Workshop Program:
Thursday, 30 June 2016
Technische Universität Berlin, Center for Metropolitanstudies, Hardenbergstraße 16-18, 10623 Berlin
10:00-10:30 AM Welcome Address Dorothee Brantz (Center for Metropolitanstudies) and Felix Fuhg (Humboldt University Berlin) Continue reading
Initially, delinquency and crime provided the lens through which academics discussed youth culture. Studying deviant behaviour ensured that criminologists focused on questions of re-education and the relationship between the newly-branded ‘teenager’, delinquency and youth culture.With the emergence of Cultural Studies in Britain, ‘youth’ was interpreted in generational terms, through which a critical understanding of the changing nature of British society could be inferred. Across the academic landscape of historical studies, however, youth cultures tend to play but a minor role in general overviews and historical narratives of the history of European societies after 1945.
British pophistory is not just visible in London’s physical and cultural landscape. Upcoming events related to the history of pop culture at the Institute of Historical Research representing the long tradition of studying the everyday culture of people in Britain: Continue reading
Wollen wir verstehen was das Aufwachsen in der Metropole besonders macht, so müssen wir der Frage nachgehen, welche Eigenheiten städtische Gesellschaften besitzen. In seinem Aufsatz „Urbanism as a Way of Life“ definiert der Chicagoer Soziologe Louis Wirth die Stadt in Abgrenzung zum ländlichen Raum, charakterisiert durch Dichte, Heterogenität und Anonymität. Für Wirth war die Stadt “thus historically [..] the melting-pot of races, peoples, and cultures, and most favourable breeding-ground of new biological and cultural hybrids. It has not only tolerated but rewarded individual differences. It has brought together people from the ends of the earth because they are different and thus useful to one another, rather than because they are homogeneous and like-minded” (Wirth 1938:10). Continue reading
