Globale Warenketten und ungleiche Entwicklung

in Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsgeographie (2021)

Prison in Iran, a known unknown, By Nahid Rahimipour Anaraki

in Crime, Law and Social Change (2021)

Vom Vertrag zur Anerkennung : Claudia Nitschkes neue Studie „Anerkennung und Kalkül“ analysiert politische Legitimationsfiguren in der Literatur

in Literaturkritik.de (2021)

Tiffany Stern, ed. Rethinking Theatrical Documents in Shakespeare’s England. London: The Arden Shakespeare, 2020.

in Shakespeare Jahrbuch (2021), 157

Marcel Smets. Fundamenten van het stadsontwerp

in De Witte Raaf (2021), 35(210), 41

Book review: Saintetés politiques du IXe au XVIIIe siècle: Autour de la Lotharingie-Dorsale catholique

in Moyen Age: Revue d'Histoire et de Philologie (2021), 127(1),

Oumar Ba, States of Justice: The Politics of the International Criminal Court (Cambridge University Press, 2020) 190 pp. ISBN 978 110848 877 8 (Hardback)

in Cross-cultural Human Rights Review (2020), 2(2-3), 97-101

Review of: Marco WEITEN and Tony VACCARO, Tony Vaccaro: Soldier with a Camera. Lions Club Luxembourg-Country 50e anniversaire: 1967–2017. Luxembourg: Lions Club Luxembourg-Country, 2017.

in Hemecht: Zeitschrift für Luxemburger Geschichte (2020), 72(3),

Neues zur Politik und Poetik der Restauration : Anna-Lisa Dieters Analyse der „Entstehung des Realismus“ in den frühen Romanen Stendhals

in Literaturkritik.de (2020)

[Rezension] Ivo Ritzer: Medientheorie der Globalisierung

in Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft (2020)

Computers and Computing in Society

in NTM (2020)

This review essay aims to highlight some of these recent trends within the history of computing and information technology through the consideration of three recently published books : 1/ Frank Bösch (Ed ... [more ▼]

This review essay aims to highlight some of these recent trends within the history of computing and information technology through the consideration of three recently published books : 1/ Frank Bösch (Ed.) 2018. Wege in die Gesellschaft. Computernutzung in der Bundesrepublik (1955–1990). Geschichte der Gegenwart, Bd. 20. Göttingen: Wallstein, geb.; 2/ Marie Hicks 2017. Programmed Inequality. How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press; 3/ Joy Lisi Rankin 2018. A People’s History of Computing in the United States. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. They are increasingly opening up to approaches that are oriented towards society and actors, whether the latter are producers, regulators, users, or even maintainers. This is achieved with historical rigour by the authors, who highlight the history of a field that is not only scientific, technical, industrial and economic, but also profoundly social, and which is marked by multiple debates, negotiations and power relationships. [less ▲]

Compte rendu de C. Devaux, La fabrique du droit du commerce international - Reguler les risques de capture

in Revue Critique de Droit International Privé (2020), (1), 193

compte rendu de l'ouvrage d'Anna Ledwina : Du duo vers le trio amoureux : figures beauvoiriennes de l’altérité. Opole (Pologne) : Uniwersytet Opolski Studia I Monografie, n° 578, 2019, 282 p.

in Literaport (2020), 7

Compte rendu de Lutz Raphael, Jenseits von Kohle und Stahl

in Hemecht: Zeitschrift für Luxemburger Geschichte (2020), (2), 248-251

Book review Research Handbook on the EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy

in Common Market Law Review (2020)

Review of Elizabeth Guffey (2018): Designing Disability: Symbols, Space and Society. London: Bloomsbury.

in Design Issues (2020), 36(1), 100-101

In her pathbreaking book Designing Disability: Symbols, Space and Society, Elizabeth Guffey provides vital insights into decades of social and design processes that ultimately produced the most ubiquitous ... [more ▼]

