Small Peace

Category: publications

  • Politics, Peace, and Sports

    In his new article “Die neue Regel ist der Regelbruch” (The new rule is breaking the rules) for the Süddeutsche Zeitung, Jörg Scheller argues that the decline in global peacefulness and the increasingly violent policies of the Trump administration, the Kremlin, or the Chinese Communist Party can be analyzed as a departure from the principles…

  • Disposable Hero? Heavy Metal as Peacebuilding

    Jörg Scheller published a new article in the edited volume “Meta/Metal. Open Questions in Metal Studies“. “Disposable Hero? Heavy Metal as Peacebuilding” is connected to our research project’s interest in popular culture as a – possible – site for (implicit) peacebuilding. The article argues that heavy metal can not only enable catharsis but can also…

  • Central Eastern Europe and Geopolitics

    In his new article “Ostmitteleuropa ist ein Bollwerk des Realitätssinns” (in German) for the magazine Schweizer Monat, Jörg Scheller argues that Central Eastern European perspectives have long been marginalized in Western Europe, especially in the context of geopolitics.

  • Der Westen liegt am Schwarzen Meer: Eine Apologie des Dazwischens am Beispiel Osteuropas

    New article by Jörg Scheller in the Journal “Zeitschrift für Kulturphilosophie“, 2024/1.