Results from 10 empirical studies and 1 review article are described and can be summarized as follows: Only moral emotions represent an evaluation of person's behavior, whereas non-moral emotion provide information about outcomes. Positive moral emotions (e.g. pride, respect) signal that a person's (self or other) behavior was right, whereas negative moral emotions (e.g., guilt, indignation) signal that a person's behavior was wrong. These evaluations and signals are elicited by judgments of ought, goal attainment and effort (see Heider, 1958). Some moral emotions (e.g., shame or admiration) are also elicited by judgments on a person's ability. A person's responsibility (Weiner, 1995, 2006) and the perceived morality of a person's behavior (i.e., with regard to rightness and wrongness) represent further cognitive antecedents of moral emotions. Some moral emotions (e.g., regret, sympathy) are also influenced by a person's empathy (see Paulus, 2009) towards others. There are specific moral emotions that are closely connected to help-giving (e.g., sympathy), whereas other moral emotions are more closely related to reward (e.g., admiration) or punishment (e.g., anger). With regard to the cognitive effort underlying emotions, moral emotions require more cognitive effort (i.e., longer reaction times) than non-moral emotions.:Danksagung Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Einleitung 1 2 An Introduction to Moral Emotions: Summary of Published Articles 3 2.1 A First Empirical Analysis of Moral Emotions 3 2.1.1 Towards a Classification of Moral Emotions 4 2.1.2 Cognitive Antecedents of Moral Emotions 5 2.1.3 Empirical Data 7 2.1.3.1 Positive Moral Observer Emotions 7 2.1.3.2 Negative Moral Observer Emotions 8 2.1.3.3 Positive Moral Actor Emotions 9 2.1.3.4 Negative Moral Actor Emotions 9 2.1.4 Cluster Analyses of Moral Emotions 10 2.1.5 Conclusions 12 2. 2 Integrating Moral Emotions in the Context of Attributional Theories 13 2.2.1 Metaphorical Backgrounds of Moral Emotions 13 2.2.2 Moral Emotions as ‘Stop vs. Go - Signals\' 15 2.3 Open Questions 16 2.3.1 Distinguishing Moral from Non-Moral Emotions 16 2.3.2 Controllability 16 2.3.3 Ability as a Further Antecedent Condition Eliciting Moral Emotions 16 2.3.4 Behavioral Consequences of Moral Emotions 17 2.3.5 Personality 17 2.3.6 Cognitive Effort 18 3 On Distinguishing Moral from Non-Moral Emotions. 19 3.1. Abstract 19 3.2 Introduction and Theoretical Background 20 3.2.1 Identifying Moral Emotions: Cognitive Antecedents 21 3.2.1.1 Agency 21 3.2.1.2 Moral Standards 22 3.2.1.3 Effort 23 3.2.2 Moral vs. Non-Moral Emotions 24 3.2.2.1 Non-Moral Emotions 25 3.2.2.2 Emotions with Both Moral and Non-Moral Qualities 25 3.2.2.3 Discordant Emotions 26 3.2.4 Aims and Expectations 27 3.3 Study 1 28 3.3.1 Method 28 3.3.1.1 Participants 28 3.3.1.2 Experimental Design 29 3.3.1.3 Materials and Procedure 29 3.3.1.4 Data Analysis 30 3.3.2 Results 31 3.3.2.1 Positive Moral Observer Emotions 31 3.3.2.2 Positive Non-Moral Observer Emotions 32 3.3.2.3 Negative Moral Observer Emotions 35 3.3.2.4 Negative Non-Moral Observer Emotions 36 3.3.3 Discussion of Study 1 37 3.4 Study 2 41 3.4.1 Method 41 3.4.1.1 Participants 41 3.4.1.2 Experimental Design 42 3.4.1.3 Materials and Procedure 42 3.4.1.4 Data Analysis 42 3.4.2 Results 43 3.4.2.1 Positive Moral Actor Emotions 43 3.4.2.2 Positive Non-Moral Actor Emotions 43 3.4.2.3 Negative Moral Actor Emotions 44 3.4.2.4 Negative Non-Moral Actor Emotions 48 3.4.3 Discussion of Study 2 48 3.5 General Discussion 51 3.5.1 The Signal-Function of Moral Emotions 54 3.5.2 Limitations and Implications for Future Research 55 4 The Who and Whom of Help-Giving: An Attributional Model Integrating the Help-Giver and the Help-Recipient. 