In her pathbreaking book Designing Disability: Symbols, Space and Society, Elizabeth Guffey provides vital insights into decades of social and design processes that ultimately produced the most ubiquitous symbol of disability—and accessibility—worldwide: The International Symbol of Access (ISA). Building on existing scholarship from a range of disciplines coupled with original historical research, this book uncovers the origins and evolving (largely transatlantic) architectural and design discourse, and several moments of serendipity, that led to its creation. The ISA has since diffused to become part of the built environment in all corners of the world. Richly illustrated and charting at times vitriolic debates, protest activities, and artistic interventions up to the contemporary era, Guffey weaves together activist and aesthetic perspectives into a tapestry of social and design history relating to disability and accessibility. Structured in historical phases, the book’s chapters progress across larger and shorter stretches over more than a century of wheelchair design, social and welfare policies and programs (mostly in the US, UK, and Scandinavia), architectural standards, and symbols relating to barriers and accessibility measures. Guffey engages the reader in what is necessarily a multidisciplinary, multilevel investigation, with unexpected twists and turns. On one level, the book focuses on the politics of highest office, with US Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Dwight D. Eisenhower (who permanently or temporarily used wheelchairs) sketched against the backdrop of the lack of accessible government buildings in Washington, DC, and the social consensus then to hide impairment for fear of stigmatization (shifted marginally by disabled Veterans). On another level, welfare state provisions in the US, UK, and Scandinavia are discussed in light of progressive legislation and the persistent challenges of implementation. Finally, at ground level, the utmost significance of individuals devoted to universal design writ large becomes manifestly evident. Guffey recounts how, in US universities, inspirational figures such as Timothy Nugent (at Illinois), Ron Mace (at North Carolina State), and Viktor Papanek (at Purdue, CalArts, Kansas, etc.), campus planners, and students designed and constructed new worlds on the drawing board and poured in concrete. We follow design professionals, such as architect Selwyn Goldsmith in the UK, who was a strident arbiter of accessibility. Academic initiatives went hand-in-fist with advocacy activities in organizations and protest and artistic actions in the streets. Indeed, to raise general awareness of the ever-present attitudinal and structural barriers—institutionalized discrimination—that disabled people face daily and to secure disability rights, disability protests and cross-national organizing have repeatedly been necessary. The long and bumpy road to universal design extends into the future. Integral to this history of design development, revision, and critiques of various symbols of disability have been international events (world expositions, Olympics & Paralympics) and organizations (Rehabilitation International), artistic inspiration, design competitions, and guerilla art interventions. Tracing the convoluted process of designing what would become the ISA—fifty years ago now—leads to Susanne Koefoed, a Danish design student, and Karl Montan, leader of the Swedish Institute for the Handicapped, but also to international negotiations and chance. The on-going questioning of the official ISA, especially, its “misfit” nature as an amalgam of technical aid and person, emphasizes the shift from invisibility to ubiquity of disability via social change and political activism as well as cultural representations and the need for signs of identity. In the new century, newer initiatives in the US, such as Brendan Murphy’s and the Accessible Icon Project (developed by Sara Hendren and Brian Glenney), have challenged the official ISA, revealing both persistence and change in understandings of disability and accessibility. When integrated into signage, the ISA designates accessible spaces and facilities. If the ISA has become present in public buildings and spaces everywhere, cultural notions of disability and access remain understudied across the social sciences, with especially the Global South remaining a blank page. Research is needed to chart the diverse local interpretations that mirror shifts from exclusion to inclusion of disabled people as the human rights revolution witnessed since the end of WWII continues, but also suffers backlash, even in the Global North. Paradoxically, this global icon refers simultaneously to disability, and its ameliorating factor, accessibility. Yet, the ambivalence and debate surrounding the ISA persist, as Guffey emphasizes especially in the later chapters, focusing on proposed alternatives to the existing ISA, codified as it is in law and conforming to the guidelines of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). Until universal design (and the universalizing social policies likely needed to support it) succeeds in reducing the barriers in environments and in attitudes and in maximizing the usefulness of products and services during the design stage, identity formation processes are among the most positive aspects of the ISA. The icon’s influence and implementation extend far beyond marking modifications to the built environment. Whether taken-for-granted, modified or critiqued, the current ISA has spread globally. It can now be found wherever people move in physical space, finding their way. The symbol testifies to the on-going shift from exclusion, along a slow and winding road, to social inclusion and full participation of disabled people. In sum, Guffey brings scholarship on the ISA to the next stage. It complements studies that chart the influence of disabled peoples’ organizations and of international organizations as they facilitated remarkable shifts in disability paradigms. Yet institutionalized discrimination abounds, with the ISA marking that accessibility and universal design are far from achieved. If a few imprecisions tarnish the literature list, this historical work reconstructing a largely Western process cannot be faulted for not providing a complete global analysis of ISA implementation and adjustment. In that vein, with contributions from Guffey herself, the current exhibition “Viktor Papanek: The Politics of Design” (Kries, Klein & Clarke, 2018) indeed extends the discussion to the Global South and across further disciplines, rightfully embedding the dialogue about symbols of disability and enhancing access within broader contexts. Footnote: Kries, Matteo, Amelie Klein & Alison J. Clarke (eds.) (2018). Viktor Papanek: The Politics of Design. Weil am Rhein, Germany: Vitra Design Museum. ISBN: 978-3-945852-26-2. The exhibition is currently on view at Germany’s Vitra Design Museum (20 September 2018–10 March 2019), then at Barcelona Design Museum (20 October 2019–2 February 2020). [less ▲]

