Regula Ludi
Biographic Data
| ID | 696570 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Regula Ludi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Regula |
| FAMILY NAME | Ludi |
| SIGNATURE | LUDI R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bern |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5216-7377 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Power of Voluntary Activity
This special issue explores voluntary activities from a global perspective. Questioning theirassumed universality and Western-centric foundations, the contributions examine voluntaryactivity as a historically contingent social practice that carries different meanings and conse-quences across time and space. Case studies from England, Lebanon, India, Slovenia, and Swit-zerland demonstrate how voluntary activities can both challenge and reinforce e…
Welcome to Volunteerland
This article argues that the availability of statistical information on volunteering resulted froma variety of efforts to make previously obscured contributions to countries’ wealth and well-being visible as productive activities. Since the late 1960s, economists from the Global Southand feminists criticized international economic standards for their Western and male bias. Thesediscontents led to the introduction of unpaid work as a new category …
Introduction
Dialektiken der Freiwilligkeit
Die Großmütter und wir
What is voluntarism, and how can we conceptualise it as a subject of historical research? In this article we address these questions with regard to the relationship between gender arrangements and voluntarism in modern Switzerland. Our considerations are based on the assumption that voluntary aid is not a spontaneous act or an amorphous activity but rather constitutes a mode that regulates social relations and structures social order. Building on…
More and Less Deserving Refugees
In 1956, thousands of Hungarian refugees found a warm welcome in Switzerland. Swiss students took to the streets to demonstrate against Soviet repression of the Hungarian uprising. However, the upsurge of public sympathy for the refugees barely covered up recent controversy in Switzerland over asylum policy during the years of fascism and the Second World War. In 1954, only two years before the Hungarian refugee crisis, newly released German fore…
Reparations for Nazi Victims in Postwar Europe
Reparations of Nazi Victims in Postwar Europe traces reparations back to their origins in the final years of the Second World War, when victims of Nazi persecution for the first time articulated demands for indemnification en masse. Simultaneous appearance of claims in New York, London, Paris and Tel Aviv exemplified the birth of a new standard in political morality. Across Europe, the demand for compensation to individuals who suffered severe ha…
Haile Selassie auf Jamaika
The Vectors of Postwar Victim Reparations
This article discusses the reparation schemes that were developed in response to the nazi policies of persecution and genocide. It looks at the measures aimed at redressing nazi atrocities in a wider context of postwar planning and reconstruction and asks how proposals for individual compensation payments dealt with the shortfalls in international law. In comparing French, East German and Swiss compensation policies, it also focuses on intersecti…
Demystification or Restoration of Neutrality? Confronting the History of the Nazi Era in Switzerland
The Eichmann trial is considered a turning point in reflections upon the Holocaust. This article raises the questions of how it influenced reckoning with the past in Switzerland and whether it impacted entrenched Swiss assumptions on the Nazi era past. For most of the post-war era grappling with wartime history has been intimately linked to neutrality which was both a determinant and outcome of collective memory production. A specific framing of …
Waging War on Wartime Memory
In recent years, Holocaust legacies have attained an unprecedented and unexpected political significance on an international scale. The failure not only of Germany but also of Allied and neutral countries to appropriately compensate the victims of the Nazis and to return looted assets eventually became a scandal. At the center of these debates were the "dormant accounts" of Nazi victims in Swiss banks. For many observers, these assets came to sym…
The Vectors of Postwar Victim Reparations
This article discusses the reparation schemes that were developed in response to the nazi policies of persecution and genocide. It looks at the measures aimed at redressing nazi atrocities in a wider context of postwar planning and reconstruction and asks how proposals for individual compensation payments dealt with the shortfalls in international law. In comparing French, East German and Swiss compensation policies, it also focuses on intersecti…
More and Less Deserving Refugees
In 1956, thousands of Hungarian refugees found a warm welcome in Switzerland. Swiss students took to the streets to demonstrate against Soviet repression of the Hungarian uprising. However, the upsurge of public sympathy for the refugees barely covered up recent controversy in Switzerland over asylum policy during the years of fascism and the Second World War. In 1954, only two years before the Hungarian refugee crisis, newly released German fore…
