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Resource Curse (2017)
Book Chapter
Stewart, J. C. (2017). Resource Curse. In I. Szeman, J. Wenzel, & P. Yaeger (Eds.), Fueling culture: 101 words for energy and environment (285-288). Fordham University Press

Sociology, Culture and Energy: The Case of Wilhelm Ostwald's 'Sociological Energetics' - A Translation and Exposition of a Classic Text (2014)
Journal Article
Stewart, J. C. (2014). Sociology, Culture and Energy: The Case of Wilhelm Ostwald's 'Sociological Energetics' - A Translation and Exposition of a Classic Text. Cultural Sociology, 8(3), 333-350. https://doi.org/10.1177/1749975514523937

Sociology has largely ignored the contribution of the German Nobel-Prize-winning chemist Wilhelm Ostwald to the sociology of energy, mainly due to Max Weber’s (1909) dismissive reception of Ostwald’s ‘energetical thought’. This article reclaims Ostwa... Read More about Sociology, Culture and Energy: The Case of Wilhelm Ostwald's 'Sociological Energetics' - A Translation and Exposition of a Classic Text.

Making Globalization Visible?: The Oil Assemblage, the Work of Sociology and the Work of Art (2013)
Journal Article
Stewart, J. C. (2013). Making Globalization Visible?: The Oil Assemblage, the Work of Sociology and the Work of Art. Cultural Sociology, 7, 368-384. https://doi.org/10.1177/1749975512453663

This article sets out to rethink the relationship between the work of art and the work of sociology, drawing on Jacques Ranciere’s writing on the work of art to provide the basis for recognizing affinities and differences between these two processes.... Read More about Making Globalization Visible?: The Oil Assemblage, the Work of Sociology and the Work of Art.

Filming Vienna 1900: The Poetics of Cinema and the Politics of Ornament in Raúl Ruiz's Klimt (2013)
Journal Article
Stewart, J. C. (2013). Filming Vienna 1900: The Poetics of Cinema and the Politics of Ornament in Raúl Ruiz's Klimt. Journal of Austrian studies, 46(2), 49-79. https://doi.org/10.1353/oas.2013.0027

Raúl Ruiz’s 2006 movie Klimt offers a sophisticated attempt to translate the visual art theory of Klimt’s Vienna into cinematic form. Reading this film alongside Ruiz’s reflections on film theory, this article explores how Ruiz employed key ideas fro... Read More about Filming Vienna 1900: The Poetics of Cinema and the Politics of Ornament in Raúl Ruiz's Klimt.

Conflict, Compromise and Resistance: Popular Culture in Austria, 1918-1945 (2006)
Book Chapter
Stewart, J. C. (2006). Conflict, Compromise and Resistance: Popular Culture in Austria, 1918-1945. In R. Robertson, & K. Kohl (Eds.), History of Austrian Literature 1918-1945 (87-106). Camden House

20th-century Austrian literature boasts many outstanding writers: Schnitzler, Musil, Rilke, Kraus, Celan, Canetti, Bernhard, Jelinek. These and others feature in broader accounts of German literature, but it is desirable to see how the Austrian liter... Read More about Conflict, Compromise and Resistance: Popular Culture in Austria, 1918-1945.

Exhibiting and Communicating Berlin around 1900 (2006)
Book Chapter
Stewart, J. C. (2006). Exhibiting and Communicating Berlin around 1900. In D. Midgley, C. Emden, & C. Keen (Eds.), Imagining the City, Volume Two: The Politics of Urban Space (193-215). Peter Lang

The urban spaces we inhabit today have been moulded by a combination of historical forces - by social and economic processes, by the specific designs of urban planners, and by the regulatory and ritual practices of earlier times. As arenas of cultura... Read More about Exhibiting and Communicating Berlin around 1900.

Connecting and Locating Culture (2005)
Book Chapter
Stewart, J. C. (2005). Connecting and Locating Culture. In J. C. Stewart, & S. Ward (Eds.), Blueprints for No-Man's Land. Connections in Contemporary Austrian Culture (9-28). Peter Lang

This volume brings together a collection of essays focusing on selected aspects of inter- and multidisciplinarity in contemporary Austrian culture. These include the connections between literature and the media, literature and the visual arts, litera... Read More about Connecting and Locating Culture.

