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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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The mediatization of the o.j. simpson case
Tatjana Neubauer examines the mediatization, deliberate manipulation, and the simplification of popular criminal trials for profit on television.
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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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Germany's conscience
Reinbert Krol’s analysis of the German historian Friedrich Meinecke’s intellectual development does not only give us insight into his philosophy of history—which turns out to be more conciliatory than previously assumed—it also provides a source of inspiration for scholars of history today.
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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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Waste(d) collectors
Going beyond a techno-managerial approach, Sneha Sharma critically interrogates the politics around urban waste disposal in Mumbai. She undertakes an ethnographic journey to the city’s most unwanted space, a dumping site, to reveal how spaces and people are made into waste through exclusionary fo...
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Medialities
Medialities focuses on a given cultural medium's genuine structure as a particular deployment without falling into some kind of hardware determinism, therefore considering culture beyond textuality.
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Violence | perception | video games
This volume compiles papers from the Young Academics Workshop at the Clash of Realities conferences of 2017 and 2018. From BA students to postdoctoral researchers, the young academics of this anthology stem from a spectrum of backgrounds, including game studies, game design, and phenomenology.
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Writing facts
The book shows why and how »facts« are a result of knowledge, rules, and norms as well as of description, argumentation, and narration. This approach allows new perspectives on »fact« and its impact on modernity.
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Born to be criminal
This collection of essays explores the continuities and disruptions in the perceptions of criminality, its causes and ways of fighting it in late imperial Russia and the early Soviet Union. It focuses on both the discourse on criminality and thus the conceptualisation of criminality in various di...
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Digital transformation in design
Introduces contemporary research on the digitization and datafication of products, exploring topics like user experience, artificial intelligence, and virtual environments in design.
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Aging experiments
The contributors to this volume show how artists in science-fiction, fantasy and the avant-garde develop visions of late life transformation, improvisation and adaptation to new circumstances. The studies particularly focus on perspectives on aging that challenge the predominant narratives of dec...
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Suspect subjects
This book engages with the cultural-legal construction of sexual minorities in the US and deconstructs naturalized assumptions about the Queer in US law and culture and central constitutional-cultural imaginaries.
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Sustainable development in science policy-making
This study focuses on German science policy for research cooperation with developing countries and emerging economies in sustainability research. Based on interviews with policy makers and researchers, it scrutinizes the actors, processes and contents of science policy in Germany.
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Dreaming big in post-war greece
Miltiadis Zermpoulis examines the social and political changes brought about by the Greek civil war in the daily life of Greece's second largest city, Thessaloniki.
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The power of persuasion
The merchant Nicolaus Gottlieb Luetkens, who lived in eighteenth-century Hamburg, traveled France between 1743 and 1745, becoming a successful wholesaler. Based on the complete archive of his mercantile letters, this microhistorical study examines the practices of early modern merchants.
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