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Fragments of solidarity
Maria Giannoula takes an elaborated look at the emotional and spiritual aspects of political participation within an activist group in Greece in the 2010s.
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Women architects and politics
Case studies by scholars from Europe and Israel explore the gendered professional in the twentieth century as she navigated arrangements of power—including organized religion, emancipation movements, cultural norms, and shifting forms of government—to practice architecture.
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Coming of age on the streets of java
This book is based on almost five years of fieldwork with street-related communities in the city of Yogyakarta, Indonesia, between 2001 and 2015. The author inquires into children's and adolescents' coming of age on the streets and their remarkable social and emotional competences, instead of res...
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Namibia's children
Many children in Namibia find themselves facing a social crisis. For three years, Michaela Fink and Reimer Gronemeyer conducted interviews in Namibia with women who take care of vulnerable children. The book gives these children a voice in interviews and essays.
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Actors and networks in the megacity
This study is a concise introduction to Bruno Latour's Actor-Network Theory and its application in a literary analysis of urban narratives of the 21st century. We encounter well-known psycho-geographers such as Iain Sinclair and Sam Miller, and renowned authors, Patrick Neate and Suketu Mehta. Pr...
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Doing cultural history
Doing Cultural History collects papers spanning the twelfth to the twenty-first centuries on topics including narrative structures in legal texts, masculinity and violence, and Scottish medieval history as well as religious theme parks and the perception of sorcery and false saintliness in early ...
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Cultures of economy in south-eastern europe
This volume focuses on cultures of economy in regions of the former Yugoslavia, examining narratives and poetics of economy in literature, film, and art, as well as in public discourse. It spans the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Socialist Yugoslavia, and the transitional and neol...
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Large housing estates under socialism
This book argues that harnessing large urban housing estates in former socialist countries as a resource for the future housing supply requires innovative and practicable strategies and concepts.
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Being a parent in the field
How does being a parent in the field influence a researcher’s positionality and the production of ethnographic knowledge? Based on regionally and thematically diverse cases, this collection explores methodological, theoretical, and ethical dimensions of accompanied fieldwork.
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Drawing and experiencing architecture
Marianna Charitonidou shows how mutations of the means of representation in architecture and urban planning relate to the significance of city's inhabitants.
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Melting pots & mosaics: children of immigrants in us-american literature
In the past decades, children of immigrants have drawn increased attention not only in press and media, but also in a number of academic fields, among them sociology, history, or ethnology. Surprisingly, literary and cultural studies have been somewhat more reluctant to approach the topic. While ...
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Red pilled – the allure of digital hate
Luke Munn draws together powerful human stories to portray how digital hate infiltrates hearts and minds.
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Living the opposite sex
This ethnographic study concerns individuals in Andalusia, Southern Spain, who do not fit the sex and gender assigned to them at birth. Imhof investigates issues leading back to the repressive situation during the dictatorship of Franco and to contemporary endeavours and achievements regarding ac...
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Audiovisual disruption
Pedro Ferreira examines aesthetics in contemporary audiovisual arts as reactions to our post-digital condition.
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Ai – limits and prospects of artificial intelligence
This book highlights the societal and attending economic hopes and fears, utopias and dystopias that are associated with the current and future development of artificial intelligence.
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The sublime of the political
Dean Caivano and Sarah Naumes argue that storytelling in the form of narrative and autoethnography creates an emancipatory potential through its ability to theorize from below, welcoming marginalized and excluded voices. They offer a new assessment of political texts to challenge who can write an...
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Towards a new enlightenment – the case for future-oriented humanities
This timely book argues that the humanities engender conceptual tools that are capable of reconciling theory and practice. In a bold move, we call for the humanities to reach beyond the confines of universities and engage in the most urgent debates facing humanity today - in a multidisciplinary, ...
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Equality governance via policy analysis?
Arn T. Sauer examines the instruments of gendered policy analysis and the conditions under which they are being used by the Canadian federal government and the European Commission. He shows that the success of equality governance depends upon whether knowledge about gendered policy and administra...
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Games and rules
Why do we play games and why do we play them on computers? The contributors of »Games and Rules« take a closer look at the core of each game and the motivational system that is the game mechanics. Games are control circuits that organize the game world with their (joint) players and establish mot...
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Democracy, markets and the commons
Lukas Peter argues that the notion of the commons can provide answers to the shortcomings of centralized states and open and competitive markets. By building on and going beyond the work of Elinor and Vincent Ostrom, he develops an ecological understanding of the commons and human freedom more ge...
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An organon of life knowledge
Can fiction teach us how to live? Drawing on short stories from the late nineteenth century to the present, Michael Basseler examines how knowledge about life and how to live it is generically constituted and, vice versa, how literary genres such as the short story are embedded in broader cultura...
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Bally - a history of footwear in the interwar period
The history of modern footwear can be traced through the lens of Bally’s corporate evolution. This book brings together the results of research on such topics as the economic importance of fashion, Bally’s fortunes in the U.S., the career of shoe design, the sourcing and use of materials, and the...
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Pina bausch's dance theater
This volume provides new perspectives on the Tanztheater Wuppertal and its iconic founder and artistic director—Pina Bausch. This is the first book to focus on the artistic research conducted for the Tanztheater’s international coproductions, featuring interviews with dancers, collaborators, and ...
