Tom Lampert

Biographic Data

ID10752630
NAMETom Lampert
GIVEN NAMESTom
FAMILY NAMELampert
SIGNATURELAMPERT T
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS5
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR3
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2009
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2011
H-INDEX0

  • The Impermanence Syndrome

    Gregor Thum, Tom Lampert et al.TRANSLATORCHAPTERHow Breslau became Wrocław during…2011

    This chapter begins with Joanna Konopinka's account of her arrival in Wroclaw. Her words illustrate vividly the enormous discrepancy between the actual experiences of Polish settlers and the patriotic appeals of the government, which spoke of the western territories as ancient Polish soil, a land of milk and honey that was to be resettled after centuries and that promised prosperity to all comers. Polish settlers arriving in the western territori…

  • Mythicizing History

    Gregor Thum, Tom Lampert et al.TRANSLATORCHAPTERHow Breslau became Wrocław during…2011

    This chapter examines how the study of local history as an “act of self-reassurance” has grown in importance as societies have become mobile and people are less tied to a specific location. Historian Helmut Flachenecker writes of modern society that one is no longer the citizen of a location primarily by birth, but rather by history. This is true to an extreme degree of the Polish city of Wroclaw, whose society came into being as the result of a …

  • Far-Fetched Facts

    Allison Brown, Richard Rottenburg et al.BOOKFar-fetched facts2009

  • Interstitial Spaces

    Richard Rottenburg, Allison Brown et al.CHAPTERFar-fetched facts2009

    Johannes von Moltke believes that in the three Ruritanian regional capitals, Baridi, Mlimani, and Jamala, the share of the produced water that is paid for is so low that the waterworks could not survive financially. Julius C. Shilling identifies script-switching as the main cause of project’s problem, whereas Martonosi believes that difficulty in development cooperation results from its reduction to a technical game with facts and figures. The wa…

  • Prologue

    Richard Rottenburg, Allison Brown et al.CHAPTERFar-fetched facts2009

    This book focuses on the practices of organizing development cooperation, experimental ethnographic writing, and anthropological works. Its six chapters examine the various aspects of a water supply project in Ruritania (a fictional country located in sub-Saharan Africa) and the functions of a development bank. Usually, a development bank reviews the application for a rehabilitation measure and then commissions a private contractor, a so-called c…