review of Simon Maclean, Ottonian Queenship, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017, xiv + 247 p.; ISBN 978-0-19-880010-1: 65$

in Hemecht: Zeitschrift für Luxemburger Geschichte (2020), 72(3), 370-373

Review of: Rezension von: Tobias Held (2020). Face-to-Interface: Eine Kultur- und Technikgeschichte der Videotelefonie. Marburg: Büchner-Verlag

in H-Soz-u-Kult (2020)

Compte rendu de Thierry Grosbois (éd.), Les enrôlés de force en Union Soviétique (1941–1955). Actes du colloque du 7 mai 2015

in Hemecht: Zeitschrift für Luxemburger Geschichte (2020), (4), 500-502

Rezension von: Europäische Messegeschichte 9.–19. Jahrhundert, hg. von Markus A. Denzel. Böhlau, Köln–Weimar–Wien 2018. 434 S. ISBN 978-3-412-50794-7

in Mitteilungen des Instituts für Osterreichische Geschichtsforschung (2020), 128(1), 174-176

Evoluzioni e involuzioni del diritto del lavoro europeo nel prisma di due trattazioni recenti

in Lavoro Diritti Europa (2020), 1

Virginie BABY-COLLIN, Sylvie MAZZELLA, Stéphane MOURLANE, Céline REGNARD et Pierre SINTÈS, Migrations et temporalités en Méditerranée. Les migrations à l’épreuve du temps (XIXe-XXe siècle), Editions Karthala, 2017.

in Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée (2020), 147(1),

Thomas Vercruysse (dir.), Luxembourg – Ville créative, Capybara Books 2015, 269 p.

in Hemecht: Zeitschrift für Luxemburger Geschichte (2019), 3

Luxembourg – Ville créative est un ouvrage riche du regard pluridisciplinaire des universitaires et experts en sémiotique, philosophie, littérature, histoire et cinéma. C’est aussi un ouvrage éclectique ... [more ▼]

Luxembourg – Ville créative est un ouvrage riche du regard pluridisciplinaire des universitaires et experts en sémiotique, philosophie, littérature, histoire et cinéma. C’est aussi un ouvrage éclectique puisque le concept de ville créative n’est véritablement opérant que dans le cadre de certaines contributions, pour analyser les conséquences et manifestations de certains développements métropolitains (e.g. développement du quartier du Limpertsberg et, en creux, l’urbanisation du plateau du Kirchberg). Les contributions plus littéraires proposent davantage des regards s’inspirant de la géocritique donnant à montrer comment la (mé)connaissance d’un lieu participe à la construction d’une représentation. [less ▲]

Compte rendu de Herbert Ruland, Der Erste Weltkrieg und die Menschen im Vierländerland

in Contemporanea (2019), XXXVIII(3),

Karlheinz Weber, Ihre Majestät, die Posaune. Eine Entdeckungsreise, crescendo-brass, Würzburg 52017 (12009), illustrations, index, bibliography.

in IGEB Mitteilungsblatt (2019), 2019(2 / Spring), 4

The author, Karlheinz Weber is one of only a few orchestral musicians and teachers who also approaches his instrument scientifically. The book, a reference work, has now been published in its fifth ... [more ▼]

The author, Karlheinz Weber is one of only a few orchestral musicians and teachers who also approaches his instrument scientifically. The book, a reference work, has now been published in its fifth edition. The subdivision into three main chapters is logically coherent. With 148 pages, the most comprehensive first chapter deals with the trombone’s development in a broad historical context, beginning with Ancient Egypt. [less ▲]

Higher Education in Germany - recent developments in an international perspective

in Comparative Education (2019), 55(2), 292-294

Recension de Mills, Party Autonomy in Private International Law, CUP 2018

in Revue Critique de Droit International Privé (2019)

Discussion Note on The Rationality of Perception (Siegel)

in Grazer Philosophische Studien (2019), 96(2),

Rezension Estelle Evrard, La Grande Région Saar-Lor-Lux.

