49.4 - High Society from a Global Perspective

Special Issue – Juliane Hornung, Nicolai Hannig, Emanuel V. Steinbacher, and Margit Szöllösi-Janze (Eds.): High Society from a Global Perspective: Mass Media and Social Transformation in the Twentieth Century.

• Juliane Hornung, Nicolai Hannig, Emanuel V. Steinbacher & Margit Szöllösi-Janze: High Society from a Global Perspective, or: The Fabrication of Zsa Zsa Gabor. [Open Access]

Contributions

• Juliane Hornung: New York – Bayreuth – Hyderabad: High Society’s Global Reach in the 1920s and 1930s.
• Michael Homberg: High Life. Jet-Setters, Playboys, and the Global High Society, 1950s to 1970s.
• Erica L. Ball: Madam C. J. Walker and the Origins of Black American High Society.
• Emanuel V. Steinbacher: Mediating Upper Class and High Society Around 1900: The Example of Evelyn Nesbit and Harry Thaw.
• Nicolai Hannig & Julia Engelschalt: Fashion, Mobility, and Protest: The Sapeur Movement in Congo.
• Ryan Linkof: The Emperor Has No Clothes: King Edward VIII and the Scandal of Bodily Exposure.
• Mark White: John F. Kennedy, America’s “Royal Family,” and the Apex of High Society.

49.3 - Debating Self-Optimisation

Special Issue –  Debating Self-Optimisation: Practices, Paradoxes, and Power. (Daniel Nehring, Anja Röcke, and Suvi Salmenniemi)

• Anja Röcke, Daniel Nehring & Suvi Salmenniemi: Dynamics of Self-Optimisation: An Introduction. [Open Access]

Contributions

I) Practices of Self-Optimisation: Forms and Contradictions

• Edgar Cabanas: CrossFit and Self-Optimization in CrossFit’s Popular Literature.
• Nicole Zillien: Self-Tracking as a Dietetic Practice.
• Agnieszka Krzeminska: Self-Optimisation and the Technologically Mediated Self: Balancing Self-Care and Self-Control.
• Tristan Fournier & Sébastien Dalgalarrondo: From Self-Optimization to Minimalism and Back. The Promises and Practices of Fasting in France.

II) Self-Optimisation and “Therapeutic Culture”

• Sam Binkley: Opening Up and Going In: Metaphors of Interiority and the Case of Humanistic Psychology.
• Senta Brandt & Jürgen Straub: A Critique of Guided Self-Optimisation: Mental Health, Success, Happiness, and Virtue in Missionary Positive Psychology and Psychotherapy.

III) Self-Optimisation, Power, and Politics

• Deborah Lupton & Clare Southerton: #ActuallyAutistic: Competing Cultures of Expertise and Knowledge in Relation to Autism and ADHD Self-Diagnosis on TikTok.
• Vera King, Benigna Gerisch, Hartmut Rosa, Ramona Franz, Diana Lindner, Benedikt Salfeld, Micha Schlichting, Julia Schreiber & Maike Stenger: Self-Optimization via Figures and Digital Parameters – Psychic Repercussions of Digital Measurement and Comparison.
• Amir Hampel: Practical Daydreams: Self-Optimization through Consumer Lifestyles in China.
• Daniel Nehring, Talia Esnard & Dylan Kerrigan: Re-Thinking Self-Optimisation: Power, Self, and Community in the Global South.

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