BITTER THINGS

Narratives and Memories
of Transnational Families

Malve Lippmann, Can Sungu, and Maike Suhr (Eds.)

Labor migration is worldwide creating new models of the transnational family, which despite geographical distances strives to maintain contact between the separated family members. But, how is the relationship between parents and children to be redefined whenever gifts and material support take the place of shared experience? When physical closeness has to take second place to communication programs like Skype and WhatsApp? How does this changing family landscape impact children and their parents? Bitter Things retraces very personal stories and accounts on this topic from the 1960s right up to present day perspectives. Contributions by Ayşe Akalın, Liliana Corobca, Ok-Hee Jeong, Halyna Kruk, Georg Matzouranis, Maria Papoulias, Stefano Polis, Janka Vogel and Gülcin Wilhelm

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Hegel after Occupy

Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen

Hegel after Occupy is a Western Marxist analysis of diff erent attempts to understand the present historical situation and the way theories of postmodernity, globalization, and contemporaneity implicitly or explicitly conceptualize the relationship between the historical present and political action. They all persuasively describe a breakdown of former historical categories but paradoxically end up understanding this breakdown as the end of politics tout court. Analysis and “position” thus merge, and the analytic diagnosis of a disavowal of the future (and the past) ends up as a disavowal of politics. The Contemporary Condition series edited by Geoff Cox and Jacob Lund, Volume 09, Copublished with Aarhus University and ARoS Art Museum.

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