Ein Geograph als Unternehmensberater

Der geschäftsführende Gesellschafter der PCG-PROJECT CONSULT GmbH und Honorarprofessor am Geographischen Institut der Ruhr-Universität Bochum, PROF. DR. KLAUS KOST, sprach mit DIPL.-GEOGR. GABRIEL SPITZNER und DIPL.-GEOGR. SONJA PINIEK über die beruflichen Möglichkeiten, die die Consultingbranche Geographinnen und Geographen bietet. Einen weiteren Schwerpunkt des Gesprächs bildeten die Schnittstellen zwischen Hochschule und beraterischer Praxis.     

Tracking ‘Same–Sex Love’ from Antiquity to the Present in South Asia

This essay focuses on the anthology Same–Sex Love in India: Readings from Literature and History (2000), edited by Ruth Vanita and Saleem Kidwai. Unlike many other recently published, celebratory ‘gay anthologies’, this book contributes to ongoing scholarly work on specific same–sex erotic practices and relations in historical and cultural context. We examine issues relevant to this anthology and other such projects: the use of ‘love’ and ‘same–sex’ as (stable) signifiers over centuries; the validity of interpreting social reality through literary texts from the period; the difficulties of locating ‘love’ in severely hierarchical, even slave–owning, societies; and the implications of using such anthologies in the classroom.     

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Wissenschaftliche Photographie als visuelle Kultur. Die Erforschung und Dokumentation von Spektren

This paper discusses facets of 19th‐century scientific photography as a visual culture. The example of spectral research and documentation is particularly well suited, because prismatically diffracted light from the sun or from luminous gases was one of the most frequently examined phenomena of that century. The results were significant not only for physics but also for analytical chemistry and astrophysics. The spectrum also served as an ideal test object for checking the effectiveness of a wide array of photochemically sensitizable surfaces to the various color regions. Scientific photography became the most important experimental technique in the infrared and ultraviolet. H. A. Rowland's spectrum charts are discussed as an example of the transition from comprehensiveness in documentation to fetishism. The discussion of the Lippmann process, one of the first methods of color photography, addresses the associated training of the eye. Issues of authenticity and the much averred ?mechanical objectivity”? are raised with regard to retouching. The overriding theme of visual science cultures leads furthermore to unanticipated interdependencies with other scientific fields, such as geography, and draws the importance of practitioners into the foreground.