1 Contested Transparencies - an Introduction - Dimitrij Owetschkin and Stefan Berger.- Part I: Transparency and Ideology: Semantic and Historical Aspects.- 2 Transparency's Trap: Problems of an Unquestioned Norm - Frieder Vogelmann.- 3 The Fly on a Pane of Glass: Paradoxes of Transparency - Manfred Schneider.- 4 Literature, Transparency, Ideology: Functions of Literature in Negotiating Transparency - Jens Martin Gurr.- Part II: Transparency and the Public Sphere.- 5 Communication among Strangers: Concepts of the Public Sphere in American Newspapers of the 18th and Early 19th Century - Friedrich Jaeger.- 6 Journalism and Transparency: A Mass Communications Perspective - Susanne Fengler and Dominik Speck.- Part III: Transparency, State and Surveillance.- 7 Intelligence, Mistrust and Transparency: A Case Study of the German Office for the Protection of the Constitution - Constantin Goschler.- 8 The 'Traube Affair': Transparency as a Legitimation and Action Strategy between Surveillance, Publicity and Privacy - Christopher Kirchberg and Marcel Schmeer.- Part IV: Transparency Conflicts and Social Movements.- 9 Promises of Transparency, Promises of Participation: On the Ambivalent Rhetoric of the Occupy Movement - Martin Butler.- 10 The Dual Nature of Transparency: Corporatization and Democratization of Global Production Networks - Christian Scheper and Sabrina Zajak.- 11 The Role of Transparency in Urban Planning Processes - Jan Polivka and Christa Reicher.-