Publications
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Eine Welt der Ordnungen
(2022)
This edited book offers an overview of different forms of order in 20th- and 21st-century world politics. After a general discussion of the concept of (political) order, the book discusses seven forms of order on a regional ...
Africa Research in Austria
(2016)
"Africa research in Austria is multifaceted, multidisciplinary and multilocal. Besides the continuous output of many scholars, this is also shown by the activities
of the research group “African Studies at Austrian ...
Außenperspektiven: 1809 Andreas Hofer und die Erhebung Tirols
(2010)
The strong tendency of history to hero-worship and myth-making is exemplified by Andreas Hofer and the 1809 Tyrol collection.
Postsecular Conflicts
(2020)
In the globalizing culture wars of the twenty-first century, Americans are discovering Russia as a new haven of traditionalism and Russian conservatives are re-inventing themselves as the traditionalist leaders of the ...
DOKONARA 2008
(2009)
Staatlich eingetragene religiöse Bekenntnisgemeinschaften in Österreich
(2018)
With the federal law on the legal personality of religious denominations (10.1.1998), the category of state-registered denominations in Austria was created in addition to the category of state-recognized religious communities ...
(Re) Figuring Human Enslavement: Images of Power, Violence and Resistance
(2009)
"The publications of the interdisciplinary and internationally networked Research Platform “World Order – Religion – Violence” seek to improve our understanding of the relationship between religion, politics and violence. ...
The implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Austria and Germany
(2021)
The series „Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Rechtstatsachenforschung“ („Innsbruck‘ contributions to empirical legal studies“) aims at analysing the interconnections of law in the books and law in action with a special focus on ...
The EU’s External Action Service
(2014)
The creation of the European External Action Service (EEAS) is one of the most significant changes introduced by the Treaty of Lisbon. Often referred to as the EU’s ‘Diplomatic Service‘, it is aimed at enabling greater ...
Die Alpen im Jahr 2020
(2006)
This book summarizes the results of an interdisciplinary meeting held in Obergurgl in 2006. Based on current knowledge the meeting aimed at a research strategy for the research focus “alpine space – man and environment” ...
Untersuchungen zum Einsatz hochauflösender bathymetrischer LIDAR Daten in der2D-Abflusssimulation und Habitatmodellierung
(2022)
In the present thesis, the use of high-resolution bathymetric survey data from Airborne LIDAR Bathymetry (ALB) in hydrodynamic-numerical (HN) modelling and physically based habitat modelling is investigated. Two near-natural ...
Mensch sein
(2017)
The question of what it means and implies to be human is fundamental to both philosophy and society. At the same time, she runs the risk of being answered with phrases. Even today, various questions about humanity are ...
Körperphantasien
(2016)
This anthology deals with current discussions around the mechanization and the optimization of the body up to the transhumanism. In the age of smartphones and social web, everyone can stage their lives and their bodies ...
Westliche Moderne, Christentum und Islam
(2008)
"The publications of the interdisciplinary and internationally networked Research Platform “World Order – Religion – Violence” seek to improve our understanding of the relationship between religion, politics and violence. ...
An den Grenzen des Waldes und der menschlichen Siedlung
(2012)
The subalpine zone of the inner Oetz Valley (Obergurgl/Vent, Tyrol, Austria) was influenced by human activities since several thousands of years. As a consequence a high diversity of plant communities developed at formerly ...
Re-Imagining Peace
(2019)
In March 2017 during the armed conflict in Syria, the “Four Towns Agreement” was sealed as a reconciliation deal between the government and the armed opposition under the auspices of Iran and Qatar. Using the methodology ...
Der Biosphärenpark als regionales Leitinstrument. Das Große Walsertal im Spiegel der Nutzer
(2009)
This publication is based on a research project “Zukünftige Entwicklungsstrategien für den Biosphärenpark Großes Walsertal (Future strategies for the development of the biosphere reserve Grosses Walsertal)”, a regional ...
