@book{OPUS4-28950,
  title     = {Climate Changes Global Perspectives},
  editor    = {Pfeifer, Lena and Klingler, Molina and Nelson-Teutsch, Hannah},
  publisher = {W{\"u}rzburg University Press},
  address   = {W{\"u}rzburg},
  isbn      = {978-3-95826-194-5},
  issn      = {2939-9912},
  doi       = {10.25972/WUP-978-3-95826-195-2},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-289501},
  publisher      = {W{\"u}rzburg University Press},
  pages     = {195},
  year      = {2022},
  abstract  = {Climate Changes Global Perspectives brings together creative approaches to representing environmental crises in a globalized world, which originated in an eponymous symposium hosted virtually by the University of W{\"u}rzburg in August of 2021. This volume, and the unruly texts that claim space here, are written not only to question and challenge standardized patterns of representation, but also to contribute to undisciplining the genres and practices of traditional academic writing by exploring alternative representational form(at)s. Climate Changes Global Perspectives is the first publication in the Challenges of Modernity series, which seeks to collect and make available projects of engaged scholarship in the humanities.},
  subject      = {Environment},
  language  = {mul}
}
@phdthesis{Ravasio2020,
  author    = {Ravasio, Paola},
  title     = {Black Costa Rica. Pluricentrical Belonging in Afra-Costa Rican Poetry},
  edition   = {1. Auflage},
  publisher = {W{\"u}rzburg University Press},
  address   = {W{\"u}rzburg},
  isbn      = {978-3-95826-140-2},
  doi       = {10.25972/WUP-978-3-95826-141-9},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-202981},
  school      = {W{\"u}rzburg University Press},
  pages     = {iii, 264},
  year      = {2020},
  abstract  = {Black Costa Rica: Pluricentrical Belonging in Afra-Costa Rican Poetry engages the lyric of Eulalia Bernard (Lim{\´o}n, Costa Rica *1935), Shirley Campbell (San Jos{\´e}, Costa Rica *1965), and Dlia McDonald (Col{\´o}n, Panam{\´a} *1965) by a historically backwards-looking perspective that explores a pluricentrical sense of belonging. This concept refers mainly to plural centers of cultural and historical identifications along a glocal sociohistorical continuum stretched across the multifold aspects of the nation~diaspora dynamic/s. The literary analysis traces the coming of age of the Afro-Costa Rican community in these women's poetry as a local manifestation of global phenomena concerning diaspora/s, the dialectics of race and nation, and processes of assimilation and of marginalization. The dissertation asks, fundamentally, how does their poetry reveal a historical imagination referring both to a national specificity while simultaneously expressing identification with socio-historical processes in the circum-Caribbean region? What are the poetic themes and which the lyrical forms that constitute a myriad of local and global aspects regarding the coming of age of the Afro-Costa Rican community? Departing from these premises, the dissertation tells a story of the past by addressing the ways in which the glocal is deployed through specific figures of speech. Based on the study of what I have termed a modernized-nature oxymoron in McDonald, a skin-history metonymy in Campbell, and code-switching in Bernard, spatial and racial configurations as well as linguistic identity are here addressed as features of a trifold historical imagination yielding pluricentrical belonging. The oxymoron tells of an outernational past (diasporic) while the metonymy declaims a supranational one (global); multilingualism instead points to an infranational historical imagination ('non'-Costa Rican). By way of a close reading, the dissertation tells the recent story of the country's past in the form of a three layered stor(y)ing of spatially-, meta-historically-, and multilingually-defined imaginings of Black Costa Rica.},
  subject      = {Lyrik},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Atanasova2011,
  author    = {Atanasova, Vanya},
  title     = {Bildungsintentionen und Bildungsverl{\"a}ufe von Jugendlichen und jungen Erwachsenen},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-69870},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t W{\"u}rzburg},
  year      = {2011},
