-
Democracy and digital communication
How platforms are embedded in political systems and shape the conditions of communication and collective decision-making.
Regular price $60.00Sale price $60.00 Regular price $60.00Unit price per -
The myths that made america
Myths play a vital role in the process of American »nation building«. On the basis of a critical analysis of central American myths this textbook offers an introduction to the field of American (Culture) Studies.
Regular price $35.00Sale price $35.00 Regular price $35.00Unit price per -
Online museum collections and social media
How are digital museum images curated, shared, and transformed across platforms? Shaping new ways of knowing about and with artefacts.
Regular price $60.00Sale price $60.00 Regular price $60.00Unit price per -
Breathe – critical research into the inequalities of life
This volume explore different acts of suffocation and release. It show how the protection of bodies is unequally and ambivalently distributed.
Regular price $35.00Sale price $35.00 Regular price $35.00Unit price per -
Labor turnover in ethiopia's textile industry
Michaela Fink investigates why the Ethiopian textile industry is particularly affected by high labor turnover, focusing primarily on the voices of the (female) workforce.
Regular price $48.00Sale price $48.00 Regular price $48.00Unit price per -
The palladio method
This book reflects on Palladio's method(s) beyond historism and style, and thus provide insights into design and building in our time.
Regular price $55.00Sale price $55.00 Regular price $55.00Unit price per -
Marxism and intersectionality
Ashley J. Bohrer argues that it is only by considering race, gender, sexuality, and ability within the structures of capitalism and imperialism that we can understand power relations. Bohrer explains how the purported incompatibilities between Marxism and intersectionality arise more from miscomm...
Read MoreRegular price $45.00Sale price $45.00 Regular price $45.00Unit price per -
The invention of ›outsider art‹
Marion Scherr investigates structural inequalities and the myth of the Other in Western art history, examining the role of ›Outsider Art‹ in contemporary art worlds in the UK.
Regular price $55.00Sale price $55.00 Regular price $55.00Unit price per -
Enduring enmity
How did the relationship between the politically very disparate theorists Carl Schmitt and Otto Kirchheim shape their political thinking? Hubertus Buchstein investigates the personal, political, and theoretical dimensions between the infamous legal theorist Schmitt and his former student Kirchhei...
Read MoreRegular price $65.00Sale price $65.00 Regular price $65.00Unit price per -
Webfare
Webfare, a form of digital welfare, seeks to initiate a Copernican revolution that places need instead of merit at the center of society.
Regular price $25.00Sale price $25.00 Regular price $25.00Unit price per -
Assistive media
This book provides a unique perspective on assistance, situated at the intersection of media studies and disability studies.
Regular price $56.00Sale price $56.00 Regular price $56.00Unit price per -
Images on the move
This edited volume re-examines the historical, aesthetical, and theoretical relevance of image mobility. The contributors provide a materialist account of images on the move—ranging from wired photography to postcards to streaming media.
Regular price $50.00Sale price $50.00 Regular price $50.00Unit price per -
Competition in world politics
The “return of great power competition” among (among others) the United States, China, Russia and the EU is a major topic in contemporary public debate. This cutting-edge edited collection offers a fresh account of competition in world politics, looking beyond its military dimensions to questions...
Read MoreRegular price $45.00Sale price $45.00 Regular price $45.00Unit price per -
Black (post-)cinemas
In this collection of essays, Maja Figge traces the transtemporal bonds between militant African film and Afro-diasporic post-cinema.
Regular price $45.00Sale price $45.00 Regular price $45.00Unit price per -
Queer art
A queer theory of visual art – based on extensive readings of art works Queer Art traces the question of how strategies of denormalization initiated by visual arts can be continued through writing. In the book's three chapters art theoretical debates are combined with queer theory, post-colonial ...
Read MoreRegular price $26.50Sale price $26.50 Regular price $26.50Unit price per -
Geopolitics and energy diplomacy in the caspian region
Yunis Gurbanov explores the strategic importance of the Caspian region and how its oil and gas resources could serve as an alternative to conventional suppliers.
Regular price $55.00Sale price $55.00 Regular price $55.00Unit price per -
Border wall aesthetics
Is there a deeper significance in the artistic encounter with border walls? Elisa Ganivet revisits the history of border wall aesthetics and compares more recent border-related works by artists including Joseph Beuys, Banksy, and Frida Kahlo.
