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Tobias Greiff

Violent Places

2018

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3 Violence in Everyday Positioning S. 53-76

„… certain positioning attempts, the reasonswhy a certain position is chosen remain unimportant at this point …” „… frozen and forced positions. Each attempt to change a frozen and forced position therefore will be …” „… learn localmeanings into a prerequisite for any successful attempt at analyzing the current positionings …”

8 Banja Luka S. 249-302

„… the light of a growing competition between SNSD and the Alliance for Change spearheaded by the SDS at …” „… leadership. Rumors have it that Elite Security is part of an attempt at creating a parallel and shadow police …” „… Republic – while at the same time referring to the second entity by its Anglicized name, the Federation …”

5 Mostar S. 111-154

„… results. At this point, there is little doubt that any constitutional change that will satisfy the ECHR …” „… , mostly because its beautiful cost line at the Adriatic Sea attracts tourists not only from all over the …” „… have reached Bosnia shortly before the city ofNeum; not because of any drastic change of landscape …”

4 Politics of Public Places S. 77-110

„… attempts at trying to get to positions, either through analyzing individual acts or episodes of …” „… processes and therefore become helpful indicators, auxiliary symbols, for an attempt at reconstructing the …” „… understand ourselves, preserving the foreign in an attempt at making the patterns of social interaction in …”

2 Stories of Violence S. 17-52

„… of ‘knowers’ see such an engagement as an attempt to challenge their very truth, to reposition them …” „… limitations of our knowledge about a certain problemwill be at the heart of this rather unconventional …” „… during the war – remain 18 to be acknowledged:1 First, limitations are caused by the form of what lies at …”

6 Sarajevo S. 155-196

„… , that by now has changed its name to Bulevar Meše Selimovića, only to change it later into Zmaja od …” „… before it comes to its natural end at an imposing mountain range through which we will climb, following …” „… the curves of the Neretva on our way to the country’s capital Sarajevo. This drastic change of scenery …”

7 Goražde S. 197-248

„… already hinted at, our time in Sarajevo confirmed: the spectrum of diversity within the larger ethnic …” „… communities goes beyond initial expectations, and tensions within these communities are at least as common …” „… , although harder to detect for outside observers, as those between ethnic groups. In Sarajevo, the at times …”

9 Conclusion S. 303-320

„… appears to be extremely diverse, ranging from attempts at restoring geo-political influence and leadership …” „… conflicts just as much as attempts at extending presence and influence. What this study also demonstrated is …” „… encountered is affected by local moral orders, and that, regardless of the reasons behind attempts at …”

1 Introduction S. 1-16

„… already shifted to countries considered more vulnerable by donors, ebbed drastically, at the same time as …” „… , drive-by shootings at police stations, notorious attacks on vulnerable returnee populations and violent …” „… Herzegovina was signed in Paris onDecember 14th 1995. With this agreement being negotiated at the …”

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Nele Noesselt - Reassessing Chinese Politics

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Reassessing Chinese Politics

Series: East Asian Politics: Regional and Global Dynamics

Volume 1 2019

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Tobias Bohne Chapter VI: Spaces of Resistance in China: The Weiquan Movement from a Socio-Spatial Perspective S. 119-139

„… change—but also emphasizes a specifically spatial approach that is located in the idea of “exploiting …” „… limitations shape the set of political practices available to activists, it does—at least to some degree—also …” „… cooperation in the sphere of international politics, and who is at the forefront of the fight for a …”

Susanne Brunnbauer Chapter V: Birds’ Unequal Struggle to Escape the Authoritarian Cage of Governance. Civil Society in China and Taiwan: Does Strength Matter to Achieving Democratization? S. 91-118

„… change”—including the shift from an authoritarian toward a democratically grounded political system—seriously …” „… country, while the estimated figure at the end of 2016 reached three million.18 The commitment of the …” „… 2016; Sausmikat 2015; Stern/O’Brien 2012: 178). At the latest since under President Jiang Zemin in 1997 …”

Nele Noesselt Chapter I: Introduction: Reassessing Chinese Politics in the Twenty-First Century S. 1-20

„… , Robert Gilpin (1981) looked at leadership cycles and argued that the material capabilities of a state …” „… West, or looked at the formation of networks (such as the BRICS or BISAM) (Cooper 2010) and at their …” „… discernable at G20 meetings and in related multilateral fora on the regulation of global trade and finance …”

