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Arctic archives
This pioneering volume explores the Arctic as an important and highly endangered archive of knowledge about natural as well as human history of the Anthropocene. Focusing on the Arctic as an archive means not only to investigate it as a place of human history and memory but to take into account i...
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Performing technocapitalism
Based on ethnographic research in makerspaces and co-working spaces in Nairobi, Alev Coban argues that postcolonial technology entrepreneurship is neoliberal, and inherently political work.
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Marx's others
This book revives Marx in order to understand race and gender as part of the capitalist totality, and to strike more fundamentally at the heart of contemporary capitalism.
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The youth climate uprising
The Youth Climate Uprising offers an insider perspective on the fight for a globally just and sustainable society.
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Ballet and taiji in practice
Starting from the contrast of two socially developed movement systems, the aesthetic performing art of classical ballet vis-à-vis the internal martial art of taijiquan (aka tai chi), Robert Mitchell plunges into the depths of what it means to practice these two ways of moving, identifying commona...
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Space production by migrants in china's urban villages
This book offers insights into how the Chinese government has made massive investments to modernize the urban fabric without paying much attention to the socioeconomic impacts of these policies
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The gaze of the x-ray
The contributors to this book show how the X-ray represents a set of relations between civilization and ruination.
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Resonant fabrics
Marvin Heine explores soundscapes as they shape, and are shaped by urban cultures and particular ways of listening.
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To the last drop – affective economies of extraction and sentimentality
This book examines the links between extractivism and gendered discourses of sentimentality.
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Making transformative geographies
Benedikt Schmid considers the development of visions, alternatives, and strategies for a radical transformation beyond growth-based economies. Covering a sample of 24 eco-social organizations, projects, and groupings in the city of Stuttgart, Germany, the study drills down into the social, spatia...
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Disturbed ecologies
This book critically addresses the geopolitics of environmental devastation from the perspective of photographers, artists, curators and theorists. The contributors engage with recent debates about the Anthropocene and the need to identify the socioeconomic and political causes of climate change.
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European regions
Regions are important objects of identification to their citizens, but also relevant political and legal entities in the EU’s multilevel governance system. This edited volume asks about the potential of regions for trendsetting when it comes to combat the EU’s democratic deficit today.
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Whistleblowing for change
What are the effects of whistleblowing on politics, society, and the arts? By linking a diverse selection of perspectives and practices, this book investigates whistleblowing as a developing political practice that has the ability to provoke change from within.
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Ethical challenges of organ transplantation
This collection features comprehensive overviews of the various ethical challenges in organ transplantation. It covers core issues in the global ethical debate such as donating, procuring, allocating, and receiving organs, as well as considering alternatives.
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Musical practice as a form of life
How is musical practice connected with everyday life? Eva-Maria Houben shows that performing music as an activity—indeed, as playing—allows meaning to unfold in specific situations, places, and relationships.
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Concrete and water
An extraordinary ethnographic dive into documenta fifteen, analyzing its organization, execution, impact, and unique atmospheric forces.
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Tuning up! the innovative potential of musikvermittlung
Various actors in the field of classical music have developed a wide range of new artistic and educational practices over the last two decades, aiming to facilitate in-depth aesthetic experiences, bond with new audiences, and encourage active cultural participation. The contributors focus on the ...
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Mapping black europe
Black communities have made major contributions to Europe for centuries, yet their achievements largely remain unrecognized. In this groundbreaking book, leading Black scholars and activists examine this issue. They discuss collective narratives, outline community action, and introduce people and...
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Youth and the state in guinea: meandering lives
By combining an ethnographic study of youth with an analysis of the local state in the making, this monograph introduces the perspective of “meandering lives” to grasp being young and growing up in the Guéckédou borderland, a remote space approximately 700 kilometers southeast of Conakry, Guinea’...
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Dramatic disgust
Aesthetic disgust is a key component of most classic works of drama. This extensive study on dramatic disgust places this sensation among pity and fear as one of the core emotions that can achieve catharsis. Sarah Ablett explains how revulsion allows theater to dig deeper into what it means to be...
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The corporate art index
Based on extensive research, Viviane Mörmann presents twenty-one promising corporate art initiatives (CAIs). She introduces different types of art initiatives and provides a standardized scheme to evaluate them.
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Popular music and public diplomacy
In the early years of the Cold War, Western nations increasingly adopted strategies of public diplomacy involving popular music. While the diplomatic use of popular music was initially limited to such genres as jazz, the second half of the 20th century saw a growing presence of various popular ge...
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Good white queers?
How do white queer people portray their own whiteness? Close readings of Dykes To Watch Out For and Stuck Rubber Baby by queer comic icons Alison Bechdel and Howard Cruse as well as Jaime Cortez’s graphic novel Sexile/Sexilio trace the intersections of queerness and racism.
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The redundant city
Norbert Kling explores the rich body of narrative knowledge about conflict and change provided by architecture and urbanism and confronts this knowledge with an empirically grounded situational analysis of a large housing estate. His concept of the “Redundant City” describes a specific form of co...
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The social life of the mall
In an ethnography of the mall, Franziska Reiffen explores how people create socially meaningful places in cities characterized by diversity, inequality, and mobility.
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Body and reality
Is materialism right to claim that the world of everyday-life experience – the phenomenal world – is nothing but an illusion produced in physical reality, notably in the brain? Or is Merleau-Ponty right when he defends the fundamental character of the phenomenal world while rejecting physical rea...
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Narrativity and violence
Based on several case studies, this book explores typical problems in the study of violence through survivors' narratives, and possible ways of dealing with them.
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Writing romantic climate change
Anya Heise-von der Lippe draws on intersectional feminist and ecocritical approaches to highlight gender as a complicating category in Romantic engagements with these topics.
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Nautical media
Asher Boersma explores the mediatisation of navigation and nautical mobility.
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Healthcare as a human rights issue
This book deals with various facets of the human right to health: its normative profile as a universal right, current political and legal conflicts and contextualized implementation in different healthcare systems. The authors come from different countries and disciplines – law, political science...
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Andererseits – yearbook of transatlantic german studies
In this book, Andererseits provides a forum for research and reflection on topics related to the German-speaking world and the field of German Studies.
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Appropriating history
Popular media plays an important role in collective imaginations of history. The volume investigates this phenomenon by examining examples from Belarusian, Russian, and Ukrainian popular cultures.
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Digital media and textuality
Due to computers' ability to combine different semiotic modes, texts are no longer exclusively comprised of static images and mute words. How have digital media changed the way we write and read? What methods of textual and data analysis have emerged? How do we rescue digital artifacts from obsol...
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Contested solidarity
This ethnographic account of the German “welcome culture” provides insights into the contested practices, imaginaries, interests, and politics of refugee solidarity. Drawing on works from critical migration studies to social anthropology, Larissa Fleischmann develops an empirically grounded under...
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Arab berlin
This book discusses Arab culture in Berlin to shed light on the dynamics of transformation with Arabs as agents, subjects, and objects of change in the spheres of politics, society and history, gender, demographics and migration, media and culture, and education and research.
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Post-digital cultures of the far right
This volume presents a critical survey of the online and offline tactics, symbols, and platforms that are used by contemporary far-right groups in Europe and North America. Featuring short, accessible analyses, the book explains how and why the Internet has been crucial to emboldening extremism a...
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Spaces of commemoration and communication
Stefan Sonvilla-Weiss examines commemorative culture and its transformation towards interactive and participatory experiences through a novel form of visitor engagement at the Mauthausen memorial visiting center.
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