Regular price $95.00Sale price $95.00 Regular price $95.00Unit price per -
Right-wing populism and gender
While the field of research in right-wing populism has recently been blossoming and is expanding, a systematic look into the interface of right-wing populism and gender is still missing. This volume seeks to strengthen the analysis of the intersection of gender and race as constitutional for radi...
Read MoreRegular price $40.00Sale price $40.00 Regular price $40.00Unit price per -
Urban heritage planning in tehran and beyond
Solmaz Yadollahi maps the historical trajectory of conservation and urban heritage planning in Iran.
Regular price $50.00Sale price $50.00 Regular price $50.00Unit price per -
Geographical research in the digital humanities
This book encourages further research utilizing out-of-the-box models and approaches to space and place in the field of Digital Humanities.
Regular price $45.00Sale price $45.00 Regular price $45.00Unit price per -
The flavor of thinking
A holistic perspective on strategies, methodologies, and examples of writing and reading by philosopher-artists and artistic researchers who strive toward a genuine crossover between art and philosophy.
Regular price $60.00Sale price $60.00 Regular price $60.00Unit price per -
Belonging through heritage?
A sociolgical lens on local festivals shows how minorities in German towns draw symbolic boundaries shaped by and resisting global heritage discourses.
Regular price $60.00Sale price $60.00 Regular price $60.00Unit price per -
Big screens, small forms
Lisa Gotto presents a multifaceted collection of essays that explore thetransformational potential of digital media culture, contextualize itsmedia-technical conditions, and reflect on its social consequences.
Regular price $55.00Sale price $55.00 Regular price $55.00Unit price per -
The femininity puzzle
The »femininity puzzle« presents itself in two ways: first in the role of effeminization of the male Jew in antisemitic discourse, and then in the transgressive forms of femininity connected to Jewish women, especially the allosemitic Orientalization in the figure of the »Beautiful Jewess«.
Regular price $55.00Sale price $55.00 Regular price $55.00Unit price per -
The poetics and politics of invective humor
Katja Schulze explores the formal principles, media-specific realizations, and the cultural work of disparagement in contemporary female-led situation comedies. Subsequently, larger patterns of (gender-based) invective strategies and conventions that define the dynamism of this comedic genre come...
Read MoreRegular price $50.00Sale price $50.00 Regular price $50.00Unit price per -
Extraordinary forms of aging
This study contributes to a deeper understanding of age(ing) by exploring its construction through the analysis of extraordinary cases. Focusing on life narratives of centenarians and children with progeria.
Regular price $55.00Sale price $55.00 Regular price $55.00Unit price per -
Virtual reality exhibited
A world within a world: exploring virtual reality in contemporary art, its technical potential, aesthetic qualities, and associated imaginations.
Regular price $55.00Sale price $55.00 Regular price $55.00Unit price per -
Global authoritarianism
Twenty scholar-activists from the Global South show in their in-depth studies how national processes of authoritarian capitalism have undermined political systems on a global scale.
Regular price $35.00Sale price $35.00 Regular price $35.00Unit price per -
Interwar crossroads
Studying the entangled histories of the areas conceptualized as Middle Eastern and North Atlantic World in the interwar years is crucial to understanding the two areas' respective and common histories until today.
Regular price $55.00Sale price $55.00 Regular price $55.00Unit price per -
Forming the modern turkish village
Özge Sezer outlines the implementation of new rural settlements in Turkey, particularly following the 1934 Settlement Law, with a geographic focus on two cities - Izmir and Elazig - with varied socio-economic and ethnic standing in the state program.
Regular price $55.00Sale price $55.00 Regular price $55.00Unit price per -
Remembering future disasters
An ethnographic exploration of the multiple ways in which disasters and time are co-constituted in the Peruvian Andes.
Regular price $60.00Sale price $60.00 Regular price $60.00Unit price per -
Looking through theatre
A pivotal methodological approach to performance analysis connecting phenomenology and intermediality to engage with orders of looking.
Regular price $55.00Sale price $55.00 Regular price $55.00Unit price per -
Affective worldmaking
This edited collection brings together essays on affect and narrative theory with a focus on the topics of gender and sexuality. It explores the power of narrative in literature, film, art, performance, and mass media, the construction of subjectivities of gender and sexuality, and the role of af...
Read MoreRegular price $45.00Sale price $45.00 Regular price $45.00Unit price per -
Refiguration of cyberspace
An exploration of the spatial refiguration of the Internet from an interdisciplinary perspective.