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Competing climate cultures in germany
In this book, Sarah Kessler shows that conventional assumptions of an implicit consensus on the need to prioritize climate action should be reconsidered.
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Artificial intelligence – intelligent art?
This book discusses the transformation of creative practice brought about by various forms of AI.
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Governmental migration research in germany
The Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) is the central executive authority on migration and integration policy in Germany. Vinzenz Kratzer analyzes the Federal Office’s research output between 2005 and 2015, in the wake of political reforms around the turn of the millennium.
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It's how you flip it
This book investigates the possibilities and limits of working with hip-hop as a pedagogical tool.
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The ghosts within
Janna Odabas analyzes ghosts in Asian American literature as self-reflexive figures, showing how they renegotiate the image of Asian America as heterogeneous and transnational and resist morally or politically preconceived approaches. She explores how literary works rethink conceptions of ghosts ...
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Dimensions. journal of architectural knowledge
Dimensions. Journal of Architectural Knowledge is an academic journal in, on and from the discipline of architecture, addressing the creation, constitution and transmission of architectural knowledge.
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A new science for future
This book is an investigation of computational and data practices in climate impact research. Drawing on ethnographic and digital methodologies, it explores how simulation modelers calculate future climate risks in computer models and how they make their scientific knowledge accessible to others.
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O my friends, there is no friend
The porous renditions of being-together animated by friendship can spark a repoliticization of the political to surpass the foreclosures of the state, speak to a freedom of movement, and find renovated relationships with the more-than-human.
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The capitalist economy and its prosthetics
Gerhard H. Wächter examines what will happen when capitalist economics have exhausted artificial transfers to the productive economy.
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Beyond the original
The contributors to this book delve into the playful and performative nature of translations that embrace ambiguity, confusion, and even failure.
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Ukraine's many faces
Addressing readers from diverse backgrounds, this volume approaches the history of Ukraine and its people through primary sources, from the early modern period to the present.
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Working misunderstandings
As exemplified by project collaboration across three offices of a multinational consulting firm in India, Frauke Mörike explores how misunderstandings shape the organizational system and why they prove not only necessary but even productive for organizational functioning.
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Envisioning the world: mapping and making the global
The “global” is continually made and remade by how it is envisioned in political projects, language, and literature. Through a range of case studies, this book shows how practices of referring to the world actually constitute the global in its many facets.
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Fictions of legibility
Gabriela Stoicea examines how the incidence and role of physical descriptions in German novels changed between 1771 and 1929 in response to developments in the study of the human face and body. By including discussions from medicine, epistemology, semiotics, and aesthetics, the book draws out the...
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Musical composition in the context of globalization
This book discusses the effects of cultural globalization on processes of composition and distribution of art music in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Christian Utz provides the foundations of a global music historiography, building on new models such as transnationalism, entangled hist...
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How does the psychiatrist know?
A new philosophical investigation into how psychiatrists draw diagnostic conclusions.
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The politics of gender in early american theater
This collection explores the role of gender in the formation of American theatrical culture in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It features essays on well-known early American dramatists such as Susanna Rowson or Judith Sargent Murray, but also sheds light on anonymous authors ...
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Digital methods in the humanities
This volume offers a unique perspective on digital methods for and in the humanities. It comprises case studies from various fields to illustrate the challenge of matching existing textual research practices and digital tools.
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Queer jewish lives between central europe and mandatory palestine
This volume offers the first collection of studies on queer Jewish lives between Central Europe and Mandatory Palestine (1870–1960). The first section of the book presents queer geographies including Germany, Austria, and Palestine, and the second introduces queer biographies between Europe and P...
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What we brought with us
Through a series of scholarly essays and biographical vignettes, this book shines an intimate spotlight on those who are driven from their homes.
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Creating realities
Exploring the complex representation of business in realist, naturalist, and modernist works, Erhan Şimşek reveals its social and aesthetic functions by analyzing how the motif intertwines with social developments, literary movements, and author biographies.
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Queer and feminist relationships in contemporary fiction
This book analyzes friendly, amorous, sexual, political and artistic contacts within and around contemporary fictions of Romance cultures.
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Accidents and the state
The beginning of the twentieth century saw a reinterpretation of the concept of the accident. The contributions in this volume explore social, cultural, political, administrative, and medical responses to accidents in modern states. The case studies include British, French, German, Italian, Chine...
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Voice assistants in private homes
This book discusses voice assistants and how they have transformed everyday linguistic, media, and data practices thanks to platformized conditions and new interfaces.
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Digital culture & society (dcs)
This issue discusses theoretical and artistic investigations of citizen engagement, digital citizenship, and grassroots information politics. Articles reflect on the role of the digital citizen.
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Opposing desires
Dynamic and continuous alike: the framing strategies, networks, and hegemonic struggles of conservative Christians’ anti-LGBT activism in South Korea.
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The creativity complex
There is a demand to be new and special, conspicuous and singular. How did this creativity complex and its imperative to be creative come about? Gathering and interweaving forty short and incisive essays, this companion maps, investigates, and illuminates the contemporary creativity complex.
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