Migrationsliteraturen in Europa
(2012)
Looking at literary texts, the volume opens up innovative and differentiated perspectives on the socio-politically controversial phenomenon of migration. It draws on Hartmut Böhme’s notion of literature as a discursive ...
Migration in Austria
(2017)
The interdisciplinary volume offers methodologically innovative approaches to Austria's coping with issues of migration past and present. These essays show Austria's long history as a migration country. Austrians themselves ...
Leistungen der Kirchen und Religionsgemeinschaften in Österreich für Staat und Gesellschaft
(2020)
At present, there are 16 legally recognized churches and religious societies and nine state-registered religious denominations in Austria. Recognition is not only associated with certain privileges. The state rather expresses ...
Activist Media and Biopolitics: Critical Media Interventions in the Age of Biopower
(2012)
After tactical media became less important, many media activist projects repositioned themselves: in the context of biopolitics they challenge the hegemony of biopower. This volume contains theoretical and empirical ...
Observing Legislative Processes: Implementation of the CRPD
(2016)
The series „Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Rechtstatsachenforschung“ („Innsbruck‘ contributions to empirical legal studies“) aims at analysing the interconnections of law in the books and law in action with a special focus on ...
Transformative Communication Technologies
(2018)
"This booklet documents the 36th Boehm-Bawerk Lecture, presented by Prof. Robin Mansell on October 31, 2017 as a ceremonial opening ceremony for the Institute of Media, Society and Communication at the Faculty of Social ...
Migration bewegt und bildet
(2019)
SOS
(2010)
Datenflut und Informationskanäle
(2014)
Digitalisation; big data; open data
Regional Economic Development Compared
(2014)
"Comparing economic development in a regional context both in the South of the United States and in the European Union today raises many fascinating questions. How much money in the form of tax credits and subsidies should ...
Workplaces as learning spaces - conceptual and empirical insights
(2017)
This volume is focused on workplaces as learning spaces. It is the fourth volume of Asian and European researchers carrying out common or related work in the field of workplace learning. They are organised in the ASEM ...
Naturjodel und Emotion
(2022)
This study investigated the emotional experiences of yodelers and listeners in relation to a specific type of yodeling, practiced in Unterwalden, a region in Central Switzerland. The yodels of Unterwalden are based on a ...
MEDIEN – WISSEN – BILDUNG: Freie Bildungsmedien und Digitale Archive
(2014)
Ever since digital technologies became widespread, the increasing capacities of storing, exchanging and sharing of information have given rise to optimistic scenarios of an egalitarian information society as well as to ...
Friedensmacht Europa: Dynamische Kraft für Global Governance?
(2011)
The publications of the interdisciplinary and internationally networked Research Platform “World Order – Religion – Violence” seek to improve our understanding of the relationship between religion, politics and violence. ...
Karl Außerhofer – Das Kriegstagebuch eines Soldaten im Ersten Weltkrieg
(2010)
The diary of Karl Außerhofer, written during World War I, reports on his military service in the mountains near Pustertal (Val Pusteria)and at the southern frontline. It shows his personal perception and of the enemies. ...
BIM in der Bauausführung
(2015)
Grenzenlose Enthüllungen?
(2012)
The current media landscape is often attributed a tendency to disclosure and openness. Social network sites blur the boundaries between the private and the public, platforms such as WikiLeaks and OpenLeaks publish secret ...
Nicht auf Sand bauen – Herausforderungen für das soziale Engagement der Kirche in Burkina Faso
(2012)
"The publications of the interdisciplinary and internationally networked Research Platform “World Order – Religion – Violence” seek to improve our understanding of the relationship between religion, politics and violence. ...
Imagining the Other: Mimetic Theory, Migration, Exclusionary Politics, and the Ambiguous Other
(2023)
In July 2019, the Colloquium on Violence and Religion (COV&R) held its annual conference at the University of Innsbruck dealing with the challenges of global migration. Experts from many fields gathered to discuss the ...