Regular price $55.00Sale price $55.00 Regular price $55.00Unit price per -
Andererseits - yearbook of transatlantic german studies
andererseits provides a forum for research, commentary, and creative work on topics related to the German-speaking world and the field of German Studies. Publishing a diverse array of materials to demonstrate the extraordinary value of the humanities in general, and German Studies in particular, ...
Read MoreRegular price $50.00Sale price $50.00 Regular price $50.00Unit price per -
Public space in transition
Dahae Lee shows that in such a transitional context, the public sector alone is incapable to provide and manage public space. Hence, it engages private sector entities in the form of privately owned public space/s (POPS).Based on the results this study offers a nmber of policy recommendations for...
Read MoreRegular price $45.00Sale price $45.00 Regular price $45.00Unit price per -
Transitional territories
Ayse Güngör investigates art practices between art and anthropology in Turkey, as well as the implications of contemporary art for those disciplines.
Regular price $55.00Sale price $55.00 Regular price $55.00Unit price per -
Imaging the scenes of war
In American visual culture, the 1930s and 1940s were a key transitional period shaped by the era of modernism and the global confrontation of World War II. Christof Decker demonstrates that the war and its iconography of destruction challenged visual artists to find new ways of representing its c...
Read MoreRegular price $45.00Sale price $45.00 Regular price $45.00Unit price per -
Internment refugee camps
The contributors facilitate an extensive engagement with the organized, state led, and forced placement of refugees in the past and present. They show the parallels and differences between the practices and types of internment in different countries - while considering the specific historical con...
Read MoreRegular price $50.00Sale price $50.00 Regular price $50.00Unit price per -
Sensing collectives
The book investigate how aesthetics and politics are entangled, both in building and disrupting collective orders, in governance and innovation. This ranges from populist rallies and artistic activism over alternative lifestyles and consumer culture to corporate PR and governmental policies.
Regular price $35.00Sale price $35.00 Regular price $35.00Unit price per -
Critical by design?
With contributions from design theory, practice and education, art theory, philosophy, and informatics, »Critical by Design?« aims to question and unpack the ambivalent tensions between design and critique.
Regular price $55.00Sale price $55.00 Regular price $55.00Unit price per -
Dimensions. journal of architectural knowledge
Issue 4, »Essentials of Montage in Architecture«, provides a comprehensive collection of theories, methods, and visions to highlight the relevance of montage for visual and spatial practices as well as for knowledge production in architecture.
Regular price $45.00Sale price $45.00 Regular price $45.00Unit price per -
Decentering world’s fairs
How are art and fashion histories connected? An analysis focusing on transcultural style migrations in a globalized art world.
Regular price $60.00Sale price $60.00 Regular price $60.00Unit price per -
Facing drag
A global, cross-media rethinking of drag – gender, race, and power from court spectacle to memes.
Regular price $45.00Sale price $45.00 Regular price $45.00Unit price per -
In the maze of media
Internationally renowned scholars, curators, and artists gathered in the present volume map and interrogate this intimate nexus by forging diverse pathways through the political force fields, technological milieus, and ecological environments in which both art and media are situated and interwove...
Read MoreRegular price $45.00Sale price $45.00 Regular price $45.00Unit price per -
Critical political theory
How can political theory advance democracy and emancipatory social change while remaining critical of its own norms and foundations?
Regular price $36.00Sale price $36.00 Regular price $36.00Unit price per -
Grounding digitalization
An analysis of digitalization from a »grounding« perspective that explores involved cultural practices, materialities, and spaces.
Regular price $54.00Sale price $54.00 Regular price $54.00Unit price per -
Climatic subjects
Who, or what, is the contemporary climatic subject? And where do we find the stories, the imaginations, the relationships of future climatic subjects?
Regular price $43.00Sale price $43.00 Regular price $43.00Unit price per -
Dirty dragging
The ambivalence of mimetic practices under apartheid, National Socialism, and Jim Crow – new queer theoretical reflections on drag from a transoceanic perspective.
Regular price $35.00Sale price $35.00 Regular price $35.00Unit price per -
Amnesty international and women's rights
Miriam Ganzfried offers a comprehensive look at Amnesty International’s work on women’s rights. Through interviews with staff members and activists and unprecedented access to archival material from the Swiss and the German sections, she shows how women activists strategized to make AI increase i...
Read MoreRegular price $55.00Sale price $55.00 Regular price $55.00Unit price per
Something went wrong
Please try again
