Auf den Spuren Kleists. Er fasziniert nicht nur durch seine rätselhafte Persönlichkeit – auch Kleists Werke entfachen oftmals Kontroversen. Immer wieder werden sie zum Prüfstein neuer wissenschaftlicher Fragestellungen. Das Handbuch bündelt die komplexe Forschungslage und präsentiert Leben, Werk und Wirkung. Weitere Kapitel informieren über Themen und Diskurse, mit denen sich Kleist auseinandergesetzt hat. Fundiertes Grundwissen und nützliche Anregungen für eine umfassende Beschäftigung mit Heinrich von Kleist.

Auf den Spuren Kleists. Er fasziniert nicht nur durch seine rätselhafte Persönlichkeit – auch Kleists Werke entfachen oftmals Kontroversen. Immer wieder werden sie zum „Prüfstein“ neuer wissenschaftlicher Fragestellungen. Das Handbuch bündelt die komplexe Forschungslage und präsentiert Leben, Werk und Wirkung. Weitere Kapitel informieren über Themen und Diskurse, mit denen sich Kleist auseinandergesetzt hat. Fundiertes Grundwissen und nützliche Anregungen für eine umfassende Beschäftigung mit Heinrich von Kleist.

The living conditions of former nomads in the arid mountain and desert regions of Morocco have been subject to dramatic change during the last decades. New economic and social dynamics imply new opportunities, but also entail risks, becoming manifest, for example, in increasing social polarization. Starting from local case studies, the book analyzes livelihood strategies, resource entitlements and (new) forms of spatial mobility, investigating how new complex livelihoods are constituted and how seemingly peripheral „nomadic“ regions are increasingly integrated into a globalizing world economy.

Pastoral Morocco explores the mobility of people and livestock in the context of neo-liberal globalization. Mobility is defined as a strategy to maintain and enhance access to resources, and hence comprehended as a strategy of pastoralists to cope with insecurity and new risks. Pastoral livelihoods in Morocco are, as the authors point out, increasingly shaped by processes unfolding outside the realm of animal production, for instance by dynamics of labor migration, changing property rights, and new means of communication. This volume examines local consequences of agro-pastoral restructuring. It investigates, for example, the invention of pastoral cooperatives, analyzes territorial changes triggered by urbanization and new spaces of enterprises, assesses the importance of cross border trade and sheep-commodity chains, scrutinizes the complexity and vulnerability of livelihood portfolios and it ultimately inquires the genealogy of conflicts over pastures. Pastoral Morocco draws on intensive empirical fieldwork and captures the regional diversities of the country. It is the first English language volume that combines Moroccan and European expertise about the changing world of mobility and insecurity that Moroccan pastoralists inhabit.

The unique pastoralist economy, society, and culture on the Tibetan plateau has experienced profound changes during the 20th century: An ever closer integration into the Chinese state, a wide array of policies directed at ‘development’, modernization, and urbanization, and dramatic economic transformation. In its fifteen field-work based chapters, written by Tibetan, Han Chinese and Western scholars from the social and environmental sciences, this volume presents a selection of current perspectives on these recent transformations and explores their specific impact on local pastoral livelihoods.