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The local museum in the global village
Insa Müller asks how local history museums can recast themselves to strengthen the links to their communities. Combining theoretical deliberations, empirical investigations of the case of two Norwegian islands, and a museum experiment, she offers starting points for rethinking this institution.
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The making of modern subjects
A book about Korean female spectators of the colonial era, which argues that public discourse aimed to mold them into a male-driven and top-down modernization project.
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The new meatways and sustainability
By exploring the connections between practices and discourses, Minna Kanerva develops a conceptual approach enabling purposive change in unsustainable social practices. Radical transformation towards new meatways is necessary, yet complex psychological, ideological, and power-related mechanisms ...
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Trans health
This anthology addresses trans people’s access to healthcare from a transnational perspective, and offers courses of action to improve nursing, medical, therapeutic, and social care for trans persons. Most contributions of this book are written from a lived trans experience.
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Talking politics and society again
Revitalizing democratic conversation in troubled times: what, why, and how?
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Digital culture & society (dcs)
This issue integrates new perspectives from History, Digital Humanities, and Game Studies to explore the epistemological and political implications that arise from the practical interweaving of game development and historical knowledge.
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Digital culture & society (dcs)
»Digital Culture & Society« is a refereed, international journal, fostering discussion about the ways in which digital technologies, platforms and applications reconfigure daily lives and practices. It offers a forum for critical analysis and inquiries into digital media theory and provides a...
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Taking sides
Is there an option to oppose without automatically participating in the opposed? This volume explores different perspectives on dissent, understanding practices, cultures, and theories of resistance, dispute, and opposition as inherently participative.
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Independent theatre in contemporary europe
Over the past 20 years European theatre underwent fundamental changes in terms of aesthetic focus, institutional structure and in its position in society. The impetus for these changes was provided by a new generation in the independent theatre scene.This book brings together studies on the state...
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Thinking the problematic
This book explores central scenes and conceptual elaborations of what historically has been called “the problem” or “the problematic.” The chapters contextualize the (re-)arising of this notion within the history of power and knowledge since the late nineteenth century.
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The 2051 munich climate conference
This book collects work from the 2051 Munich Climate Conference organized by the theatre collective Büro Grandezza.
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Living at night in times of pandemic
This book offers perspectives on night studies in France and Germany and the techno scene from a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective.
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The aesthetics of collective agency
This book explores the aesthetic forms that collective agency takes in the twenty-first century across a variety of media.
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Radio explorations
Rooted in experimental design and data feminism, Radio Explorations presents innovative tools for navigating data by spanning media theory, information studies, and feminist new materialism.
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The production of consumer society
With a novel quality theory of consumption which treats opulence and self-restraint symmetrically, Ernst Mohr shows how social distance and proximity are communicated by consumption and produced by communication. He positions fringe styles with those of the mainstream in an overall stylistic syst...
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Reading race relationally
Lieber argues that Whitehead's first six novels portray the relation between late capitalist social structures and processes of racial classification.
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Hardcore research
Hardcore Research: Punk, Practice, Politics provides a comprehensive insight into the most active, outspoken, and widely received scholarly positions in the academic discourses on hardcore and punk.
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Changing time – shaping world
To re-create meaning is an interdisciplinary cross-sectional task of our zeitgeist in a civil society. Our international guests represent key roles in relevant philosophical, technical or economic debates, non-university community art & design projects or companies.
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The cultures of entanglement
This book examines the symbolic meaning of plants, their relevance and how culture and they are something more than passive objects.
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Philology in the making
Philological practices have served to secure and transmit textual sources for centuries. However, this volume contends, it is only in the light of the current radical media change labeled the “digital turn” that the material and technological prerequisites of the theory and practice of philology ...
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Queerbeograd cabaret
This book demonstrates how staging QueerBeograd contributed to the advancement of the intersectionality perspective beyond identity.
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Creating communities
How does historical reality interrelate with fiction? And how much are readers themselves involved in the workings of fictional literature? With innovative interpretations of various well-known texts, Nourit Melcer-Padon introduces the use of literary masks and illustrates literature's engagement...
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Artistic provenance research
Proposing the new term - artistic provenance research - the contributors to this innovative book illuminate art's capacity to expand provenance research in critical and provocative ways.
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Paratextualizing games
This anthology examines paratexts that gaming cultures have produced as well as the way in which paratexts influence the development of games. How is knowledge about games generated and shaped today and how do boundaries between (popular) criticism, journalism, and scholarship have started to blur?
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Finding, inheriting or borrowing?
Since the dawn of humanity, people have developed concepts about themselves and the natural world in which they live. This volume aims at investigating the construction and transfer of such concepts between and within various ancient and medieval cultures. The single contributions try to answer q...
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Representations of global civility
By bringing together representations of the then already familiar Ottoman Empire and the largely unknown South Pacific in English travel writing during the long eighteenth century, Sascha Klement demonstrates how cross-cultural encounters were framed by Enlightenment philosophy, global interconne...
