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Digital teaching and learning in higher education
The international project Digital and International Virtual Academic Cooperation (DIVA) focuses on intercultural learning and online collaboration. Based on their findings, they show how digital arrangements can be used in higher education, how digital teaching can be theorized, and what potentia...
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Culture^2
This essay collection is a reflexive exercise in cultural studies, featuring fifteen accessible essays on a selection of critical key works published since 2000. The contributors provide readers with a fresh and engaging look at recent criticism, exploring the interdisciplinary traffic of theorie...
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Epilepsy metaphors
Between 1990 and 2015, American literature saw the emergence of a new corpus of epilepsy metaphors which tackle the stigma of epilepsy within three areas: society, body, and language. Eleana Vaja introduces concepts such as protometaphors, relational metaphors, epileptic texts, and metastability ...
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What is the avatar?
Through analysis and philosophical discussion, Klevjer argues that avatar-based gaming is a distinctive and dominant form of virtual self-embodiment in digital culture. This is a revised edition of Rune Klevjer's pioneering work from 2007, featuring a new introduction by the author and afterword ...
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Passing and posing between black and white
Since its inception, U.S. American cinema has grappled with the articulation of racial boundaries. Lisa Gotto examines this constellation along the early history of American film, the cinematic modernism of the late 1950s, and the postclassical cinema of the turn of the millennium.
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Creative resistance
During the uprisings of the Arab Spring, oppositional movements used political humor to criticize political leaders or to expose the absurdities of sociopolitical conditions. This comprehensive study of political humor in the uprisings explores the varieties and functions of humor as a creative t...
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Coming to terms with a crisis
This book explores how various actors reacted to this pandemic through specific forms of representation and storytelling in popular culture, public discourse, and science communication.
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Inclusion through exclusion
Anja Schmidt-Kleinert examines the case of young Israelis who are actively engaged with the nationalist Yisra’el Beitenu party, led by the Israeli minister of defense, Avigdor Lieberman. She explores how they present an exclusionary vision of citizenship and construct a sense of belonging by repr...
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Practicing the family
How is family construed on a material and discursive level? This book addresses that question in relation to the diverse everyday practices of doing family by its heterogeneous members.
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The berlin reader
By drawing together widely dispersed yet central writings, the Berlin Reader is an essential resource for everyone interested in urban development in one of the most interesting and important metropolises in Europe. It provides scholars as well as students, journalists and visitors with an overvi...
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Digital culture & society (dcs)
The contributors to this book analyze digital society and its relationship to war, violence, genocide, witnessing practices and cultural appropriation in a critical and reflective manner.
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Doing diversity in museums and heritage
This major multi-researcher ethnography provides new insight into how ›diversity‹ is understood and put into action in museums and heritage. The fieldwork is based on the Humboldt Forum, the Museum of Islamic Art, the Museum für Naturkunde, and the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, as well...
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Shielding
This collection offers conceptual approaches towards bodies becoming shields by addressing the idea of bodily integrity, both in a material sense and with regard to the symbolic and ethical relations that a body entangles.
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The decline of marriage in namibia
Over the past decades, marriage rates in southern Africa have declined significantly. Using the appropriation of marriage by a rural Namibian elite as a case study, Julia Pauli tells the entwined stories of class formation and marriage decline in post-apartheid Namibia.
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Democratic and authoritarian political systems in 21st century world society
This book defines structural core characteristics of modern policy, such as the political inclusion of everyone as a reaction to individualism; the complexity of polities arising from internal differentiation; and the increasing political decision-making handed to experts and autonomous organizat...
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History's queer stories
Critical analysis of homosexuality in British fiction about the Second World War is noticeable by its absence. Natalie Marena Nobitz analyzes four novels dealing with the disruption of gender roles and institutionalized heteronormativity during the war.
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Change the record – punk women music politics
M.I. Franklin shows how punk women’s writings provide fans and music scholars with a corrective to androcentric studies of Punk as a DIY politics of resistance to the mainstream.
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Security in the anthropocene
The belief that »Nature« exists as a blank, stable stage upon which humans act out tragic performances of international relations is no longer tenable. In a world defined by human action, we must reorient our understanding of ourselves, of our environment, and our security.This book considers how...
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Touching spaces in textures
Popal investigates touch in the context of the affectivity unleashed by humor, where often touching spaces ensue in deconstructive ways that affect the senses as well as sense-making.
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Transgressive truths and flattering lies
This book explores Anglophone Arab representations ranging from early-twentieth-century Mahjar writings to contemporary transnational Palestinian resistance art. Questioning conventional interpretive approaches, it shows what Anglophone Arab studies are and what they can become from a radically d...
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Dimensions. journal of architectural knowledge
This issue explores how collaboration impacts the processes, tools, and methods of design by examining the conditions of its integration into architectural practice and discourse.
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Comparative practices
The contributors to this volume investigate the role of comparative practices in the formation of eighteenth-century literature and culture. The book conceives of social practices of comparing as being entrenched in networks of circulation and considers how such practices ordered and changed Brit...
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Rivalling disaster experiences
This book examines the volcanic crisis of El Hierro to show how rival interpretations among affected islanders, the media, sciences, and disaster response institutions cause social tensions and skepticism toward scientific information. Focus must shift to the rifts between established convictions...
