Im Paradoxen erscheint die Wirklichkeit (Within the paradoxical, reality appears) The Physicists , Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1962) Switzerland is in many ways a paradox: a cosmopolitan center of global and corporate finance embedded within
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The Swiss Paradox
Egalitarianism and Hierarchy in a Model Democracy
Marina Gold
History and Transport Policy
The Swiss Experience
Ueli Haefeli, Fritz Kobi, and Ulrich Seewer
Based on analysis of two case studies in the Canton of Bern, this article examines the question of knowledge transfer from history to transport policy and planning in the recent past in Switzerland. It shows that for several reasons, direct knowledge transfer did not occur. In particular, historians have seldom become actively involved in transport planning and policy discourses, probably partly because the academic system offers no incentive to do so. However, historical knowledge has certainly influenced decision-making processes indirectly, via personal reflection of the actors in the world of practice or through Switzerland's strongly developed modes of political participation. Because the potential for knowledge transfer to contribute to better policy solutions has not been fully utilized, we recommend strengthening the role of existing interfaces between science and policy.
The Jewish Museum of Switzerland
Nadia Guth Biasini and Heidi Brunnschweiler
In the vicinity of the synagogue and the Jewish community of Basel and close to the city-centre, the first Jewish Museum of Switzerland (JMS) opened its doors in June 1966. The new museum, which had been set up according to the topical requirements of the museums of the time, and comprised a collection of remarkable objects, textiles, books, and documents, was very well received by newspapers and the public. In the first years about 3,000 visitors came to see the new structure. By now the number of visitors reaches about 5,000 a year, which does not include special events like the ‘Museumsnacht’ in January, which in 2003 drew 2,600 visitors to the museum within a few hours. In summer 2003 the temporary show of a collection of ketubbot from Italy (Braginsky Collection Zürich) was on display.
The Cold War in Swiss Classrooms
History Education as a “Powerful Weapon against Communism“?
Nadine Ritzer
The Cold War had a variety of impacts on Swiss schools. This article focuses on how schools, and especially their history curricula, became the vehicle with which to launch a “National Spiritual Defense“ (Geistige Landesverteidigung) against Communism. During the Cold War era, especially in the 1950s and 1960s, teachers' journals and textbooks analyses revealed tendencies connected to a heroic, teleological master narrative of Switzerland's national history. The “cultural memory“ (Assmann) was seemingly designed to strengthen the “Swiss spirit.“ It also provided patterns from which to explain the ongoing Cold War conflict. In the 1970s, educators and politicians assigned the schools the new task of assisting in national military defense efforts.
In Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society
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- 01 Mar 2012
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- Research Article
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- 78–94 (17 total)
Democracy, Community, and Modernity: Lessons from Jeremias Gotthelf's Die Käserei in der Vehfreude
Peter C. Meilaender
Among the challenges of today's globalizing world is the disruption that local communities experience, in developed and developing countries alike, in the face of economic and political modernization. Yet, such problems are not unprecedented. To the contrary, communities across nineteenth-century Europe faced similar difficulties as a result of the Industrial Revolution and political upheaval. For insights into such challenges, I turn to a perhaps unlikely resource for coming to grips with globalization: Jeremias Gotthelf, whose novel Die Käserei in der Vehfreude has been described by Hanns Peter Holl as an “examination of European developments of the 1840s.“ Through his portrayal of a Swiss village's attempt to form a cheese-making cooperative and sell its wares, with all the difficulties it encounters in the process, Gotthelf reveals himself as an important political thinker, whose treatment of democracy, community, and modernity remains relevant for us today.
In German Politics and Society
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- 01 Dec 2011
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- Research Article
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- 21–46 (25 total)
Humanitarian Ideals between the Wars
(Re)Constructing Switzerland through Travel Writing
Sara Steinert Borella
Swiss authors and travelers Ella Maillart and Annemarie Schwarzenbach set off to drive from Switzerland to Afghanistan in a Ford roadster in late 1939, shortly before the outbreak of World War II. Their subsequent texts reveal as much about cultural norms prevalent in Switzerland in the late 1930s as they do about the actual journey to Afghanistan. This article explores Ella Maillart's The Cruel Way (1947) and Annemarie Schwarzenbach's All the Roads Are Open (2011) as constructions of the humanitarian principles that the Swiss have come to call their own. Both travel narratives call into question the national value of neutrality while echoing the language of emerging political and legal human rights discourses. The travel narratives of Maillart and Schwarzenbach thus contribute to the development of a literary discourse of human rights that will later become the standard narrative for Switzerland during and following World War II.
Book Review
Christian Ewert
Joseph Lacey, Centripetal Democracy: Democratic Legitimacy and Political Identity in Belgium, Switzerland, and the European Union (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), 312 pp., ISBN: 9780198796886 The European Union (in the form of its
The ‘Spirit of the Alps’ and the making of political and economic modernity in Switzerland1
GÉRALD BERTHOUD
In Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
- Published (Print):
- 01 Feb 2001
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 81–94 (13 total)
Book Reviews
Louise Jashil R. Sonido and Ed McKeon
Acciari, Monia & Philipp Rhensius, eds. 2023. Politics of Curatorship: Collective and Affective Interventions . Bern, Switzerland: Norient Books. Reviewed by Louise Jashil R. Sonido The first impulse of any good film critic, and to this
Familial Intimacy and the ‘Thing’ between Us
Cuddle Curtains and Desires for Detached Relationality in Germany, Austria and Switzerland
Andreas Streinzer, Almut Poppinga, Carolin Zieringer, Anna Wanka, and Georg Marx
video was Antony Cauvin, the creator of what the media termed ‘the cuddle curtain’, and his creation and hug was shared hundreds of thousands of times ( Cauvin 2020 ). Our research team members observed in Austria, Germany and Switzerland how the display