58 4.1. Abstract 58 4.2 Introduction and Theoretical Background 59 4.2.1 Responsibility, Moral Observer Emotions and Help-Giving 62 4.2.2 Responsibility, Moral Actor Emotions and Help-Giving 63 4.2.3 Responsibility and Deservingness …………………………………………...... 65 4.2.4 Personal Characteristics of the Help-Giver 65 4.2.5 Aims and Expectations 66 4.3 Method 67 4.3.1 Participants 67 4.3.2 Experimental Design 67 4.3.3 Materials and Procedure 68 4.3.4 Data Analysis 70 4.4 Results 71 4.4.1 Manipulation Checks 71 4.4.2 From Thinking to Feeling 72 4.4.3 From Thinking to Acting 72 4.4.4 From Feeling to Acting 73 4.4.5 Moral Emotions as Mediators between Thinking and Acting 74 4.4.5.1 Moral Actor Emotions 74 4.4.5.2 Moral Observer Emotions 76 4.4.6 Empathy and Help-Giving 77 4.4.7 A Comprehensive Model 78 4.5 Discussion 83 4.5.1 Responsibility and Feelings of the Moral Actor 83 4.5.2 Moral Actor Emotions and Help-Giving 83 4.5.3 Responsibility and Help-Giving 84 4.5.4 Responsibility of the Person in Need and Moral Observer Emotions 85 4.5.5 Moral Observer Emotions and Help-Giving 85 4.5.6 Moral Emotions as Mediators between Cognitions and Help-Giving 85 4.5.7 Stable Characteristics of the Moral Actor 87 4.5.8 A Comprehensive Model of Help-Giving 87 4.5.9 Recommendations for Future Research 89 5 Moral Emotions: Cognitive Basis and Behavioral Consequences. 91 5.1 Abstract 91 5.2 Introduction and Theoretical Background 92 5.2.1 Cognitive Antecedents of Moral Emotions 94 5.2.2 Behavioral Consequences of Moral Emotions 97 5.2.3 Combining Cognitive Antecedents and Behavioral Consequences 98 5.2.4 Aims and Expectations 100 5.3 Study 1 100 5.3.1 Method 101 5.3.1.1 Participants 101 5.3.1.2 Experimental Design 102 5.3.1.3 Materials and Procedure 102 5.3.1.4 Data Analysis 103 5.3.2 Results 103 5.3.2.1 Manipulation Checks 103 5.3.2.2 Eliciting Moral Cognitions and Moral Actor Emotions 104 5.3.2.3 Predicting Moral Actor Emotions from Cognitions: Attained Goals 109 5.3.2.4 Predicting Moral Actor Emotions from Cognitions: Non-Attained Goals 111 5.3.2.5 Predicting Moral Actor Emotions from Cognitions: Mediation Analyses. 113 5.3.3 Discussion of Study 1 116 5.3.3.1 Cognitive Antecedents as Elicitors of Moral Cognitions and Moral Actor Emotions 116 5.3.3.2 Moral Cognitions Eliciting Moral Actor Emotions. 119 5.4 Study 2 121 5.4.1. Method 123 5.4.1.1 Participants 123 5.4.1.2 Experimental Design 123 5.4.1.3 Materials and Procedure 124 5.4.1.4 Data Analysis 125 5.4.2 Results 125 5.4.2.1 Manipulation Checks 125 5.4.2.2 Eliciting Moral Cognitions, Moral Observer Emotions and Sanctioning Behavior 126 5.4.2.3 Predicting Moral Observer Emotions from Cognitions: Attained Goals 132 5.4.2.4 Predicting Moral Observer Emotions from Cognitions: Non-Attained Goals 134 5.4.2.5 Predicting Moral Observer Emotions from Cognitions: Mediation Analyses 135 5.4.2.6 Predicting Sanctioning Behavior from Cognitions: Attained Goals 138 5.4.2.7 Predicting Sanctioning Behavior from Cognitions Non-Attained Goals 139 5.4.2.8. Predicting Sanctioning Behavior from Moral Observer Emotions: Attained Goals 139 5.4.2.9 Predicting Sanctioning Behavior from Moral Observer Emotions: Non-Attained Goals 140 5.4.2.10 Predicting Sanctioning Behavior from Cognitions and Moral Observer Emotions: Mediation Analyses 141 5.4.2.11 Predicting Sanctioning Behavior from Cognitions and Emotions: a Comprehensive Cognition  Emotion  Action Model 144 5.4.3 Discussion of Study 2 146 5.4.3.1 Cognitive Antecedents as Elicitors of Moral Cognitions, Moral Observer Emotions, Reward and Punishment 146 5.4.3.2. Moral Cognitions Eliciting Moral Observer Emotions 150 5.4.3.3 Relationships between Moral Cognitions, Moral Observer Emotions, Reward and Punishment 151 5.5 General Discussion 155 5.5.1 Moral Cognitions 155 5.5.2 Moral Emotions 155 5.5.3 Sanctioning Behavior 157 5.5.4 Limitations and Recommendations for Future Research. 