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The expertise delivered in the context of the research project “Workplace Surveillance in Germany and Poland” analyses development and status quo of the German law on data protection of employees. The author shows how the law has been hallmarked and shaped for decades by the case-law of the Federal Labour Court which he considers balanced and characterised by a considerable sensitivity for the fundamental rights at issue, while also stating that case-law should not be a substitute for a comprehensive in the area.
Despite increasing globalization and decreasing transportation costs, distance remains an essential element of international management. This work discusses different concepts of distance with a focus on individual level psychic distance. The inconsistency of previous psychic distance concepts, and therefore their operationalization, leads to a new framework to differentiate between levels of analysis of distance origins and objects. Possible individual level antecedents of psychic distance can be inert, trained, or experiential, while country level distance antecedents tend to be more stable. This work employs a quantitative study with a quasi-experiment, where respondents gave answers to distance perceptions and different possible antecedents at the beginning and end of a stay abroad. Results derived from different regression models show almost no effects of individual level variables on psychic distance, while country level distances have a strong influence on individual level psychic distance. Implications for research are a more concise concept of distance in international management and a thorough discussion of different kinds of distance antecedents. Empirical findings show counterintuitive effects for cultural backgrounds of respondents, which point to an affective and cognitive element of psychic distance. For management practice, distance should be considered as not only concerning the different levels of analysis and the possible different meanings of distance, but also in regards to how an organization can influence distance perceptions. Since experience and training have hardly any effect, the inert antecedents show that employment policies need to take a more active role.
Indian dance theatre is known for its extensive and differentiated use of corporeal means to depict any given narrative content in the context of a performance. Its theory (Nāṭyaśāstra, Bharata, ca. 3BC- 5AD) and practise reveal thereby what can be defined as two approaches to meaning, one as evoked through the gestures of the hands, and the other by way of emotive expression, which is also corporeal and gestural, but pertaining to emotional states. These two approaches together offer a comprehensive notion on meaning that leads from linguistic to emotive meaning, and from conceptual to embodied meaning-making processes. And in doing so, they point to the very notion of embodied meaning grounded in movement-based experiences. In particular, meaning evoked by emotional states is given a central place, pointing to a fundamentality of movement-based experiences grounded in emotions for meaning.
Pursuing this question of movement-based experiences grounded in emotions thus indicated from the performing arts perspective is of particular interest, considering it offers insights into the role of both emotions and movement in enabling meaning. Of further interest is how understanding embodied meaning as grounded in movement-based experiences connects and thus contributes to studies addressing this question, such as Linguistic Gestures Studies, Cognitive Linguistics, Cognitive Science and Neuroscience. In particular the form-based linguistic approach to gestural meaning (Müller, 1998, 2009, 2010a/b, 2013), the cognitive linguistic approach to embodied meaning-making (Johnson, 1987, 2007) and brain research on emotions (Damasio, 1999, 2003, 2010) reveal correspondences to the understanding of meaning and its corporeal dimension in the theory and practise of Indian performing arts. These will be laid out in this study. Whereas the role of emotions and movement are referred to in many of these studies, they are not pursued in terms of the movement itself that is considered central. As the perspective provided by a corporeal tradition such as Indian performing arts with its two-fold notion of meaning reveals, movement is a complex theme and needs to be approached in its own terms. Therefore the study aims to take a movement-based approach to address the notion of an embodied meaning and its grounding in embodied experiences. For instance, in instantiating the relevance of movement, also for emotive meaning to emerge, it enables looking beyond the sensorimotor notion of embodied experiences discussed, in particular, in the cognitive take on embodied meaning. At the same time examining the role of felt quality, also discussed thereby, is enabled directly, when looking at actual executed movement.
The study is, thus, a cross-disciplinary empirical analysis of both gestural and emotive meaning based on analysing how these need to be brought forth in movement terms. In doing so it draws from data collected over several years in class, where a movement-analytic approach was applied for teaching the dance theatre tradition of Bharatanatyam. Teaching this in the West triggered the initial interest to delve deeply into the fundamentals of human movement itself. Insights provided by the study of Laban Movement Analysis, Bartenieff Fundamentals and current research on fascia have been used. These enable not only observation and analysis, but also movement facilitation, which in turn supports the analysis of actual executed movement. The fundamentally movement-based approach, in as much, has implications for Embodiment Studies, Gesture Studies, Cognitive Linguistics, Dance Studies, Movement Studies, Neuroscience Research and finally Cultural Studies. It instantiates, in this sense, how a dialogue between these can take place.
