Interview Suchttherapie - Dr. Klaus Behrendt

The IGY and the ice sheet: surveying Antarctica

“…64 This was certainly the case for the US Antarctic IGY geophysicists; Behrendt notes, for instance, that '[a]fter the IGY there was a lot of money available' for the geophysical sciences. 65 However, it is interesting to note Admiral Dufek, commander of Operation Deepfreeze, expressed concerns about the NSF's role in Antarctica, worrying that the organisation might neglect America's economic, political and strategic interests in its preoccupation with science. 66 US support for Antarctic science from the late 1950s onwards highlights the escalation of a scientific 'arms-race' in Antarctica, where the US and Soviet governments each continued to invest in work there primarily because the other was also doing so, even if the continent lacked the Cold War strategic significance of the Arctic region.…”

“…One of the primary objectives of Highjump was to consolidate and extend US sovereignty over the Antarctic continent, and Behrendt surmised that this was also the case during the IGY period. 73 The seismic traverses themselves had minimal military input but we might speculate on their findings' significance for organisations like the US Air Force (USAF). A raft of Cold War weapons systems -nuclear warheads, strategic long-range bombers and inter-continental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) -had far-reaching effects on global datums.…”

Autobiographical Element in the Form of Nostalgia in Eliot’s Post-Migration Poetic Work: Four Quartets

“…The data is qualitatively studied through Behrendt's (2008) contextual analysis, in which the role of both the reader and the writer are to be specified and the text has to be situated in the background. The following key questions (in different combinations according to the need) are included in the contextual analysis of the data.…”

The Small Personal Triumph of the Homosexual Couple in “A Small Triumph” by Perry Brass

“…The textual research method focuses on the intrinsic elements of the literary text; namely, character, conflict, and setting. Meanwhile, the contextual method of analysis is "simply an analysis of a text (in whatever medium, including multi-media) that helps us to assess that text within the context of its historical and cultural setting, but also in terms of its textuality-or the qualities that characterize the text as a text" (Behrendt 2008). Behrendt's opinion is in line with Beard's who stressed that "Texts are produced by authors who live in the political and social world of their time, and we gain a better understanding of their works by taking these contexts into account" (Beard 2004, 3).…”