159 6 Moral vs. Non-moral Emotions: Further Differentiation Based on Cognitive Effort 160 6.1 Abstract 160 6.2 Introduction and Theoretical Background 161 6.2.1 The Cognitive Effort Underlying Moral vs. Non-Moral Emotions 162 6.2.2 Cognitive Effort and Balance Theory 163 6.2.3 Aims and Expectations 166 6. 3 Method 168 6.3.1 Participants 168 6.3.2 Experimental Design 168 6.3.3 Materials and Procedure 169 6.3.4 Data Analysis 170 6.4 Results 171 6.4.1 Frequency of Choice 171 6.4.1.1 Moral Cognitions 171 6.4.1.2 Positive Emotions 172 6.4.1.3 Negative Emotions 174 6.4.2 Reaction Times 175 6.4.2.1 Moral Cognitions 174 6.4.2.2 Moral and Non-Moral Emotions 176 6.5 Discussion 180 6.5.1 Shortcomings and Issues for Future Research 183 7 Summary and Future Prospects 185 7.1 A Classification of Moral and Non-Moral Emotions 185 7. 2 Moral Emotions and Subsequent Behaviors 189 7.3. Moral Emotions and Personality 190 7.4 Cognitive Effort and Moral Emotions 192 7.5 An Empirically Based Definition of Moral Emotions 194 8 Zusammenfassung und Ausblick 195 8.1 Eine Klassifikation moralischer und nicht-moralischer Emotionen 195 8.2. Moralische Emotionen und nachfolgende Verhaltensweisen 200 8.3. Moralische Emotionen und Persönlichkeit 202 8.4 Kognitive Beanspruchung und moralische Emotionen 203 8.5 Eine empirisch fundierte Klassifikation moralischer Emotionen 205   Appendix A 207 Appendix B 208 Appendix C 209 Appendix D 210 Literaturverzeichnis 211 Tabellenverzeichnis 239 Abbildungsverzeichnis 240 Erklärung zur Selbstständigkeit LEBENSLAUF

The core research question is: how does intelligence and security services of Member States to the AU and established regional and continental security intelligence organisations collectively contribute to the implementation of the APSA? The study empirically reconstructs – descriptively, functionally and analytically – the mechanisms, magnitude and processes of intelligence cooperation at the regional and continental level within the framework of the APSA. In line with the above, the study answers these research questions: i. What are the contributions of the CEWS, as a form of open-source intelligence outfit, to the APSA? ii. What are the roles and contributions of CISSA to the AUC with particular reference to the APSA? iii. How does the Nouakchott and the Djibouti Processes contribute to implementing the APSA? Acknowledging that intelligence cooperation is strategically poised, the interest of this study is directed towards identifying, examining and evaluating established institutions and frameworks and their respective processes of intelligence cooperation. Thus, the study looks at the contribution of security intelligence towards the implementation of the African Peace and Security Architecture (APSA) of the African Union (AU), and the thesis is divided into seven chapters. Chapter 1 introduces the study and outlines the research problem, methodology, sources and materials. The second chapter provides an overview of the academic debates around intelligence cooperation. The third chapter empirically reconstructs the configurations of the APSA and