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On making fiction
Friederike Danebrock shows how texts insist that we take them seriously as agents and interlocutors in our world- and culture-making activities.
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Music practices across borders
Reconnecting migration studies and the theory of valuation, this collection offers an interdisciplinary approach to the study of transnational music practices. Through these practices, values are created and shared which connect a way of music making with objects and places of experiencing music ...
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Townscapes in transition
How did urban Italy come to look the way it does today? This collection assembles recent studies in architectural history and theory exploring the historical paradigms guiding architecture and landscape design in between the world wars.
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Identity, power, and prestige in switzerland's multilingual education
This book investigates how Switzerland negotiates neoliberal forces with the growing necessity of English, a romanticized view on national languages, and the social justice perspective of institutionalizing heritage languages.
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Who can speak and who is heard/hurt?
Ethnic diversity, race, and racism have been subject to discussion in American Studies departments at German universities for many years. It appears that especially in the past few decades, ethnic minorities and 'new immigrants' have increasingly become objects of scholarly inquiry. Such research...
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Decentering musical modernity
This collection investigates the concept of modernity in music and its multiple interpretations in Europe and Asia. Through contributions by both European and Asian musicologists it discusses decentering understanding of musical modernity, while attentive to the specificities of local music.
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Re-cording lives
Administrative asylum procedures are permeated by tensions between rationalities of legality, efficiency, and deterrence in asylum casework and their various effects on cases. Based on ethnographic research in the Swiss asylum administration, this book unveils the pragmatics and politics of rende...
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Towards shared research
Towards Shared Research portrays how scholars from different disciplinary and geographical origins and at various academic career stages strive for a more inclusive understanding of knowledge about African environments. Addressed to researchers, facilitators, and policy makers, it makes a case fo...
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External communication in social media during asymmetric conflicts
This book examines the strategies of external communication that conflict parties use during asymmetric conflicts. In a comprehensive case study of the conflict in Israel and Palestine, Bernd Hirschberger shows that the selection of strategies of external communication is shaped by the (asymmetri...
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Cities of entanglements
How do people live together in cities shaped by inequality? This comparative ethnography of two African cities, Maputo and Johannesburg, presents a new narrative about social life in cities often described as sharply divided.
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21st century retro: "mad men" and 1960s america in film and television
Numerous contemporary televisual productions revisit the past but direct their energies toward history’s nonevents and antiheroic subjectivities. Debarchana Baruah offers a new vocabulary to discuss these works, using Mad Men as her primary case study and supplementing the analysis with other exa...
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Intergenerational stories of gender and education
How does education form gender identity? Results from an intergenerational digital storytelling project, with educators depicting how education and gender are intertwined.
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Spaces for shaping the nation
This book examines the various possibilities of museum education.
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Sensing and making sense
Through a genealogy of photosensitive elements in media devices and artworks, this book investigates three dichotomies that impoverish debates and proposals in media art: material/immaterial, organic/machinic, and theory/practice.
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Robotic knitting
Pat Treusch provides a technofeminist intervention that not only shows how both the fields of technofeminism and robotics can engage in a practical exchange through knitting but also contributes a tangible example of coboting dynamics. Robotic Knitting re-crafts the nature of collaboration betwee...
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Digital culture & society (dcs)
This special issue revisits and reconsider the concept of domestication, as mobile and digital media become integral to home life.
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Digital culture & society (dcs)
This double issue addresses the complex thematic field of the dialectics of play and labor. It takes a closer look at the problem of play and work from two overlapping perspectives: laborious play and playful work.
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The aftermaths of participation
Based on interviews with museum practitioners, mediators and project participants, Susanne Boersma brings together unique insights into museum work with forced migrants. She assesses projects in Germany, the Netherlands and the UK to illustrate how museums' (post)colonial infrastructures limit th...
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Jacob moleschott – a transnational biography
Laura Meneghello's biography of the scientist and politician Jacob Moleschott explores processes of knowledge circulation, transnational mobility, and the role of translation in nineteenth-century science. She sheds new light on the history of materialism in the natural sciences and the deep enta...
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La chance
Providing an explorative experience to the reader, this study accounts for the elusiveness of la chance in the Bamako context and beyond.
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Sweet home chicago?
Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork among older Mexican migrants in Chicago, Franziska Bedorf investigates the phenomenon of return migration by tracing how people's intentions to go back change over time. Considering global labour mobility, she examines transformations of belonging and the...
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Indian architecture in postcards
Focusing on a private collection of 60 postcards this book explores the many dimensions of modern architecture in India from the 1890s to the 1970s.
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Ethics for the future
Stephanie Bender proposes that fiction and its modes of aesthetic simulation and emotional engagement offer a different way of knowing and judging possible futures.
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Emerging affinities – possible futures of performative arts
This volume is a response to the growing need for new methodological approaches to the rapidly changing landscape of performative practices. The authors address a host of contemporary phenomena situated at the crossroads between science and fiction that employ various media and merge live partici...
