Elke Seefried
Author
Publisher
De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
After 1945, new methods and tools for forecasting the future grew out of the dynamic developments that were taking place in science and technology. Conceptions of futures research or futures studies as approaches to forecasting, planning and envisaging the future grew out of transnational circulations of knowledge in the 1950s and 1960s. The futures field was epitomized by the perception of many possible futures to be forecast and shaped. However,...
Publisher
De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
In the 1960s, planning and preparing for the future took on greater importance in both East and West Germany. How did policymakers think about the future, what actions did they take, how did they understand modernization and progress? How did their ideas change in the late 1980s, and what role was played by how they saw each other? The volume reveals the similarities and differences between East and West Germany in anticipating the future.
Plan und...
Publisher
De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Die Nachkriegszeit gilt als Phase der "Remaskulinisierung". Gesellschaftlich akzeptierte Vorstellungen von Männlichkeit, die auf Leistungskraft, Gemeinschaftsorientierung und Heterosexualität fußten, setzten Männer, die "anders" waren, unter Konformitätsdruck. Aber wie wirkten sich die Selbstbehauptungsversuche von Kriegsversehrten, Obdachlosen oder Homosexuellen auf das vorherrschende Männlichkeitsideal aus? Dieser Sammelband beleuchtet die...