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Bouncing back: queer resilience in twentieth and twenty-first century english literature and culture
LGBTQ people have strategies of resilience at their disposal to help them deal with the challenge that heteronormativity as a power structure poses to their affective lives. This book makes the concept of resilience available to queer literary and cultural studies, analyzing these strategies in t...
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Improvisation erforschen – improvisierend forschen / researching improvisation – researching by improvisation
Dieser durchgehend zweisprachige Band versammelt Beiträge zu ästhetischen, künstlerischen und pädagogischen Fragestellungen der musikalischen Improvisation. Er beinhaltet Reflexionen und Modelle, die sich mit der Kunst der Improvisation und den in ihr handelnden Menschen befassen und darüber hina...
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Making diabetes
Diabetes is regarded as one of the most challenging global health issues of the twenty-first century. Tracing the effects of a diagnostic device, the glucometer, this book examines how it contributes to the making of diabetes in contemporary Uganda.
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Materials of culture
This book calls for a materials-based perspective on culture, which has become all the more pertinent by the need for sustainability.
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Digital environments
Digital technology permeates the physical world. Social media and virtual reality, accessed via internet capable devices – computers, smartphones, tablets and wearables – affect nearly all aspects of social life.The contributions to this volume apply innovative forms of ethnographic research to t...
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The construction of analogy-based research programs
Rebecca Mertens explains the appeal of the lock-and-key analogy to investigate the relation between chemical structure and biological specificity by its role in model building and in the construction of long-term, crossgenerational research programs.
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Cultures of citizenship in the twenty-first century
This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to considering how cultures of citizenship are being envisioned and interrogated in literary and cultural (con)texts.
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Segregation, inequality, and urban development
In present-day South Africa, urban development agendas have inscribed doctrines of desirable and undesirable life in city spaces and the public that uses the space. This book studies the ways in which segregated city spaces, displacement of people from their homes, and criminalization practices a...
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Transport in capitalism
To understand why sustainable transport has not been developed yet, Oliver Schwedes highlights the special features of the transport sector and describes the political conditions for a successful change in transport development.
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Digital feedback in higher education
An exploration of the dynamic domain of digital feedback, emphasizing current issues of curriculum design, social media and artificial intelligence.
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Diversity issues in the usa
This book examines how the American elections will influence diversity issues in the United States and elsewhere.
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Sentimental state(s)
Starting with the double-meaning of the word state, which signifies both a condition and a political entity. This book provides a cross-cultural and cross-media discussion of the role of the sentimental in political culture.
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Food – media – senses
In order to acknowledge the material and media-related aspects of eating as a cultural praxis, experts from a range of disciplines share their special approaches.
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Interdisciplinary exhibitions and the production of knowledge
Henriette Pleiger identifies different ways of producing knowledge during the exhibition-making process, as well as the mechanisms that are necessary for an exhibition to be considered interdisciplinary.
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Andererseits - yearbook of transatlantic german studies
andererseits is a collaborative project undertaken by students and faculties of universities in the USA (Duke and the University of Notre Dame), in Luxembourg (University of Luxembourg), and in Germany (University of Duisburg-Essen). It provides a forum for research and reflection on topics relat...
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Thinking of space relationally
Xiaoxue Gao takes relational spatial theories as “travelling conceptual knowledge,” distinguishes them, and reflects on the epistemic fallacy that arises from recontextualising them uncritically in studying contemporary urban space in China.
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Hamburg climate futures outlook 2024
The Hamburg Climate Futures Outlook 2024 provides a unique systematic and global assessment of the plausibility of specific climate futures by synthesizing research across diverse disciplines from the social and natural sciences.
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Migration and (im)mobility
In her endeavour to overcome the established methodological, conceptual, and empirical dualism of mobility and migration, Anna Xymena Wieczorek develops a "mobilities perspective" by combining migration studies theories with approaches of the mobility studies. With the help of rich empirical data...
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Monospace and multiverse
Using the example of such one-room-architectures, this book explores the potential of an actor-network-theory approach to space in the field of architecture. Sabine Hansmann focuses on the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts in Norwich, England by Foster Associates (1978) to investigate the mutual e...
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Digital culture & society (dcs)
This double issue addresses the complex thematic field of play and labor dialectics. The articles take a closer look at the problem of play and work from two overlapping perspectives: laborious play and playful work.
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An eclectic bestiary
The essays, poetry, and visual art collected here consider the more-than-human cultures of our multispecies world. At a time when humanity’s impact has put our planet’s ecosystems into great jeopardy, the book explores literary, sonic, and visual imaginaries that feature encounters between and ac...
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Autosociobiography
An extension of the scope of the literary phenomenon of autosociobiography beyond social class and a discussion of its validity in diverse cultural and historical contexts.
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The vatican to vegas
A guided tour through the nuanced politics of architectural illusion, »The Vatican to Vegas« takes the reader from lavish Baroque fantasies of the seventeenth century to the Electronic Baroque of today.
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Designing transformative change
How can designers help addressing societal needs and navigating complex global issues?
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The brazilian amazonia in change i
Looking back: The Brazilian Amazon in the 1970s.
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Digital warfare
In the digital era, who do you become when war breaks out in your own country? Self-perception in digital spaces, with digital tools and digital minds during the Russo-Ukrainian war.
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Architecture in times of multiple crises
Carolina Crijns not only explores the transformative potential in radically rethinking architecture's central concepts but introduces a method of utopian speculation for practices ambitious of social change.
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