Reconstructing the Centre: Sociology and Architecture in the New Berlin (2005)
Book Chapter
Stewart, J. C. (2005). Reconstructing the Centre: Sociology and Architecture in the New Berlin. In D. Inglis, & J. Hughson (Eds.), The Sociology of Art (183-212). Palgrave Macmillan

What light can sociology shed on art and culture in contemporary society? What is distinctive about the sociological understanding of art? In what ways is the sociology of art today developing new insights into the nature of artistic life? This volum... Read More about Reconstructing the Centre: Sociology and Architecture in the New Berlin.

A Taste of Vienna: food as a signifier of urban modernity in Vienna 1890–1930 (2004)
Book Chapter
Stewart, J. C. (2004). A Taste of Vienna: food as a signifier of urban modernity in Vienna 1890–1930. In A. Cowan, & J. Steward (Eds.), The City and the Senses: Urban Culture Since 1500. Ashgate Publishing

How do we experience a city in terms of the senses? What are the inter-relations between human experience and behaviour in urban space? This volume examines these questions in the context of European urban culture between the fifteenth and twentieth... Read More about A Taste of Vienna: food as a signifier of urban modernity in Vienna 1890–1930.

The Kunsthaus Tacheles: The Berlin Architecture Debate in Micro-Historical Context (2002)
Book Chapter
Stewart, J. C. (2002). The Kunsthaus Tacheles: The Berlin Architecture Debate in Micro-Historical Context. In S. Taberner, & F. Finlay (Eds.), Recasting German Identity: Culture, Politics and Literature in the Berlin Republic. Camden House

This collection of fifteen essays revisits the question of German identity. Unlike previous books on this topic, however, it does not focus exclusively on national identity in the aftermath of Hitler. Instead, it concentrates on the plurality of ethn... Read More about The Kunsthaus Tacheles: The Berlin Architecture Debate in Micro-Historical Context.

The World of the Waltz. Dance and Non-Contemporaneity in Schnitzler's Texts (2002)
Book Chapter
Stewart, J. C. (2002). The World of the Waltz. Dance and Non-Contemporaneity in Schnitzler's Texts. In F. Krobb, & I. Foster (Eds.), Arthur Schnitzler: Zeitgenossenschaften/Contemporaneities. Peter Lang

Arthur Schnitzler lived through a time of profound political, social and intellectual change: the First World War transformed Austria from a huge multinational empire into a small Alpine republic; the liberal middle-class consensus which characterise... Read More about The World of the Waltz. Dance and Non-Contemporaneity in Schnitzler's Texts.

The Written City. Literary Representations of Vienna at the Turn of the Centuries (2002)
Book Chapter
Stewart, J. C. (2002). The Written City. Literary Representations of Vienna at the Turn of the Centuries. In E. Grabovszki, & J. Hardin (Eds.), Literature in Vienna at the Turn of the Centuries. Continuities and Discontinuities Around 1900 and 2000 (27-49). Camden House

This book of new essays by widely-published scholars from the United States, Great Britain, Germany, and Austria examines the artistic, social, political, and historical continuities and discontinuities in Viennese literature during the periods aroun... Read More about The Written City. Literary Representations of Vienna at the Turn of the Centuries.

Nicht die Kunst darf sich vereinnahmen lassen': Franzobel, Literature and Politics in the 'New Austria (2002)
Journal Article
Stewart, J. C. (2002). Nicht die Kunst darf sich vereinnahmen lassen': Franzobel, Literature and Politics in the 'New Austria. German Life and Letters, 55(2), 219-233. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0483.00226

In the 1999 Austrian ‘Bundeswahl’, the FPÖ polled 27% of the vote, plunging Austria into political turmoil (Armin Thurnher). ‘Kulturpolitik’ assumed a pivotal role in the election, and continues to be an area of conflict in the ‘New Austria’, where t... Read More about Nicht die Kunst darf sich vereinnahmen lassen': Franzobel, Literature and Politics in the 'New Austria.

Talking of Modernity: The Viennese Vortrag as Form (1998)
Journal Article
Stewart, J. C. (1998). Talking of Modernity: The Viennese Vortrag as Form. German Life and Letters, 51(4), 455-469. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0483.00110

As part of his project to define the meaning of modernity in fin de siècle Vienna, Adolf Loos (1870–1933) held lectures in cities throughout Europe. Although the lecture represented an important vehicle for the dissemination of his ideas and those of... Read More about Talking of Modernity: The Viennese Vortrag as Form.