Katrin Ullmann Livres

For almost half a century, the Iron Curtain had separated Americans and Russians by barriers of misunderstanding, suspicion and alienation. The accession of Mikhail Gorbachev to power in the mid-1980s signalled the beginning of a revolutionary stage in American-Soviet relations. In the course of the following two decades Americans and Russians would interact to an extent never anticipated and come to call each other partners, or even friends. The word friendship, however, is often used superficially. This book provides a more profound answer to the question of how, from the American perspective, the image of, and the relationship to, Russia have changed since the former adversary “opened its doors” to the West. Ullmann not only reveals how the American public’s attitudes toward Russia or the scope of people-to-people contacts have changed, she also analyses to what extent Americans have been able to learn about Russia in the mass media and to what extent they have been interested in studying Russian culture and language

Reisen, Arbeiten, Abenteuer - Welche Erfahrungen machen Backpacker, wie erleben sie den globalen Raum und wie wirkt sich dies auf ihre Biographien aus? Katrin Ullmann bietet mit den »Generationscapes« ein mehrdimensionales Modell für die Analyse globaler Generationalität, das sowohl zeitliche als auch räumliche Dimensionen analytisch neu für die Generationentheorie erschließt und die Komplexität gegenwärtiger Biographien in Bewegung abbildet: Am Beispiel der Backpacker, einer besonders mobilen sozialen Gruppe, offenbaren sich individuelle Erfahrungen und kollektive Schlüsselerlebnisse als Teil einer ambivalenten Globalisierung.