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Military Heroism in Germany: A Contested and Ever-Changing Concept
In Germany, the concept of the (military) hero has been heavily burdened in particular by the crimes of the Hitler regime and subsequently tabooed...
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I (Still) Need a Hero: Civilians, Society and the Continuing Need for Military Heroism and Heroes
The following chapter examines post-heroic society’s perception of military heroes. Using the Israeli case, this chapter argues that despite the...
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Exclusions of Conviviality: Negotiation of Space, Ideology, Class, Gender and Lifestyle Differences
In this chapter, I explore the sharing of space, spatial negotiations, inclusions and exclusions that are drawn by space, class, ideology, gender,...
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Canada’s Military and the Post-heroic Condition
This chapter is using an institutional theoryInstitutional theory approach to explore how heroismHeroism and its mobilizing function operated during...
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Conclusion
Throughout the region of what was once the Ottoman Empire, the rise of nationalisms has led to homogenisation and minoritisation processes: the...
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Embodying and Performing Diversity Through Senses
This chapter illustrates the ways in which collective embodiment of the island through a diversity of sensorial pleasures bond together the islanders...
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Practice Vignette: Relationships and Sex Education for the “Digital Age”
Many young people don’t have access to quality and inclusive relationships and sex education (RSE) at school, especially marginalised groups: LGBTQ+...
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Regulating to Minimise Harm to Children and Young People
The potential problems arising from social media and search have become increasingly apparent. Political will to tackle these issues has been...
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Dark Patterns of Cuteness: Popular Learning App Design as a Risk to Children’s Autonomy
Cute design has become a firm staple of digital software development. It relates to design features in the form of visuals, such as avatars, colours,...
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A “Post-digital” Continuum of Young People’s Experiences of Online Harms
Studies suggest that young people’s lives are digitally mediated and the risks and opportunities of being online are experienced and given meaning at...
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Chapter Five: Simplex Communication Society
Disregard of frames in a statement, or mixing up its frame and sphere, have become a daily affair. Cases discussed here comprise, among others,...
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Chapter Four: The Human Experiment
This chapter starts from the notorious Milgram experiment to find the historical and sociocultural origins of dehumanization described in the...
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Chapter Six: Collective Reason
What is the reason for recent prodemocracy causes failing to push through? Frameshift does not suffice in itself to break the deadlock and implement...
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Chapter Eight: Healer or King
This chapter explains the tensor of kum which features centrally in the author’s anthropological work on chiefdoms in eastern and central Africa that...
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Introduction: After Knowledge
To attain anthropological validity, a study should take into account three dimensions with variable input. It should provide social analysis (of...
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Chapter Thirteen: Godwork
Again we encounter the principle of attaining immunity through contagion. The redemption of Pentecostalist converts rests on seizing the very evil...
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Epilogue: Or 16
The book ends with an anecdote recounting an improbable event of ‘pre-ception’ and the ways that the human observers tried to deal with it. One will...
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Chapter Seven: The Oracle and the Real
This chapter synthesizes the author’s ethnographic work on healing systems in Africa. Divination has political relevance because is the art of...
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Chapter One: Simpl(if)ication
Nothing is wrong with simplifying an event if (on the condition that) you and I know to be engaging in a simplification. Even this condition, the...
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Inquiring with Hospitable Methodologies
In ‘Inquiring with hospitable methodologies,’ Emily Höckert and Bryan Grimwood engage with postcolonial philosophies of hospitality that approach...