Tobias Schäfer Chapter II: Turning of the Tide in Asia Pacific: Trends and Drivers of China’s Maritime Transformation S. 21-45

„… changes taking place in the international political arena at large resonate particularly with events …” „… encountered during their own (attempts at) maritime transformations, and is thus eagerly analyzing those …” „… only by a reliable blue-water navy. It is, therefore, unsurprising that Chinese attempts at maritime …”

Saina Klein Chapter III: The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: How China’s Assertive Strategies in the South China Sea Lead to Foreign-Political Confrontation S. 46-69

„… become fractious. The semi-enclosed sea is located at the foot of China’s southern border, squeezed in …” „… inhibiting the development of the Asia-Pacific region at large. Additionally, the regional maritime dispute …” „… from their previous colonial power. The ambiguity Report on Threats, Challenges and Change: “A more …”

Henning Spreckelmeyer Chapter IV: Lancang or Mekong? Power Capacities of Thailand and Vietnam in the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation Mechanism S. 70-90

„… willingness to share information and technology. At the same time, Biba (2018) does not see a real change in …” „… ): “Mekong River Commission Faces Radical Change”, The Diplomat, 22 January. Available at …” „… always focus on China and its assertive power capabilities (Chang Liao 2018), portraying the People’s …”

Judith Petersen Chapter VII: The Chinese Social Credit System: A Magical Tool of Governance in the Big Data Era? S. 140-171

„… Era? Judith Petersen Global Governance and Big Data: A Relevant Nexus in Digital Times “We are at …” „… ). Big data changes the way societies function and challenges the process of governance as we know it.51 …” „… data and cyberspace persists. While coordinated action on cross-border challenges like climate change …”

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Marion Gymnich, Hanne Birk, Denise Burkhard - "Harry - yer a wizard"

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"Harry - yer a wizard"

Series: Wissenschaftliche Beiträge aus dem Tectum Verlag: Anglistik

Volume 6 2017

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Marion Gymnich and Klaus Scheunemann: The ‘Harry Potter Phenomenon’: Forms of World Building in the Novels, the Translations, the Film Series and the Fandom S. 11-38

„… and dangerous’” (Hallows 455). The notion that children’s attempts at suppressing magic may lead to …” „… of the series. On a very basic level, terms of address may already indicate an attempt at either …” „… at this moment (cf. ibid. 64)? From this point onward, there was a remarkable change in the fans …”

Part III: Beyond the Harry Potter Series S. 181-250

„… attempt at diversifying the franchise backfired, which is emphasised by the criticism provided by …” „… like I’d not changed at all – that he’d never let me go – […] [t]he part of me that was Voldemort died …” „… able to change previously fixed gender stereotypes, just as a changed usage of language might be able …”

Part I: The Harry Potter Series and its Sources S. 39-118

„… genre, borrowing traits” from all sorts of sources, among them myths, legends, and folktales, and at …” „… explore the origin of at least two of Rowling’s fantastic beasts in traditional British folktales and how …” „… creatures in folklore. In the following, I will take a closer look at the two creatures’ origins in British …”

Part II: Themes and Structures in the Harry Potter Series S. 119-180

„… Harry Potter series, it soon becomes clear that every attempt at defining the terms will inevitably be …” „… critical scrutiny. Therefore, as any attempt at properly defining race and racism has failed so far, there …” „… us in disorienting times; perhaps, literature has the power to change the world” (Lacassagne 332 …”

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Jan-Hendrik Kuntze - The Abolishment of the Right to Privacy?

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Jan-Hendrik Kuntze

The Abolishment of the Right to Privacy?

Series: Tectum - Masterarbeiten

Volume 2018

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4. Norm Regression: Surveillance and Privacy in US History S. 39-102

„… many people who were concerned about their privacy at that time). At the time of political absolutism …” „… establishment of electronic surveillance encouraged the in‐ crease of bureaucratic structures. It was at the end …” „… security to the regress of the norm of privacy. While having taken a look at the concept of the norm of …”

2. The Spiral Model S. 7-12

„… change). At the beginning, the repressive regime begins to sign rele‐ vant international human rights …” „… effective‐ ly changed the behavior of states, what were the causes and determi‐ nants of this change and why …” „… invention of the spiral model. At that time, the upcoming and rising interests of scholars in norm …”

6. The US Response: Does the Spiral Model Work? S. 129-136

„… follow spiral A and will define at which of the five steps the USA can be located at the time of writing …” „… . Instead, superiors attacked Snowden to attempt to mute his con‐ cerns (Risen 2013). The first article …” „… ‐ cacy network to make human rights violations public and to pressure the state to change its behavior. 2 …”

