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Digital culture & society (dcs)
Technocultural histories of digital making are often oversimplified.This issue brings together contributions from cultural-historical perspectives as well as technology and design histories and historiographies and alternative histories related to postcolonial resistance.
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The transformation of humanities education
This first comprehensive study of Norwegian humanities education employs systems theory to analyze its transformation from a form of teacher training to its modern status as research-oriented generalist education.Using historical documents and statistical analyses, Vidar Grøtta shows that the exp...
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Immigration and integration in israel and beyond
Implementing both qualitative and quantitative data, this book addresses various types of migrants like economic or labor migrants, forced migration and ethnic migrants.
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The bureaucratic production of difference
In the context of the ever-increasing political problematization of migration in Europe, agencies charged with migrant administration create diverse categories of difference to distinguish between the “deserving migrant” and the illegal one. This book analyzes how organizational interpretations o...
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Knowing in performing
Knowing in Performing describes dynamic processes of artistic knowledge production in music and the performing arts. By exploring the field of artistic research as a constantly transforming space for participatory and experimental artistic practices, this anthology points the way forward for rese...
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Expanded senses
Auf die vielerorts im Kontext der Neuen Bewegtbilder in Kino/TV/Netz/Kunst ausgerufene »Expansion der Sinne« reagiert der bilinguale Band mit einer umsichtigen Doppelbewegung.Zunächst gilt es, in einem genauen Befragen der für das Kino konstitutiven, »kinästhetischen« Erfahrung in der Filmwahrneh...
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Resilient bodies, residual effects
Sandra Noeth examines the entangled experiences of borders and collectivity through the perspective of bodies. Analyzing contemporary artistic work from Lebanon and Palestine, she shows how borders and collectivity are constructed and negotiated through choreographic, corporeal, movement-based, a...
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Migrant families and transcultural dynamics
Migration processes affect migrants' families and family relations – in complex and diverse ways. Family fragmentation lasting for years or even decades, access to citizenship and welfare state resources change concepts of parenting and care as well as gender relations.In this volume, authors fro...
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Postsocialist landscapes
Formerly socialist countries have gone through manifold transformations while remnants of socialism remain ubiquitous. The volume explores various spaces of the postsocialist landscape, describing the concreteness and intimacy of some of the places that span across and even beyond of what is left...
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Practicing sovereignty
Digital sovereignty has become a hotly debated concept. The positions assembled in this volume analyze opportunities for participation and policy making, and they describe alternative technological practices before and after the pandemic.
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Subversive semantics in political and cultural discourse
This book examines semantic transfer and inversion as rhetorical tactics in right-wing discourses and populist alternative knowledge production.
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Theatre in handwriting
Based on examples of the vast Hamburg Theatre-Library from the 1770s to 1820s, this study proposes a transdisciplinary approach towards handwritten artefacts in modern European theatre.
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Gaming the metaverse
This book outlines trace the term Metaverse through literary, media, and cultural history and provide insights into recent applications and their technical, social, cultural, and economic implications.
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Home/fronts
Janina Wierzoch offers an analytical survey of British contemporary war narratives in novels, drama, film, and television that seek to make sense of the experience. The study shows how the narratives, instead of reflecting on the UK`s role as invader, portray war as invading the British home.
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Ethnography and folklore in print
This book unveils alternative contexts and dimensions of early ethnographic knowledge production, providing insights into a history of social knowledge that surpasses disciplinary, national, and genre-related boundaries.
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Zones of tradition - places of identity
Gerhard Vinken takes readers to twelve cities on three continents and analyses the diverse and contradictory heritage formations that have had a lasting impact on urban life. The vitality of urban heritage, as these vivid and in-depth case studies show, lies in the dynamic and often conflictual p...
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»we are all activists«
The variety of intersecting positionings in migrant rights activism results in complex inequalities and power dynamics within activist groups. Solidarities are continually challenged, negotiated, and built. Lea Rzadtki develops a conceptual view on claims, challenges, and processes that activists...
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Living with wolves
Thorsten Gieser explores the role of affects, emotions, moods and atmospheres in the emerging coexistence between humans and wolves.
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Weimar controversies
In the Weimar Republic, popular culture was the scene of heated controversies that tested the limits of national cohesion. Peter S. Fisher draws on Siegfried Kracauer’s trenchant observations on Weimar’s contradictions to let society’s underdogs take center stage, pushing the headline makers into...
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Lifewide learning in postdigital societies
This book engages with the cultural changes brought about by an intensified digitalization process in the context of formal education.
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Subjects of substance
Subjects of Substance traces the ways in which materialist conceptions of selfhood inspire and shape recent U.S. literature. It examines the forms, functions, and effects of materialist models of mind in works by authors including Don DeLillo, Kay Redfield Jamison, Siri Hustvedt, Richard Powers, ...
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Housing and human settlements in a world of change
This book addresses the challenges of housing and emerging solutions along the lines of three major dynamics: migration, climate change, and neoliberalism. It explores the outcomes of neoliberal “enabling” ideas, responses to extreme climate events with different housing approaches, and how the d...
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Cosmos and republic
Inspired by Hannah Arendt's analysis of crisis-ridden modernity, Wolfgang Heuer addresses exemplary aspects of depoliticization and the loss of politics - and thus of freedom - in 20 essays.
