The last two decades have seen an explosive increase in the ethnic diversity of the workforce, growth in international business, and the emergence of many more multinational companies. The potential for problems as companies operate across borders and managers manage in countries which have different values, norms and cultural behaviors is great. By looking at organizational psychology in a cross-cultural context, we can gain an understanding of the...

"A pioneer of cultural psychology argues that emotions are not innate, but made as we live our lives together. "How are you feeling today?" We may think of emotions as universal responses, felt inside. Using decades-long, cutting-edge research, acclaimed psychologist Batja Mesquita asks us to reconsider emotions through the lens of what they do in our relationships, both one-on-one and within larger social networks. From an outside-in perspective,...

"The term "interest" lacks a precise antonym. In English, we have "disinterested" and "uninteresting," but we want for a term that denotes robust opposition to interest. The same appears to hold true in every other language (as far as we know). Interest's missing antonym reflects not merely a widespread lexical oversight, but a misrecognition of interest's complete and exact meaning. More importantly, the idea that interest has no opposite expresses...

"What kinds of knowledge and understandings of the world can be generated - and shared - when we use para-academic techniques and sensibilities to decode or respond to relatively orthodox intellectual objects? And what worlds might be possible if we practiced scholarly work from a place of collaboration and pleasure, as joyful fellow explorers? InMetagestures, presented in a playful tête-bêche format, historian Carla Nappi and cultural theorist...

Popevents in ihren unterschiedlichsten Ausprägungen stehen in vielfältigen Wechselbeziehungen mit ihrem jeweiligen Umfeld. Insbesondere Strukturen, Prozesse, Mechanismen und Dynamiken des Managements sowie der Politiken dieser besonderen Eventkulturen - ebenso wie die darin eingeschriebenen Normen, Normierungen, Werte und Wertbildungsprozesse - prägen das Beziehungsgefüge, in dem sich »PopEventKulturen« konstituieren. Die Beiträger*innen...

Some important recent theorizing linked to the material, ontological, and affective turns is shaped by dualism, even where it questions the latter. Caroline Braunmühl also shows that there are dualistic patterns in significant contributions to queer theory as well as Foucauldian diagnoses of the present. From a perspective sympathetic to the critical efforts made by poststructuralist and related theorists, she analyzes writings by Sara Ahmed, Karen...

During the first mandatory lockdowns of the Covid-19 pandemic, citizens worldwide turned to »pandemic fictions« or started to produce their own »Corona Fictions« across different media. These accounts of (previously) experienced or imagined health crises feature a great variety of protagonists and their (re)actions in response to the exceptional circumstances. The contributors to this volume take a closer look at different pandemic protagonists...

"The growing interdependence of the local and the global demand innovative approaches to human development. Such approaches, the author argues, ought to be based on the emerging ethics of global intelligence, defined as the ability to understand, respond to, and work toward what will benefit all human beings and will support and enrich all life on this planet. As no national or supranational authority can predefine or predetermine it, global intelligence...

In Städten werden plurale gesellschaftliche Alltage und Konflikte gemeistert und Soziales über Kommunikation und Handlung hergestellt. Welche zeitgenössischen gesellschaftlichen Konturen lassen sich daraus ablesen? Wie könnten zukünftige Gesellschaftsmodelle aussehen? Johanna Rolshovens kulturanalytischer Zugang schlägt eine Lesart vor, die an der Komplexität von Gesellschaft ansetzt. In Form eines illustrierten Lehrbuches werden eine...