conceptualise the function and service roles of each pillar in a descriptive, functional and analytical lens. Chapter 4 reconstructs the operationalisation and institutionalisation of the Continental Early Warning System (CEWS) and further examine its methodology and how it aligns early warning to decision making and early action. Chapter 5 examined the roles and contributions of the Committee of Intelligence and Security Services of Africa (CISSA) to the African Union Commission (AUC) with particular reference to the APSA. Chapter 6 provides extensive analysis and reconstruction of the operationalisation of the APSA through intelligence cooperation in the Sahelo-Saharan, East and Horn of Africa regions through the Nouakchott Process and the Djibouti Process, respectively, and the last chapter concludes the study by synopsising and reflecting on the research questions and outlining the significant contributions of the study.:Acknowledgements ii List of Figures viii List of Abbreviations ix Chapter One 1 Introduction and Overview of the Study 1 1.1 Introduction 1 1.2 State of the art 3 1.2.1 Global Intelligence Services 3 1.2.2 Intelligence Services in Africa 9 1.2.3 Intelligence Cooperation and the AU 11 1.3 Research Question 14 1.4 Research Design 15 1.4.1 Methodology 17 1.4.2 Methods 18 1.4.3 Sources and Materials 20 1.5 Organization of the thesis 21 Chapter Two 24 Intelligence Cooperation in International and Regional Organisations 24 2.1 Introduction 24 2.2 Intelligence Cooperation in International Organisations 25 2.3 Intelligence Cooperation in Regional Organisations 35 2.4 Intelligence Cooperation Typologies 44 2.5 Intelligence Cooperation Methodologies 47 2.6 Chapter Summary 49 Chapter Three 51 The African Peace and Security Architecture 51 3.1 Introduction 51 3.2 Structure of the APSA 52 3.2.1 Peace and Security Council 55 3.2.2 Panel of the Wise 60 3.2.3 Continental Early Warning System 67 3.2.4 African Standby Force 68 3.2.5 Peace Fund 73 3.3 APSA’s Strategic Priorities 75 3.4 APSA and RECs 80 3.5 Chapter Summary 84 Chapter Four 87 The CEWS, Intelligence cooperation and the APSA 87 4.1 Introduction 87 4.2 Intelligence Cooperation, Early Warning and the OAU 90 4.3 The PSC Protocol and the CEWS 97 4.4 The Operationalisation of the CEWS 100 4.5 The Institutionalisation of the CEWS 107 4.5.1 The Situation Room 107 4.5.2 The African Media Monitor 109 4.5.3 Africa Reporter 110 4.5.4 Africa Prospects 111 4.5.5 Indicators and Profile Module 111 4.5.6 The CEWS Portal 112 4.5 The CEWS Methodology 113 4.5.1 Information Collection and Monitoring 113 4.5.2 Conflict and Cooperation Analysis 118 4.5.3 Formulation of Options 121 4.5.4 Responses 123 4.6 Early Warning, Decision Making and Early Action 124 4.7 The CEWS and RECs 131 4.8 The CEWS and other Early Warning Mechanisms 134 4.8.1 Continental Structural Conflict Prevention Framework 135 4.8.2 African Peer Review Mechanism and Conflict Prevention 137 4.8.3 Horizon Scanning 139 4.9 Challenges to the CEWS 140 4.10 The Evolution and Future of the CEWS 146 4.11 Chapter Summary 149 Chapter Five 153 Committee of Intelligence and Security Services of Africa and the APSA 153 5.1 Introduction 153 5.2 Genesis 154 5.3 Mandate, Vision and Mission 157 5.4 Objectives 157 5.5 Principles 162 5.6 Functions 163 5.7 Structures of CISSA and their Functions 164 5.7.1 The Conference 164 5.7.2 Panel of Experts 178 5.7.3 Bureau of the CISSA Conference 179 5.7.4 The CISSA Regions 180 5.7.5 Troika 182 5.7.6 The Secretariat 182 5.7.7 Specialised Technical Committees 187 5.8. Relationship between CISSA and the AU 