Demystification or Restoration of Neutrality? Confronting the History of the Nazi Era in Switzerland
The Eichmann trial is considered a turning point in reflections upon the Holocaust. This article raises the questions of how it influenced reckoning with the past in Switzerland and whether it impacted entrenched Swiss assumptions on the Nazi era past. For most of the post-war era grappling with wartime history has been intimately linked to neutrality which was both a determinant and outcome of collective memory production. A specific framing of …
Waging War on Wartime Memory
In recent years, Holocaust legacies have attained an unprecedented and unexpected political significance on an international scale. The failure not only of Germany but also of Allied and neutral countries to appropriately compensate the victims of the Nazis and to return looted assets eventually became a scandal. At the center of these debates were the "dormant accounts" of Nazi victims in Swiss banks. For many observers, these assets came to sym…
Waging War on Wartime Memory
In recent years, Holocaust legacies have attained an unprecedented and unexpected political significance on an international scale. The failure not only of Germany but also of Allied and neutral countries to appropriately compensate the victims of the Nazis and to return looted assets eventually became a scandal. At the center of these debates were the "dormant accounts" of Nazi victims in Swiss banks. For many observers, these assets came to sym…
Demystification or Restoration of Neutrality? Confronting the History of the Nazi Era in Switzerland
The Eichmann trial is considered a turning point in reflections upon the Holocaust. This article raises the questions of how it influenced reckoning with the past in Switzerland and whether it impacted entrenched Swiss assumptions on the Nazi era past. For most of the post-war era grappling with wartime history has been intimately linked to neutrality which was both a determinant and outcome of collective memory production. A specific framing of …
The Vectors of Postwar Victim Reparations
This article discusses the reparation schemes that were developed in response to the nazi policies of persecution and genocide. It looks at the measures aimed at redressing nazi atrocities in a wider context of postwar planning and reconstruction and asks how proposals for individual compensation payments dealt with the shortfalls in international law. In comparing French, East German and Swiss compensation policies, it also focuses on intersecti…
Haile Selassie auf Jamaika
Reparations for Nazi Victims in Postwar Europe
Reparations of Nazi Victims in Postwar Europe traces reparations back to their origins in the final years of the Second World War, when victims of Nazi persecution for the first time articulated demands for indemnification en masse. Simultaneous appearance of claims in New York, London, Paris and Tel Aviv exemplified the birth of a new standard in political morality. Across Europe, the demand for compensation to individuals who suffered severe ha…
More and Less Deserving Refugees
In 1956, thousands of Hungarian refugees found a warm welcome in Switzerland. Swiss students took to the streets to demonstrate against Soviet repression of the Hungarian uprising. However, the upsurge of public sympathy for the refugees barely covered up recent controversy in Switzerland over asylum policy during the years of fascism and the Second World War. In 1954, only two years before the Hungarian refugee crisis, newly released German fore…
Die Großmütter und wir
What is voluntarism, and how can we conceptualise it as a subject of historical research? In this article we address these questions with regard to the relationship between gender arrangements and voluntarism in modern Switzerland. Our considerations are based on the assumption that voluntary aid is not a spontaneous act or an amorphous activity but rather constitutes a mode that regulates social relations and structures social order. Building on…
Introduction
Dialektiken der Freiwilligkeit
The Power of Voluntary Activity
This special issue explores voluntary activities from a global perspective. Questioning theirassumed universality and Western-centric foundations, the contributions examine voluntaryactivity as a historically contingent social practice that carries different meanings and conse-quences across time and space. Case studies from England, Lebanon, India, Slovenia, and Swit-zerland demonstrate how voluntary activities can both challenge and reinforce e…
Welcome to Volunteerland
This article argues that the availability of statistical information on volunteering resulted froma variety of efforts to make previously obscured contributions to countries’ wealth and well-being visible as productive activities. Since the late 1960s, economists from the Global Southand feminists criticized international economic standards for their Western and male bias. Thesediscontents led to the introduction of unpaid work as a new category …
Political science (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Communism, Protests, Social Movements (6 works) · European history and politics (6 works) · History (6 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Nazism (4 works)