This working paper is based on the keynote lecture held at the International Conference
“B/ORDERS IN MOTION. Current Challenges and Future Perspectives” on November 15,
2018. The talk starts with a couple of snapshots from developments and conflicts in the
Mediterranean in the summer of 2018 in order to conjure up the high stakes of border
studies today. The attempt to seal the maritime border performed in particular by the
Italian government is then discussed within a global framework and against the background
of recent developments in (critical) border studies. The point is made that in
order to understand even the most exclusionary border policies and regimes, there is a
need to take into consideration a multiplicity of heterogeneous bordering devices which
prompt and shape wider transformations of political, social, and economic orders. The
talk closes with an outline from this point of view of some of the main challenges for
border studies in Europe and beyond emerging from the current conjuncture.
Der Sammelband thematisiert aktuelle Beobachtungen zum Stellenwert feministischen Denkens in der polnischen Gesellschaft. Die Beiträge sind in drei thematische Abschnitte gegliedert: Der erste Teil widmet sich neben einer historischen Beschreibung der Kämpfe um Gleichberechtigung (Urszula Chowaniec, S. 26-46) und der Verortung des polnischen Feminismus im spezifischen Ost-West-Kontext (Rosalind Marsh, S. 47-66) auch der Frage nach dessen Herkunft (Ewa Kraskowska, S. 67-77). Der zweite Teil enthält literaturwissenschaftliche Untersuchungen (Ursula Philips, Grażyna Borkowska, Agnieszka Mrozik, Asia Zgadzaj, Elżbieta Wącik). In einem dritten Schritt werden aktuelle Trends in Film (Ewa Mazierska), Drama (Elwira M. Grossman) und Sprachentwicklung (Dorota Hołowiak) sichtbar gemacht. Ziel ist nicht eine erschöpfende Analyse der „women studies" in Polen, sondern die Darstellung von „women's activities" seit dem 19. Jahrhundert sowie nach 1989.
Agnes Arndts 2013 erschienene Studie basiert auf ihrer Dissertationsschrift, die sie an der Freien Universität Berlin einreichte. In ihrer Studie beschäftigt sich die Verfasserin mit drei Generationen „linker Dissidenz" in der Volksrepublik Polen, deren Gemeinsamkeit ihr bildungsbürgerlicher, großstädtischer Hintergrund sowie (persönliche bzw. familiäre) Bindungen an sozialistische/kommunistische Strömungen sind. In ihren Ausführungen konzentriert sich Arndt auf die Warschauer Intelligenz. Die Autorin verfasst auf der Grundlage einer breiten Materialbasis, die sich aus Egodokumenten, persönlichen Gesprächen mit den Protagonisten, deren bedeutendsten Publikationen, aber auch Akten der Staatssicherheit zusammensetzt, eine Untersuchung der beziehungsgeschichtlichen Verflechtung der drei Generationen untereinander sowie zu anderen Dissidentengruppen.
Es wäre keine Überraschung gewesen, wenn die polnischen Oppositionsbewegungen der 1970er und 1980er Jahre vierzig Jahre nach ihrer Entstehung heute ausschließlich von der Historikerzunft beforscht würden. Glücklicherweise gibt es aber immer noch SozialwissenschaftlerInnen, die bereit sind, das Jahr 1989 als Zäsur zu hinterfragen und sich mit den vorangegangenen Jahrzehnten zu beschäftigen. Mit Polnischer Protest: Zur pragmatischen Fundierung von Theorien sozialen Wandels hat die Soziologin Hella Dietz eine Studie vorgelegt, die sowohl soziologisch argumentiert als auch tief in die Ereignisse und das Denken dieser lang vergangenen Tage eintaucht. Dietz zufolge verdecken Narrative, die das Jahr 1989 als fundamentalen Bruch verstehen, die vielen Gemeinsamkeiten der vorangegangenen und nachfolgenden Jahre. Aufgrund dieser Gemeinsamkeiten sei eine Analyse der Entstehungsgeschichte polnischer Protestbewegungen der 1970er und 1980er Jahre immer noch interessant und relevant für die Sozialwissenschaften (S. 297).