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Objects of affection recovers the emotional attraction of the medieval book through an engagement with a fifteenth-century literary collection known as Oxford, Bodleian Library Manuscript Ashmole 61. Exploring how the inhabitants of the book's pages - human and nonhuman, tangible and intangible - collaborate with its readers then and now, this book addresses the manuscript's material appeal in the ways it binds itself to different cultural, historical and material environments. In doing so it traces the affective literacy training that the manuscript provided its late-medieval English household, whose diverse inhabitants are incorporated into the ecology of the book itself as it fashions spiritually generous and socially mindful household members.
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Mahmoud Al-Zein is the head of the Al-Zein clan, one ofthe most influential large families in GermanyStark, controversial, unsanitised: the brutal truth about violence,power and honour Arab clans rule Germany’s inner cities and are often in the headlines. One of the most influential of these large families is the Al-Zeins. Their family head, Mahmoud Al-Zein, is known as the notorious Godfather of Berlin. Now, he is the first to break his silence and to give a no-holds-barred account of the inner working of his family organisation: his journey to the top, conflicts with law, time in prison, feuds with rivals, the law of the family and the brutal fight for supremacy on the streets. An incomparable insight into Arab lansand a report on German day-to-day reality.
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Technology and consumerism are two characteristic phenomena in the history medicine and healthcare, yet the connections between them are rarely explored by scholars. In this edited volume, the authors address this disconnect, noting the ways in which a variety of technologies have shaped patients' roles as consumers since the early twentieth century. Chapters examine key issues, such as the changing nature of patient information and choice, patients' assessment of risk and reward, and matters of patient role and of patient demand as they relate to new and changing technologies. They simultaneously investigate how differences in access to care and in outcomes across various patient groups have been influenced by the advent of new technologies and consumer-based approaches to health. The volume spans the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, spotlights an array of medical technologies and health products, and draws on examples from across the United States and United Kingdom.
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This volume provides a novel platform to re-evaluate the notion of open-ended intimacies through the lens of affect theories. Contributors address the embodied, affective and psychic, sensorial and embodied aspects of their ongoing intimate entanglements across various timely phenomena. This fascinating collection asks how the study of affect enables us to rethink intimacies, what affect theories can do to the prevailing notion of intimacy and how do they renew and enrich theories of intimacy in a manner which also considers its normative and violent forms. Lively and thought-provoking, this collection contributes to timely topics across the social sciences, representing multiple disciplines from gender studies, sociology and cultural studies to anthropology and queer studies. By so doing, it advances the value of interdisciplinary perspectives and creative methodologies to understanding affective intimacies.
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Affective Bordering is an incisive exploration of the emotional politics of migration and borders. Billy Holzberg dives into the intricate interplay between emotions and migration governance, revealing how emotions work to reinforce racial, sexual, and national hierarchies. Examining pivotal events in Germany during the aftermath of the misnamed 'refugee crisis' in Germany, the book traces the construction of different emotions during key events of this period. Challenging the assumption that positive emotions like hope and empathy necessarily work as a counter to negative emotions like anger or fear, Affective Bordering reveals the racial grammars of deservingness that shape border governance today. Bringing together queer feminist theories of affect with postcolonial border and migration studies, the book offers a thought-provoking perspective on the reproduction and contestation of borders in today's world.
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A fear of one’s own emotions can lead people to develop what has been termed emotion- or affect phobia. To deal with this specific kind of phobia, Affect Phobia Therapy (APT) has proven to be useful. In APT, psychodynamic, cognitive behavioral, and experimental techniques are combined to help the patient to learn to accept and manage emotions again. Research shows that especially people suffering from anxiety or depression and people with avoidant or dependent personality disorders benefit from this method. This book offers a practical explanation of this evidence-based therapeutic method. The eight chapters focus on all different aspects of APT and the underlying theoretical concepts are illustrated with example patient-therapist dialogues. Target Group: psychologists, psychotherapists, students
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Abdullah kommt aus Syrien. Er ist 16, als er aus seinem Heimatort Ar-Raqqa flieht. Sein älterer Bruder wurde verschleppt, sein Vater bei einem Bombenangriff getötet. Weil die Bedrohung immer größer wurde, stattete seine Familie ihn mit Geld aus. Abdullah schlug sich nach Deutschland durch. In einem Jugendheim findet er Sicherheit und ein neues Zuhause. Doch das Ankommen ist nicht leicht: Hautnah erlebt Abdullah, dass Flüchtlinge wie er als "Islamratten" beschimpft werden. Ständig spürt er misstrauische Blicke. Doch er bekommt auch immer wieder freundliche Hilfe, die ihm Hoffnung gibt. Hoffnung auf seine Zukunft in Deutschland, in einer Welt ohne Krieg.
