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Just ›a machine for doing business‹?
Katja Schönian analyses internal communication and branding strategies in connection with the implementation of a new company intranet. Based on qualitative data, the study contrasts managerial expectations and everyday usage of the intranet in distinct work settings.
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Shifts in mapping
Cartography originated in ancient times to represent the world and to enable circulation, communication, and economic exchange. Today, IT companies drive this field and change our view of the world; how we communicate, navigate, and consume globally. Questions of privacy, authorship, and economic...
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Brokering development?
Portrayals of the private sector as an engine of poverty alleviation in Africa have drawn criticism. Idil Ires provides a political-economy analysis of whether smallholders prosper when they coordinate with input suppliers, banks, and crop buyers through markets and contract farming in the Southe...
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Postmigrant counterpublics
Conflicting dynamics of community and subcultural socialities in racialized and sexually dissident urban contexts in Germany.
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Scale matters
This volume brings together scholars from diverse fields, working on different geographical areas and time periods, to engage with scale-conscious questions regarding human sociality, culture, and evolution.
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Programming creativity
Jan Sebastian Zipp examines the concept of creativity in large IT companies in times of digital change, including new ways of working or potential artificial creativity with no human interaction. This study contributes vital foundations for a critical engagement with today's prevailing understand...
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Living with an infected planet
Living with an infected planet has led to an unprecedented crisis of care, especially since the outbreak of the coronavirus. Elke Krasny presents a feminist mapping of key terms and key images defining the “pandemicscape.” Arguing against going back to normal, she outlines a new global internatio...
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Adaptation
How adaptation replaces progress as the guiding principle of society in the anthropocene.
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Oswald mathias ungers and rem koolhaas
Lara Schrijver examines the work of Oswald Mathias Ungers and Rem Koolhaas as an intellectual legacy of the 1970s that can provide a foundation for recalibrating architecture today.for architecture today. Their work provides room for interpreting social conditions and disciplinary formal developm...
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Tensional responsiveness
How we sense and move our bodies shapes how we relate with each other. Doerte Weig shows how bodily capacities for sensitive tensional responsiveness are relevant to (re)generative cultures, the future of work, lifelong learning, sharing, healing, and well-being.
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Critical theory and the philosophy of education
An interdisciplinary approach to modern educational issues, viewed through the lens of Critical Theory as developed by the Frankfurt School.
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Lexicon of global melodrama
This go-to reference book for global melodrama assembles contributions by experts from a wide range of disciplines. The melodramas discussed range from early twentieth-century silent movies to contemporary films, from independent arthouse productions to Hollywood blockbusters.
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Digital culture & society (dcs)
In this issue, contributors show how participation and commodification are closely linked in the production, circulation, consumption and operativity of images and visual communication, raising the question of the role networked images play for and within the proliferating surveillance capitalism.
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The post-socialist internet
How is the internet produced as infrastructure in postsocialist Lithuania? Migle Bareikyte examines Lithuania’s telecom industry, exploring its labor practices, geopolitical imaginaries, and critical negotiations from a bottom-up perspective.
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Living in refuge
This comparative ethnography of a Muslim and a Christian Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon focuses on contrasting social belonging processes through a ritualization approach. Leonardo Schiocchet argues that contrasts emerge out of the intersections of religiosity, nationhood, refugeeness, and p...
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Worldmaking projects and the infrastructural nexus
How do ›Worldmaking Projects‹ underlie the dynamics of order in world politics?
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Migrating through the web
Nicole Braida digs into the structures of serious games, text-adventures, newsgames, interactive maps, and data visualizations, in which refugees and migrants become the subject of humanitarian discourse. They distinguish who is vulnerable and who is not and are a symptom of a deeper crisis of t...
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Turkish and german-turkish pop music
The rediscovery of Anatolian pop sparked growing musicological interest. This volume compiles over 15 years of research on music in Turkey.
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Making rural futures
When villages are performed as ideals: hopes, tensions, and contradictions of rural transformation.
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Global contestations of gender rights
Against the backdrop of a long history of unequal rights implementation, this volume addresses the questions of why and in which ways gender equality has become contested in various political contexts. Local case studies examine the relevant structural, institutional, and socio-cultural causes of...
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Campus medius: digital mapping in cultural and media studies
Campus Medius explores and expands the possibilities of digital cartography in cultural and media studies. Simon Ganahl documents a time-space of 24 hours in Vienna in May 1933. This Austrofascist rally is mapped from multiple perspectives and woven into media-historical networks spanning from th...
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Matter, affect, antinormativity
Caroline Braunmühl shows that there are dualistic patterns in significant contributions to queer theory as well as Foucauldian diagnoses of the present. The book suggests specific alternatives to dualistic as well as identitarian ways of framing conceptual pairs such as matter/mind, affect/discou...
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Reference and contemporaneity in architecture
An interdisciplinary approach to the complicated history of the relationship between contemporaneity and reference in architecture.
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Hardware and eco-feminist art
A venture to build feminist hardware art made from unconventional materials according to ecofeminist principles of care and consent.