  abstract  = {Bildungsintentionen bzw. Bildungsentscheidungen werden in der soziologischen Bildungsforschung als Ursachen f{\"u}r die ungleiche Bildungsbeteiligung betrachtet. Hierzu sind verschiedene soziologische und psychologische entscheidungstheoretische Ans{\"a}tze entwickelt worden. Ihr Ziel ist, theoretische Mechanismen der Bildungsentscheidung zu begr{\"u}nden, deren Zusammenhang mit der sozialen Herkunft zu erkl{\"a}ren und somit das Entstehen von sozialen Ungleichheiten an {\"U}berg{\"a}ngen im Bildungssystem zu beschreiben. Diese Theorien wurden mehrfach empirisch belegt, wurden aber bislang bei Bildungsintentionen und Bildungsbeteiligung an sp{\"a}teren Bildungs{\"u}berg{\"a}ngen jedoch eher beschr{\"a}nkt angewendet. Daher ist das Ziel der vorliegenden Arbeit, diesen Aspekt in einer L{\"a}ngsschnittperspektive zu untersuchen. Dabei werden die Bildungsintentionen von 17-j{\"a}hrigen Jugendlichen, sowie ihr Abiturerwerb und ihre Beteiligung an Terti{\"a}rbildung analysiert. Die Ergebnisse best{\"a}tigen die theoretischen Annahmen {\"u}ber den Einfluss der sozialen Herkunft an der Schnittstelle Schule - Studium. Weitere Determinanten, wie beispielweise die Bildungskosten, die elterliche Bildung und die Schulleistung wirken sich ebenfalls auf den Bildungsverlauf der Jugendlichen aus. Außerdem l{\"a}sst sich der vermutete institutionelle Effekt auf die Bildungsbeteiligung best{\"a}tigen, der die Selektivit{\"a}t des gegliederten deutschen Bildungssystems in dieser Bildungsphase zum Ausdruck bringt.},
  subject      = {Bildungsgang},
  language  = {de}
}
@phdthesis{Schaub2012,
  author    = {Schaub, Kerstin},
  title     = {As Written in the Flesh. The Human Body as Medium of Cultural Identity and Memory in Fiction from New Zealand},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-78336},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t W{\"u}rzburg},
  year      = {2012},
  abstract  = {This dissertation focuses on selected novels written by contemporary indigenous authors from Aotearoa/New Zealand and examines the fictional imagination of the human body as a medium of cultural identity and memory. The novels discussed are Keri Hulme's »The Bone People« (1984), »Nights in the Gardens of Spain« (1995) and »The Uncle's Story« (2000) by Witi Ihimaera as well as James George's »Hummingbird« (2003). In order to further decolonisation processes and to come to terms with the colonial past and the complexity of present realities, the fictional works position the human body as an active entity in the negotiation of specific cultural epistemologies. This project explores the narrative translation of corporeality that is used to locate alternative concepts of identity and cultural memory. Taking into account indigenous perspectives, this thesis makes use of the current theoretical approaches presented by pragmatism and affect theory in order to analyse the investment of the novels in feeling and the reciprocal relationship between text and corporeality depicted by the narratives. On the one hand, the novels aim to undermine oppressive and marginalising categories by placing particular emphasis on »sensuous gaps« in the text. On the other hand, the narratives intend to construct alternative identities and evoke specific aspects of indigenous histories and knowledge by imagining the human body in terms of »sensuous inscription«. The novels portray individuals who act from a place in-between different cultures, and articulate a desire to dissolve polarities and emphasise individual and cultural transformation as a formative element in the creation of complex identities and new perspectives.},
  subject      = {Postkoloniale Literatur},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{Lin2011,
  author    = {Lin, Hang},
  title     = {A Mixed Bag of Results: Village Elections in Contemporary China},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-68684},
  year      = {2011},
  abstract  = {While there is only little transformation to the absolute power of the party-state to be detected, some grassroots democratic experiments, however, are receiving enormous attention of the world, especially village elections. Nevertheless, this preliminary exercise of democracy is widely characterized as a mixed bag of results. Since its first conduction, it has experienced immense development and bought great impact not only on different rural political institutions, but also on common mass villagers, as well as changes to the local governance. But at the same time, the limitations of the factual effectiveness of these elections can hardly be underestimated and such aspects as the standardization of electoral procedures are still to be further improved. Moreover, given the wide variations across Chinese countryside and the strong oppositions from all levels, the future of China's village elections remain hard to gauge.},
  subject      = {China},
  language  = {en}
}