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Digital culture & society (dcs)
The capacity to accumulate, analyze and utilize data is seen as a key factor for leveraging the potentials of digital innovation.
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Digital culture & society (dcs)
This issue presents empirical studies as well as theoretical and methodological reflections on inequalities and divides in digital cultures. From various (inter-)disciplinary perspectives, the authors examine three main themes—inequality of access, inequality by design and discursive divides, and...
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Epistemic injustice and violence
This book is dedicated to the special role of epistemic injustice and violence in philosophy.
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Playing utopia
While dystopias are part of the standard gaming repertoire, games feature utopias much less frequently. This anthology examines playful utopias from two perspectives. It investigates utopias in digital games as well as utopias of the digital game; that is, the role of ludic elements in scenarios ...
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Performative arts and social transformation
This book highlights current developments in the field of performing arts, asking for scientific references to the mode of crisis. They bring knowledge from different theatre traditions and cultural contexts into a dialogue.
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(in)visible acts of resistance in the twilight of the franco regime
This book rethinks the history of late Francoism and the transition to democracy through the lens of oral history and life writing. Aurora Morcillo tells the stories of anonymous individuals from both student and working class backgrounds and provides an interdisciplinary feminist analysis of the...
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Moving images
Bridging artistic practice and academic inquiry, the essays and artworks gathered in Moving Images interrogate the mediation of migration and refugeeism in the contemporary European conjuncture, asking how images, discourses, and data are involved in shaping visions of migration in increasingly g...
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Faith in development
This book presents the changes of worldview and meaning-making that people associate with their religious, spiritual, agnostic and atheist identifications.
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Narratives and comparisons
As a powerful tool in the production of knowledge, comparing plays a crucial part in the sciences and the humanities. This volume explores the relationship between comparing and narrating in epistemic practices and clarifies the ways in which narratives enable or impede practices of comparing.
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Mixing methods
This book focusses on driving innovation and conceptualising the humanities in the 21st century.
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Mining and energy – handbook of the anthropocene in latin america v
Highlighting the genealogy of the Anthropocene in Latin America: uncovering the struggles of Latin American societies with mining and extractive processes pertaining to energy production over the long term, from colonial contact to the Great Acceleration.
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Communicative ai in (inter-)action
This book brings together contributions from a growing community of researchers who are committed to exploring communicative AI »in (inter-)action« by using and adapting qualitative (and mostly ethnographic) methods.
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The social organization of arts
The authors critically discuss seven major theories of the social organization of arts in Western societies, with the aim of encouraging further research and theoretical developments.
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Emotional imprints of war
Milan van Lange presents a computer-assisted historical investigation into the role of emotions in dealing with consequences of World War II in the Netherlands.
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Regulating transitions from school to work
How are activation programs for the young unemployed implemented? Stephan Dahmen explores the practical regulation of biographical transitions in activation programs for the young unemployed by focusing on the interactive accomplishment of activation work.
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Water – handbook of the anthropocene in latin america iv
This volume of The Handbook The Anthropocene as Multiple Crisis focuses on water in the main macro-regions of Latin America from the colonial regime to the contemporary era of the Anthropocene.
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Climate change – handbook of the anthropocene in latin america iii
This book discusses the genealogy of the Anthropocene in Latin America with critical perspectives from the social sciences and the humanities.
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Unlocking luhmann
Niklas Luhmann’s theory is fascinating and complex. Using the reticular form of the glossary, this book makes the theory accessible while maintaining its complexity. Without being obstructed by knowledge gaps or oblique references, readers inside and outside sociology receive support to explore a...
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Leitmotifs in life stories
Faith Development Interviews offer great insight into people's ways of (non-)religious meaning-making, and of looking at their life and relationships.
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Archives, access and artificial intelligence
Born-digital archives are now better preserved and managed thanks to the development of open-access and commercial software. This book explores crossovers between various disciplines to improve the discoverability, accessibility, and use of born-digital archives and other cultural assets.
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Becoming donor-conceived
While it has been argued that anonymity in gamete donation has been brought to an end, Amelie Baumann suggests that this is in fact still in transformation. By focusing on the narratives of those who were conceived with anonymously donated gametes, she examines this transformative process and the...
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Imaginaries of migration
How do Mexican migrants in Germany perceive themselves and their lives? Innovatively combining theories of interculturality and social imaginaries, Yolanda López García uses the anthropological method of life stories to investigate the understudied area of Mexican migration to Germany.
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Inequality and mobility
This book investigates the erosion of capabilities and aspirations in post-revolutionary Tunisia
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Lived-body experiences in virtual reality
Zeynep Akbal explores the impact of virtual reality (VR) technology on the subjective experience of the body.
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Critical datafication literacy
In this book Ina Sander develops a framework for critical datafication literacy.