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Resilience stories
Today, “resilience” is among the most repeated buzzwords. Hamideh Mahdiani challenges a reductionistic understanding by questioning the dominance of life sciences in defining an age-old concept and by problematizing the neglected role of life writing in fostering resilience.
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Virtual photography
This book discusses the latest photographic technologies, and how we can now take photos in computer games, interpolate them in Virtual Reality platforms, or synthesize them via Artificial Intelligence.
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Theatre in transformation
This collection brings together analyses of cultural policy in post-apartheid South Africa and actors of the performing arts discussing political theater and cultural activism. Case studies grant inside views of the State Theatre in Pretoria, the Market Theatre in Johannesburg, and the Baxter The...
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Architectonics of game spaces
What consequences does the design of the virtual yield for architecture and to what extent can architecture be used to turn game-worlds into sustainable places in “reality”? This pioneering collection gives an overview of contemporary developments in designing video games and of the relationships...
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Hegel on sacred poetry
Víctor Ibarra B revisits Hegel's early works before 1800 and his dispute with Kant's concept of freedom, to offer a practical account of Hegel's view on sublime art within the context of his philosophy of love.
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History in games
Claims of authenticity are prominent in discussions surrounding digital games. What is historical authenticity and does it even matter? When does authenticity or the lack thereof become political? By answering these questions, the book illuminates the ubiquitous category of authenticity from the ...
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Postmigration
The concept of “postmigration” has recently gained importance in the context of European societies’ obsession with migration and integration along with emerging new forms of exclusion and nationalisms. This book introduces ongoing debates on the developing concept of postmigration and how it can ...
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Democratic citizenship in flux
Traditional conceptions of democratic citizenship are being challenged by developments such as migration, populism, increasing polarization, social fragmentation, and digital communication technology. This book considers recent conceptions of citizenship by bringing together insights from differe...
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»gold fever« and women
Sigrid Schönfelder discusses three healthcare providers within the social reform movement to illustrate the transformative power of the American West.
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Savage horrors
The American Gothic novel has been deeply shaped by issues of race and raciality from its origins in British Romanticism to the twenty-first century. Corinna Lenhardt uncovers the destructive and lasting impact of the Gothic’s anti-Black racism on cultural discourses in the United States and trac...
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Envisaging dataist modernity
Who gets to imagine datafied visions of the future city (region) and why is it important to look at universities as powerful urban stakeholders?
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Territorial stigmatisation
Constanze Letsch examines how territorial stigmatization is weaponized by the state and how differently stigmatized groups try to fight against the vilification of their mahalle.
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The discourse community of electronic dance music
Anita Jóri considers the world of electronic dance music as a discourse community. She gives an overview on the language use and discourse characteristics of this community while applying a mixed methodology of linguistic discourse analysis and cultural studies.
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A heated debate
Maria M. Sojka analyzes the importance of tacit knowledge in scientific practice and the question of what defines an expert.
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Rethinking infrastructure across the humanities
This book demonstrates infrastructuralist perspectives as an important transdisciplinary approach within the humanities.
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Operatic pasticcios in 18th-century europe
Known as “pasticcios,” eighteenth-century operas that employed the substitution or compilation of arias fitting the singer’s abilities have long been considered inferior patchwork. This volume collects essays that reconsider the pasticcio, contextualize it, look at its material aspects, and uncov...
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Music – media – history
This volume considers audiovisual material as a primary source for historiography. By analyzing how the same sounds are used in different media contexts at different times, the contributors challenge the linear perspective of music history based on canonical authority.
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Screening economies
This volume explores the ethical, aesthetic, and ideological dimensions of economic representation, addressing essential questions: What are the roles of mass and new media? How do the arts contribute to critical discourse on the global techno-economic complex? It brings theoretical debate and ar...
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Entanglements of the maghreb
This volume focuses on entanglements as a cross-field and cross-lingual concept to generate a new approach to the Maghreb region and its inner interdependencies as well as exchanges with other regions. Eminent researchers conceptualize entanglements through the description of various thematic fie...
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Female identities in lesbian web series
Lesbian web series narrate female-centered stories, strengthen identity construction, and generate transnational communities beyond cultural barriers. Julia Obermayr explores representations of lesbian women in U.S.-American, Canadian, and Spanish web series from 2007 onward.
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Narrative in urban planning
This practical field guide makes insights from narrative research accessible to planners through a glossary of key concepts in the field.
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Waiting – a project in conversation
What does it mean to wait for a long period of time? How do people narrate their waiting? Blending ethnography, philosophy, poetry, art, and fiction, this book is a collection of works by scholars, visual artists, writers, architects and curators, exploring different forms of waiting in diverse g...
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Material cultures of psychiatry
In the past, our ideas on psychiatric hospitals and their history have been shaped by objects like straitjackets, cribs, and binding belts. By focusing on material cultures, this book offers a new perspective on the history of psychiatry as a complex entanglement where power is permanently negoti...
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Realms of royalty
This collection introduces new directions in researching contemporary European monarchies by suggesting theoretical approaches to recent developments and new perspectives on royal families' interactions with their subjects. With its interdisciplinary analyses, the book is a timely answer to the r...
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