Soziologie und Sozialanthropologie; vol. 1).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter
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Editors’ Conversation with German Art Historians Oona Lochner and Isabel Mehl: Writing Like a Feminist—In Dialogue with Carla Lonzi
Lochner, O. & Mehl, I., 15.04.2023, Female Cultural Production in Modern Italy: Literature, Art and Intellectual History. Cham: Springer International Publishing AG, p. 383-395 13 p. (Italian and Italian American Studies).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter
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Eine Kultur des Zweifels: Kinderlosigkeit und die Zukunft der Familie
Burkart, G., 2007, Ein Leben ohne Kinder: Kinderlosigkeit in Deutschland. Konietzka, D. & Kreyenfeld, M. (eds.). Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, p. 401-423 23 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter
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Entrepreneurship in conventions, place-making, and spaces of creativity
Kagan, S., 05.08.2022, Culture and Sustainable Development in the City: Urban Spaces of Possibilities. Kagan, S. (ed.). Taylor and Francis Inc., p. 65-88 24 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter
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Farewell to the White Space? Overcoming Racism in Baltimore's Artistic Fields
Kirchberg, V., 05.08.2022, Culture and Sustainable Development in the City: Urban Spaces of Possibilities. Kagan, S. (ed.). 1 ed. New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 115-129 15 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter