A key part of the publication comprises films created in French and German as part of the research project Choix d’un passé, in collaboration with Moïse Merlin Mabouna. These films are accompanied by textual and visual sequences from the video works S. – Je suis, je lis à haute voix and Erase them! – The image as it is falling apart into looks. The e-book also includes a playable film-clip and elements from the film performance Der erste Blick #1, created in collaboration with Angela Melitopoulos and Vassilis S. Tsianos.

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Did you ever wonder how Irish people ended up on Barbados? Or how Black Detroit danced to Kraftwerk? Or why there are no statues of women on Trafalgar Square? And what all this has to do with the economy and politics of culture?

“Cultural Studies can provide a platform to engage in the struggle over the protection of nature, the nursing of real democracy and the prevention of violence. It can show that there are alternatives to the present articulations of power that are worth fighting for.”

In the form of eleven short texts accompanied by eleven educational videos, this multimodal e-book introduces basic terms and central theoretical approaches within Cultural Studies to students from various disciplines, but even more so to everyone interested in questions of cultural identity, media materialities, representation, popular culture and cultural memory. Additionally, we provide a first insight into the cultural history of the anglophone world. Each chapter also contains a selected bibliography for further reading. This publication aims to enable its readers to understand the culture we live just a little bit better, and to transform it.

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The most famous are Carl Hagenbeck’s plans for a so-called future animal park, meant to exhibit animals and people for both entertainment and educational purposes. Driven by German colonialism, these and other partly exotic attributions contributed to the definition of the neighbouring African Quarter.

Constanze Fischbeck and Sven Kalden collage annotated photographs, images, and documents. Together with an essay by the artist Akinbode Akinbiyi, they tell and expand the history of this place from the end of the 19th century to the present day. The fragile nature of a sand dune reflects the complex process of the urbanization of an unusual landscape.

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