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Mediating geographic knowledge
Mediating geography, shaping a nation: how U.S. geographical societies produced, circulated, and legitimized knowledge in turn-of-the-century America.
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Standardization of ai ethics
Current practices in AI standardization and auditing: valuable suggestions on how to contribute to more ethical AI.
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Postcolonial repercussions
The anthology gathers heterogeneous approaches to emancipatory forms of ontological listening as well as pleas for critical fabulation and a practice of care. It tells us about opportunities, perspectives and the (im)possibility of decolonised listening.
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The politics of atrocity
Between hope and failure: short episodes on the history of political violence in Argentina.
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Conversations with those who ask about war
Ukrainian scholars discuss the practicalities and personal experiences of interviewing and preserving the voices of war witnesses.
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Beyond the postcolony
An in-depth exploration of Achille Mbembe’s philosophy and his call for justice in a planetary age.
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Postdramatic dramaturgies
This book compiles lectures by the world’s leading practitioners of postdramatic theater from East Asia and the German-speaking world, which were given at Asia’s only dramaturgy degree program at The Central Academy of Drama in Beijing 2018/19. It includes English-language scripts of the discusse...
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»failed« migratory adventures?
Based on extensive field research, Susanne U. Schultz analyses the social situations following deportation for Malian men—their supposedly “failed” migratory adventures, and the implications for their social environment and broader society. She provides insight in the still understudied issue of ...
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Academics in exile
This volume addresses the situations and networks of scholars in exile, the challenges they face in their host countries and the opportunities they use. These issues are highly relevant to discussions about the moral economies of higher education institutions and support programs.
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Performance spaces and stage technologies
The history of theater has often been written as a history of great writers, actors, or directors. This book takes a different approach: the contributors examine the history of performance from the perspective of theater spaces and stage technologies.
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Drug assemblages – policies, counternarratives, and local experiences
A transdisciplinary critique of global drug regimes, exploring how power, policy, and inequality intertwine across the Americas.
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(dis)obedience in digital societies
This book argues that algorithms should not be regarded as a technical structure but as a social phenomenon—they embed themselves, currently still very subtly, into political and social systems. It considers the prospects of active disobedience and the need for tools and methods that can be used ...
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Reading nature and cultures
Reading Māori literature in global contexts: interdisciplinary and intercultural perspectives on »The Whale Rider« by Witi Ihimaera.
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Cultural diversity in motion
What does migration-generated diversity mean for cultural policy and the performing arts scene in Germany and how is it promoted? Bridging theory and practice, Özlem Canyürek introduces the concept of “thinking and acting interculturally” and proposes ways to achieve a fair and accessible perform...
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Powerful prose
What makes a reading experience “powerful”? This volume brings together literary scholars, linguists, and empirical researchers to theorize this widely used notion, providing new insights into the mysterious-seeming power of literary fiction. The collection investigates a variety of stylistic as ...
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Sound formations
Rémy Bocquillon reflects on the process-oriented character of sociology as an experimental science by including aesthetic practices of sounding and listening as constitutive for the making of sociological theory. Featuring an audio chapter, »feeding-back« the sonic experimentations at the core of...
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Interactive documentary and non-fiction media
Interactive documentary blends documentary filmmaking with features of web-programming: new theoretical and analytical approaches.
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Vital village
Due to global processes of transformation and the social challenges posed by demographic change, rural areas increasingly demand attention from politics and the public sphere. The contributions in this volume demonstrate how in different European countries it is mainly the cultural players who of...
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Internet health report 2019
This annual report is a call to action to recognize the things that are having an impact on the internet today and to embrace the notion that we can change how we make money, govern societies, and interact with one another online.
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Digital culture & society (dcs)
This special issue of Digital Culture & Society deals with the concept of code in relation to the Covid-19 crisis.
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Dimensions. journal of architectural knowledge
Dimensions is a journal in, on and from the discipline of architecture, addressing the creation, constitution and transmission of architectural knowledge. Issue 1 explores design-based, reflexive, qualitative, experience-based, archival and interdisciplinary perspectives.
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Black travel writing
Isabel Kalous examines autobiographical travel narratives by African American and Black British authors published between the 1990s and 2010s. She outlines the emergence, development, and key characteristics of the multifaceted genre of transnational Black travel writing. Authors discussed includ...
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Voice and publics in west african radio
An examination of the grogneurs, frequent callers to radio shows in the Republic of Benin, investigating their motives, issues and public position.
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Dimensions. journal of architectural knowledge
Dimensions is a journal in, on and from the discipline of architecture, addressing the creation, constitution and transmission of architectural knowledge. Issue 2 investigates lived experience as source for the constitution of knowledge.
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Clash of realities 2015/16
Digital games as transmedia works of art – Games as social environments – The aesthetics of play – Digital games in pedagogy – Cineludic aesthetics – Ethics in games – these were some of the important and fascinating topics addressed during the international research conference "Clash of Realitie...
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Biohacking, bodies and do-it-yourself
Biohacking brings biology, medicine, and the material foundation of life into the sphere of “do-it-yourself.” Covering a broad range of examples, this book explores practices and representations of biohacking in popular culture, discussing their ambiguous position between empowerment and requirem...
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