in Hemecht: Zeitschrift für Luxemburger Geschichte (2019), 71(2), 248-250

Discours & pouvoir littéraires des figures féminines

in Acta Fabula: Revue des Parutions en Théorie Littéraire (2019), 20(3),

Texte et Image, Dialog/ues. Schrift & Bild, éd. Claude D. Conter & Myriam Sunnen, Centre national de Littérature, 2018

in Hémecht. Revue d'Histoire luxembourgeoise (2019), 71(3), 376-378

Referat: Goten, Angela van der: Im Gespaltenen Zauberland. Oswald Spengler und die Aneignung des Fremden. Heidelberg: Winter, 2015

in Germanistik : Internationales Referatenorgan mit bibliographischen Hinweisen (2019), 60(1-2), 410

Fragmente einer neuen Sprache des Rechts : Die nachgelassenen Reflexionen eines Philologen über die Grundlagen der Gerechtigkeit

in Literaturkritik.de (2019)

Rezension von: Fouquet, Gerhard / Jan Hirschbiegel Sven Rabeler (Hrsg.), Residenzstädte der Vormoderne. Umrisse eines europäischen Phänomens. 1. Symposium des Projekts „Residenzstädte im Alten Reich (1300-1800)“ der Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen. Kiel, 13.-16. September 2014 (Residenzforschung. Neue Folge: Stadt und Hof, 2), Ostfildern 2016

in Zeitschrift für Historische Forschung (2018), 45(3), 507-509

The wandering thought of Hannah Arendt. Hans‐Jörg Sigwart. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016 Rightlessness in an age of rights. Hannah Arendt and the contemporary struggles of migrants. Ayten Gündoğdu. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015

in Constellations (2018), 25(2), 304-308

Rezension zu: Archaeologia Luxemburgensis – Bulletin du Centre National de Recherche Archéologique

in Hemecht: Zeitschrift für Luxemburger Geschichte (2018), 70(1), 103-105

Achim Hofer, »es möchten manche Leute Vergnügen daran haben« Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdys Ouvertüre für Harmoniemusik op. 24 oder Doberan und die Folgen

in IGEB Mitteilungsblatt (2018), 1-2(2018), 20-22

review of Karel Hruza, ed., Regesten Kaiser Sigismunds (1410–1437)

in Speculum (2018), 93(2), 518

Urban Policy in the Time of Obama

in DISP Dokumente und Informationen zur Schweizerischen Orts-, Regional- und Landesplanung (2018), 54(212/1), 76

Der Geschmack längst vergangener Zeiten : In Peter Handkes "Die Obstdiebin" stehen die kleinen Begebenheiten im Fokus

in Literaturkritik.de (2018)

Compte rendu de Numéro spécial: 60 ans Traités de Rome

in Hemecht: Zeitschrift für Luxemburger Geschichte (2018), (3), 123-124

Compte-rendu du livre de Carolin Patzelt : Sprachdynamiken in modernen Migrationsgesellschaften

in Vox Romanica (2018)

Rezension Jean-Paul Hoffmann, Familienchronik der Stadt Vianden

in Hemecht: Zeitschrift für Luxemburger Geschichte (2018), 70(2), 125-126

Batty Weber. Werk und Wirkung

in Hemecht: Zeitschrift für Luxemburger Geschichte (2018), 1

Rezension »Alles Frankreich oder was?« – Die saarländische Frankreichstrategie im europäischen Kontext/»La France à toutes les sauces?« – La ›Stratégie France‹ de la Sarre dans le contexte européen. Interdisziplinäre Zugänge und kritische Perspektiven/Approches interdisciplinaires et perspectives critiques

in Francia-Recensio (2018), 2018(3), 1-3

Suburban Planet

in Local Environment (2018)

Rezension von: Jochen Plikat, Fremdsprachliche Diskursbewusstheit als Zielkonstrukt des Fremdsprachenunterrichts. Eine kritische Auseinandersetzunt mit der Interkulturellen Kompetenz

in Fremdsprachen Lehren und Lernen (2018), 47(Heft 1), 127-129

The future of federalism - intergovernmental financial relations in an age of austerity

in Regional & Federal Studies (2018), 28(1), 102-105

Notes de lecture : Utopies réelles, Erik Olin Wright, traduit par Vincent Farnea et João Alexandre Peschanski,

in Revue Internationale de l'Économie Sociale: Recma (2018), 348

Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Einrichtung von Unionsagenturen von Andreas Orator

in Die Verwaltung (2018), 51