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Norman m. klein's »bleeding through: layers of los angeles«
A Reissue of Norman M. Klein's Bleeding Through, featuring an interview with Klein and two docufables from Klein's The History of Forgetting.
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Artistic transfer
Ursula Bertram contends that when artistic thought is circulated and probed in nonartistic fields, a crucial pattern called artistic transfer emerges.
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Energy and forces as aesthetic interventions
This volume collects academic as well as artistic explorations highlighting historical and contemporary approaches to the energetic in its aesthetic and political potential. The contributions in this volume elucidate maneuvers of mobilization, activation, initiation, regulation, navigation, and c...
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Social entrepreneurship in germany
Philipp Kenel traces the popular media representation of Social enrepreneurship in Germany over time (1999—2021), making an important empirical contribution to the sociological and political understanding of the phenomenon.
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Zeitschrift für interkulturelle germanistik
Die Zeitschrift für interkulturelle Germanistik(ZiG) trägt dem Umstand Rechnung, dass sich in der nationalen und internationalen Germanistik Interkulturalität als eine leitende und innovative Forschungskategorie etabliert hat. Sie greift aktuelle Fragestellungen im Bereich der germanistischen Lit...
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Conflicts in urban future-making
An inquiry into conflictual dynamics arising from imagining, negotiating, and materializing different urban futures in contemporary times of crisis.
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A tale of two unions
Mark Corner suggests the UK can only survive as a single nation-state if it looks sympathetically at the European structures from which it detached itself.
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A senior moment
Ageing and Memory are two cultural processes that establish their own relationships with time. They affect our ways of living, in the present, and for a future, as we move through life. This book focuses on the cultural mediations of ageing and memory, teasing out their complex and largely unpred...
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Gender and age/aging in popular culture
This volume is an analyses representations of the intersections of gender and age/ing in cultural and media consumption, such as literature, film, music, and social media.
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Mistrust
Scholars have long seen trust as a foundational social good. We therefore have ample studies on building trust in free markets, on cultivating trust in the state, and on rebuilding trust through civil society. The contributors to this volume, instead, take a step back. They ask: Can mistrust ever...
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Education and development in afghanistan
After years of military interventions, the current situation in Afghanistan is highly ambivalent and partially contradictory – especially regarding the interplay of development, peace, security, education, and economy. Despite numerous initiatives, Afghanistan is still confronted with a poor secu...
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Art intelligence
Jan Svenungsson investigates what AI might do for art, and what it might change, circling the core issue of what it is in human art-making that cannot be replaced.
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Ewa partum's artistic practice
The Polish-born artist Ewa Partum is considered a pioneer of Central-Eastern European feminist art produced within the conceptual idiom. Karolina Majewska-Güde articulates the historical alterity of Ewa Partum’s works in their various locations and the specificity of the positions from which Part...
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Modes of production
This book challenges the predominant notions of professionalization that have underpinned theatre training practices.
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Cosmopolitan communication studies
A timely call and a guideline on how to make communication studies and its various fields truly international.
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Catalytic mega-events
Starting from the case of Tokyo 2020, the contributors bring about planetary trajectories of urban transformation today from both a theoretical and empirical perspective.
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Bodies of democracy
Amanda Machin considers six embodied modes of democratic politics: identification, deliberation, disagreement, protest, occupation and counsel. Drawing on diverse thinkers, she offers an absorbing illustration of the ways that human bodies are not only the disciplined objects of politics but also...
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Aging and self-realization
Hanne Laceulle outlines counternarratives about later life that acknowledge both its potentials and vulnerabilities. She explores the significance of ethical concepts essential to the process of growing old such as autonomy, authenticity, and virtue, aiming to support older individuals in their s...
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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.
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De souza lima et al. (eds.), feminisms in movement
The contributors bring together a wide variety of perspectives, ranging from Black and decolonial feminist voices, LGBTQI/queer perspectives to ecofeminist approaches and indigenous women's mobilizations to inspire future feminist practices and inform social and cohabitation projects.
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Translations and participation
The contributors to this book spark a cross-disciplinary dialogue on the intersection of translations - linguistic and cultural - and participation.
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The wealthy, the brilliant, the few
Sophie Spieler explores scholarly and journalistic investigations, self-representational texts, and fictional narratives revolving around the Ivy League and its peers in order to understand elite education and its peculiar position in American cultural discourse.
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Urban resilience in a global context
This volume moves beyond praise and critique by focusing on the actors, agendas, and narratives that define urban resilience in a global context. By exploring the past, present, and future of urban resilience, this volume unlocks the potential of this concept to build more sustainable, inclusive,...
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Poetic resurrection
This study of the Bronx in American popular culture traces a complex dialogue on its past, present, and future. Sina Nitzsche argues that popular culture functioned as a poetic resurrection of the Bronx, which preceded, promoted, and facilitated the spatial revival of the borough and inspired oth...
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Metropolitan research
This book provides a scholarly and accessible overview of key methods and approaches in metropolitan research from a uniquely broad range of disciplines.
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Pariahs or partners?
Oliver Kossack provides a comprehensive study on government formation with radical right parties in Central and Eastern European countries.
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