188 5.9 The Intelligence and Security Committee \ CISSA Liaison Unit 189 5.10 CISSA and Regional Security Intelligence Institutions 196 5.11 Challenges to the performance of CISSA 198 5.12 Chapter Summary 210 Chapter Six 213 Intelligence Cooperation in the Nouakchott and Djibouti Processes, 2013-2021 213 6.1 Introduction 213 6.2 The Nouakchott Process 216 6.2.1 Genesis 216 6.2.2 Inauguration 219 6.2.3 Implementation of the Nouakchott Conclusions 228 6.2.4 The Nouakchott Declaration 233 6.2.5 The Nouakchott Process vis-à-vis other Regional Frameworks 236 6.2.6 Post-declaration, Challenges and Prospect 237 6.3 The Djibouti Process 245 6.3.1 Background 245 6.3.2 Rationale 246 6.3.3 Establishment 247 6.3.4 Implementation Meetings 252 6.4 The Nouakchott and the Djibouti Processes 257 6.4.1 Joint Meeting 257 6.4.2 Points for Action 259 6.5 Past for the future in the present 261 6.6 Influence and Power Contestations 265 6.7 Chapter Summary 273 Chapter Seven 275 Conclusion 275 7.1 Introduction 275 7.2 Summary of key arguments 276 7.3 Contributions and suggestions for future research 286 8. References 293 8.1 Sources 293 8.2 Literature 303 8.3 Interviews 337 Assurance 338

‚Grenzüberschreitend‘ exponiert sich der Beitrag aus der germanistischen Linguistik, Mihael Šviteks (M. A.) metakritische Untersuchung, Sprache und Geschlecht? Dekonstruktive Lesarten (in) der linguistischen Genderforschung. Anliegen Šviteks ist es, am Korpus linguistischer Einführungstexte die sachliche, rhetorische und methodische Abstinenz der (selbst polymethodischen) Genderlinguistik gegenüber dekonstruktiven Gendertheorien kritisch aufzuzeigen. Dem Verfasser stellt sich diese Defizienz umso problematischer dar, als von der Sprachwissenschaft so just solche gendertheoretischen Angebote ausgegrenzt werden, die auf der unhintergehbaren Sprachlichkeit von Welt, Körpern, Geschlecht, Wahrnehmung und Wissen insistieren. Sich indessen selbst ‚voll beim Wort nehmend‘, diskursiviert und performiert Šviteks seine Argumente in einer „Gratwanderung zwischen fachwissenschaftlichem Anspruch und dekonstruktiver Geste“, in einem Zugleich von kritischem ‚Wiederlesen‘, dekonstruktivem ‚Widerlesen‘ und konstruktivem Weiterdenken. Einstweilen als Desiderat formuliert, zielt dieses Weiterdenken auf die Entwicklung eines disziplinüberschreitenden und intersektionalen Analyseapparates, der nichts weniger als die „ganzheitlichere Handhabung von Menschen“ ermöglicht. Selbstkritisch freilich schließt der Beitrag mit dem Zweifel, „ob eine Einzwängung realen menschlichen Lebens in analytische Kategorien jemals ein adäquates Bild der Wirklichkeit zeichnen kann oder ob nicht vielmehr immer ein unauflösbares ‚usw.‘ stehenbleiben muss.“

Die Stadtverwaltung hat es sich zur Aufgabe gemacht, auf die Bedürfnisse und Bedarfe unserer Seniorinnen und Senioren noch besser einzugehen. Deswegen wurde diese Studie in Auftrag gegeben. Sie stellt eine hervorragende wissenschaftliche Überprüfung und Ergänzung unseres bisherigen praktischen Tuns rund um das Thema Altern in Dresden dar und setzt sich unter anderem mit Elementen des bereits bestehenden Fachplans Seniorenarbeit und Altenhilfe inklusive des Aktionsplans für gesundes und aktives Altern, dem Dresdner Kompetenzzentrum für den Übergang in den Ruhestand und dem Pflegenetzwerk auseinander. Weg vom defizitorientierten, hin zum ressourcenorientierten Ansatz lautet ein Prinzip der Dresdner Seniorenpolitik. Es liegt auch der LAB60+ Studie zugrunde. Sie wirft einen umfassenden Blick auf die Potenziale und Chancen in der vielgliedrigen nachberuflichen