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

Forum der Ausgabe 2/2025

2025-09-29

KI?! Maschinelles Lernen und Lehren

Regina F. Bendix — 2025-09-29

AI?! Mechanical Learning and Teaching

Der Der Einsatz von KI

Sabrina Schiffer — 2025-09-29

Über den Wert der Irritation

Cornelia Brink — 2025-09-29

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

Skills statt Misstrauen!

Manuel Trummer — 2025-09-29

GKI-Nutzung als leise Kritik an Studium und Lehre

Lukas Griessl — 2025-09-29

GAI-Usage as silent Criticism on Studies and Teaching

Gedanken und Beobachtungen

Max Pellny — 2025-09-29

Thoughts and Observations

Von Wahrscheinlichkeiten und Aussagen

Lina Franken — 2025-09-29

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

Zugänge zum Textilen

Maria Sigl — 2025-09-29

Editorial

Timo Heimerdinger — 2025-09-29

Buchbesprechungen der Ausgabe 2/2025

2025-09-29

Jens Wietschorke: Wien - Berlin

Sebastian Dümling — 2025-09-29

Michael Simon: Alltagskulturen

Bernd Rieken — 2025-09-29

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

Marie Scheffler — 2025-09-29

Inga Wilke: Muse als Strategie

Maren Heibges — 2025-09-29

Patrick Wielowiejski: Rechtspopulismus und Homosexualität

Roman Olshevskiy — 2025-09-29

Ruzana Liburkina: The Visible Hands That Feed

Laila Gutknecht — 2025-09-29

Raphael Reichel: Männerparadies

Monika Bäuerlein — 2025-09-29

Chiara Bortolotto: Will Heritage Save Us?

Regina F. Bendix — 2025-09-29

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

Alexandra Regiert — 2025-09-29

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

Ruzana Liburkina — 2025-09-29

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

Florian Schwemin — 2025-09-29

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

Dagmar Konrad — 2025-09-29

Kathrin Eitel (Hrsg.): Klimageschichten

Victoria Huszka — 2025-09-29

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

Nadine Wagener-Böck — 2025-09-29

Christina Besmer: Quartier und Nachbarschaft machen

Simone Egger — 2025-09-29

Alle Artikel der Ausgabe 2/2025

2025-09-29

Nüchternheit

Ina Kuhn — 2025-09-29

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

Stefanie Mallon — 2025-09-29

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

Anna Weichselbraun — 2025-09-29

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

Alexandra Rau — 2025-09-29

A fictive Interaction between Simone de Beauvoir and Pierre Bourdieu