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The bodies we are (not)
Antje Velsinger develops choreographic strategies for becoming unfamiliar to the own self and play as two means for emancipating the body from the neo-liberal imperative of optimization and control.
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Curating contemporary music festivals
Brandon Farnsworth lays out a theory for understanding curatorial practices in contemporary music and how they could be a solution to the field’s diminishing social relevance. He focuses on two case studies, the Munich Biennale for New Music Theatre, and the Maerzmusik Festival at the Berliner Fe...
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Moves - spaces - places
This ethnography leads the reader into the lives of five Jamaican women in Montreal; their daily practices and experiences, their spaces of communion, their memories and projections for the future. Lisa Johnson sheds light on the mobile biographies and migratory agency of her interlocutors.
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Fantasy aesthetics
This book explores the patterns and paradigms of a specific medievalist iconography and book design of fantasy which can be traced from the 19th century to the present.
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Mediated bordering
The external border of the EU remains under permanent construction. Sabrina Ellebrecht engages with two of its primary building sites—the European Border Surveillance System (Eurosur) and the Refugee Boat. She analyzes how the function of the EU’s political border is crafted, shaped, produced, an...
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Interrogating datafication
What constitutes a data practice and how do contemporary digital media technologies reconfigure our understanding of practices in general? This volume collects theoretical, empirical, and historiographical contributions from a range of international scholars to shed light on the current shift fro...
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Congoism
To justify the plundering of today's Democratic Republic of the Congo, U.S. intellectual elites have continuously produced dismissive Congo discourses. Tracing these discourses in great depth and breadth, Johnny Van Hove shows how U.S. intellectuals and their European counterparts have used the C...
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Masculinities ageing between cultures
Combining the theoretical frameworks of masculinity studies and age studies, this book explores ageing masculinities
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The myths that made america
This essential introduction to American studies examines the core foundational myths upon which the nation is based and which still determine discussions of US-American identities today. These myths include the myth of »discovery,« the Pocahontas myth, the myth of the Promised Land, the myth of t...
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Narratives crossing boundaries
This transdisciplinary compendium covers: game studies and media studies, but also sociology and psychology, to take into account the great influence of storytelling on social discourses and human behavior.
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Bordertextures
This book proposes an understanding of borders as effects and generators of complex formations. By introducing the concept of bordertextures and the approach of bordertexturing, this edited collection opens up new and fine-tuned perspectives on borders and borderlands.
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Being there, but how?
This book launches a conversation between social sciences and humanities on how this change affects human experience.
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The lower !garib – orange river
This volume focuses on the stretch of Orange River between Namibia and South Africa to understand the region's social history, geography, and economy.
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Decolonizing journalistic knowledge
Martín Oller Alonso's study addresses the challenges and opportunities in the European Union amidst globalization and cultural integration.
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War, migration, memory
A multi-scalar perspective on the transformational effects of war and dislocation on people's memory, sense of belonging and the ensuing consequences for Ukraine's diversity.
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Becoming jewish in berlin
Vanessa Rau provides a captivating portrait and analysis of a new Jewish-Hebrew urban scene.
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Epidemics and othering
Focusing biopolitics, this book brings together a number of historical and cultural perspectives on the processes of othering in the long transnational human history of epidemics and pandemics.
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Conviviality in contexts of religious plurality
How do individuals and communities navigate religious diversity?
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Dancing youth
Sandra Kurfürst examines youth’s aspirations and desires embodied in dance. Drawing on a rich and diverse range of qualitative data, including interviews and sensory and digital ethnography, she shows how dancers confront social and gender norms while following their passion.
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Size matters – understanding monumentality across ancient civilizations
Bringing together researchers from fields such as archaeology, museology, history, sociology, Mesoamerican studies, and art history, this book discusses terminological and methodological approaches to momumentality in both theoretical contributions and case studies.
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Processing choreography
Told from the perspective of the dancers, Processing Choreography is an ethnography of William Forsythe’s Duo project. Considering how the choreography of Duo emerges through practice and changes over two decades, Elizabeth Waterhouse offers a nuanced picture of creative cooperation and instituti...
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Time and space in video games
Video games are temporal artifacts: They change with time as players interact with them in accordance with rules. In this study, Federico Alvarez Igarzábal investigates the formal aspects of video games that determine how these changes are produced and sequenced.
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Opacity – minority – improvisation
This performative book, a product of artistic research, is an exploration of the proverbial closet through linguistics, queer, and postcolonial theory. Eleven queer slangs from around the world become part of an exploration of queerness and knowledge from the periphery.
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Refugee routes
Drawing on historical and contemporary examples from Turkey, the Ottoman Empire, Iraq, Syria, the UK, Germany, France, the Balkan Peninsula, the United States, Canada, Australia, and Kenya, this volume draws attention to refugees, asylum seekers, exiles, and forced migrants as individual subjects...
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Informal transactions of low income houses in south africa
Sandile Mbatha explores the concept of informality in relation to how such beneficiaries challenge predominant understandings of property relations.
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Concepts of urban-environmental history
In history, cities and nature are often treated as two separate fields of research. Concepts of Urban-Environmental History aims to bridge this gap. The contributions to this volume survey major concepts and key issues that have shaped recent debates in the field.
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Medial bodies between fiction and faction
Using examples from literature, media studies, philosophy, performance arts, and social science, this collection underlines how bodily models and transformations thought until recently to be fictional have become a part of our reality. It provides a spectrum of perspectives on how the body emerge...
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