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Beyond quantity
This book asks what epistemological challenges arise when we think about the use of AI beyond its dependency on big data.
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Finding a path for china's rise
Often, emphasis is given to the Chinese economic reforms under Deng Xiaoping from the end of 1978 onwards. In contrast, little attention has been given to the prehistory of these »reforms«. Philippe Lionnet elaborates on the histories of China's agricultural, industrial and foreign trade policies.
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Democratic nationalism in scotland
Philipp Rückheim highlights the crucial role of inclusion in this democratic nationalism, distinguishing the political collective based on place of residence and the national collective based on identity.
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Re-discovering age(ing)
Since Mentor, Telemachus' advisor in Homer's Odyssey, gave name to the figure of the ›wise teacher,‹ fictional representations of mentoring have permeated classic and contemporary cultural texts of different literary genres such as fiction, poetry, and life writing. The contributions of this volu...
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Jahrbuch migration und gesellschaft / yearbook migration and society 2022/2023
The 2022/2023 edition of the Yearbook Migration and Society focuses on the topic Climate.
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Putting age in its place
Through close readings of works by Margaret Atwood, Joan Barfoot, Oscar Casares, John Mighton, and several others, Ulla Kriebernegg explores how the setting at the nexus of home, hospital, hotel, and prison functions in the newly emerging genre of the care home novel.
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Salvaging buildings
Salvaging Buildings is an in-depth ethnographic study of the under-the-radar livelihood of the reclaimers, (çıkmacıs), an informal network of building salvagers.
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Futures worth preserving
This collection of essays and artistic contributions problematizes the relationship between past-oriented practices of sustaining and future-oriented forms of remembering. The present becomes the moment in which both notions overlap: Cultures have to position themselves both in relation to what t...
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Materialities in dance and performance
This book explores concepts of materiality in dance and performance, the use of materials in artistic practices, and the role of social media in changing perceptions of dance and performance.
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Picturing the (un)dead in beirut
Hauntings of the past and future that have effects on the present: Contemporary artistic reflections on the figure of the martyr in Lebanon.
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Andererseits - yearbook of transatlantic german studies
andererseits seeks to provide a forum for unique and exciting research and reflections on topics related to the German-speaking world and the field of German studies. Works come from a wide variety of genres including book reviews, poetry, essays, editorials, forum discussions, notes, lectures, ...
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Libidinal economies of crisis times
What is a libidinal economy? How are we psychically hooked into the circuits of the capitalist economy? The contributors to this book question the relevance of a concept that began reappearing in critiques and analyses of capitalist societies since the financial crisis of August 2007.
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Update liberalism
The essays in this book show that liberalism as a school of thought is not dead and they present new liberal concepts to cope with the great challenges of our time.
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Post-growth geographies
Post-Growth Geographies examines spatial relations of diverse and alternative economies between growth-oriented institutions and multiple socio-ecological crises. The book brings together conceptual and empirical contributions that offer different perspectives on the possibilities, demands, and c...
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Fictocritical strategies
Gerrit Haas re-theorises the peculiar textual conduct of ficto/critical writing, which inextricably intersects fictional with critical discourses as well as aesthetics with poetics and ethics. The slash here signals the conjunction between a self-reflexive ficto-critical insight and a wider discu...
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British white trash
"White trash" is a liminal figure that dramatizes the intersection of race and class. Contemporary British novelists like Irvine Welsh, Niall Griffiths and John King use this originally US-American stereotype to interrogate the racializing discourse of class in British society. Their novels are i...
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Emotional drivers of innovation
The contributors to this book argue that emotions influence innovations as they are inherent in initial ideas, expectations and habitual evaluation criteria that impact the development process.
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In/visibility of flight
The contributors to this book discuss multidisciplinary perspectives and factors that contribute to the visibility of forced migration beyond a policy-centered discourse.
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Digital culture & society (dcs)
This issue of Digital Culture & Society addresses the ideological and political aspects of metadata practices within image collections from an interdisciplinary perspective. The overall aim is to consider the implications, tensions, and challenges involved in the creation of metadata in terms...
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Foucault today
Bringing Foucault into in the 21st century – offering new perspectives for studying this French classic in contemporary philosophy and cultural studies.
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Narcissistic mothers in modernist literature
Narcissistic mothers are an important motif in modernist literature. Tracing its appearance in the works of writers such as D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf, this book questions the dichotomous image of either benevolent or suffocating mother, which has pervaded religion, art, and literature for ...
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Law in conflict
Angela Lindt sheds light on various mining disputes in Cajamarca and Piura and examines the role of law in resolving these conflicts.
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Living together – roland barthes, the individual and the community
This volume contains new essays which investigate and actualize the concepts that Roland Barthes discussed in his 1977 lecture series, How to Live Together, at the Collège de France. The anthology presents original and thought-provoking approaches to questions of conviviality and idiorrhythmic l...
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