Lebensphase. Beleuchtet werden notwendige Rahmenbedingungen für eine hohe Lebenszufriedenheit, für Selbsthilfe und für möglichst eigenständiges Wohnen je nach Lebensentwurf. Knapp 2.400 über 60-Jährige nahmen an der Befragung teil und haben sich dem Fragebogen mit über 90 Fragen gestellt. Die hohe Rücklaufquote von 40 Prozent verdeutlicht das hohe Interesse der Zielgruppe und die Wichtigkeit des Themas. Die Kooperation mit der Technischen Universität Dresden habe ich als äußerst nützlich und gewinnbringend für beide Seiten erlebt. Die Ergebnisse und Ableitungen der LAB60+ Studie liefern einen konstruktiven Beitrag für die fachliche und kommunalpolitische Auseinandersetzung in unserer Stadt. Bei der Entwicklung konkreter Maßnahmen ist mir eine Beteiligung der Dresdnerinnen und Dresdner sehr wichtig. Dafür ist eine Seniorinnen- und Seniorenkonferenz geplant. Künftig wollen wir die Lebenssituation der älteren und alten Menschen und das Miteinander der Generationen regelmäßig untersuchen und damit eine wissenschaftlich basierte Grundlage für weitere Diskussion und Entscheidung entwickeln. Redaktionsschluss: Januar 2022

Ergänzende Daten und Tabellen zur LAB60+ Studie. Redaktionsschluss: Januar 2022

Critics of the liberal peace paradigm call for the consideration of local realities in order to come to a more sustainable, comprehensive form of peace – which is not imposed by external actors. The “local” is generally seen as the place where bottom-up or grassroots peace is developed in contrast to the liberal peace proposed by external international agents. Whereas critical peacebuilding literature stresses the difference between the “liberal” and the “local” and acknowledges the incoherence of liberal actors, much less attention has been paid to differences and variations within the “local” sphere. Drawing on empirical research in Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) we argue that the “local” is much more complex than presumed by many critics of the liberal peace. We argue that a) the local is fragmented and actors and issues are highly contested; b) neither actors nor discourses are purely local; and c) the very idea of a coherent collective local agency is contested locally.

This study examines the legitimation of power and knowledge in the struggle of public health and health care agencies in the Lower Congo region of the Democratic Republic of Congo to vanquish chronic tropical diseases. Of particular interest is the creation of alternative institutions following the collapse of state sponsored structures and supply lines in the 1980s and 1990s, and the process by which such alternative structures are legitimized. A review of legitimation theory suggests that new paradigms are required to assess the nature and efficacy of diverse non-state institutions within a fluid global neo-liberal context. The paper argues that these new or newly adapted post-state institutional arrangements, born in the crisis of state failure, may be effective in the lessening of the disease burden that weighs on the region to the extent that they are able to muster the legitimacy of the populace, the professions, the national society, and the wider international community. I thus hope to shed light on the paradox of persistent tropical diseases — e. g., malaria, sleeping sickness, and schistosomiasis, as well as seasonal grippe, typhoid fever, tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS — as endemic or seasonal scourges, despite their being understood by local specialists, with known treatments and public health measures to control them.

