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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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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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Empowering the elderly?
Health programs that offer “help to self-help” are meant to empower aging adults to remain independent and self-sufficient at home. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in a Danish municipality, Amy Clotworthy describes how both health professionals and elderly citizens negotiate political discourses ...
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The transformative potential of black british and british muslim literature
This study investigates power, belonging, and exclusion in British society by analyzing representations of the mosque, the University of Oxford, and the plantation in novels by Leila Aboulela, Robin Yassin-Kassab, Diran Adebayo, David Dabydeen, Andrea Levy, and Bernardine Evaristo.
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A poetics of neurosis
While psychiatry and the neurosciences have dismissed the concept of neurosis as too vague for medical purposes, in recent years literary studies have adopted the term by virtue of its abstractness. This volume investigates the verbalization of neurosis in literary and cultural texts. As opposed ...
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Imagined economies – real fictions
The contributions to this anthology take debates about the financial crisis, recent austerity measures, and the Brexit referendum a step further by showing how a common denominator of these dynamics is underlying ideas of “the economy.” Each author identifies a facet of Britain’s imagined economies.
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Teaching artistic strategies
This collection strengthens new communities of educators and researchers in arts and design, whose practices are built on the concept of care as empathetic knowledge production.
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Hope and uncertainty in health and medicine
This book uses the tools of medical anthropology to address the pragmatics of hope and uncertainty within the health sector.
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Situated in translations
This volume sheds light on composite cultural and heterotypical translation processes across various media, such as texts, films, graphic novels, theater, and dance performances. The authors explore the cultural contexts of diverse media milieus in order to explain how cultural communities come i...
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Afrodiasporic identities in germany
This ethnographic study traces the coming of age as person of African descent in Germany born in the 1980s with a focus on the city of Frankfurt.
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Caring infrastructures
Theories and methods for transforming the arts through feminist care ethics, fostering support and equity for art workers and caregivers.
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Sufficiency in business
The contributors to this book present practical examples of sufficiency-oriented companies across industries.
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Aesthetic temporalities today
Contributions from various disciplines examine the present and its plural conditions and meanings. They provide insights with special emphasis on the global present as well as on art and aesthetics from the eighteenth century until today.
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Grain & noise – artists in synthetic biology labs
Collaboration between scientists and artists in the form of Artist-in-Lab residencies may not only cause a productive disturbance for a day's work in the laboratory, but also reveal new ways of understanding.
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Many-valued aesthetics
Hauke Ohls brings Mary Bauermeister's central groups of works in context with each other as well as with the neo-avant-garde of the post-war period in Europe and the USA.
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Die amerikanische reeducation-politik nach 1945
Dieser Band beleuchtet die amerikanischen Pläne zur Zukunft Deutschlands nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg. Im Mittelpunkt stehen die Maßnahmen der Reeducation-Politik, u.a. Amerika-Häuser, Dokumentarfilme, CARE und Schulreformen.Wissenschaftler_innen aus verschiedenen Disziplinen analysieren amerikanis...
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Presence, process, and the pictorial real
Today, painting has lost its dominant position and has become one artistic medium among others. This book offers a variety of perspectives on the role of painting in the twenty-first century, discussing whether and how painting is still pertinent to contemporary image production.
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Health as a social system
João Costa argues that Luhmann's Social Systems Theory offers the groundwork for a vastly improved health systems thinking.
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The democratization of artificial intelligence
The aim of this book is to discuss the heterogenous conditions, implications, and effects of modern AI and internet technologies in terms of their political dimension: What does it mean to critically investigate efforts of net politics in the age of machine learning algorithms?
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Queer turkey
Queer Turkey offers a broad range of reflections on queer Turkish cultures within a transnational, Euro-American context. Ralph J. Poole discusses queer travel writers, poets, playwrights, and film directors whose multifarious works manifest the subtle and subversive ways in which artists crisscr...
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Narrative mechanics
What do stories in games have in common with political narratives? This book identifies narrative strategies as mechanisms for meaning and manipulation in games and real life. It shows that the narrative mechanics so clearly identifiable in games are increasingly used (and abused) in politics and...
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Shared heritage revisited
This book explores the intersection of cultural heritage and nationality in societies that are characterized by national, multi-national, and post-national concepts.
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Great queer provocation
Martin Gössl reflects on the possibilities of queer recognition in different social contexts.
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Dealing with elusive futures
The time to come – as well as the exploration thereof – remains elusive for social actors and social scientists alike.The contributors accept the challenge to depict young men and women's future-creating activities in urban contexts of sub-Saharan Africa. Very consciously, they study young gradua...
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Dimensions. journal of architectural knowledge
The contributors to this issue show how making architecture may be understood as a way of thinking.
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Pictorial appearing
The proliferation of digital technology has changed our visual perception and the way we interpret terms such as 'representation', 'immersion', and 'virtuality'.Kresimir Purgar examines some of the topics fundamental to an understanding of the contemporary culture of images. The principal thesis ...
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We travel the space ways
This book gathers a range of contemporary voices who, carrying legacies of five hundred years of contact between Africa, Europe, and the Americas, reach toward the stars and unknown planets, galaxies, and ways of being. Writing from queer and feminist perspectives and circumnavigating continents,...
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Intersectional knowledges
A delve into intersectionality in Europe, offering fresh insights into themes and methodologies from diverse academic perspectives.
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Maritime poetics
In the past fifty years, port cities around the world have experienced considerable changes to their morphologies and their identities. This volume argues that contemporary artistic practices and critical poetics trace an alternate construction of the imaginaries and aspirations of our present so...
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Subterranean explorations
Martín Fonck delves into the promises of geothermal energy and their abandonment in the Chilean Andes.
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Listen up!
Listen Up is the first publication to consider American radio art as a distinct sound art practice. Analytical essays by leading media historians and practitioners discuss how the field took shape in the context of changing broadcast environments, while manifestos and other documents provide glim...
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Video games and mental health
How video games and mental health intersect from the perspectives of psychology and game design.
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Transgression and subversion
Although scholars have recognized the picaresque figure as a transgressive and subversive model, the queer effect of the figure is yet to be examined. Considering class, generation, and topography, the contributions assembled in this volume explore Spanish, French, English, and German novels from...
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Curating (post-)socialist environments
In which ways are environments (post)socialist and how do they come about? How is the relationship between the built environment, memory, and debates on identity enacted? What are the spatial, material, visual, and aesthetic dimensions of these (post)socialist enactments or interventions?
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Practices of speculation
This volume offers innovative ways to think about speculation at a time when anticipation of catastrophe shapes public discourse. Its chapters interrogate hegemonic ways of shaping the present through investments in the future, while also looking at speculative practices that reveal transformativ...
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Intellectual radicalism after 1989
Left-wing intellectuals in Britain and the US had long repudiated the Soviet regime. Why was the collapse of the Eastern Bloc experienced as a shock that destabilised their identities and political allegiances then? What happened to a collective project that had started out to formulate a sociali...
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The plausibility of future scenarios
What does plausibility mean in relation to scenario planning and how do users of scenarios assess it? Ricarda Schmidt-Scheele offers an interdisciplinary perspective: she presents approaches from philosophy of sciences, cognitive psychology, narrative theory and linguistics, and tests key hypothe...
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