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Making a bold intervention into critical security studies literature, this book explores the ontological relationship between mortality and security. It considers the mortality theories of Heidegger and Bauman alongside literature from the sociology of death, before undertaking a comparative exploration of the memorialisation of four prominent post-terrorist sites: the World Trade Centre in New York, the Bali bombsite, the London bombings and the Norwegian sites attacked by Anders Breivik. By interviewing the architects and designers of these reconstruction projects, the book shows that practices of memorialisation are a retrospective security endeavour - they conceal and re-narrate the traumatic incursion of death. Disaster recovery is replete with security practices that return mortality to its sublimated position and remove the disruption posed by mortality to political authority. The book will be of significant interest to academics and postgraduates working in the fields of critical security studies, memory studies and international politics.
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Greta Thunberg is not alone: there is now a worldwide movement. Young female rebels are taking to the world stage. They are campaigning for clean drinking water, opposing the gun lobby, mobilising against child marriage and child labour. In order to achieve their goals, they are speaking at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, at the Economic Forum in Davos, at climate conferences or at the "March for Our Lives" in Washington. Their influence is immense; a single speech can shake global corporations such as Siemens. Behind the young activists, just a Tweet away, stands a whole generation. The book introduces the key players, for example Emma González and the Indonesian sisters, 10 and 12 years old, who managed to bring about the prohibition of single use plastic on Bali, but it also follows up the fundamental issues: who brings them out onto the streets, what motivates them?
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Schallück ist lange genug Schauspieler, er kennt alle Regeln und Rollen, mit denen das Leben sich in Szene setzt. Deshalb durchschaut der in die Jahre gekommene Held der neuen Erzählung von Tankred Dorst das Spiel, als nach einer Aufführung eine Frau in seinem Alter in seine Kabine kommt, um ein Autogramm für ihre 15jährige Tochter zu erbitten. Doch dann begegnet er der Tochter – und seine resignative Abgeklärtheit gegenüber jeder neuen Erfahrung zerrinnt. Und so beginnt Dorsts leichtsinnige und schwergewichtige Erzählung über das Glück und die die Suche nach dessen Dauer: Denn diese Laura ist eine doppelgesichtige Erscheinung: Sie vermittelt einerseits das Gefühl, mit ihr könne das Leben wieder ganz von vorne anfangen, andererseits nutzt sie diese Aufbruchsgefühle, um ihre Interessen durchzusetzen. Bis nach Bali reisen Mutter, Tochter und Schauspieler – nur um zu erkennen, daß Glück in der Tat eine vorübergehende Schwäche ist. Das heißt in Tankred Dorsts hintersinniger Erzählung über die großen Themen des Lebens zugleich: Keiner kann sich wappnen gegen das Überraschende und Neue – weshalb das Glück zwar stetes begrenzt, aber jederzeit wieder versucht werden kann.
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