Kirjahaku

This pioneering and innovative study challenges modern assumptions of what constitutes the political and the public in Renaissance thought. Offering gendered readings of a wide array of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century political thinkers, with a particular focus on the two prime thinkers of the early modern state, Niccolò Machiavelli and Jean Bodin, Anna Becker reconstructs a neglected but important classical tradition in political thought. Exploring how 'the political' was incorporated into a wide array of 'private' or 'apolitical' topics by early modern thinkers, Becker demonstrates how both republican and absolutist thinkers - the two poles which organise early modern political thought - relied on gendered justifications. In doing so, she reveals how the foundations of the modern state were significantly shaped by gendered concerns.

Anna Becker untersucht anhand der Lebensführung hochqualifizierter Migrantinnen und Migranten idealtypisch die Herausforderungen, mit denen Menschen in Zeiten von Globalisierung, flexibilisierten Arbeitsmärkten und gestiegenen Mobilitätsanforderungen konfrontiert sind. Über die Analyse der Verortungspraktiken von beruflich Mobilen zwischen Entankerung und Wiedereinbettung zeigt die Autorin auf, wie sich soziale Beziehungen unter den Bedingungen von Mobilität, Temporalität und kultureller Vielfalt gestalten und welche Funktionen sozialräumliche Strukturen für lokale und transnationale Einbettung sowie für das Zusammenleben und gesellschaftliche Teilhabe erhalten.

Switzerland is known for its multilingualism, yet not all languages are represented equally in society. The situation is exacerbated by the influx of heritage languages and English through migration and globalization processes which challenge the traditional education system. This study is the first to investigate how schools in Grisons, Fribourg, and Zurich negotiate neoliberal forces leading to a growing necessity of English, a romanticized view on national languages, and the social justice perspective of institutionalizing heritage languages. It uncovers power and legitimacy issues and showcases students' and teachers' complex identities to advocate equitable multilingual education.