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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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The mereological city
In a positive departure from modernism, the work of the art critic and urbanist Ludwig Hilberseimer offers schemata towards the design for the city itself: its mereological composition.The resonance of parts unfolds to an alternative of a purely contrasting equation of form and content. It remind...
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Polycentric water governance in spain
Nora Schütze investigates processes of coordination between the water and agricultural sector in three Spanish river basins in the context of the EU Water Framework Directive implementation.
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Agnes martin – transcultural translations
How is Agnes Martin’s work shaped by Asianist aesthetics? Redefining Postwar American Art through transcultural translation.
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The supernatural media virus
Since the 1990s, the virus and the network metaphors have become increasingly popular, finding application in a broad range of everyday discourses, academic disciplines, and fiction genres. Rahel Sixta Schmitz defines and discusses a trope recurring in Gothic fiction: the supernatural media virus.
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The last pilgrimage to eternity
With the advent of the reformation, concepts of living and dying were profoundly reconfigured. As purgatory disappeared from the spiritual landscape, other paths to the afterlife were rediscovered. Thus, when life draws to a close, the passage to the afterlife becomes a last pilgrimage, a popular...
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Decolonising the future academy in africa and beyond
Decolonising academia in Africa? Inspiration from the development of anthropology at African universities and international collaboration on par.
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Weaving solidarity
Sebastian Garbe offers a critical perspective on contemporary expressions of international solidarity and transnational advocacy. He combines approaches from critical race and decolonial studies with an activist ethnography on networked spaces of encounters created through solidarity activism by ...
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Socializing development
As multilateral development banks gained influence in shaping global development, transnational social movements pushed to hold them accountable for their human rights impact. Leon Valentin Schettler presents a novel causal mechanism of movement advocacy, comparing the evolution of human rights s...
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Digital culture & society (dcs)
This issue discusses how computer art from the pioneering days is now being reframed as digital, post-digital or algorithmic art under the prevailing conditions of big data, smart AI, an almost all-encompassing surveillance technology and a political state of neo-liberalism.
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Shared habitats
The interactions among artistic, technical, scientific, living, and nonliving things have inspired new artistic approaches. The contributors to this volume either relate to theoretical discourses raised by artworks, show how young artists today approach cultural issues, or develop situations of l...
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Let them haunt us
This book redefines trauma as a productive framework for exploring individual, collective, and cultural conflicts addressed in current artistic and curatorial practices. Anna-Lena Werner considers the aesthetic realm as a potential forum that provides methods of understanding the humanitarian con...
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Subjectivity and synchrony in artistic research
Johanna Schindler examines the collaborative practices of two artistic research projects in the fields of digital musical instrument design and responsive environments. She suggests concrete measurements that can be utilized to adapt research environments, funding structures, and evaluation crite...
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Translocations
Discussions about historical appropriation practices for cultural assets in the context of their associated relocation are highly topical and widely reflected across different academic disciplines. Contributions to this volume address the people involved, the related traumas, discourses, gestures...
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Urban appropriation strategies
In the past years, the transiency of European city-making and dwelling has become increasingly hard to disregard. This urban flux calls for a methodological rethinking for those professionals, social and natural scientists, artists, and activists, with an interest in the processes of remaking and...
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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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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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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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Modes of production
This book challenges the predominant notions of professionalization that have underpinned theatre training practices.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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Seeds for democratic futures
Seeds For Democratic Futures offers thought-provoking and policy-relevant approaches to democratizing contemporary states and societies.
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Faking, forging, counterfeiting
Forgeries are an omnipresent part of our culture and closely related to traditional ideas of authenticity, legality, authorship, creativity, and innovation. Based on the concept of mimesis, this volume illustrates how forgeries must be understood as autonomous aesthetic practices – creative acts ...
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Recounting deviance
How do historical sources narrate or recount deviance? Is there a relationship between the manner in which divergent behaviour is recounted and the type of source in which this behaviour is presented?The articles present examples of the recounting of deviance by using, amongst others, sources suc...
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The situationality of human-animal relations
Riding, hunting, fishing, bullfighting: Human-animal relations are diverse. This anthology presents various case studies of situations in which humans and animals come into contact and asks for the anthropological and philosophical implications of such encounters. The contributions by renowned sc...
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The politics of affective societies
Many claim that political deliberation has become exceedingly affective and hence destabilizing. This book reframes the debate by deploying the analytic framework of affective societies—claiming that in all aspects of the social, affect and emotion are present. What changes are modes and calibrat...
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Embodied narration
Do liminal embodied experiences such as illness, death and dying affect literary form? In recent years, the concept of embodiment has been theorized from various perspectives. Gender studies have been concerned with the cultural implications of embodiment, arguing to move away from viewing the bo...
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Authority and authorship in medieval and seventeenth century women's visionary writings
In the medieval and early modern eras, female visionary writers used the mode of prophecy to voice their concerns and ideas. Deborah Frick analyzes medieval writings by Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe in comparison to seventeenth-century writings by authors such as Anna Trapnel, Mary Cary, An...
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Digital image systems
In Digital Image Systems, Claus Gunti examines the antagonizing reactions to digital technologies in photography. While Thomas Ruff, Andreas Gursky and Jörg Sasse have gradually adopted digital imaging tools in the early 1990s, other photographers from the Düsseldorf School have remained faithful...
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Ludotopia
Where do computer games “happen”? The articles collected in this pioneering volume explore the categories of “space,” “place,” and “territory” to lay the groundwork for the study of spatiality in games.
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Spaces of care – confronting colonial afterlives in european ethnographic museums
The essays in this book discuss how museums are at the center of multiple world-wide crises.
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Before sound
In Before Sound, composer Tiziano Manca investigates the relationship between sounding body and musician.
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Breathing in manhattan
Christoph Ribbat tells the story of gymnastics instructor Carola Spitz, who escaped Nazi Germany in 1938 and In New York turned into Carola Speads, revered teacher of mindfulness.
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A ›crisis of whiteness‹ in the ›heart of darkness‹
The British and U.S.-American Congo Reform Movement has been praised for its confrontation of colonial atrocities. Its commitment to white supremacy, however, continues to be overlooked. Through a thorough analysis of contemporary sources, Felix Lösing unmasks the colonial and racist formation of...
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Land grabbing and home country development
Between 2000 and 2016, China and the UK acquired large areas of land through investment projects in sub-Saharan Africa. Ariane Goetz explains the global phenomenon of land grabbing from the perspective of these two investor countries, offering insights into the political economies that enable the...
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Mediating social challenges
This book uses critical pedagogies to reflect on art, literature, storytelling, and digital methods as a means to mediating social challenges in teaching practices.
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Observing conflict escalation in world society
In this book Richard Bösch argues that conflicts can be observed as social systems.
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De silva, negotiating the borders of the gender regime
Adrian de Silva traces how sexology, the law, federal politics, and the trans movement interacted to generate or challenge concepts of trans(sexuality) from the mid-1960s to 2014 in Germany. The interdisciplinary study draws upon and contributes to debates in (trans)gender and queer studies, soci...
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