The nascency of an oil state is characterized by talking oil politics. In this oil talk, the travelling idea of the resource curse takes center stage in speech acts of naming, blaming and claiming to question the legitimacy of political opponents. Conducting a situational analysis, this article focuses on the public political debate about oil in Niger’s media landscape before, during and after the oil refinery’s inauguration ceremony in Zinder in late 2011. I situate the actors’ oil talk according to their positions in the political arena to reveal their hidden transcripts. By doing so, I will show that the oil talk is enacted in a double sense. First, it is the political actors’ scripts that shape the very articulation of their oil talk in a context of political competition in a multi-party system. Second, the oil talk is enacted through an actor-network of media technologies and political players’ access privileges that allow some to articulate their political views whereas others lack the means to do so. I use these findings to discuss the impact of new media in Nigerien politics and to decode the ‘how’ of Nigerien politics itself.

This paper explores specific sites of leisure-swimming pools, movie theatres, hotels, and cafés that were built at the height of colonial tourist aspirations in Beira, Mozambique (1950s-1970s) and that were formally reserved for colonial elites, specifically in this case, Portuguese citizens, British Rhodesian sugar plantation managers who were stationed in Beira at the time, and visiting (white) tourists, and their families. What do these infrastructures tell us about colonial urban planning, including sites of leisure and their histories of racialized restrictions? What can they say about tourism in a (Portuguese) colonial city that was once the centre of the East African corridor and an access point to the ocean for neighbouring (British) Malawi and Rhodesia? That these same swimming pools, theatres, hotels, and cafés are very much in use today by a very different set of inhabitants says something about this „reluctant city“ (Forjaz 2007, 2) in the making. Through my ethnographic observations and impressions during two visits to the city in April 2009 and February 2016 I will attempt to think productively with „ruins of empire“ (Stoler 2008) in order to chart a set of ruminations on acts of renovation in present day Beira. These ruminations are intended to show a complex city in its daily habitus by way of relationships (both of materiality and affect) between people and certain build environments. My focus suggests that these particular sites (and by way of their features such as colours, tiles, fixtures) afford a window onto Beira‘s condition of postcoloniality (as well, the simultaneity of its conditions of colonialism, socialism and war) through the creative ability of its African inhabitants to take specific urban infrastructures left behind by its Portuguese colonial possessors in the wake of Mozambique‘s rapid decolonization in 1975, and adapt them to their own strategic and innovative purposes.

Mit ihrem Beitrag, „‚Gerne will ich wieder ins Bordell gehen…‘. Wehrmachtsbordelle und Freiwilligkeit“, widmet sich Anne S. Respondek (M. A.) einem weitgehend unerforschten, wenn nicht tabuisierten, Gegenstand der neueren Geschichtswissenschaft zum Zweiten Weltkrieg – liegen zur Zwangsprostitution in Frankreich doch nur wenige, zur sexualisierten Gewalt und Prostitution in den Ostgebieten indessen keine nennenswerten Untersuchungen vor. Dem ‚male gaze‘ und den ‚blinden Stellen‘ des bisherigen Erkenntnisstandes begegnet die Verfasserin auf eine ebenso analytisch-kritische wie einfühlsame Weise, indem ihre genderorientierte Argumentation mit Hilfe neuen Quellenmaterials dem Einzelschicksal einer Frau aus Polen nachgeht. Dabei zeigt sie exemplarisch die perfiden, durch den NS-Staat sanktionierten Mechanismen männlicher Gewalt gegen betroffene Frauen auf, der auch die diffamierte, verfolgte, zur ‚Prostituierten‘ erklärte und ins Wehrmachtsbordell gezwungene Maria Kowalska bis zu ihrem Tod im KZ Ausschwitz ausgesetzt war.