Tschechen in der deutschen Wehrmacht. Totgeschwiegene Schicksale

in CLIO-online (2021)

The Handbook of Diverse Economies

in Economic Geography (2021)

Globale Warenketten und ungleiche Entwicklung

in Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsgeographie (2021)

Compte rendu de: Irène Dietrich-Strobbe: La Charité à Lille à la fin du Moyen Âge. Sauver les riches, Paris: Classiques Garnier 2020, in: sehepunkte 21 (2021), Nr. 5 [15.05.2021]

in Sehepunkte (2021), 21 (2021)(5),

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

in Crime, Law and Social Change (2021), 76(2), 215-218

The Second World War in the Twenty-first Century Museum: From Narrative, Memory, and Experience to Experientiality

in The Military History Journal (2021), 85(1), 293-94

Historische Medienwirkungsforschung: Ansätze, Methoden und Quellen.

in MEDIENwissenschaft: Rezensionen, Reviews (2021), 02(2021), 152-154

Florence Descamps, Archiver la mémoire. De l’histoire orale au patrimoine immatériel Paris, Éd. de l'EHESS, 2019, 241 pages

in Questions de Communication (2021), 38

Recension de l'ouvrage de Florence Descamps, Archiver la mémoire. De l’histoire orale au patrimoine immatériel, Paris, Éd. de l'EHESS, 2019, 241 pages

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),

Compte-rendu de « Trotot Caroline, Autoportraits, autofictions de femmes à l’époque moderne - Savoirs et fabrique d’identité, Paris, Classiques Garnier, coll. Masculin/féminin dans l’Europe moderne, 2018 »

in Acta Fabula: Revue des Parutions en Théorie Littéraire (2021)

review of: Jeffrey F. Hamburger / Eva Schlotheuber (Eds.), The Liber ordinarius of Nivelles (Houghton Library, MS Lat 422). Liturgy as Interdisciplinary Intersection. (Spätmittelalter, Humanismus, Reformation, Bd. 111.) Tübingen, Mohr Siebeck 2020

in Historische Zeitschrift (2021), 312(1), 200-201

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

in Literaturkritik.de (2021)

Smoke but no fire, convicting the innocent of crimes that never happened. By Jessica S. Henry (University of California Press)

in Crime, Law and Social Change (2020), 75(4), 411-414

Book Review: Investigating Cybercrime and A Comparative Study of Cybercrime in Criminal Law: China, US, England, Singapore and the Council of Europe

in SCRIPTed: A Journal of Law, Technology and Society (2020), 17(2), 431-440

Review of: Julia Mandry, Armenfürsorge, Hospitäler und Bettel in Thüringen in Spätmittelalter und Reformation (1300–1600)

in Speculum (2020), 95(3), 864-866

Compte rendu de Henrich-Franke, Christian; Hiepel, Claudia; Thiemeyer, Guido; Türk, Henning, Grenzüberschreitende institutionalisierte Zusammenarbeit von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart

in H-Soz-u-Kult (2020)

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 ▲]

Rezension – Julia Reuter, Markus Gamper, Christina Möller, & Frerk Blome (Hrsg)

in Diskurs Kindheits- und Jugendforschung (2020), 15(3), 343-344

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

Rezension zu: PAULKE, Matthias: Archäologischer Rundgang durch Luxemburg (Livret du Patrimoine du CNRA, Bd. 2), Luxemburg 2019, in: Hémecht 72/3 (2020), S. 366-367.

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

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

in Lavoro Diritti Europa (2020), 1

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

Virginia Mason Vaughan. Shakespeare and the Gods. London: Arden Shakespeare, 2019; and Jonathan Bate. How the Classics Made Shakespeare. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019.

in Shakespeare Jahrbuch (2020), 156

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

Reading the history of society through the lens of a history of sexuality

in Andererseits: yearbook of transatlantic German studies (2020), 7/8(2018/2019), 393-396

Book review: Marguerite Figeac-Monthus (Hg.), Éducation et culture matérielle en France et en Europe du XVIe siècle à nos jours (Didactiques des lettres et des cultures, 5), Paris 2018.

in Francia-Recensio (2020), 2

Review of Clara Rauchegger and Anna Wallerman (eds.) The Eurosceptic Challenge: National Implementation and Interpretation of EU Law (Hart 2019)

in European Law Blog (2019)

Book review published on European Law Blog

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

in Contemporanea (2019), XXXVIII(3),

Book Review: Citizenship Education and Global Migration. Implications for Theory Research, and Teaching, James A. Banks, Washington 2017

in Journal of Borderlands Studies (2019), 35(1), 165166

[Rezension] Lars Nowak (Hg.): Medien - Krieg - Raum

in MEDIENwissenschaft: Rezensionen, Reviews (2019), 1(2019), 24-27

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

in Literaturkritik.de (2019)

Rezension zu Esclaves et maîtres dans le monde romain. Expressions épigraphiques de leurs relations

in Latomus: Revue d'Études Latines (2019), 78

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

in Revue Critique de Droit International Privé (2019)

Review "Inside Smart Cities – Place, Politics and Urban Innovation"

in disP : The Planning Review (2019)

Rezension von: Michel Krieps (2017). Die 135 jährige Geschichte der Escher Feuerwehr basierend auf historischen Begebenheiten, 1880-2015. Esch/Alzette: Corps des Sapeurs-Pompiers Volontaires

in Hemecht: Zeitschrift für Luxemburger Geschichte (2019), 71(2), 246-247

Rezension Émile Lutgen / Gemeinde Wiltz (eds.), "Durich 200 Joer Weeltzer Geschicht gebleedert".

in Hemecht: Zeitschrift für Luxemburger Geschichte (2019), 71(2), 245

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

in Hemecht: Zeitschrift für Luxemburger Geschichte (2019), 71(3), 376-378

Compte-rendu de l'ouvrage de DUTHEIL F., FORTUNE Y., LEMONNIER J.-M. (2018), Reconstructions physique et sportive en France sous la IVe République (1946-1958). Entre intentions et réalisations

in Vingtième Siècle (2019), (2), 190-191

Besprechung zu Sebastian Bischoff, Kriegsziel Belgien

in Sehepunkte (2018), (7/8),

ROLF HANDROW: Berühmte Posaunen-Virtuosen. Friedrich August Belke. Carl Traugott Queisser. Albert Robert Müller. Joseph Serafin Alschausky & Posaunisten des Gewandhausorchesters Leipzig

in IGEB Mitteilungsblatt (2018), (1),

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

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

Rezension von/compte rendu de: Ulrike Hohensee, Matthias Lawo, Michael Lindner, Olaf B. Rader (Bearb.), Dokumente zur Geschichte des Deutschen Reiches und seiner Verfassung.

in Francia-Recencensio (2018), 2018(1),

Offshore

in Local Environment (2018)

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

in Literaturkritik.de (2018)

Rezension Jean-Paul Hoffmann, Familienchronik der Stadt Vianden

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

Rezension des Werkes von Alexander Hilpert, Archäologie im Grenzraum Saar-Lor-Lux. Altertumsforschung, Vernetzung und Identitätskonstruktion in den regionalen Geschichtsvereinen des 19. Jahrhunderts

in Hemecht: Zeitschrift für Luxemburger Geschichte (2018), 66

Batty Weber. Werk und Wirkung

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

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

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

Review: Karl Pichol (2016). Geschichte(n) rund ums Papier. Ahlen: Eigenverlag

in Technikgeschichte (2018), 85(2), 136