5. Norm Defense: The Advocacy Process after Snowden S. 103-128

„… few of them. When I look at the liberal states, I will focus on the states that advocated the right to …” „… human rights organi‐ zations and, therefore, a good example to use to explore the advocacy process at …” „… Rousseff canceled a September 2013 visit to the USA and instead delivered a speech at the UN, which was the …”

3. Norm Diffusion: How Privacy Became an International Norm S. 13-38

„… Norm Diffusion: How Privacy Became an International Norm A vast number of attempts have been made …” „… definition. However, this vague‐ ness is necessary to cover the social change of what types of things are …” „… is important to take a closer look at the development of privacy as a social norm, a juridical norm …”

1. Introduction S. 1-6

„… to discover how norms emerge in the international arena and how they achieve politi‐ cal influence at …” „… Wiener (2014) developed a theory of contestation that was one of the first attempts to theorize the …” „… network that pressures a state to comply with a norm. Meaning the norm has already cascaded at the …”

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Katja Lenz - Lexical Appropriation in Australian Aboriginal Literature

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Lexical Appropriation in Australian Aboriginal Literature

2017

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10 Lexical Appropriation in a Wider (Post-)Colonial Context: Findings from Maori and Canadian First Nations Drama S. 339-360

„… few short-lived attempts at settlement (Dickason 2006: 21ff), the French were the first to establish …” „… Indigenous Australian authors to attempt an appropriation of the standard dialect in their works. While a …” „… that similar processes of linguistic appropriation are at work in other pieces of the body of …”

8 The Indexation of a Distinctive Cultural Identity in Australian Aboriginal Texts S. 145-304

„… writing per se. In fact, any attempt at generalising our findings would imply that features exist that …” „… , written at different times, and against different socio-political backgrounds. Drama was further preferred …” „… found at all in the standard dialect, e.g. distinctive lexical combinations, function words, adverbs and …”

5 Contact-Induced Changes to the Traditional LanguageEcology S. 61-82

„… objective, however, was to Christianise the Aboriginal population. Still, attempts at converting adults were …” „… segregation continued. At the same time, the war had promoted a change in public attitude, and the Australian …” „… 61 5 Contact-Induced Changes to the Traditional Language Ecology In the previous chapter, we …”

1 Introduction S. 13-18

„… ‘AusE’) that result from speakers’ attempts to adapt the colonial language to their own communicative …” „… needs. These differences are apparent at every level of language use, including those of phonology …” „… Aboriginal society and culture. As such, the first chapters of this thesis attempt a short outline of the …”

7 Aboriginal English as a Medium for Creative Expression S. 133-144

„… the following chapters. In a speech given at the 2012 Song Summit in Sydney, Enoch sketches his …” „… own Aboriginality. I’d like to research my language, my culture on the Aboriginal side – but at the …” „… complete human being you’ve got to look at the history of all your composites. I feel I can make a …”

4 Indigenous Australia in the 21st Century S. 39-60

„… , initial attempts at segregating the Aboriginal inhabitants from the colonists were followed by policies of …” „… languages, as well as the Aboriginal people’s attempts to adapt to these changes by expanding their …” „… of the First Fleet, the traditional Aboriginal language ecology has experienced substantial changes …”

11 Summary and Conclusion: Lexical Manifestations of Cultural Distinctiveness in Indigenous Playwriting S. 361-380

„… connotations that are inherent in the non-Aboriginal usage of these terms. Another attempt at subverting the …” „… lexemes, on the other hand, reoccur in the 362 texts, which at least partly supports Leitner’s (2004 …” „… unique. Still, the texts have shown that, at least in Australian Aboriginal drama, also words from …”

6 Aboriginal English S. 83-132

„… , at one end, shares many features with creoles, while the varieties at the other end of the continuum …” „… social meanings that are different. At the same time, the speaker expresses his or her biological or …” „… Aboriginal society at the time of contact. Aboriginal people were denied their diverse cultural and …”

3 The Situation Prior to Colonisation S. 23-38

„… full extent. He suggests that at least 250,000 people lived in south-eastern Australia alone. Butlin’s …” „… dialects was compiled at different periods of time, but even the earliest descriptions date back to a time …” „… remaining (partial) speakers. For some parts of Australia, hardly any or no data at all is available. For …”

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