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This ground-breaking book explores the points of convergence between corporate capitalism and terrorist practice. Assessing the increase in the number of terrorist attacks directed against commercial entities in urban areas, such as the Westgate mall in Nairobi or the Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris, Suzi Mirgani offers a fascinating and disturbing perspective on the spaces where supposedly oppositional ends of the spectrum meet on common ground. How is it that these urban commercial spaces provide ground zero for a conference between the most powerful forces of contemporary culture: the most mainstream and the most extreme?

Political Science --- Terrorism --- Urban Studies --- Media --- Shopping Mall --- Charlie Hebdo --- Violence --- Economy --- City --- Globalization --- Political Science

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Grand Theft Auto, Battlefield, Counterstrike – more and more, violence in computer games is becoming the subject of heated discussion. But what emotional experiences does the playful use of virtual violence make possible? Through participato observation in online games and at LAN parties and analyses of interviews, magazines, and videos, Christopher Bareither presents in detail how millions of people can take pleasure from that which would shock others. By refraining from judgmental cliches, this ethnographic study is able to provide a decisive contribution to a debate at the crossroads of popular culture, politics, and the public sphere.

gewalt --- computer game --- mediensoziologie --- ethonography --- violence --- cultural anthropology --- media --- medien --- computerspiel --- computer games --- online games --- video game --- popular culture --- sociology of media --- emotion --- pleasure --- medienwissenschaft --- kulturanthropologie --- media studies --- feeling --- vergnügen --- populärkultur --- videospiel --- ethnografie

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How were accounts of war told in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern era? The contributions to this volume pursue this question in an innovative way through the combination of historical and literary methodologies. With the aid of this interdisciplinary approach, the texts examine storytelling practices and strategies which dissolved genre barriers between factual and fictional texts, thereby expanding insights with regard to their presentation of experience. This volume is not only a pioneering work of cultural studies research, but also an example of successful and productive interdisciplinary collaboration.

gewalt --- experience --- narrative --- violence --- storytelling --- early modern history --- culture --- medieval history --- mittelalter --- geschichte der frühen neuzeit --- history --- dichtung --- erzählen --- middle age --- narratology --- literary studies --- cultural history --- erzählung --- early modernity --- narrotologie --- krieg --- literaturwissenschaft --- geschichtswissenschaft --- mittelalterliche geschichte --- war --- erfahrung --- poetry --- kultur --- chronik --- chronicle --- geschichte --- frühe neuzeit --- kulturgeschichte