Zeitschrift für Empirische Kulturwissenschaft. Journal for Cultural Analysis and European Ethnology

Editorial

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Buchbesprechungen der Ausgabe 2/2025

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Jens Wietschorke: Wien - Berlin

2025-09-29T14:32:26+02:00

Michael Simon: Alltagskulturen

2025-09-29T14:36:41+02:00

Gunther Hirschfelder / Lars Winterberg / René John / Jana Rückert-John / Corinna Schirmer (Hrsg.): Fleischwissen

2025-09-29T14:40:10+02:00

Inga Wilke: Muse als Strategie

2025-09-29T14:43:05+02:00

Patrick Wielowiejski: Rechtspopulismus und Homosexualität

2025-09-29T14:46:08+02:00

Ruzana Liburkina: The Visible Hands That Feed

2025-09-29T14:49:40+02:00

Raphael Reichel: Männerparadies

2025-09-29T14:52:42+02:00

Chiara Bortolotto: Will Heritage Save Us?

2025-09-29T14:57:01+02:00

Anja Schwanhäußer / Moritz Ege / Julian Schmitzberger (Hrsg.): Mädchen*fantasien

2025-09-29T14:59:54+02:00

Michaela Fenske / Pearl-Sue Carper (Hrsg.): Herausgefordertes Leben

2025-09-29T15:02:59+02:00

Klaus Schönberger / Horst Peter Groß (Hrsg.): Heimat

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Lucia Sunder-Plassmann / Inga Dickerhoff / Christine Aka (Hrsg.): Missionarinnen, Mission und Missionsunterstützung

2025-09-29T15:10:12+02:00

Kathrin Eitel (Hrsg.): Klimageschichten

2025-09-29T15:13:40+02:00

Felix Gaillinger / Anna Klaß (Hrsg.): Ethnografisch Forschen mit Klasse

2025-09-29T15:16:16+02:00

Christina Besmer: Quartier und Nachbarschaft machen

2025-09-29T15:19:08+02:00

Alle Artikel der Ausgabe 2/2025

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Nüchternheit

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In the context of new abstinence efforts (e.g. „Sober Curiosity“, „Mindful Drinking“, „Teetotalism“), experience and knowledge, scientific discourses and everyday understandings, medical, (popular) therapeutic and (wellness and lifestyle) economic narratives on alcohol consumption are intermingled. Sobriety is sometimes understood as a phase of (chronic) addiction, sometimes as a habit and competence that can be learned, then as a mindful and distinctive lifestyle in the context of social acceleration, or also positioned as – potentially feminist – resistance to the neoliberal consumer society. These developments point to cultural shifts in meaning that can contribute to the social normalization or revaluation of non-drinking as a lifestyle and to the intensified pathologization of alcohol consumption. The article argues that, in the context of these changes, empirical cultural studies should contribute anew to the discourse on alcohol consumption, which continues to be shaped by medical psychology. To this end, it opens up the perspective of understanding sobriety not as a form and goal of therapy for ‚unhealthy‘ alcohol consumption, but as an individually designed strategy and way of living – as an everyday practice. The article then contextualizes sobriety from a contemporary analytical perspective as a social ideal, a lifestyle and a growing social movement.

Vieldimensional

2025-09-26T11:31:01+02:00

The term materiality is used to mean material things and their social effects in cultural practices. This article advocates a further differentiation of this term in order to sharpen it for analyses and ready it as a tool to explore the scope of experience in material culture research. To this end, an exemplary item of clothing is placed in analogue and digital contexts and systematically questioned as to how the experiences of its materiality are structured in the various contexts. The observations illustrate that objects can migrate through the contexts and that their matter, their meaning and their effects always intercept in experiences in distinct ways. The aim of this article is to create an overview of the range of experiences materiality provides and to serve as a resource for researchers who work with the term.

Die epistemischen Affordanzen von Papier

2025-09-26T11:49:49+02:00

This article deals with the question of how the expertise of nuclear safeguards inspectors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) materialises in an artefact, the abolished Safeguards Manual. The paper-based collection of all processes and procedures relevant to safeguards inspectors, stored in two folders, was transferred to a digital database (the Document Manager). Using a semiotic analysis of the different affordances of the manual and the Document Manager, I explain why some inspectors lament the disappearance of the manual and blame it for a supposed loss of knowledge among inspectors. I argue that unease about this media transformation reflects unease about concurrent changes in safeguards knowledge practices.

Gefühlte Erfahrung und Autoanalyse

2025-09-26T11:56:48+02:00

A fictive Interaction between Simone de Beauvoir and Pierre Bourdieu

Forum der Ausgabe 2/2025

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KI?! Maschinelles Lernen und Lehren

2025-09-26T12:03:50+02:00

AI?! Mechanical Learning and Teaching

Der Der Einsatz von KI

2025-09-29T12:25:03+02:00

Über den Wert der Irritation

2025-09-29T13:37:03+02:00

About the Value of Irritation. A Praxis Report about Large Language Models in Teaching

Skills statt Misstrauen!

2025-09-29T13:50:38+02:00

GKI-Nutzung als leise Kritik an Studium und Lehre

2025-09-29T13:54:29+02:00

GAI-Usage as silent Criticism on Studies and Teaching

Gedanken und Beobachtungen

2025-09-29T13:57:06+02:00

Thoughts and Observations

Von Wahrscheinlichkeiten und Aussagen

2025-09-29T14:00:44+02:00

About Propabilities and Statements. Contextualisations of Artificial Intelligence between Trying and Reflecting

Zugänge zum Textilen

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